shallowwater

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by shallowwater 14y ago
More serious to who? Sometimes it's the little things that hit the worst.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
Thank you for being wonderfully articulate.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
Am I missing the part where they actually no longer intend to have female-only event staff/beer-servers? The apology makes it sound like they just changed the ad copy.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
pretty much. that's why I find this valuation system that so grossly over-emphasizes future people at the expense of current ones so creeeeeepy.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
That moral weight to the future hypothetical people is something that I have just now put a name to (thanks!) and the more I think about it, the more places I see it, and the creepier it gets. But on a purely biological note, natural select
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by shallowwater 15y ago
Uh. what? I was trying to explain that feeling uncomfortable or violated was a reasonable reaction to a virtual strip search for people who aren't you. What the actual bleepity bleep does not allowing weapons onto planes have to do with the
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by shallowwater 15y ago
damn, where where you when I was buying my latest bike headlight! I ended up with a super-bright flashlight that I am quite satisfied with, but that cost a bit more than $6.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
I think the point to be made is that not everyone has the same comfort zone as you do. You may not care about strangers seeing you naked, but other people do. Being naked in front of someone can be an intensely vulnerable experience, and th
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by shallowwater 15y ago
I really liked the discussion of the habit loop. I've never seen it explained that neatly before.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
Is there any evidence that private screening companies are any less skeevy than actual TSA? I'd be shocked if there was and appreciable difference between the two. They still have to follow all the same screening procedures that the TSA doe
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by shallowwater 15y ago
I can in no way substantiate this, but the xray ones are usually two large (maybe always blue?) mostly rectangular blocks that you stand in between. The millimeter machines are usually rounder and have clear bits. The illustrations here mig
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by shallowwater 15y ago
I also checked out the talk page, and if I didn't know the author was an expert, I would also have assumed he was a crank. He approached editing Wikipedia on a lark and failed to offer sources in an acceptable format. No wonder he got smack
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by shallowwater 15y ago
ha! I will bust out my best sweet thing voice and biggest innocent eyes next time some one tries to tell me that. Even if it does only apply to the xray machines.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
Basically, yes. It's very easy to end up herded through unless you're paying attention. Now I watch carefully and see which lines are going through the big scanner and which are going through the smaller metal detector. Most of the time, I
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by shallowwater 15y ago
Whereas my brain boggles at how big a pain it must have been to do a literature review pre-JSTOR/Web of Science/pdfs in general. I am a voracious reader (generally 2-5 novels/equivalent per week, depending) and love ebooks. Carry 5 long nov
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Female entrepreneurs find funding, community in New York(nydailynews.com)
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by shallowwater 15y ago
I do agree with your first point, and it would basically be a continuation of the status quo, which seems like a pretty reasonable compromise between allowing people to profit from their work without stifling the creativity of others and cr
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by shallowwater 15y ago
The way I got over my public speaking jitters was by being a TA for highly unstructured discussion sections for ~6 semesters. I was given absolutely nothing to do with the kids, so I turned each session into an extended review/Q&A. Expl
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by shallowwater 15y ago
The only problem with your derivative works proposal is that it won't work. Fans will make fanwork of things they are fans of, regardless of the legality involved. Akin to the culture of digital sharing, that horse has already left the barn
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by shallowwater 15y ago
Well, the fact that people are attempting to argue that, as a lady, I am somehow 'naturally' unfit for intellectual/mathematical/logical tasks is pretty insulting. I know that you (general) are not talking about me (specifically), but it's
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by shallowwater 15y ago
Thank you for your kind words. I confess that I am completely taken aback that in 2012 there are still people postulating that women are not capable of or inclined toward intellectually rigorous or difficult work. Oh those ladies and their
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by shallowwater 15y ago
I'm one of those lady-types reading the comments here and getting the message loud and clear that no matter how interested I may be, or how talented I may become, I am not a welcome addition to this community.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
[reads all the comments about how no one wants ladies in their field anyway] And people wonder why the ladies don't want to hang out with you kids all day. Could it be that ladies are smart enough to figure out when and where they are unwel
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by shallowwater 15y ago
When I was in graduate school, I saved all my documents to my dropbox folder, which was sync'd to my school laptop (OSX), my personal laptop (Windows), a lab computer where the stats software lived (Windows), my advisers computer (Windows),
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by shallowwater 15y ago
To be clear, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I usually hang out on liberal politics, social justice, and assorted culture blogs. In many instances, you get people coming in and saying terrible, hateful, and/or violent things to
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by shallowwater 15y ago
I don't think it is appropriate to gloss over the fact that race and poverty are often correlated in the United States. I can understand why you think I was insinuating that the OP was racist, but that was not my intention. My intention was
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by shallowwater 15y ago
It is incredibly callus to suggest that poor (mostly black) people do not deserve such basic necessities as drinkable water and sanitary disposal of their own excrement. So yes, you are trolling.
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by shallowwater 15y ago
This looks like a very cool class. I did a masters in ecology, and I got an R-based stats class that was not enough stats to get me up to speed on stats or enough coding/R for me to do much of anything. There was a lot of cursing and naming
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by shallowwater 15y ago
for some odd reason, that is harder than you'd think. :(
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by shallowwater 15y ago
That's why I hate OSX. I have plenty of real live humans to condescend to me in my life, I don't need inanimate machines to also treat my like I'm too stupid to live. I've only just moved from XP to windows 7, so we'll see how that goes. So

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