My brother and law and I were baking a cake the other day at my place and we needed to squeeze a lot of lemons. Damn was I ever lucky that I'd already had the need to squeeze a bunch of lemons at a previous point in my life and had purchased a citrus press. Even more fortuitously, it was clean and ready to use because I'm lucky enough not to be a slovenly dipshit who leaves his tools on the counter indefinitely after using them... I am one lucky SOBA
This is a really interesting list. I'm particularly amused by the groupings of the north-west-ish indicating that they feel their vote doesn't matter, the midwest which seems to correlate with the food desert that those states are, and the northeast which seems to be broadly covered by the term "first world problems".
Also, being a Washington native and Oregon resident I am supremely proud of both my home state and adopted home for their outlooks on life.
I'll one-up you:
In gradschool my advisor scheduled me an interview with Google for a summer internship. I gave them my personal email address to contact me with, gmail marked it as spam, and it sat in my spam folder for a month before I found it.
I was a kid during this racket, a kid who loved the time of year when monopoly came around. I've never been much for McD's food, but I got a huge kick out of peeling the stickers off of cups and fries and whatnot. Of course I never won anything more than a free medium fry, but it makes me sad to think that someone was running this scheme during the years that my adolescent self loved the promotion.
It isn't much help with trig either. All of the taylor series expansions of the basic trig functions contain addition. There is of course the edge case of arcsin and arctan for which the expansions are purely subtractive.
We already know that plants use piezoelectricity to increase cell growth on the concave side of a loaded branch in order to grow upward or outward.
HAH! This is really cool. Can you point me to a reference somewhere? I'd love to read about this. Cursory googling is polluted by articles about small scale energy harvesting. Second and third levels of search turn up 20 year old German papers on the material properties of wood without mention of the influence on plant growth.
There's a good bit of truth to this. When I finally get myself into the financial position to buy a house that isn't an utter shithole I intend to build myself a backyard paradise. Until then I have Minecraft.
This title feels to me like the time I heard that "The Nigerian Prince scam has been shut down".
The? The? The? Does anyone actually believe that any of these things are due to one bad actor?
His contract wasn't renewed and the machine executed employee termination security procedures.
He was "fired" by negligence on someone's part. The system seems to have worked properly in ensuring that he wasn't still receiving the responsibilities, access permissions, and compensation of someone who no longer works at the company.
This is what immediately came to mind when I read the summary.
In the US (maybe elsewhere in the West, but I don't have any firsthand experience of it) there is a relationship between the upper middle class and "doing yoga". A recent episode of the NPR podcast Hidden Brain touched on this and talked about how certain practices such as attending yoga classes, shopping at farmers markets, and breastfeeding (among others) are forms of class signaling. With this in mind, I am not surprised at all that the act of participating in an activity that tells the world "I am in the upper 50%" (50% is probably conservative, but I don't have an idea of what "upper-middle class" translates to in economic percentile) would have an influence on one's ego.
The ego influence is doubly true if you consider that physical exercise is a great way to boost endorphin levels independent of any sort of external signaling.
My employer has done this for years. If you want to use external storage you can get one approved for use in an office environment by demonstrating a need. As far as the lab environment goes, you can *borrow* one of the lab's own specially approved, encrypted, and regularly inspected and cleaned drives for pulling data off of lab computers and equipment.
Why any large IP-handling company would allow any old employee to tote around their own personal attack/leak vector is beyond me.
Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have proven to us that we can trust them with our personal data. Now it’s time to reward that trust by giving them complete control over our computers, toasters, and cars.
I'm having a great deal of trouble nailing down exactly what genre of comedy that this falls into. Is it surreal? Is it deadpan? Is it insult? Cringe? Anti-humor? Black?
That's kind of the point. There are 1-2 polls that show Trump as having a popularity greater than 50% and those are outliers in the poll population. The assertion that Trump has a > 50% approval rating is disingenuous at best.
Let's be fully realistic here, if Trump was doing such a 'crappy job' of running the country, his popularity wouldn't be over 50%.
Let's pause for a moment on the assertion that Trump has an approval rating above 50% and start our fake news discussion there. Can you source that popularity poll? Nate Silver's fivethirtyeight.com has the results of a pretty wide collection of popularity polls and my cursory glance shows only 1-2 this calendar year which have him at or above 50%, with the vast majority of the poll population showing significantly lower. Before that you have to go back almost a full year to the second half of May 2017 to find a poll that delivered a result greater than 50%.
https://projects.fivethirtyeig...
Is it a bigger problem for Apple and Samsung if consumers don't like their latest and greatest products, or is it a problem for consumers that Apple and Samsung are out of touch with what consumers want?
I'd argue that there is no such thing as a properly executed experiment (one or more of which we shall call research) from which useful datapoints cannot be drawn.
Whether or not these useful datapoints are publishable in the academic environment in which we live or will be the catalyst to develop a new drug/treatment/methodology etc. is another question entirely.
In the large facility in which I work, a new building was recently opened with a pseudo open-concept office space. In the older buildings, we have Dilbert-grey cubicles and fluorescent lighting. In the new building, cubicles are replaced with 4.5" dividers that separate you from your neighbor. Because my company makes standing desks available to employees, your desk can actually extend above the top of this divider.
A friend of mine from another department was recently relocated to this new office space and he absolutely hates it. He spends half of his working hours in empty conference rooms trying to get any sort of privacy and solitude in which to work. The other day I went over to the new office space to meet with someone else in his group and I found that almost 50% of the half-height cubicles were festooned with CubeShields (trade name, look them up) mounted vertically to add privacy. From the looks of it, my friend isn't alone.
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My brother and law and I were baking a cake the other day at my place and we needed to squeeze a lot of lemons. Damn was I ever lucky that I'd already had the need to squeeze a bunch of lemons at a previous point in my life and had purchased a citrus press. Even more fortuitously, it was clean and ready to use because I'm lucky enough not to be a slovenly dipshit who leaves his tools on the counter indefinitely after using them... I am one lucky SOBA
Nonsense, this is what fries are supposed to look like: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdnme...
This is a really interesting list. I'm particularly amused by the groupings of the north-west-ish indicating that they feel their vote doesn't matter, the midwest which seems to correlate with the food desert that those states are, and the northeast which seems to be broadly covered by the term "first world problems". Also, being a Washington native and Oregon resident I am supremely proud of both my home state and adopted home for their outlooks on life.
I'll one-up you:
In gradschool my advisor scheduled me an interview with Google for a summer internship. I gave them my personal email address to contact me with, gmail marked it as spam, and it sat in my spam folder for a month before I found it.
I was a kid during this racket, a kid who loved the time of year when monopoly came around. I've never been much for McD's food, but I got a huge kick out of peeling the stickers off of cups and fries and whatnot. Of course I never won anything more than a free medium fry, but it makes me sad to think that someone was running this scheme during the years that my adolescent self loved the promotion.
Counter theory:
BeauHD is either a fruit fly or a zeebrafish and just made a slip of the tongue as it were.
It isn't much help with trig either. All of the taylor series expansions of the basic trig functions contain addition. There is of course the edge case of arcsin and arctan for which the expansions are purely subtractive.
We already know that plants use piezoelectricity to increase cell growth on the concave side of a loaded branch in order to grow upward or outward.
HAH! This is really cool. Can you point me to a reference somewhere? I'd love to read about this. Cursory googling is polluted by articles about small scale energy harvesting. Second and third levels of search turn up 20 year old German papers on the material properties of wood without mention of the influence on plant growth.
There's a good bit of truth to this. When I finally get myself into the financial position to buy a house that isn't an utter shithole I intend to build myself a backyard paradise. Until then I have Minecraft.
This title feels to me like the time I heard that "The Nigerian Prince scam has been shut down". The? The? The? Does anyone actually believe that any of these things are due to one bad actor?
His contract wasn't renewed and the machine executed employee termination security procedures.
He was "fired" by negligence on someone's part. The system seems to have worked properly in ensuring that he wasn't still receiving the responsibilities, access permissions, and compensation of someone who no longer works at the company.
This is what immediately came to mind when I read the summary.
In the US (maybe elsewhere in the West, but I don't have any firsthand experience of it) there is a relationship between the upper middle class and "doing yoga". A recent episode of the NPR podcast Hidden Brain touched on this and talked about how certain practices such as attending yoga classes, shopping at farmers markets, and breastfeeding (among others) are forms of class signaling. With this in mind, I am not surprised at all that the act of participating in an activity that tells the world "I am in the upper 50%" (50% is probably conservative, but I don't have an idea of what "upper-middle class" translates to in economic percentile) would have an influence on one's ego.
The ego influence is doubly true if you consider that physical exercise is a great way to boost endorphin levels independent of any sort of external signaling.
Thanks! I hadn't ever considered this phrase until now and I appreciate knowing that much more about it now.
So, just like when you buy a 256 GB iPhone X?
My employer has done this for years. If you want to use external storage you can get one approved for use in an office environment by demonstrating a need. As far as the lab environment goes, you can *borrow* one of the lab's own specially approved, encrypted, and regularly inspected and cleaned drives for pulling data off of lab computers and equipment. Why any large IP-handling company would allow any old employee to tote around their own personal attack/leak vector is beyond me.
Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have proven to us that we can trust them with our personal data. Now it’s time to reward that trust by giving them complete control over our computers, toasters, and cars.
I'm having a great deal of trouble nailing down exactly what genre of comedy that this falls into. Is it surreal? Is it deadpan? Is it insult? Cringe? Anti-humor? Black?
That's kind of the point. There are 1-2 polls that show Trump as having a popularity greater than 50% and those are outliers in the poll population. The assertion that Trump has a > 50% approval rating is disingenuous at best.
Let's be fully realistic here, if Trump was doing such a 'crappy job' of running the country, his popularity wouldn't be over 50%.
Let's pause for a moment on the assertion that Trump has an approval rating above 50% and start our fake news discussion there. Can you source that popularity poll? Nate Silver's fivethirtyeight.com has the results of a pretty wide collection of popularity polls and my cursory glance shows only 1-2 this calendar year which have him at or above 50%, with the vast majority of the poll population showing significantly lower. Before that you have to go back almost a full year to the second half of May 2017 to find a poll that delivered a result greater than 50%. https://projects.fivethirtyeig...
Is it a bigger problem for Apple and Samsung if consumers don't like their latest and greatest products, or is it a problem for consumers that Apple and Samsung are out of touch with what consumers want?
I'd argue that there is no such thing as a properly executed experiment (one or more of which we shall call research) from which useful datapoints cannot be drawn. Whether or not these useful datapoints are publishable in the academic environment in which we live or will be the catalyst to develop a new drug/treatment/methodology etc. is another question entirely.
In the large facility in which I work, a new building was recently opened with a pseudo open-concept office space. In the older buildings, we have Dilbert-grey cubicles and fluorescent lighting. In the new building, cubicles are replaced with 4.5" dividers that separate you from your neighbor. Because my company makes standing desks available to employees, your desk can actually extend above the top of this divider.
A friend of mine from another department was recently relocated to this new office space and he absolutely hates it. He spends half of his working hours in empty conference rooms trying to get any sort of privacy and solitude in which to work. The other day I went over to the new office space to meet with someone else in his group and I found that almost 50% of the half-height cubicles were festooned with CubeShields (trade name, look them up) mounted vertically to add privacy. From the looks of it, my friend isn't alone.
Play Station 2, something something full circle, something something...
So no harm, no foul fowl.
Stop trying to make this about fauna you animal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Java has been running on 3 billion devices seemingly since its inception. Android finally got to 2B?