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Given its lower melt point and ductility, silver is actually much much better to make jewelry with than stainless steel. Especially if you are also trying to include gold in your p…

Hi! Author of the blogpost here. Happy to chat with anyone who wants to follow up/know more.

Are you familiar with Tapia: https://tapiaconference.cmd-it.org/ ? It is a reasonable place to grow your network and find leads. Also, it helps, in my experience, to be incredibly …

To the majority of humans (women), he was distinctly not all around friendly and approachable. That is the point.

One of their parents' social circle. The other is too busy feeding them and making sure they don't run into traffic or disappear somewhere to play video games. So you've suddenly h…

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I am not speaking on behalf of the company, but if someone involved with EasyList can contact me (avani@cloudflare.com), I'll see if there is a way to help out.

My husband and I have always had a deal where we live off the higher salary, and the lower is allocated as our "fun money" (dinners out, travel, etc.). We've swapped back and forth…

I'd love to hear more about your contact and process for this.

Cloudflare Research | Research Engineer | Remote US/Canada, Several offices in major cities https://research.cloudflare.com/ We are a tiny, growing team of researchers who are heav…

There is an argument that without Pitts, you'd never have seen a Von Neumann architecture. Not nothing.

The metro stations are not accessible, though. Getting around Paris without a bike or metro is tricky without a car.

Canada manages pretty well with a "porous southern land border with a country that has a major outbreak". I wonder what the difference is. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive…

I know you've almost certainly heard this, but USPS does not receive any taxpayer funding: https://facts.usps.com/top-facts/

> completely inaccessible to the mobility-disabled? >>Completely inaccessible to a mobility-disabled person without help. Same thing.

"qualify" is nebulous. When professors accept PhDs, they are looking for people who they want working in their specific labs. It is much more like applying to a job than applying t…

I think you may be referring to Jevon's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

In a similar vein, Cantor's original diagonalization proof of uncountability is one of the most satisfying results in real analysis. From https://www.cs.virginia.edu/luther/blog/po…

If Tech CS students and faculty revolt, we'll welcome them with open arms at Emory, where the entire CS department is teaching online this fall.

This actually happens. Ask your flight attendant friends about “miracle cures” walking off their flights after using wheelchairs to board.

Um.. I think most luxury goods stores are in inner cities.

It is a perfect device for those of us who spend a lot of our days reading and annotating scientific papers. The refresh rate on the screen is not relevant at (at least my) paper r…

You need to read Clifford Simak's "The Way Station"

I was too. Not having used ed by necessity since a hilariously bad upgrade from Solaris 7 to 9 left me without a compiler in ... 2001?, I'd argue that line editing is most definite…

It's not quite _discovering_ a target from NGS, but lots of existing cancer drugs are targeted based on genotyping tumours. Breast cancer is the classic one, where, say, if you can…