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"There is so much confusion in this thread, I had to walk away for a second to take a breath. Let me just say:
1) Brockles is completely wrong with regard to the infinity thing, physics aside. Two things which are of the same Cardinality are equal..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pyry
Yesterday
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"An earlier article mentioned he had saved about £30,000 for the trip (about 60k USD). Obviously a big chunk of that is the travel costs. He was, after all, doing this alone, and even El Bulli doesn't cost more than say $400-500 for the food...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mrgrimm
2 days ago
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"I dont care what anyone else says. My first kiss was at the age of 8. I swear this is true.
At that age, my summers were spent with the family in Mexico. My grandmother lived in a small closely-knit village full of kids my age. We would roam the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by graventy, flibbertigibbet, scrump, Science!
2 days ago
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"Growing up in Mexico, the piñatas were made of clay. That sounds dangerous and it was. As soon as someone got a good whack, the thing would give a loud and satisfying crack and shards of clay and candy would go flying in all directions. Fun times...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, willie11
2 days ago
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"One perhaps unintended consequence of which guidebook you choose is, of course, meeting other people who are using that same guidebook.
It sounds obvious but, for example, only Americans use the Rick Steves guides. So, whenever we we've been in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Zambrano
3 days ago
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"Well...folks have looked at this problem.
If we start with the "simpler" problem of 1x1 squares, you can see that there is a standard regular packing (see packings for 31 and 32) which will give you a ratio of areas of about 1.25 (area..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by forforf, the Real Dan
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Every single person in Europe is less comfortable relying on Russia for their energy than they were two weeks ago.
Oh, please. This surprised nobody in Europe. Europe's over-reliance on Russian energy is an old story over here. Here's a BBC..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"None of these struck me as true at all and all of them struck me as easily refutable.
The whole thing was a bit depressing and seemed to me like that world-view and easy generalization of that bitter friend of yours who has been kicked around by..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, chuckdarwin, clearly, wanderingmind, kingbenny
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"It felt a bit odd in a recent Metatalk thread when people kept proclaiming that everyone had paid $5 to be here. And everyone agreed, as if it was the most obvious of things.
Of course thats not true. The $5 thing feels fairly recent to me. But it..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by konolia, timeistight
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I am very uncomfortable with the idea that a poster must water down the message of a link in order to make it more palatable to readers.
posted by loiseau at 8:12 PM on August 11 [+] [!]
It's not watering down. It's civility. Instead of talking..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, Blazecock Pileon
10 days ago
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"Someone must have been in the situation I am in, how did you deal with it?
Yes, I have. But I must say I dealt with it entirely differently.
You say you are all close friends, but did your close friends never volunteer to use their connections..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by kidbritish
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"From this Flickr comment:
I’d like to give credit to the writer and artist of that Calvin and Jobs satire. It was written by Jacob Lambert and drawn by Gary Hallgren. It’s from a two page spread in the current issue of MAD Magazine. It’s the Super..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JHarris, Dr-Baa, magstheaxe
13 days ago
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""Sometimes things just don't make sense, and that's just the way it is. Live with it. More tea?"
-Richard Feynman" [
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favorited 6 times, recently by inconsequentialist
2 weeks ago
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"Are there any affordable, interesting...
Unfortunately, in the SF Bay Area, "affordable" and "interesting" (in the good way) are fairly mutually exclusive. I think what the previous posters are trying to point out is:
1)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lothar
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"gnfti: I was actually typing out a similar list. For 9 and 10 I had
9. Starting off as nothing more than a brief glance, lifelong loves and friendships can form.
10. No matter how odd and strange your beliefs, there are undoubtedly lots of people..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pyrex
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"That he wrote with such candor about a taboo topic does not mean he's bitter (as some seem to think), but rather that he is an idealist who still believes in the ideal "the life of the mind." And to dismiss such idealism without a fair..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by kryptondog, zippy, rtha, longdaysjourney, ornate insect
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"They're middle or upper middle-class kids who've managed to get their foots in the door, and, having been well-trained in the ways of getting ahead in the meritocracy, aren't about to let up for one instant.
Contrary to what you think, a lot of my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
2 weeks ago
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"This pairs well with this previous thread and will likely have many of the same type of comments." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rykey
2 weeks ago
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"Great! Another thread about our magical childhoods, which everyone will post in and nobody will read!
posted by Ian A.T. at 3:34 PM on August 4 [+] [!]
Thats a bit cynical. I'm genuinely curious as to what others post. Especially, yes, since..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
2 weeks ago
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"I'll go ahead and add my two cents.
Everything the author of this article says is true.
I know that there are people in this thread who have tried to explain how these precepts are not universal and how they are not like that, or their friends..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by jayder, divabat, pjern, invitapriore, Crabby Appleton, oaf, jb, Snyder, TheWhiteSkull, limeonaire, grouse, languagehat, jonmc, maxwelton, lunit
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I bought my ex girlfriend the annotated Alice in Wonderland for valentine's day one year, does that count?
I re-wrote Alice in Wonderland and added my girlfriend (now wife) in as a major character but, yeah, this is pretty awesome...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Anderson_Localized, Optamystic
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm having trouble understanding why people can't just leave their "sensitive" data at home, on an external hard drive. In fact, Bruce Schneier agrees with me (linked above):
So your best defence is to clean up your laptop. A customs..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by electrasteph, regicide is good for you
2 weeks ago
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"Joey Michales:So, what the NSA is hoping here is that by randomly siezing latops, they will get lucky, sieze Bryan's computer (while letting Bryan continue on his merry way) and read and find the files detailing his plot before he takes action?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dejah420
2 weeks ago
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"On another airport security note, my roommate has dark skin and gets "randomly" selected for extra screening almost every time. On his last trip, as the security guys were finishing up with him, one of them pointed to another dark skinned..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lothar
2 weeks ago
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"I love this from the Slate article:
"You try to get a salad within 20 minutes of our location; it's virtually impossible," says the Community Coalition's executive director. Really? The coalition's headquarters is at 8101 S. Vermont Ave...." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by perilous, mek, sondrialiac, zpousman, gorgor_balabala, Who_Am_I, miss lynnster, yort, Artw
3 weeks ago
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"I relate so much to that Carlos kid. Like him, I was a gifted Latino kid. So gifted that, yes, people often asked me whether I was really Latino.
I am. My parents grew up in a village in Mexico and came to the United States as immigrants. I grew..." [
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favorited 66 times, recently by lalochezia, sephira, dog food sugar, allkindsoftime, flibbertigibbet, secretary bird, kosher_jenny, gen, clockworkjoe, onalark, artifarce, ntartifex, papafrita, ST!NG, Baby_Balrog, Huw, painquale, k8t, ryansara, Cool Papa Bell, dhruva, LoriFLA, vernondalhart, roboppy, jokeefe, iamkimiam, yeoz, Atom Eyes, Xoebe, Commander Rachek, infinitefloatingbrains, spec80, melissa may, weathergal, Nerro, duvatney, jabberjaw, cybercoitus interruptus, dancestoblue, WCityMike, concreteforest, lunit, cadge, khaibit, Floach, kliuless, CunningLinguist, joyceanmachine, designbot, Chomskyfied, Jofus, naju, weebil, the_bone, Stynxno, decoherence, cashman, Forktine, BinaryApe, griphus, Anderson_Localized, fishfucker, Jacqueline, bunnytricks, BrotherCaine, kid ichorous
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"An interesting followup note is that I got Harvard just as a fellow Mexican-American there was getting arrested for armed robbery. Yep, armed robbery.
The judge, who could have imposed a maximum 15-year term, was asked by the defense to consider..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Stu-Pendous
4 weeks ago
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"And every third girl is waxed bald now too. That had to have come from porn.
But also a lot of this porn wasn't just invented out of the blue. The Brazilians have been waxing themselves for a long time (to fit into their skimpy bikinis for one)..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by limeonaire, nadawi, Forktine
Last month
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"The Portuguese FSI Language course is one of the best ones out there, and free. I used it myself, successfully. The focus is on becoming conversational as quickly as possible.
Also, keep in mind that almost all Portuguese classes in the US are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sevenyearlurk
Last month
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"OED says yes:
[Shortened form of SHONICKER.]
An offensive name for a Jew. Hence {sm}shonky a.1 (see quot. 1951).
1938 W. MATTHEWS Cockney Past & Present v. 153, I diffidently suggest the following words as the most familiar slang..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
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"To followup on what raedyn just asked, I was going to suggest something slightly different than the "get them to talk about themselves" strategy.
I love to observe brilliant conversationalists in action. One thing I've noticed is that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by yohko
Last month
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"Because of the current "first post stays unless the poster of the first post requests his gets taken down" policy NewsFilter is going to be dominated by single link news site posts. Though I haven't thought of a better policy for this kind..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CunningLinguist
Last month
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"I thought it was fun, if a bit silly. I'm not seeing how female breasts equate with sexism.
But then again, what do I know, I'm the European admin. I see many more breasts than this on a trip to the beach. And I'm sure everyone there is also..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by papafrita, Zambrano
Last month
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""Get out if you don't like it", here, at Metafilter?
Sort of seconding what prefpara said. There are a few assholes in this thread. But there are assholes in every metatalk thread, unfortunately.
I think reasonable discourse also..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kuujjuarapik, grobstein
Last month
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"Here you go." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by agent99, serazin, Dizzy, grouse, Grither, regicide is good for you, cashman, Nickel, loiseau, k8t, meerkatty, DevilsAdvocate
Last month
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"The public areas of the Barbican have free wifi and outlets. The place is also very quiet on weekdays." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kirjava
Last month
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"[insert your username here] is a young-ish, white, middle-class, English-speaking male who works as a web-designer/programmer. I think he lives in the U.S., although Great Britain and Canada seem also likely.
He listens to a wide range of music..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jtron
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I think it's be great if Stewart and Caterina started a GNE that in the end didn't turn out to be vaporware, because that 'alpha' was fun as hell.
They turned it on briefly a couple months ago and got everyone excited. That code and IP is, I am..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yeoz
2 months ago
