Ask comment: "I have "down soap", though I'm unsure if it's necessary (Revivex Down Cleaner is the brand, I bought it from Feathered Friends here in Seattle, which also has down cleaning instructions, though they're a little different from what I do)...." [more]
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Ask comment: "I'd guess Freemasonry. It's an old (often parodied, e.g. in The Mummy Returns) verbal handshake." [more]
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2 months ago

Ask comment: "We'd probably have issues from non-C14 radioactive isotopes, ozone damage, and pure thermal energy well before any effects were seen from the C14 itself. FAQ on the effects of nuclear explosions...." [more]
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5 months ago

Ask comment: "leotrotsky: Nope, I work about three floors above it (and I'm on the ground floor). The first photo on this page is from said lab -- there's a sort of fort built from lead bricks within which C14 dating was calibrated. The lead is from the keel of..." [more]
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6 months ago

Ask post: Where can I get a new can of sardines which opens with a key?
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MeTa comment: "These are the same people who wouldn't buy a personal computer until IBM put one out. Exactly. And there are a lot of them, and we're a self-selecting group that can't look at the situation objectively because we're involved in/used to it...." [more]
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Ask post: Is there a name for the stains left on sidewalks by fallen leaves?
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Ask comment: "Grab the file D3DWindower.lzh from this page. The enclosed application will run almost any Direct3D game/application in a window. Enjoy." [more]
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Two years ago

Ask comment: "Sort of (bear in mind this isn't my field, but I'll say what I know). Coinduction as I learned it was a method of proving the equivalence of opaque structures by exploiting bisimilarity (simply put, given two (not necessarily finite) state automata..." [more]
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Two years ago