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Yes, onion specifically
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Cambridge public schools dad Scientist in drug discovery On here I mostly complain about bad drivers
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Yes, onion specifically
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I went to office hours with my freshman physics professor and asked what he worked on and he said coherent matter, like a laser but with atoms instead of light. According to Wikipedia this was right around when he first succeeded. Nobel prize six years later:
en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
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Josh Bittker
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White!
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Guess what kind of flower
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This is the kind of question they ask in consulting interviews to see if you understand orders of magnitude, like “how many windows in LA” or “how many bananas are shipped to NYC every day.” Musk would flunk an interview to be a junior hire at BCG.
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How can you say we got nothing? There is huge entertainment and psychic value in laughing at how stupid multibillionaires are.
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It’s on free OTA broadcast. Screw streaming!
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There was a lab at Harvard giving cocaine to zebrafish. I forget which lab but their volleyball team was named the crackhead fish.
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In grad school we did a group trip to an amusement park. A guy in our lab is 6’8”. You know how they have a measuring stick for kids to see if they’re tall enough for the roller coaster? Turns out there’s a big measuring stick for tall people too. He couldn’t ride.
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Nah, too much traffic
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Unfortunately I saw one in front of the Cambridge main library a couple weeks ago.
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I’m surprised they haven’t establish a global queuing policy for weekend crowds. Some stores it’s a free for all to push your way into a checkout line. Some run a single long line to the back of the store with a coordinator sending people to the next available spot (this is the way.)
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It’s the current Prime Video model and the old cable channel + video store model. Half the time I want to watch a specific movie it’s not on any service I have and I need to rent it. Service-specific TV series and random movies are available if I’m not picky about what to watch. Pass the clicker!
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Even with the match, tax savings, and ROI, he lost money versus not contributing at all. I also suspect there’s been monthly maintenance fees since he left the job. The lesson: flat fees overwhelm percentage gains that are supposedly incentives to invest when you have a small or part-time income.
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A story of how the obvious financial decision is the wrong one: Teenage kid had a summer job which offered 401k and a match. Great, obviously sign up and start saving young! Now he’s in college so we’re trying to roll over to an IRA. But account custodian, ADP, charges $55 to close the account!
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Various voltage options were right there.
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As it is written in Genesis 14.2, “Jesus, He knows me and He knows I'm right; I've been talkin' to Jesus all my life”
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The only affiliation I see mentioned on the Broad site is former postdoc and current scientific advisor on vector engineering (currently nothing to do with Covid)
giving.broadinstitute.org/broadignite/...
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Oh thanks, I saw that and thought, Weren’t FCS, GoF, market vs lab localization, animal vector, etc debunked a year ago, maybe I missed some new finding and nope the NYT just made a nice graphical version completely ignoring the numerous holes that have been poked in these arguments.
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I’ve had various e-bikes for ~10 years, a year into my newest commuter (a class 3- it cooks!) and the odometer is 2400 miles. I have the option to drive and park for free and just don’t, even in yesterday morning’s downpour it was preferable to driving- terrible traffic because everyone else drove.
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Someone’s got to make an Inigo Montoya account and follow all the AI six-fingered pfp accounts
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Goddamnit if there’s one thing I learned from Red October it’s that you shouldn’t drive your submarine in reverse.
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Spelling bee anti-science bias remains undefeated
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I plead Poe’s law.
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There should be a rule that if you have to label more than three of the figures in your political cartoon you are banned from publishing for a month. Call it the Ben Garrison rule.
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Simple access to the whole North End!
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Community path eh? They just finished the Brattle protected lanes to the Watertown line, which means with the exception of ~500 feet on Church St you have protected lane from MIT to Harvard to Brattle St to Watertown Greenway. Almost to Minuteman, have to get to Alewife from Fresh Pond on sidewalks.
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Ha must suck to live in China where they have panopticon social desirability scores! (Receives consumer history report with a wildly wrong previous address and a list of all 308 trips taken since buying a new car including departure & arrival times, distance, and counts of “too much acceleration”)
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Guts n’ Roses
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A lot of kids use it to get from Harvard station to the high school, and it also pushed the tourists to surrounding sidewalks which aren’t designed for that level of traffic. Lots of people stepping out into bike lanes- not great! At least a lot of Harvard land is ungated (science center plaza)
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Oh no
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The “decibel of our disagreements”? The audible of our arguments The loud of our language The noise of our negotiations The humdrum of our haranguing
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My first night at MIT my bike was stolen. Admittedly I locked it stupidly (tire to frame over a pole instead of to the pole) I went to campus police to report it and they had a stack of pamphlets ready to go, essentially titled, “So your bike was stolen.”
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Man that book looks really dangerous, check out the diamond on that thing.
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I read somewhere that artificial banana flavor is what bananas used to taste like before Gros Michel died out and they all switched to Cavendish. I have not personally confirmed this but you can still specialty order Gros Michel to compare.
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I know it’s the reality of where we are, but it’s wild how accepted it is that Trump will pardon himself or order the federal cases dismissed if he wins. It was treated like a huge scandal when Clinton, who had no official power, met informally with the AG. But now it’s “duh that’s just politics.”
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Yeah I had an HHMI fellowship and the base GSAS stipend was $18k my first year but I made $28k.
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More actually! Guess that whole union thing is working out for the students.
What happens when grad school stipend outpaces some entry level non-PhD jobs?
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
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People shocked to learn that natural sciences not only pay your tuition but also pay a stipend. These days in the $40s/yr for chemistry.
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I believe my kids school is right where I695 would have been. It’s some of the most expensive real estate in the country- has anyone calculated the current value of the land that would have been eaten by a freeway?
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Hmm… “details regarding the availability of the Big Bite Hot Dog Sparkling Water will be disclosed on April 1”
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Picked Yale and NC state but also picked Kentucky to the final four.
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Crossing off idea from my perpetual motion machine list
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Someone write a TV show where a premier league coach moves to America and helps a financially struggling D1 football team.
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My favorite was if you walk into an open house without a buyer’s agent and just buy from the selling agent, it wasn’t, “Ok that’s only 3% commission, maybe buyer and seller can split that savings,” it was, “Cool seller’s agent is now also buyer’s agent and gets the whole 6%”
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Ah yes, the Ford F150, America’s most popular compact car.
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Eat your own dogfood, but not that crap kibble common dogs eat, the good stuff prepared by my personal doggie chef who I’ll bite if the meat isn’t fresh enough.
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Don’t protect them!
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Slamming! Why was it called that?
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We weren’t so technically sophisticated. We just called 1-800-USA-SEGA on the school pay phones and left them off the hook to run up the bill.
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