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Joined 13 years ago

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Neuroscience researcher located in Cambridge, MA
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Comment · 4 years ago
Same. I had a troubled childhood and many D's in high school. If it wasn't for me studying really hard and getting a 2320 on the SAT, I wouldn't have gotten into any school, but that was enough for UCLA to take a chance on me.
Comment · 5 years ago
Not my experience. Standard japanese apartments are cheaply constructed, cramped and often unheated. Definitely a lower standard of living.
Comment · 6 years ago
With chrome flow tab ui I can rapidly scroll through full width page previews, and I can initiate this by swiping from the top down. In Firefox the tab previews are so small as to be almost useless, and I have to press a button.
Comment · 6 years ago
Still not as good. With chrome flow tab ui I can rapidly scroll through full width page previews, and I can initiate this by swiping from the top down. In Firefox the tab previews are so small as to be almost useless, and I have to press a button.
Comment · 6 years ago
Personally, I use Firefox on PC and would love to use it on my phone.

Literally the only reason I use Chrome instead is because of the flow ui tab switching. I just can't stand the Firefox mobile UI for tab switching. I with there was an extension or something to change it. It's a huge shame.

Comment · 6 years ago
I switched to Joplin from folders of text files in dropbox. I'm on Windows and I don't want to pay. It's barely better.

The fact that it forces you to write in markdown, or use external WYSIWYG editors is a massive downside. Even if I wanted to type in markdown, that means I have to keep switching between a markdown pane and a preview pane, like straight-up LaTeX. That's wayyy beyond what I want to deal with for notes.

Notes should be quick and easy. If they did this I'm sure it would be much easier for people to switch.

Comment · 7 years ago
If you don't have anything interesting to say about yourself or your ambitions, maybe you just aren't that interesting of a person...
Comment · 10 years ago
It's ironic that you care about race here as people have transcended race in the works of Ghost in the Shell (people can easily inhabit a completely different body, even a non-humanoid one). I hope this world comes about soon so we don't have to worry about racial crap anymore.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm trying to work toward that goal every day in my lab! Sure would be helpful if a billionaire hired me though. Kernel is the closest thing we have to an industry effort, but they don't quite know exactly what they're doing yet.
Comment · 10 years ago
Anyone know if there's been any sort of security audit for WeChat? I'm basically forced to use it and I'm sure the Chinese government must've put some kind of backdoor in it.
Comment · 10 years ago
Really? Because I feel like the comment sections here are usually people being positive and agreeing with each other, while dissenting opinions are silenced.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm guessing with the amount of money that the U.S. invests in each soldier, there's a pretty overriding impetus to not disqualify people from positions that need people to fill them.

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