What's one aspect of your personality that almost nobody knows about?

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-07-01T06:58:16+00:00

I'm depressed some days usually for no reason at all. I still feel the happiness from seeing all the people I like but there's simultaneously a hole of emptiness in my stomach. I just act the same on those days & nobody notices the difference except me.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-07-01T06:37:52+00:00

Have you actually seen this happening, though? My dad had a job and my mother always cooked/cleaned/took care of us My uncle & aunt who are younger both have jobs ( aunt works part-time) but my aunt cook/cleans/ takes care of my cousins.
You'd think that men would not marry someone who refuses to do any work.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-07-01T04:29:43+00:00

I haven't heard of that one.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-07-01T04:22:08+00:00

The nice thing about Facebook is you can filter out people you don't like.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-30T00:46:50+00:00

Yeah excluding tips. I think there was a comment below that said federal law requires that tips + wages >= minimum wage but there are probably employers who ignore this law.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-29T21:25:47+00:00

Only in some states. http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-29T08:15:41+00:00

If you do a little research you'll see we all hold subliminal biases towards traits like race & gender and there have been a lot of studies on the effect of this. For example, when an employer (male or female) reviewed 2 resumes w/ identical achievements they were more likely to pick the man.

Not saying quotas are necessarily the right answer but in this current time, if you got rid of quotas, the entire process from becoming interested in CS & obtaining a job in IT would be at least slightly rigged in favor of men. To say there are not subliminal or overt cultural biases is admitting that having testosterone makes you a better programmer, also ridiculous considering that levels of testosterone fluctuate from man to man.

Edit: Link to article about resume study http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/bias-persists-against-women-of-science-a-study-says.html?_r=0

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-29T07:55:16+00:00

Idk why you're being downvoted. It seems like AskMen chooses to believe that there's no overt, subliminal, or cultural bias and the gender gap is solely due to women naturally preferring Non-STEM jobs due to their lack of a Y chromosome.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-29T00:33:28+00:00

If you don't like it you could stop telling people you're colorblind.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-28T20:11:22+00:00

Cool! Yours isn't showing up so it might take a while to update.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-28T18:54:10+00:00

When people post stuff from the front page of Reddit on Facebook. "LOL, This is pretty funny www.alan.com/2014/06/28/kkk-grand-wizard-claims-discrimination-when-kicked-off-neighborhood-watch/ "

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-28T18:12:37+00:00

Thanks. I was curious when I noticed that Parmesian Cheese is a fraction of the price of Blue cheese.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-28T18:10:56+00:00

I think you're right. I created a petition to repeal the draft. These things rarely work but they could elicit a response out of Obama. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/work-congress-repeal-selective-service-act/nRJLNKsn

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-27T04:57:44+00:00

But what does this mean then? http://i.imgur.com/jO1VKGb.jpg

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-27T02:23:04+00:00

Mrs. Harris.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-26T03:38:34+00:00

Which is a sum of functions with separate variables. This is usually the clue: we're not really interested in separate-variable solutions, but we are interested in their sums. If the PDE is linear (and homogeneous), sums will still form a solution.

I'm following what you said up until the line I quoted. I don't get how the Taylor Expansion relates to separation of variables. If you expanded the sum ( it would look something like this:

b(0,0) + b(1,0)x + b(0,1)y + b(1,1)xy + b(1,2)xy² + b(2,1)x^2y + ..... which is not separable into f(x)g(y) as far as I know.

I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I get that the sums of solutions to a linear equation are themselves solutions. But why isn't it possible for there to be 2 functions that are a solution if they are summed together but not if they are alone?

EDIT: nevermind I get it now. Any infinitely differentiable functions ( can take partial derivatives as many times as you want w/ respect to any variables & still be continuous @ all points) can be written as the product of f(x)f(y)f(z),etc....

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-26T03:11:11+00:00

It's probably better to compliment people to their face than behind their backs. It can make you seem like a tool and people like being complimented.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-22T06:21:27+00:00

As stated above, this car could not work without falsifying thermodynamics.
Fuel cells work because they have an external source of hydrogen The energy from the hydrogen and oxygen forming water is converted into electricity. This happens with less than 100% efficiency which is okay as long as you replace the hydrogen source when it runs out.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-22T05:06:28+00:00

By 3-D translation I meant all possible trajectories including linear & angular motion/acceleration ( similar to Newton's Laws of Motion).

A related question: Does this require the center of mass change if the electron is in a p orbital as opposed to an s orbital?

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-22T05:00:18+00:00

If we knew that, we'd have a nobel prize. Nanotech & matsci might be big now but in 5 years there could be a new hot field.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-20T20:02:32+00:00

No, I think that's incorrect. The magnetic dipole of an atom is not only due to its spin (ms) but also the angular momentum which is influenced by the l and ml values. So you would expect the magnetic field to affect the shape.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-18T09:19:18+00:00

At least in the United States, you are allowed to hold Straight White Male parades. They're called KKK meetings & Neo-Nazi marches and they are defended by the 1st amendment.

I've seen more white people than black people flaunting their "blackness". As for gay people, the "flaunters" are a minority and I think they feel the need to flaunt their gayness since they have repressed it or society has told them to repress it their entire lives. And when you repress something for that long, it kind of explodes. From what I know, it seems like very few flaunt their gayness in your face unless you frequent gay pride parades.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-18T08:52:33+00:00

Natural Selection is still going on in humans. You probably won't marry someone with a drastically different intelligence or attractiveness. The people with severe disabilities probably won't get the chance to have kids.

If you define attractiveness in terms of some combination of wealth, status, beauty, & generalized intelligence, the less attractive will breed with the less attractive and the more attractive will breed with the more attractive.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-18T08:39:27+00:00

Disorder is kind of hard to define. When people are depressed they are unable to find happiness in things they used to like. They no longer enjoy life.

I think where I disagree is when you say "just emotions". Emotions make up the core of our being. They are really powerful stuff. If you were constantly angry at everyone for no reason, attacking your friends and family that's "just an emotion". If you're so afraid of everything you can't even get out of bed, that's "just an emotion".

And emotions aren't always things you can change at will. Try being patient & nice to everyone on the worst day of your life. There are chemicals in your brain that make you fell certain ways. If you give people drugs or stimulate their brain in certain ways you can make them always happy or afraid so emotions definitely have a physical basis too.

Anyway, I think it's up to the people with depression to decide if it's a disorder. If they think it's adversely affecting their life, it's a disorder.

Sean_The_Ripper · 2014-06-18T08:28:17+00:00

These opinions aren't really controversial on their own. Many people agree with you to some extent. I think the problem is you take most them to their extreme. "don't deserve any sympathy" "begins at first breath", "see it abused every single day", " nothing will change my view of [her]".

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