EvanKelly

Hawaii is awesome to live in for some people. Cost of living isn't that bad, especially without a family. Once you start thinking about private education for your kids (since public is in the bottom quarter of the country) you will feel the squeeze.

I absolutely love living in Honolulu, though there are plenty of people that move here and are disillusioned or miss the mainland very quickly.

Could someone clarify how radiation dosing and dose rates are measured?

The article says background radiation levels peaked at .15 mSv in 1963. Looking at the wikipedia page on Seiverts, I am trying to compare this to other radiation examples, but not sure how to draw a comparison.

Would a human standing outside be receiving .15 mSv per hour? year? total?

How do you feel about Triclosan in toothpaste?

I dated a heatlh care professional for a while who was pretty adament that it was causing detrimental effects in the same manner as antibacterial soap.

I'm certainly not a "gamer" any longer, but I still have a pretty healthy Steam library.

I've been very happy with the increasing options on Mac OS X and I hope they keep improving.

I'm way more excited about slower, turn-based games, and Civ V, Europa Universalis, and FTL have been enough to keep me from searching for anything else.

Despite this, I know I've been missing out on games I would probably love. I think I see a SteamOS device in my future.

You can do HIIT in many low-impact sports. Swimming comes to mind, but there are plenty of great high intensity sports which work with agin bodies.

Most coastal areas probably have outrigger paddling clubs or dragon boats or crew. I can't recommend outrigger canoe paddling enough.

My understanding is the privacy settings will still exist and function. You have every ability to decline friend requests from the people you listed. I suppose there are social ramifications to declining a friend request from people you may see semi-regularly.

I certainly support the argument that this type of option should be the users' choice, but I'm curious by how many people seem to want to subvert this so that they remain unsearchable.

I use Facebook so that I can connect with people I meet. If I don't exchange contact info with someone I meet, but they know my name, it's great for them to search and find me on Facebook. I don't want my Facebook connections to solely be people I choose to friend.

I guess it boils down to how people use the service.

Real Question: Why do you have an account, but not want people to be able to find you?

EDIT: Thanks for the responses, some of them make a lot of sense that I didn't think of initially.

That's interesting, I recently had a friend change his name to something analagous to "SunBurned".

I thought it was bizarre, and maybe just temporary, but it's there, and since I have my contacts merged in my phone, I have to remember to search for SunBurned rather than his name when I want to text him.

I know companies and HR have been trained to not answer these types of things based on potential legal ramifications.

I've had luck emailing after an unsuccessful interview and saying "Thank you for the opportunity. Informally, is there anything I can work on so that I could be a successful candidate in the future?"

Different people crave different things in a place to live. Big metropolitan cities have a certain allure to many. They're exciting, happening, and full of intersting people.

One of my goals is to put myself in a situation to live comfortably on the North Shore of Oahu in the future, because that's where I want to be.

Unfortunately no one can log into a memorialized page, even with the valid credentials.

It was very difficult to get information off facebook (pictures, etc.) once the page was memorialized after the death of a loved one.

Sometimes it's nice to have a place to actually send things. It's like writing a letter to someone you never actually intend to send. I think in the case of Facebook, it's probably nice to actually push that "send" button on the message.

What's wrong with enjoying the feeling of being counterculture?

This whole anti-hipster sentiment is so bizarre to me. It's all about policing other peoples' fashion/taste/activities without reason. The idea that hipsters are somehow not genuine doesn't make any sense. What is there to be genuine to?

If you use an old film camera because you like the photos it takes and are fascinated by how it operates, more power to you.

If you use an old film camera because you think it looks cool around your neck, more power to you.

If you use an old film camera because you like the fact that you're one of the only people using one, more power to you.

It's very presumptuous of you to assume that "hipsters" don't actually enjoy the things they do.

This is an interesting analogy to me.

I've never sought investment, but I always really disliked it when companies broke communication off after an interview or application without a firm rejection.

On the otherhand, I think I prefer diminishing communication when it comes to dating. I don't treat dating like an application process. Most of the time when I talk to a woman, I'm not trying to ascertain her suitability as a mate, rather, I'm just trying to make my day/evening a little more enjoyable by having a conversation. Sometimes those conversations turn into something else, sometimes they don't. If I text someone after getting there number, I think I'd much rather prefer no response (I get what that means) to some sort of direct rejection.

There's actually more to the story.

She's not actually Hawaiian, but she married a native Hawaiian and took his name. He passed away and she wants to keep the name to remember him by.

In Hawaii right now there seem to be two prevailing schools of thought.

1) It's the state's responsibility to respect everyone's name.

2) She shouldn't have to change her name, but they don't have to put the whole thing on her ID

Not sure what you mean, so I guess not.

The sloth's evolutionary advantage is that they are so fucking cool.

I'm not sure I agree with the premise that you are either born with empathy or you aren't. Of course there are sociopaths who are defined by their lack of empathy, but they (hopefully) aren't your run of the mill job applicants.

I've always thought of myself as empathetic, but was surprised when I became even more so after a life changing event. I've spoken to many with a similar experience.

Large, traumatic events can bring the world into focus and shift perspective for those who experience them. Perhaps it's not an increase in empathy, but rather a better understanding of what really matters to me. I don't yell at the customer service rep on the phone solely because I care about their feelings, but mostly because it's simply not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things whether my internet is out or if I miss my flight. If someone I care about is in danger, I doubt I would be as "empathetic".

There's always the old adage: "You catch more flies with honey"

The second quote is the same sentiment as the Frankl quote I posted as well. It's an empowering thought. We can always choose how we approach any given situation.

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

-Viktor Frankl

It's rare that something immediately changes my outlook on life, but this quote did it. I was hesitant to read "Man's Search For Meaning" thinking it to be a pithy self-help book. I was wrong. Frankl's book helped me through what I hope to be the most difficult period of my life.

Most states in the US have at-will employment [0]. They don't even need to state a "probationary" period, they can simply fire anyone if they aren't performing.

[0]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

I was only looking for the changes I was aware of and they are fairly discernible:

-Huge Polish population in Chicago and Michigan

-Huge Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog, Korean, Vietnamese) population in Hawaii

Other than that it was mostly a population map to my eyes.

In this case you're probably right, but lots of HFT algorithms do use Twitter as a feed to inform trading strategies. Tweets can literally send stocks soaring or sinking.

I think your analysis is mostly correct, but it leaves out the option of really hustling for scholarship money.

My good friend from high school was in a position of not being able to afford our flagship state school, even though he got accepted.

He basically made it his full time job to scour all of the scholarship websites and apply to everything he was even minimally eligible for. He was constantly writing, or altering essays to fit a particular scholarship prompt.

All in all, he was able to afford school and has since graduated and become a pharmacist.

Like in a lot of things, hard work and hustle pays off.

Because suicide is not that simple.

I've commented on threads like these before, and have mentioned that I lost a loved one to suicide. It was abundantly clear through journal entries and conversations as to what the impetus of self-harm was, but attributing those events as the things "responsible" for her suicide would have been shortsighted.

This thread seems to have devolved into an argument about whether Aaron or MIT was responsible for his suicide. That's the wrong question. We can all agree that MIT surely could and should have handled the situation differently, and I'm hesitant to say anything about Aaron's actions because I'm not informed enough.

That was a great read. It reminds me of the Monty Hall problem fiasco that arose from the "Ask Marilyn" column about it. I appreciate the author of Polymath actually refuting all of the arguments against his post (to a reasonable degree).

Coding Horror describes it here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/monty-hall-monty-fa...

When my best friend passed suddenly, her family asked me to get in touch with everyone I could think of. I wanted to use every means possible to make sure people found out about her death personally, rather than seeing posts on Facebook. For people who I didn't have a number or email for, I tried using facebook message to ask them to contact me. Many of these got lost in the "others" folder, but I got through to some. Incidentally, this is how I found out about the "others" folder, because I was receiving sympathy and questions regarding the service from people I didn't know.

Some people make an impact on your life, but you may lose contact with them. That doesn't make them any less important to you. Her funeral was well attended by many who hadn't seen or spoke to her in a while, but they were there because they loved her.

I'm not very old, but I've found that as I age and move around, I tend to lose contact with people I still feel very strongly connected to and love very much. One of the main reasons I still have a Facebook account is that it helps me stay in contact, which is something I'm admittedly poor at.

There have been monk seal killings on Kauai and Molokai, but I'm not aware of any on Niihau recently.

Sorry, I just found the above from a quick google search for "FIPS 140-2 rng" which I noticed referenced in the rngtester output in the article.