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I think that it may be the case by law that the donor cannot select the individual recipient of a donation if the organization wants to retain tax exemption.

Can someone explain the perception that Facebook's IPO was a disaster? Doesn't the fact that the stock has not risen mean that the offering had the correct price?

Thanks for your advice and everybody else's too... I still feel like I may at least give SimpleDB a try by making a new domain for each table and distributing the large tables over multiple domains (my data is amenable to splitting up). I may make two copies of some domains that are split up in different ways so I don't have to query all of the domains associated with a table.

Are JOINs used that often? My thought was that I could export the data to a mysql database for analysis if I needed to do any very demanding crunching.

Isn't this just a reprise of the covered wagon?

I've heard that there is too much latency to use EC2 as a host. Certainly xforwarding is not great. Check out the creators of "Friends for Sale": http://omnisio.com/sdforum/siqi-chen

Don Dodge seems so friendly!

Harvard. Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg.

But science is so much fun! It's kind of like going to college for free--I get to take interesting classes. And work on startups on the side.

I emailed Google the same idea a few years ago and never heard back. It's pretty obvious.

How is the OLPC project "charity" when the governments buy the laptops from OLPC just as they would from Intel? The Economist is ridiculous, drawing false distinctions.

Yeah, maybe I should give this a shot. The problem is that almost all of my college friends are also in grad school, so it would take some serious convincing....if only we didn't love science so much...

Thanks for your response! I'm trying to: (1) parse questions into the "opening" such as "What is the", and "subject" like "capital of Burkina Faso"? (2) also looking for similarities between things like "going running" and "going for a jog" I'm not sure if both of these fall under natural processing... mostly I use python so your first suggestion sounds like a good starting place.

ba physics + phd physics in progress

0.7 days per week

Oh dear.

You couldn't be more right.

People ought to stop saying "game ending" all the time. It's turned into a cliche.

that would be good will hunting

My attention span is far too short to understand what this is.

Don't go mistaking paradise for that home across the road!

Lisa Randall the Harvard physicist read this too?

totally flippin sweet, a copernican revolution if you will, vive la revolution, companeros!

I'm not having a rough day