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Comment author: Will_Newsome 23 September 2010 05:00:22AM *  1 point [-]

I listened to a This American Life episode about campus pizza delivery (via vehicle) at a notorious party school which didn't sound very fun, but I'm guessing non-party schools are more reasonable.

I've also read a few really good blog posts about being a bike courier. It sounded fun but kinda scary. Make sure to calculate how much quantum (edit: or any kind of) measure you're losing before going that route.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 23 September 2010 07:55:29AM 7 points [-]

"Make sure to calculate how much quantum measure you're losing before going that route."

When you say it this way, Will, you needlessly exclude readers not yet familiar with the scientific content of this site, and you give the superficial impression of subscribing to Deepak Chopra or other New Age woo-woo.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 23 September 2010 08:04:31AM 2 points [-]

If I removed the word 'quantum' I think that'd be enough: after all, spatially infinite universes still force us to reason in terms of measure, and way more people accept spatially infinite universes than the no-worldeaters interpretation of quantum mechanics. You make a fair point that invoking the Q-word was needless.