User:Decoy

I'm a Finnish libertarian, atheist and BDSM-freak, known for my use of strong language and idiom. I'm near native in written Queen's Proper, if not so in the spoken kind. I'm an autodidact former Nokia engineer, in structured documentation and relational databases. Never graduated, but it was close: the topic of my thesis would have been "Gröbner Bases: Normal Forms for Multivariate Polynomial Algebra". As such I know a bit of mathematics, and the STEM field in general.

Nowadays I prove to be an alcoholic, in my heavily indulged sugar wine, and an unemployed person. I suffer from a nasty case of spinal disc herniation too, not to mention bipolar disorder, which might help to explain some of my later demise.

I still read, though. Heavily. Which is what I told my mom at 13a I would do, instead of playing the clarinet or whatnot. Evenwhile being a graduate of a music school. (I take sound seriously after the fact. Just on the digital signal processing and physical acoustics side, and not the musical theory one. I'd argue some of my techno compositions still sound fresh. Despite my hereditary hearing deficit.)

Some have called me "a special individual". In the nice way, too. Maybe even a polydidact, or a synthesist as the vernacular goes in my favourite science fiction genre.

As such, I'm here to serve over multiple practices and fields of knowledge. I know many of my edits will be reverted, being what I and my memory are. But as part of the process, I think I'm still the useful, interesting counterpart who throws out associations most people do not likely come up with. I can also read through any reference if they just come upto me; scientific or not. When I'm not too drunk, I'm also a razor, if not quite William of Ockham himself.

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Tämän käyttäjän äidinkieli on suomi.

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This user's IRC nick is decoy on the server irc.cs.hut.fi.

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This user was a DMOZ editor.

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This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.

This user is a hacker, or identifies with and promotes the hacker ethic.

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This user uses SQL queries to locate his car keys.

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This user is an intermediate Lisp programmer.

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This user is a beginning Haskell programmer.

This user has borderline personality disorder.

This user reserves the right to completely screw up his own edits.

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This user likes geometry.

This user is pretty sure that he is an outlier compared to everybody else.

This user knows how to travel 1 mile due south, due east, then due north and end up where he started.^†

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This user uses the metric system and loves it.

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This user knows what a BBS is and has accessed them by phone line.

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This user allows his neighbors to use his wireless Internet connection.

This user owns a Nokia phone.

This user is a tobacco smoker.

This user drinks. Period.

This user is freegan.

This user enjoys cooking.

This user is an omnivore.

This user eats Sauerkraut.

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This user is a CHILIHEAD.

This user believes that a tomato is biologically a fruit, but socially a vegetable.

This user loves to eat cucumbers.

This user eats tomatoes.

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This user eats green beans.

This user loves iceberg lettuce salad.

This user drinks tap water regularly.

This user drinks green tea.

This user drinks Pepsi.

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This user hates mojibake.

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This user is interested in political science.

This user is a classical liberal.

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This user is a hedonist.

This user believes copyright laws are harmful and that RE, sharing and modifying are inalienable rights.

This user is car-free.^‡

It's a fact: This user is a tree hugger.

This user is a Lego enthusiast

This user enjoys overcast weather.

M	This user wants to be in Mensa.

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This user is an intermediate mathematician.

This user is interested in the natural sciences.

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This user uses the Celsius scale, as he finds it superior in every way to Fahrenheit.

This user reads science fiction.

This user enjoys electronic music.

This user is a child of the Enlightenment.

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This user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. ^†

This user might or might not have an academic degree, and considers the distinction irrelevant on Wikipedia.

This user is a child at heart. He might have grown older, but he'll never grow up.

This user is straight
but not narrow.

This user has a common-law spouse.

This user lives in Finland.

This user is against involuntary military service.

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