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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I periodically mail a DVD of important stuff to my parents and ask them to toss it in the basement. You could do the same thing with backup tapes, or whatever. Drives/tape/flash/dvd is pretty damn cheap and easy. These S3 typ
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I keep seeing articles about Go where Python developers seem to be shocked to discover that interpreted dynamically typed languages are very slow. This wasn't obvious from the get-go? Practically anything not disk bound will be many, m
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I love the picture. What a political agitator. He was a good little left wing agitator and was fatally shocked to learn that when you're not serving the agenda you can get bit.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Technical debt can accrue to the point where a piece of software is "bankrupt." Any successful refactoring amounts to extracting a subset and redoing everything else, which can practically amount to a rewrite.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I don't think corporatism is the right word as it has distinct political connotations. I think you're just talking about mass industrial employment. I think the important dynamic you're hinting at is the failure of the Protes
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
It's a formulaic little disco song. It's calculated soulless pop. I don't get the appeal.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I'm actually curious why you associate open borders with socialism/communism. That's usually considered an anarcho-capitalist position. Pro-worker policies like organized labor and immigration restriction are historically ass
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
> minimum wage or some kind of socialist initiative The socialist initiative we need is to shut down unskilled immigration entirely. Read the article; they're all Hispanic. These people's plight is going to be made even worse b
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I was thinking more like Philadelphia to Charlotte.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I would pay more and tolerate slower flying times if the trade off was a less hellish flying experience. The TSA sucks. Flight attendants suck and the seats suck. Airport public transportation is usually lousy. In fact I often tolerate su
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I'm also too cheap for bullet trains. Lots of people cheer-lead for high speed rail in America, but all I want is normal trains that run quite frequently.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Why the heck do these people want to advertise to Americans? This is a Turkish issue among Turks. What does Uncle Sam have to do with this? Inviting foreign involvement and commentary seems like an obviously horrible idea to me. Reminds me
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Most people have lived very healthily on diets consisting 90%+ of various cereal or potato gruels. I just don't see how a high-tech powder really simplify things. You can almost live on mashed potatoes. That's barely more effort than buying
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
You may feel that clothing is boring and something you can look past, but you are in a tiny minority. By failing to invest a bit in your appearance you are foolishly forgoing substantial advantages in life.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
> I mostly do it because I'm lazy. You do realize that's exactly the impression your habit conveys, right?
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I think the failure of so many in the software/IT business to dress and groom to professional standards has important consequences. The perception of the social prestige of the occupation is lowered in the broader society. This in turn invi
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
So I guess you could say he's your boyfriend. In the case of the original story you could say girlfriend or lesbian lover. Both terms are much better than partner. "Partner" is seriously problematic because it really does deliberately evoke
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
> my mother's partner was diagnosed What business is this mother in? An accountancy? Perhaps you meant to say spouse?
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Well, most people are serfs, and poor. I don't think you can define "rich" as a population proportion. In a lot of places in the world 100% of people are poor. I don't think it's unreasonable at all to say people with less than $4 million U
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
No to mention there's no such thing as low risk 7% returns. Maybe the S&P historically did that for a 15 year period here and there, but anyone telling you it's something you can plan on is either lying or a fool.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
To put it into perspective here's Felix Dennis's wealth classification table: £1m-£2m: The comfortable poor £2m-£5m: The comfortably off £5m-£15m: The comfortably wealthy £15m-£40m: The lesser rich £
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
> Japanese police in general are pretty low-key Ha! There are loads of accounts of the falsely accused getting locked up with zero due process. You can find yourself in an unheated cell and forced to kneel on the floor face against the
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but note that the white English "working" class has descended into much higher criminality and violence over the last fifty years. So there are other factors at work. In contrast this has not happened to nearly
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
The Japanese criminal justice system is brutal by world standards. This usually goes unmentioned when people bring up Japanese crime rates.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
It's proximity to Canadian latitudes. The nearer you get to Canada in the USA, consistently you get better educational outcomes and crime rates. The obvious solution to our social problems in America is to move all the low achievers to be n
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I'm sick of near daily hearing about white people "helping" Africans and African animals. Let the Africans run Africa in their own way.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Ridiculous. The average American watches hours of TV a day. Prepping a simple rice or potato based meal takes ten minutes; less time than the drive-thru. We have to stop pretending that the obesity epidemic is about something more than poor
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are very cheap and you can practically live on them, in perfect health. Generations of Irishmen, Kitavans, and Peruvians have. This claim that you can't eat healthy on the cheap is silly. Eating just potatoes &#3
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
The important metric is wealth creation beyond the wages the immigrants themselves capture. The picture right now is that immigrants to the USA clearly do produce wealth, however they capture all the benefits for themselves and it winds u
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
> Business creation is wealth creation. It is job creation. It is everything to the american economy. Most new businesses are small businesses. The jobs associated with small business are significantly worse than those associated with l

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