BlackDeath3

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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
I really love all of the things that I can do with my smartphone these days that I'd never have been able to do with an older device (trying to even browse the Internet on a phone that I owned as recently as five years ago was painful
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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
But ~$89,000 isn't six figures, so...? Also, I suppose it depends on the source and relevant area covered by the statistic. I've heard other (lower) figures elsewhere.
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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
>> ...they even went so far as to say it didn’t even matter what you studied!... > ...They weren't wrong. The sheer number of people who have had their resumes ignored simply because they don't have a degree of some sort
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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
> Vets can easily make 100k+ in rural areas where the median wage is in the 20s or 30s... Eh... depends on the job. I don't think that most prospective veterinarians dream of working for the USDA ($$$) when they graduate.
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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
>> Veterinarian programs specific limit how many students they accept, because if they didn't, their graduates wouldn't be able to afford a living wage. > Are you sure that's the only reason? I'd be surprised. I
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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
> Restrictions on how private parties can provide a private service are ubiquitous in every market... I'm speaking more about "ought" than "is" here. I don't see any reason why Facebook should have to choose
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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
Right, I'm not talking about withdrawing from the market, I'm talking about remaining in the market and being allowed, as a private company providing a private service, to freely associate. I have no qualms with a competitor start
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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
Personally, I'd really not like to see a precedent set for a company entering a market, doing very well, and then being legally compelled to provide their product as some sort of legal right to an entire population. It might be a diffe
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by BlackDeath3 8y ago
I find this distinction increasingly odd as time goes on. Or, at the very least, the use of the phrase "real life", as if interactions over the Internet are somehow cleanly separated from the rest of one's interactions.
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by BlackDeath3 11y ago
Appealing to authority is not always fallacious.
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by BlackDeath3 11y ago
>they treat it as an insult I treat that as an insult. As if their ego is more important than me not being launched through a fucking windshield.
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by BlackDeath3 11y ago
Do they not provide comparable functionality?
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by BlackDeath3 11y ago
As it should be! The ubiquity of the "funny == upvote" mentality is rather depressing, and I'm glad that HN (generally) tries to avoid that. It makes the comments section a much more interesting place to be (to me, at least).
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by BlackDeath3 12y ago
>Everyone is saying the same thing. Registry Cleaning is unnecessary, won't improve performance, and really only offers you a chance of doing damage. Well, shit. I've been using the registry cleaner for years now on Windows 7.
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by BlackDeath3 12y ago
I'd imagine just about anything that exists in any capacity can be tied to the physical in some way. I think that in this context, "tangible" means more than that.
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by BlackDeath3 12y ago
But if I were to do that, I'd have to go deeper. I'd have to start justifying everything that I do. And I mean everything . I'd have to justify my justifications, and justify those meta-justifications. I'd have to justi
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by BlackDeath3 12y ago
I haven't suggested that general anarchy has erupted. I've suggested that "breaking the rules is part of being human" is a crappy justification for breaking rules.
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by BlackDeath3 12y ago
>Because breaking the rules (like what "fits HN") is part of being a hacker. Or a human. This sounds like justification for having no rules. I don't know if that's a good idea. >Plus, that's how social sites w
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by BlackDeath3 12y ago
Agreed. I always find it odd when digital items are referred to as "non-existent", as though their intangibility makes them any less real or valuable.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
What are your means? What is "quite well"?
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
How is that? Again, I don't really mean to press you too far with the questions, I'm just a young guy who hears $110,000 and thinks "gee, that's a lot of money".
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
If you don't mind my asking, how far would you say that $110,000 has gotten you in Seattle?
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
RES uses infinite scrolling of some sort, yes.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Do you mind providing me with some examples of civilized honor killings?
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
If you're avoiding press for security reasons, you may be doing it wrong.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
That's a million wallets that can instantly, pseudonymously send money to some random dude halfway around the world.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I agree completely. I think a lot of people will look at the things that I say and call me an asshole for saying them, but I really think that's true. If people don't take a stand against this sort of shit, it will continue. The g
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
>Saying that is disrespectful to the culture she is coming from. I'm getting the feeling that the culture she comes from is causing her to fear for her life because of disobedience . She may deserve respect herself, but her cultu
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
That sounds like the real problem to me. I know I'll come off as a culturally-insensitive douchebag for saying this, but the fact that somebody isn't used to saying "no", or even being able to say "no", doesn
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
And if I were a career criminal, I'd probably have a pretty low opinion of the justice system (actual problems with said justice system aside). My point? It's hard to be reasonable about things when you're coming at them from

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