nicboobees

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by nicboobees 11y ago
Maybe you're right... maybe it's my own bias since the only times I've interacted with police have been positive. Maybe if you're stopped regularly, then it's hard to keep your temper. It'd be interesting to kn
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Never put down to malice something that can be attributed to stupidity or bugs. Far more likely the recording software is crappy and sometimes skips back a second or two. The problem is whatever they released, people would start picking apa
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by nicboobees 11y ago
He asked her nicely if she could put out her cigarette for his benefit. She in return started ranting about how it was her car etc. I don't care if she has the right to remain smoking in her car or not. Someone asked kindly for her to
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Would it be so hard for her to just do what he asked instead of blowing things up... I really don't understand the absolute lack of respect some people have for the law and other humans. Is it that hard to be civil?
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by nicboobees 11y ago
It certainly is me who benefits. In 2 previous jobs, I found out what others at the company were making. OK, they were managers, but still, it just made me pissed off. It didn't make me happy by any means. As others note, people tend t
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Maybe it's different here. In the UK it's considered vulgar to discuss money or how much you earn.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Nothing good comes from knowing other peoples salary. Only jealousy, resentment, unhappiness, and greed.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
"the cost of lost discoveries"? Things will get discovered eventually, by people who are passionate about them.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
As a fellow reply states, using "Space travel" as a means for general R&D is pretty damn inefficient. You would have a similar result if you poured money into alchemy research - lots of side products etc.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
I completely agree. But it's a pursuit individuals should pursue. If you want to go explore mars, go ahead! I'm sure it'd be great fun. But it should absolutely not be anything to do with public money, taxes, grants etc. Leav
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by nicboobees 11y ago
If you're going to force people to pay money, through taxes, grants etc, to explore space, then it should have some material benefit.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Stadiums benefit millions of people. Jet fighters save lives. Finding out that there's water on mars, or some single cell organisms on pluto, does nothing apart from fill a few future text books.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
So we find out there's some creatures on Pluto that are roughly the same as frogs. How does that impact anyones life? It'd be an interesting fact, and maybe fun if we could move some over here as pets, but beyond that, it's a
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Well, agree to disagree. The average person doesn't really care if there is or isn't water on mars, or if someone spent millions of their dollars taking a photo of pluto. Year after year the news reports another big experiement wh
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Is it worth millions of dollars to know that? Nope. It's rich people playing with their toys.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
I have both. If I need maps/browser/camera, I use my android phone, and moan at all the crappy UI issues and endless updates etc. One of my worst gripes with android is just how often it changes the UI just as I'm about to cl
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Look at sewing machines though. They used to be made of cast iron and wood. They were built properly, and it shows. They still work 50 or 60 years later. Modern day sewing machines are made of cheap plastic and flimsy metal. They last 5 yea
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by nicboobees 11y ago
What if they decide to remove a feature like Android removed "silent mode" as a feature... Also, software will always be more buggy than hardware. The more software there is in something, the less reliable it is.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
This is an awful user experience though. Look at mobile phones. An old Nokia 3210 or something, just works. It does everything fine. It works as a phone. It was designed from start to finish, and built. Compare that with Android. Every upda
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by nicboobees 11y ago
People will always use "old tech". "Old tech" often just works. Flawlessly. I have a dumper truck I borrow from next door. Crank handle, diesel. It just works. Starts every time. No battery, no crap to go wrong. "ne
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Habits like reading every scientific paper and worrying about them?
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by nicboobees 11y ago
I agree. I'm just saying that just because someone is a lawyer, and has a reasonably high salary, doesn't necessarily follow that they're swimming in money.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Rich people don't just swim in money you know. It's fairly likely they'll have far more expenses than poor people. So they might have a better pension plan, pay a gardener. Might send their kids to private school. etc etc So
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Also if you sleep well, and live 25% longer, that 25% will be when you're old, senile, and unable to do anything useful. Studies about sleep are often just crazy. When did people stop using their common sense? Just have as much sleep a
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by nicboobees 11y ago
You don't think you're slightly playing the victim card here at all do you?
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Do you really believe that no regulation is the answer? Look at airbnb and the detrimental effects it has on cities. Residential areas are residential for a reason. It must be horrible to wake up one day and find that your neighbour has dec
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by nicboobees 11y ago
It'll come full circle. People will start getting murdered / seriously hurt in Uber cars, maybe they'll be filmed without their consent while in the car, probably a few rapes along the way. Then customers will cry out for reg
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by nicboobees 11y ago
And in return, you're getting a properly regulated and insured service which you can pretty much rely on. You get what you pay for.
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by nicboobees 11y ago
God forbid we should actually interact with our fellow humans. I guess the next step down this path is to replace waiters etc with robots - again reducing the amount you have to interact with other humans. When I get in a taxi, I actually e
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by nicboobees 11y ago
Another example of doing it wrong is when the form splits the cc number into 4 separate boxes, and automatically skips along merrily to the next box as you type it in. This might look nice and everything, but usually breaks if you try to ba

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