th0waway

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by th0waway 10y ago
This is where I take the time to explain to everyone that "Yeah, while it may save you time to do it manually, if you do it THIS way instead, you never have to write it from scratch again, and your output goes waaay up". Every job
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by th0waway 11y ago
Ahh, the fallacy of not learning from history - as soon as a populace is disarmed they are helpless before their lord and master... I mean government. The battle for freedom began in Lexington and Concord when a group of British soldiers at
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by th0waway 11y ago
The Ten Amendments are not there to give power to the people, there are there to emphasize powers that the government DOES NOT HAVE. The thought was (and a very good one), that if something was not explicitly forbidden the government would
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by th0waway 11y ago
Yes. As a married, white, heterosexual male, being seen having a dinner alone with a single female (or even lunch) would be enough to cause questions from friends. So it's not worth it. And I'm no one, with no fame or high positio
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by th0waway 11y ago
they have to do something to make up for all the extra effort used in turning the results over to the government...
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by th0waway 11y ago
ahhh, but put a little effort into building the cigarette boat and the response envelope is drastically small, small enough that a swarm of cheap boats could gut a battleship.
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by th0waway 11y ago
and a lot of that is by design, which is sad, and also is why I am buying older cars.
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by th0waway 11y ago
wow - really? Negative points for pointing out that the government has no financial incentive to root out fraud? Must be government shills.
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by th0waway 11y ago
I would expect it to be the reverse: there is no incentive for government programs to root out fraud, if they fall short, they just raise taxes. For private companies - if they are being defrauded, it directly affects their bottom line, and
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by th0waway 11y ago
And THAT is the other thing. bash 7 years ago is the same as bash today, no changes based on some corporate overlords marketing idea of the month. Powershell is still in flux, and with MS as the owner, when will it ever be stable?
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by th0waway 11y ago
my parents lived off of grits (we're from the South) for three weeks when they were first married. They made it, with no help from the government - and my Dad never finished school, and could barely read. A lot of people have expectati
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by th0waway 11y ago
couple that with reform in health-care billing and practice of medicine and I think we would have had a winner.
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by th0waway 11y ago
a bill that couldn't be read before it was passed... yeah, stellar work there
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by th0waway 11y ago
more like "obey or die"
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by th0waway 11y ago
right - nobody could EVER build a civilization using English...
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by th0waway 11y ago
Transparency for thee but not for me...
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by th0waway 11y ago
I don't remember ever hitting 0.
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by th0waway 11y ago
As a kid I had a hard time getting to sleep (small home, could hear everything). I eventually learned to block everything out and sleep using the following routine: 1. Start breathing as slow as possible. 2. Count breathes, starting at 100
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by th0waway 11y ago
You're overthinking the problem. The best thing to do is to go out there and get a job, any job, even a minimum-wage manual labor job. Work your ass off, be the Employee of the Month. Keep your eyes open while you work, there are oppor
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by th0waway 11y ago
downvoted for telling the truth? HN, becoming Reddit one new user at a time
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by th0waway 11y ago
congratulations on a life well lived. :)
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by th0waway 11y ago
48, and can confirm what you are saying - learning new names is tough. Things that I could once learn through osmosis require much repetition to retain.
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by th0waway 11y ago
I've started coming to the conclusion that as you stuff more stuff into your brain, the longer it takes to get to any bit of information that isn't in continual use. Larger index, non-linear search time.
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by th0waway 11y ago
12 years older than you, and can confirm all the things you said in your post above. I am worried about age discrimination, so I am planning my exit from IT.
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by th0waway 11y ago
But it uses loads and loads of parenthesis, so no one will ever use it...
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by th0waway 11y ago
I'm interested in the trade-offs in growing up bilingual - what, if anything is being depressed to make up for the resources devoted to being bi-lingual?
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by th0waway 11y ago
same here - it's been tough breaking the 'buy a new book' habit. If there's something I find that I want to save, I will either save the complete page, or just copy/paste the relevant text.
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by th0waway 11y ago
http://www.mendosa.com/stefansson1.htm - which is quoted in the Wiki. All lean meat leads to 'Rabbit starvation', you need some fatty meats to supply necessary vitamins and minerals.
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by th0waway 11y ago
Here's the article I was thinking about: http://www.mendosa.com/stefansson1.htm
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by th0waway 11y ago
ugh, would much rather work on an older car - more space, less electronics

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