Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
>What I can suggest is stop thinking of food as tasty. I'll eat dirt if it gives me the right vitamins and proteins, don't care how food tastes Wow, this really sounds like a ringing endorsement for veganism! I'll bet a l
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>But the life of an animal bred for human consumption is not "somewhat unhappy". It's closer to "absolutely depressing" or "shockingly inhumane". I've seen plenty of pastures with lazy, grass-munch
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>and that I'd also rather be alive than dead, so others shouldn't suffer that fate just because I had to satisfy my taste buds) If everyone did this, then raising of animals for food would stop. That wouldn't keep any ani
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Seconded. I'd really like to see more use of Qt; it's cross-platform and high performance.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Ceramic caps are usually very low capacity, tantalum and electrolytic caps (much) higher. 30+ years ago, this was true. Not anymore.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
We'd be better off with much smaller brains, so that we can have smaller heads optimized for an aquatic life. We're failing pretty miserably at this civilization stuff anyway.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>But there are plenty of great engineers that don't want to work at those companies for various reasons. There are plenty of great engineers that want to work remotely and don't have that option at the large companies. They don
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, but the problem here is that it seems unlikely that it'll be affordable to set up a self-sustaining colony any time in the foreseeable future without the resources of a large nation-state. And again, remember my previous post is
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That's nice, but no one can afford to go establish a colony in orbit around Saturn by themselves; that money has to come from somewhere, and it's a huge amount. That means you need to justify that expenditure of resources, and ge
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What are the pay rates like compared to other countries, particularly the US (outside of Silicon Valley)?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I think it's more than a dozen individuals; from what we're seeing with Uber, and what I know about corporate culture from experience, bad corporate culture permeates the entire company, from the top down. In Uber's case, th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I miss contracting because they would think twice about contacting me after hours. So why not go back to contracting? I've been thinking a little about doing this, but it seems like it would drag you around to a lot of different l
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Funny, but silly. Why would people want to live in other places in the solar system? Earth, the Moon, and Mars are the only places that really make any sense at all. Even Mars is iffy because the gravity is rather low, it's far from
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Huh? He said he meets up for beers with his long-time friends. It's not his friends chastising him for this, it's his cow-orkers or managers. Sounds like he needs to look for a new job to me. The best thing to do in a case lik
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You're forgetting that we already sent landers to the Moon before we sent people. We didn't get much out of them. We just didn't have the technology, and the public wasn't going to be excited by a campaign that went
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I still don't see the problem. In this case, the people too stupid to figure out the Lyft app (seriously, if you can figure out the Uber app, then the Lyft app isn't any harder) can just go back to using cabs. So the cab drivers
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>The company culture treats any work discussion during team outings as taboo. You won't be punished for it but you'll be told kindly to shut up and have fun - work will be back again next Monday. Many places are not like this.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Venera 7 lasted less than an hour and only transmitted one or two crappy images, along with some sensor data. Granted, humans can't do any better on the surface of Venus due to the temperature and pressure, but humans can do far bet
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Wrong. This is completely normal in America, and it's entirely fair to blame all unions for it. The catch is, it's an American phenomenon; it doesn't apply to unions in other, better-run countries like Germany.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
They didn't have robots in 1969, at least nothing that could do almost anything useful. They did send a bunch of automated probes to orbit and the Moon back in those days, and most of them failed because the tech was so poor, and the
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Right, and then you miss out on important work dealings and decision-making, you're seen as "not a team player", you're passed over for promotions, etc. Staying out of all work "team-building" events eventuall
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by Arizhel 10y ago
A "chip"? So what's your answer to people who get physically ill when consuming alcohol? Don't get a job? Because in American drinking culture, they're going to look bad if they don't drink with everyone els
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Exactly, I do the same: dual 24-inch monitors with 4 windows, and a 100-character line limit.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>yeh well my friend is the CEO of a company and its evaluated at millions of dollars but shes salaried less than an entry level engineer and has a tight budget. Ah, so you're doing the silly thing called "equivocation". I
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>What percentage of customers/drivers do YOU think would switch over to Lyft et al? Um, all of them? If Uber went under, what choice would they have? Why would customers give up on Uber/Lyft and go back to cabs, when there&#x
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I never said Meyer ran Yahoo into the ground; I pointed out Yahoo was already on a downward trajectory, and I said she didn't do anything to help that. I said Carly Fiorina ran HP into the ground. And she did. No, HP was not "
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You think Uber drivers can't just switch to the competition at the drop of a hat? Lots of them already work for both Uber and Lyft at the same time! They're the absolute last people I'm worried about hurting here. There
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Are you proposing that companies should not be allowed to hire someone from the outside to fix severe culture issues? Not exactly, just that they shouldn't be able to offer them generous golden parachutes. Of course, I'm not s
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I'm not so sure. Wouldn't it be better for society overall if these companies were condemned to die by their own hand, instead of being able to be saved by an outsider? If they're saved, then all the people who participated
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Why would a work group be going to a happy hour in the first place? That's bad because it assumes everyone is OK with drinking alcohol. Now you're alienating Mormons, ex-alcoholics, people who choose not to drink, and people who

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