Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
I think you're missing the point. The point is you're going to get crappy counterfeits on Amazon, so it's better to just buy them on Ali where you'll get them cheaper. If you want the real thing, don't buy on Amazo
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Another good reason not to buy or use Apple devices.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
As an engineer, boom/bust cycles like this remind me of system instability with insufficient damping. It doesn't work itself out; the oscillations get larger and larger, and then something breaks. Remember the Tacoma Narrows Bri
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You're comparing Amazon to one random e-tailer that you picked somehow. I've stopped most of my Amazon buying in the last year or so, and most e-tailers are just fine with their shipping times. They have better prices too. AFAIC
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, but at higher prices. You might as well just buy straight from the source on Ali and skip Amazon altogether.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Amazon has gotten so bad about this stuff that I consider those "shady sellers" on Ebay to be a better bet than the ones on Amazon. At least on Ebay, I can tell right away if a seller is shipping from China. I can't see that
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Bah. I've already stopped buying a ton of stuff from them, and for small cheap stuff my first stop is Ebay. I consider Ebay sellers far more reputable than Amazon ones (I know, that sounds bad, but that's how bad Amazon is). On
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Music players on Android suck? All of them? I'm just using the standard one that came with my S5 (running Android 6.0.1 I think), because I'm lazy and it works OK I guess and I haven't bothered to look for something better,
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That's a good reason not to own an iPhone. Android may have its (many) faults, but at least I can transfer music onto it from my Linux command line with "adb push". Or I can take out the SDcard and just pop it into my compu
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>That mixed with the above always lead me to believe those "gods" were just visitors from other islands or lands. Makes you wonder if the "gods" that other religions worship(ped) were also just visitors from elsewhere
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That's not the issue. They're asking why the word "bell" is on there, not the person's name. The person's name makes perfect sense, at least to us English speakers. The "bell" part doesn't; it
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The people who drew state lines hundreds of years ago had no idea what things were going to look like in 2017; that's just stupid. Gerrymandering is drawing district lines to get a certain outcome. The state borders were not drawn to
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, it's called the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975. It doesn't just apply to cars though, it applies to everything, including farm equipment.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Oh, I saw the millimeters and CV and assumed you were European; sorry! Anyone from Europe care to comment on whether this plague has spread over there too? From what little I've read, it has. I think, unfortunately, open-plan offices
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Oh please. The game is rigged, but it's not that rigged. At the end of the day, tens of millions of people voted not just for Trump, but for GOP candidates down the line. Millions of people voted for Hillary in the primaries. We
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The GOP senators who won new seats in the Senate disagree with you. It wasn't voter suppression that caused this result, it was 5+M people more than in 2008 staying at home and not voting.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>You can walk to a phone room when you receive a call. By then, it's too late: you're now disrupted by the noisy phone ringer, and the start of the conversation. And what if the phone room is occupied? If the company is really
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by Arizhel 10y ago
We can't do that; we don't have the culture they have in Japan. These things are a product of culture. Japan has a culture in which street crime basically never happens; the US does not. The US has a culture where the politicia
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Phone rooms don't work. I can't predict the future, so I have no way of knowing exactly what time an incoming phone call will occur. Maybe you can do that, but most of us can't. Blowing noses? Isn't that what you&#x27
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Why would you have a problem with the Senate term being 6 years? That makes no sense at all. See the recent election: we got a radical new Administration, plus a huge crop of new GOP politicians. From your stance on the EPA and health car
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Right, and the voters are happily voting for pols who defund education and healthcare.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Americans love Congress. The approval ratings are very, very high. The ratings you cite are wrong, because they show the wrong thing: they show what people think of other peoples' Congress members . American voters are very happy
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I'm not sure campaign finance reform would do much. Look what we saw in this last election; regular everyday people (generally the non-urban ones) have poor education and don't understand the issues. All they care about is the &
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>My current office has 475mm high dividers. Next year they plan to relocate us to the 'workplace of the future' with barriers that in some instances are sub- 300mm . >I'm already polishing my CV in anticipation of b
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by Arizhel 10y ago
There's another factor to the coffee shops IMO: who the people are. In an open-plan office, the people around you are usually your coworkers, the people you see every day and know personally. In a coffee shop, they're usually tot
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>The phone will invariably ring and will either be a spam call or a call for one of them. Simple solution: get rid of the phone. Why do you have it anyway? I haven't had a landline phone for probably 10 years now, and I was a litt
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I used to have a private cubicle, around 2000-2004. I didn't like it too much at the time. I really miss it now. Life was better back then.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Who's going to pay for the research to prove your idea that quiet spaces improve productivity? Especially when all the current consultants are hyping open-offices, which aligns nicely with managers/executives who want to save mon
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Cubicles take up more space per employee than a typical open office plan. You won't be able to fit the cubes in there. Also, cubicle furniture is extremely expensive, so your manager or the company executives will not look kindly at t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Username checks out.

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