Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
I have some of these that I use for lawn work, which are designed for shooting guns. They isolate sound pretty well, but they're also not terribly comfortable. They're OK for driving around on my lawn mower for 30 minutes, but t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>What are the long term impacts of wearing headphones? bacteria growth and hearing loss? Can't be good for my health long term. For the hearing loss, not necessarily. Get some good noise-canceling headphones that completely cover a
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>in the space making a phone call, moving a pound of mucus from one sinus cavity to another, playing desk bongos along with their headphones, or any of the thousand other ways that normal humans can be distracting. Most of this stuff is
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by Arizhel 10y ago
How is this foolish? This saves the company money, and helps executives get bigger bonuses. This might cause the company some problems in 5 years, but who cares? By then, the executives have already collected their bonuses and left.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
If money is really that tight, you can just have people work from home. That's a lot cheaper than renting commercial office space.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It makes little difference at 3.5 feet. I've worked in two offices like that; you might as well not have any walls at all because you can still see and talk to everyone around you. I don't see the point in even having such walls
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Oh, and having a long commute and spending lots of time at work is considered a bonus to many people who have kids. Work is the best way to get a breather from the screaming babies at home. You know the guy who's always super-excit
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Right, but now you're forced to get a new job in a new place, or at the very least have a very lengthy commute. What's the point of having a family and kids if you're spending 3-4 hours a day just commuting to work? Or wors
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>The only way left to fight gentrification is, I am afraid to say, something between massive civil disobedience and outright violence. Or you could just move someplace cheaper instead of resorting to this stuff. >The alternative to fi
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Seems like this would require these tractors to have internet connections. Otherwise it wouldn't help much to put a poison pill like this in there because you'd have no way to either activate it at an opportune time, or to not ac
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yes, but everyone just derides him as a paranoid loon. Seems like we're getting what we deserve.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Just as a guess, not at all likely. The GOP has always been a big-business friendly party, and anti-little-guy. They manage to get the "little guys" to vote for them by spouting socially conservative and religious rhetoric, whic
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>That you can't even make an oil change without also notifying the computer, the interface for which is proprietary and only sold to licensed dealers, or the car would refuse to run because it would think its oil is bad. Honestly I&
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Oh please. An OBD-II scan tool these days costs $50, and will tell you what's wrong. You can buy parts cheaply at Autozone or online. Working on cars these days is simpler than ever in many cases. There's even YouTube videos s
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Automakers have to answer to the EPA too. That doesn't stop regular joes from changing their own oil in their garage and buying parts at Autozone. Most cars are not designed to make it impossible for car owners to do regular maintena
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I don't see any evidence there that they manufacture semiconductors, only electronics. Manufacturing electronics isn't that hard, depending on what exactly you're doing. Assembling printed circuit boards from components is
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I believe that many auto makers purchase their engines instead of designing then in-house because they are so complex to get right. Citation needed. Engines are one thing the automakers tend to hold onto and not outsource often. There
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>It disturbs me deeply and I wonder why. I'm very glad about this; it means I must have gotten something right. :-) >I can't really dispute what you have said other than it is not an inevitability. Societies can choose to c
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>It would benefit them to lobby and influence city council. Why would city council want to bring down rents? They and their cronies are profiting off the high real estate prices. The city council is, after all, composed of wealthy peop
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It sounds just like the /r/Hillary_Clinton subreddit I briefly checked out during the election. I said something a little bit critical of Hillary and was immediately banned. This is just how Americans are these days. You have to
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yes, the fundamental truth is that taxi service varies wildly depending on location, due to many factors including differing regulation and geography. You just can't compare taxis in Manhattan NYC with taxis in Houston TX. I used to
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Regulation causes high costs when it artificially constrains a market to a small number of cronies. That's the problem with regulation. Regulation is great when it's unbiased and not just a way to enrich cronies, and does what it
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Remember, rising prices come from scarcity. Eliminate the scarcity and your eliminate the high prices. Reverse the zoning density restrictions and you get lower prices. Yes, but why would you want to do this? Or more accurately, why wo
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>How many of us could live in San Francisco, London or New York City and bring up three children in a decent neighborhood with good schools? The simple solution is to not have any children. Leave that to extremely rich people and very p
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>What exactly is Chicago good at? Corruption.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
A lot of people don't want to live in boring, conservative places like Amarillo and Des Moines. More importantly, tech company executives and managers really don't want to live there. The workers have to work on-site with manage
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Good enough, I was just wondering about the brand. It being a Miele makes sense that it would be built that way. The machines I had were a late 90s Maytag (their first front-loader, the Neptune) and a mid-00s Whirlpool Duet. Both were de
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by Arizhel 10y ago
But somehow, millions of women manage to wash and dry and style their own hair at home with no trouble...
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by Arizhel 10y ago
For your first icon, it means to be cautious and watch out for tanker trunks that are able to drive over bodies of water, as one of them might take an odd route to transition from driving over the river onto your road. For your second icon,
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by Arizhel 10y ago
They're not good for surfing the web either, they're just better than phones, purely because of the larger screen. They still have all the same limitations, especially with the lack of a keyboard. I could browse Reddit or HN on

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