Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
Are you sure about that? MS and Windows came about in a world with his attitude. If we had had a guild, would Windows have become the dominant desktop OS? Or would UNIX have persisted instead, and Linux never been invented (as a reaction
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What kind of developer are you looking for (what skills), and where are you located?
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>but in the end did not do it as we felt he might have trouble being managed by people significantly older than him. Why would he have trouble being managed by people older than him?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>This is one of the many reason why wool is often used as a base layer. Wool is itchy and scratchy. Lots of people hate wool. >there is hackneyed expression that hikers have: cotton kills. Yes, cotton is terrible as a base layer. Th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>The problem is nylon is pretty damn uncomfortable. How on Earth is nylon "pretty damn uncomfortable"? They make all kinds of body-hugging clothes with it.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I have to disagree. I don't appreciate this guy white-washing what Goldman Sachs does. /s
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Hmm your arguments make sense. That's something I don't see much on these forums! Thanks! >I think I was overvaluing mobility, because I figured once reaching a post-scarcity society exploration would become the top priori
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>And in France it's not like in US where the first thing they ask you is the name of your insurance company, even if you're bleeding to death. I was talking about a scenario where a tourist to the US goes to a US hospital and r
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Civil disobedience requires a large amount of cooperation from many people to be effective. Good luck with that. The anti-Trump side couldn't even be bothered to show up to vote against him (for anyone ; there were more choices than
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Judging by the turnout numbers in 2016 and 2008, and also the popularity of the GOP candidate at his rallies, it appears that isn't the case; instead, GOP voters really were happy to vote GOP, and others simply didn't bother to vo
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Like what? The only option at that point is violent revolution. Good luck with that. Besides, the Trump supporters are the ones with guns.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Why bother? What's a march going to accomplish? If we were worried about this stuff, we should have spoken up in November, but we didn't. We voted for the GOP to have strong control of both houses of Congress. All a march does
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You may think that, but it appears the voters are perfectly happy to hedge their bets with the GOP in the voting booth.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Also, if one of the systems is attacked, or has some sort of crisis that requires assistance (plague, natural disaster, etc), the rest of the civilization would be unable to react in a timely manner. In short, it's safer to stick t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
So if you're observing a rain forest in Central America or a high mountaintop in South America, and you see some strange patterns or interestingly-stacked rocks, you think we should only look for non-human explanations for these things
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I was talking about traveling between galaxies, my understanding is there's essentially nothing between them: no asteroids to mine. So you'd need to bring everything you might need in advance. But maybe I'm wrong, maybe t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I for one welcome our new lightsail-powered overlords.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You've given consent already, by willingly installing and using Windows. If you don't like it, you're free to switch to another vendor's offering.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I don't understand why they would shoot themselves in the foot so badly. How exactly are they "shooting themselves in the foot"? They're making more money with these moves. Ads bring in money, and forced updates for
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yes, Ubuntu had something called the "amazon search lens" which was easily removed with a command-line like "sudo apt-get remove amazon-search-lens". It pissed off a lot of people though, and a bunch simply moved to a c
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by Arizhel 10y ago
If you have enough time, would it be worth it to take off your shirt or other clothes and try to use them as a parachute of sorts?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Make sure to go back to your home country as fast as possible, and then just ignore the bills. They'll have a very difficult time collecting on a debt in a foreign country. Don't come back to the US as a tourist after that. This
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What's really bad is that the American medical establishment, including these doctors, seem to be defending this practice. It'd be really interesting to see a good study comparing the rate of medical errors and resultant patient d
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I guess when I hear the term "lifestyle", it seems to me like a way of life that's voluntarily chosen, rather than imposed by medical problems. Also, this was a response to a HN user asking about his particular situation, an
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It's not very helpful when they're trying to give you a job you aren't qualified for; it's just a waste of everyone's time: mine, the recruiter's, and if I were to actually work with the recruiter, the hiring m
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Wow, that's a really informative reply.
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It's hard to say exactly since we haven't detected life on exoplanets, and don't know yet how common it is, but just looking at this star system alone, we appear to inhabit an extremely interesting planet if you're a sci
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With advanced enough technology, I would think terraforming would be far faster and easier than waiting for evolution. And if you've achieved interstellar flight, than I don't think it's a bad assumption to assume you now ha
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>What if we decide to invade what seems to be small civilization... What if it's a honeypot? A plot twist like this would make a movie like "Avatar" very interesting: humans invade a beautiful moon with a seemingly backwar
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by Arizhel 10y ago
To be pedantic, that's not "historical fiction", that's "alternate history fiction". Historical fiction is like the books by Ken Follett, about medieval Europe. They're set in that time, as we understand

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