Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Things like 'smartphone addiction' are why I believe software developers should have a strong professional code of ethics. What good is that going to do? Software developers write software that they're told to. If you s
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It's easy. For Uber, you don't use it, and you use cabs instead. Just use a convenient landline phone (or a pay phone) to call a local cab company and wait for them to send a cab. You might have to wait an hour or so, but that&
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Everyone's body is different, and there's so many variables: age, fitness level, etc., so the sugar thing may work for some people and not be noticeable to you. Personally, FWIW, I had a bit of a weight problem ~12 years ago, and
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I'm pretty sure there's been research on the psychological effects of backlit screens versus paper. So the comfort level alone could be enough for "overcast" to eschew the Kindle. It'd be different if these stupid
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What's important IMO isn't not owning a TV, it's not having or using traditional TV services, namely cable TV or even over-the-air TV. Having a TV by itself can be good, so you can watch a movie at home with friends (preferab
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The radiation levels near Chernobyl probably aren't that bad anyway; if you lived there, you could probably expect to die of cancer 2-3 decades earlier than normal, I'm guessing. So expect to die at 40-55 maybe. For modern hum
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by Arizhel 10y ago
To be fair, there's a difference between long-term storage and working memory. The magnetic-core memory you're talking about is RAM, not storage. Though it is looking like the two may converge some time in the future, until now
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The habit problem is very likely to be caused by the lack of a relationship in the first place. Sex and intimate relationships are a normal human need, so of course people are going to turn to substitutes when they don't have this.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Exactly what kind of "lifestyle" doesn't permit an intimate relationship? Being a Catholic priest? Being a hermit like Unabomber Ted Kazcinski? If your lifestyle doesn't permit an intimate relationship, which is one of
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by Arizhel 10y ago
There was an article in the last day or two saying married Americans were having even less sex now than single ones, so this might not be the best advice.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This still doesn't explain why a civilization with interstellar travel technology would ever want to attack another civilization in the first place. What is to be gained? If you want resources, that's not a problem if you have t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You're still equating all "habitable" land as equal. I'm sorry, but land in northern Canada or the Saudi Arabian desert is not equivalent to land in Hawaii. Only in one of those places can you enjoy being outdoors year
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by Arizhel 10y ago
How is he, personally, going to fix those problems? Those problems are only "fixable" (or ameliorated) by societal action, which basically means you need government social services. As far as we know, he might vote for candidates
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You're comparing apples to oranges. What you should be comparing Hyperloop to is airplanes , not other land-based transport systems. Hyperloop is very fast, and is meant to compete with regional air travel. It's not likely to b
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>concrete is not waterproof. Ancient Roman concrete is.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I wonder if anyone has conducted viability studies re: utilizing the same power mechanisms that fuel the sub props for those super-tankers (genuinely not sure - if anyone has more information, hit Reply). They didn't just do a stud
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>current nuclear submarines can't go deeper than 500m before getting crushed! How exactly do you know that? The maximum depths of nuclear submarines are classified information, just like the top speeds of any military ships. The n
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Shouldn't it be possible to effectively neutralize the IME/PSP by controlling the data that enters or exits it, so that it can't be activated remotely, or communicate with the "mother ship"?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You seem to be assuming that property values are rising. The 2008 crash proves that's something you can't count on.
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C++ is used in avionics.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
If that's true, then not being able to run Adobe software in Linux is not a reason to not use Linux.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>But it has to be the right market, too. Selling to consumers is a non-starter. You need to sell to people who have money. What about small businesses? Is that a pipe dream, or do you think it's possible to get them to actually spe
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Not many people want a property the size of Versailles in someplace like Siberia or Antarctica. Only a small amount of the Earth's surface is land (30%), and of that, only a fraction is land that anyone wants to live on.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>All in all I did lost some money, but that is part of rental properties, that is not CD (Certificate of Deposit) with fixed interest. Like most investments, it incurs some risks too. But are they worth it? Unless you're making a r
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Sorry, you're right, I misread your post. I think you have a good point here, but to be fair I don't think people weren't thinking in evolutionary terms at all. Not everything in our (or other animals') bodies are actu
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This definitely sounds like a bug to me. Assuming your company is maintaining 3rd-party repos for both the older and newer versions of the distro, doing a distro upgrade should, logically, switch to your repo for the newer OS version autom
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, and this is an incredibly dangerous thing to do too, for both partners really. For the woman, she's basically giving up any hope of having a real career, ever, and consigning herself to being nothing more than a "housewife&
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by Arizhel 10y ago
When I saw the story title, I thought at first it was something about polyamory. It's slowly gaining more visibility and acceptance in parts of society. Then I read it and my mood went down the tubes. :-(
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Having kids, and following any passions in your young adult life, are mutually exclusive goals. You can't have both, unless maybe you're independently wealthy and even then the marriage and kids will constrain your time a lot. Ou
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Actually, I read somewhere that Nikola Tesla actually lamented later in life that he didn't put any effort into dating. Tesla was very devoted to his work, but he wasn't a complete hermit like Isaac Newton; he was also a bit of a

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