Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I'm surprised drinking culture hasn't been mentioned more here. As an American who when to an American university, I had no friends who were non-American. Yeah, I think it's a big factor. I'm a white American and we
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Asking an American how much they earn or how much they paid for something can be perceived as rude. American here. Really? I agree about the first part (how much you earn), but not the second. Lots of people like to brag about how th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>After more than a decade living in the US I still don't have any. Primarily because I am introverted but culturally I care less about American sports and music (two big cultural domains). I'm a white American guy. I don'
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>But it can fall apart in a social setting. Once there are 5 overlapping streams of conversation stuffed full of cultural references these coworkers of mine very frequently lose track of the conversation and become quieter and quieter ov
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It also is an affront to privacy. They could save lots more material by just not having any partitions at all. Why don't they just do that? As for checking for feet, airplanes solved that problem decades ago with door latches that ind
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, but how much of a problem is that really? For instance, the last thing I bought on CL was a washer/dryer set, as my ancient washer finally bit the dust and needed a part that cost much more than a new economy washer. I seriously
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I've used Craigslist in several different locations in the US over the last 10-15 years, with I don't know how many transactions. I've never had a problem, except for the occasional buyer who tries to offer a lower price aft
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don't think they will. Why "unfortunately"? This is a good thing. Facebook is horrible, in many different ways, and the last thing we need is t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Many smaller towns internationally do not require an address line Citation needed. I've sent mail all over the world, and the only place I've seen where you can get away with that is Ireland. It's actually famous for th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>and to say "Hitler did nothing wrong." Microsoft said the exact same thing with their AI bot "Tay". And it wasn't just a fluke; it was running for hours and hours saying that kind of stuff before they finally d
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Concerts are like promotional events for their brand and many people buy albums, swag, post on social media about the event, and that's all beneficial to the artist. This isn't true. These days, musicians make the vast majori
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It's not contradictory at all. He's complaining about the prices, and then pointing out that the concert experience, even after paying a boatload for tickets, is very sub-par because of the bad behavior by other concertgoers. If
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Ok, the problem seems like a clear-cut supply-and-demand one. So if artists don't want to look like a bunch of greedy jerks selling tickets for $500+ apiece, and there's only so many seats in the venue, why not increase the numbe
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>3) Employee training. Back in my days KDE was used (and I believe it still is), but it's different enough from Windows that people need training. And there's 35k of employees, most of which don't have any IT experience ou
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Well to be honest there's a lot of difficulties in dating foreigners. Aside from the skin-color aspect, you've got several things working against you: 1) this is probably the biggest one: different culture. I've dated a cou
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Having a car that old and keeping it in running, road-worthy shape, seems like a pretty dumb thing to do if you can't keep it maintained yourself, unless you're Jay Leno (and he does a lot of his own work actually despite his weal
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Modern systems are more complex than that. My '15 Mazda3 has them, and it's done using a forward-looking camera. The camera looks for oncoming white light, or red light, so it'll keep the high beams on (usually) even when t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Lots of cars come with this now, even near-economy-level ones. It's called "rain-sensing wipers".
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yep, and many times we end up with lousy products despite all this work. Case in point in the xkcd comic: the switch on the lamp cord. What an utterly idiotic idea; it's only done because it's cheaper, not because it's bett
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yep, if it weren't for that, GM would probably be out of business now. Too bad.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No car company on the planet, that I'm aware of, makes air conditioners, as one example. Nor do they make things like brake pads, brake calipers, radiators, headlights, I could go on and on. All these things are outsourced to supplie
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I agree that the older, retrofitted bathrooms are indeed horrible designs. However, I completely disagree that newer bathroom designs are "sane". I have seen very, very few "sane" public bathrooms; usually they're
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I don't think so; I think we're just going to wipe ourselves out, or go back to banging rocks together after devolving, as in the ending of Vonnegut's novel "Galapagos".
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>For example, the pay gap in Hollywood between actors and actresses is well publicized (though not mentioned in the article). Yeah, but who cares? I really don't. I honestly, truly don't care if female millionaires are paid l
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>In summary: there is no wage gap when you compare apples to apples. If you are talking about women's career choices, then by all means encourage your daughter to be a professional in a high paying sector, as opposed to the low-payi
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This just shows that it's not technical ability that translates to money, it's salesmanship. These people aren't gifted programmers, obviously; what they are good at is doing something that's "good enough" (an
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Notions that the people of any country have the government they deserve is nonsense. Wrong. If you don't like your government, it's your responsibility to change it. If you disagree, what's your alternative? Pray for a
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by Arizhel 10y ago
IANANE (I am not a nuclear engineer), but I don't think you can use water here, for the reason you state. Water makes sense on Earth because the temperature and pressure range suits it, but on Venus I think you'd need to find som
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The other thing to consider is: what the heck are you going to do there? On Mars, you can do a lot of things. You can mine, you can build underground habitats, you can try to grow stuff in the soil, you can explore the place and learn abou
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Forget RTGs; what about actual nuclear reactors? Obviously, this means a much larger probe. But even with Venus's high atmospheric temperature, a nuclear reactor's output is much higher, so theoretically it should be possible fo

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