Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
Sounds great to me. Let education in the US become an inconsistent hodge-podge, and mostly much worse overall with religion being taught in science class like in Turkey. I'm sure America's competitors will love that America is s
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Most tech workers could easily work fewer hours for less money in second-year cities or take months-long sabbaticals but choose to do the opposite. What universe do you live in? In my universe, this is simply not true. No tech company
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Normally anything billionaires advocate in changing society is horrible, but in this case I have to agree heartily. Working only 3 long days a week would work out great for me. That would give me 4 full days off, plus as a programmer ther
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by Arizhel 10y ago
More good reasons not to bother having kids. Just too much hassle; our employers and governments are doing everything they can to make raising kids a miserable chore, so why bother?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Ok, but what do they do for Air Force One? The only souls on that plane when it's flying are likely to be the pilot and copilot. Same goes for any corporate jets used by corporate executives.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Older devices are going to have limited capabilities due to their older technology, plus when they break you won't be able to repair them because of the unavailability of parts. A better solution is to build our own devices using readi
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You don't need WPA to keep devices from connecting. Any decent router will let you block specific MAC addresses.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>They're almost like public utilities, and saying "you use Facebook so you must not actually care about privacy" is like saying "you rely on the police, so you most not actually care about cases of police brutality.&q
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Personally, I agree about CMake and its horrible scripting language, and I like Scons a lot more. It's Python-based so it's easy to work with and flexible, and not nearly as ugly as CMake.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
We need to configure our routers to allow access to neflix.com, but disallow access to viziospyservice.com.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, but those spy on you too, so I don't see how they're any better. The main advantage with things like those is that you can more easily upgrade them later as technology changes.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
From what I've read, some smart TVs actually require you to connect them to the internet for them to work at all.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You're not going to convince average voters that they need a trade agreement which makes things worse for them just to "check China". This is a big part of why Trump won.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
If they "need" the highly-skilled people in the US, who cost 5-6x the ones in India, then there's something clearly lacking with the people in India. Otherwise, why not just dump the US workers altogether and move all new op
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It sucks. Don't get me wrong, it's not completely unusable. For the basics and pre-packaged foods, it's fine. But the selection is limited, and they don't have that much in the way of fancier brands. Also, lots of peo
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I never said they should be torn down or that they can never work. I merely have the position that regulation is not the panacea that the pro-regulation people seem to think it is. If it works, great. If it doesn't work, then instead
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by Arizhel 10y ago
According to other people, there's plenty of highly-skilled people in India. And they cost 1/5 as much. So why bother with the Americans?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No, you don't need to do any of that stuff to disprove an invalid claim. A claim was made that "I feel that regulation makes things clean and safe". I pointed out that that claim is utterly false using actual examples. I
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Is your opinion then that no company should take public policy stances? Sounds like a good idea to me. Otherwise, by giving these companies a voice, you're giving more weight to the statements by company executives than to anyone e
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Just watch out for the ancient aliens people who claim that Mohenjo-Daro and Harrapa were sites of nuclear wars and that the Indus people had flying machines called "vimana".
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No, but Wikipedia backs me up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28Roman_army%29 The only other entries in the disambiguation page are about signal processing and a comic book.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Wrong. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28Roman_army%29 : "The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth"."
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It sounds like it really doesn't affect the whole Metro UI part of Win10, which is the part I have the biggest complaints about UI-wise. I don't like the Windows desktop that much (I like the start menu and such, I don't like
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Ok, then tell me why they haven't done that already. They could save huge amounts of money by just laying off everyone in the US and hiring new people in India (or relocating everyone to India). The salaries in India are easily 1&#x2
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Meanwhile, houses in the boonies are cheap. If you can remote-work your way into a boonie lifestyle, you can own a home on a rather modest income indeed. You can , but then you're stuck with all the downsides of living in the boon
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That just shows that any time you open stuff to participation by the general population and lift it out of obscurity, it turns to shit. Just look at our elections. We'd be better off just having a monarch.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I don't get it. Trump isn't the only one nixing the TPP. Sanders was going to nix it too, and so was Hillary (unless she was lying). Have you forgotten that Hillary came out against the TPP too? There was no choice for a candid
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Pedantic, perhaps. Wrong? Definitely not. Look it up. "Decimation" was a term invented by the Romans, and was a method of punishing Army units who failed in battle. All the men would line up, and every 10th man would be execu
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It's simple: require that the employers pay the H1-B visaholder in the 95th percentile or above of the salary range for that position. And if an employer is found to have abused the system (hired someone for a lower position and then m
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Actually, all those things are things that suppress wages. Think about it: WHY do we need programs to encourage engineering careers? Do we have programs to encourage people to go into law or medicine? Why not? Well those professions do

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