Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
This happened to me in my first job. I'm definitely a night-owl, but I was tired of coming in at 10-11 and leaving after dark, after everyone else including my boss had left, so I decided to change my routine and get up early and get
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>If you have a factory in the middle of Iowa you can't offer $110k/yr and expect people from SF or NYC to move out there, despite the huge gains relative to COL. Absolutely wrong. If you offer enough money, people will move
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by Arizhel 10y ago
College-bound kids should be taking those classes too. I saw the same thing when I was in high school: they treated things like auto shop as things that college-bound kids shouldn't be doing. So you wind up with college kids who have
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You make some great points, but for your Soviet Union point I'd like to counter that indoctrination does not equal "good public education". Good public education teaches you to question authority and to think critically. Th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yep, I'm really sick of seeing Tom Cruise in so many movies. I'll actively shy away from watching a movie with him in it. I just can't disassociate him from all that Scientology cult silliness he keeps pushing; it ruins the
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Forget the action movies and funny comedies, where are the sci-fi movies??? And I don't mean some stupid movie about a guy living in what appears to be the modern world sans display screens and talking to his earphone, I mean movies w
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Do you ever buy groceries? Or do you have a personal assistant who does all that stuff for you? Maybe you don't buy groceries, but I do. I need to eat, so I buy food from a grocery store. Conveniently enough, my local RedBox is loca
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I really don't think there's any way to easily answer this. So much depends on the particular person (and who you're comparing them to) and their particular circumstances, plus your own perspective and your own values which
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Huh? According to Wikipedia, only roughly 140,000 people died during that 10-year period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars Still a horrific number, but one or two orders of magnitude fewer than "millio
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by Arizhel 10y ago
As an American, one thing that really annoys me about the rest of the world is that, even though we only have 5% of the world's population, everyone (esp. in the rest of the industrialized nations) seems to expect us to be the leaders
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It seems to equate to imprisoning someone in the house of a very poor person who can only afford to feed themselves, and requiring that poor person to provide the prisoner with food, and then punishing the poor person when they refuse.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
They tried that. Quantum made the quarter-height 5.25" "Bigfoot" drives for a little while. They didn't go far. I think the problem is that a larger disc, though it has greater area, also comes with worse mechanical s
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Maybe you like being in a frat-like sausagefest. I don't.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It's definitely not, proven by the examples you cited. Where you get ultra-low crime is when you combine that homogeneity with good public education. Take a look at the education systems and levels in places like Japan or Norway, and
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You're ignoring the fact that there's a huge racial division in the US. If you're a white person, gang warfare in the black or hispanic ghettos simply does not present a danger to you the way it does to those minorities. (N
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I have. Some of it is quite interesting and beautiful (like that place where they filmed all the ST:TOS scenes with the slanted rocks), others are not so much. Maybe I should have pointed to some other places. West Texas comes to mind: th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You have a good point at the end there; I'm wrong, there is a contingent of non-religious people who vote Republican because of the fiscal conservatism stuff (though that's pretty suspect considering how they spend like drunken sa
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Personally, while I like doing solo technical projects at home in my free time, I really have little interest in spending my socializing time with more techies. I get enough of that at work. One thing I've been sick of for a long tim
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by Arizhel 10y ago
When their products are utter crap, and there's much better freely-available solutions available, yes. How exactly is it good to have a rent-seeking corporation in control of everyone's computing infrastructure?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I guess one big one I did forget to mention here is Rwanda in 1994. Anyway, if you focus mainly on the western world, I think my point stands. For the West, the 90s were a great time, better than now overall IMO.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I don't know about today, but this was how it was when I was in high school around 1990 in the US. We had "basic", "college prep" and "honors/advanced placement" levels, plus some kind of level for t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
There isn't one. A scientist (a non-quack one at least) running on the Republican ticket would be wasting his time. The Republican voters do not care for science (esp. anything that contradicts their worldview), and insist on anyone
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>and that religion was crazy. This is the real sticking point here. If you're not a highly religious person (or at least willing to claim to be one), and not willing to publicly advocate religion in your campaign, then you're
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Any time I meet or hear about someone like this, who comes back to the US after living in western Europe, I really have to wonder about them. Especially this one: she's just complaining a lot about life in America not being as great a
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, that didn't get much exposure in the west. I've never even heard of it. Also, this isn't to say that the rest of the world was doing great either; lots of other 3rd-world places were surely having a hard time too. But
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by Arizhel 10y ago
How was that for the best? American involvement in WWI led to the Treaty of Versailles which was the direct cause of Hitler and WWII. All of that could have been avoided if America had just stayed uninvolved.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>If you honestly don't believe the world is unambiguously better now than it was 20-30 years ago, you've been living under a continental plate the entire time. This is factually wrong. You're looking at things worldwide, a
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by Arizhel 10y ago
20 years ago in the US was an anomaly. Remember "The Matrix" when Agent Smith said that 1999 was our society's peak? He was right, the movie makers just didn't realize how right they were at the time. Many things have
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This is an interesting comic, but I'd like to point out that becoming a society concerned with triviality is nothing new. Just look at the crap they were watching on TV in the 50s and 60s. And even if you go back in time to before TV
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That may be, but in many states (probably any place urban or suburban), you still have to worry about getting arrested if you let your kid walk to school or play outside by himself.

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