Arizhel

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by Arizhel 9y ago
The way I see it, as long as you do your job to notify them of security problems with their code, then the ball is in their court and it's out of your hands. If they choose to ignore it, and it ends up being a disaster, it's thei
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I don't see the problem with choice #2. Being "the smartass jerk that doesn't socialize" means you don't get bothered with stupid questions as much, and having to "fix the mess" means that you get to be t
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Yes, in places like Seattle, NYC, Boston, DC, etc., where the housing costs are also astronomical, and your salary is commensurately lower.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
We're not talking about broadband here, we're talking about cable TV. Cable TV isn't that much of a free market, admittedly, but it does have competition: satellite TV (Dish, DirecTV) and internet programming (Hulu etc.). B
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Wow, that's scary, the one about a grand mal seizure with Xanax in particular. I used to take that, but only for occasional acute anxiety, never on a regular basis. It seemed to help a lot, and unlike the SSRIs I've used, it did
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by Arizhel 9y ago
So what? That's irrelevant, because housing costs vary dramatically in different markets. $150k isn't going to buy you a nice house in Silicon Valley, maybe an efficiency condo at best.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I think it's assholes, for lack of a better term. Instead of respecting your privacy and sending you an email to avoid interrupting you, they think that whatever concern they have is more important and worth interrupting you.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Sure you can. There are only so many eye charts in use. It's possible to memorize them. No, you can't. Sure, you can memorize the optometrists' eye charts now , but that's because they're not expecting anyone
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Yeah, it doesn't matter how good your headphones are when some asshole sneaks up behind you and taps you on the shoulder to ask you some inane question that he could have sent in an email.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>The other day, one of my cow-orkers asked me, how can I bear working late hours - it must be very lonely. I desperately tried not to answer that with "that's precisely the point". Is your cow-orker also a software enginee
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Pain management, optometry, and many other non-psychiatric disciplines also rely on self-report. That's just plain wrong on the optometry part. While there is a lot of self-reporting used in optometry because it's faster and
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>She took her last benzo (class of "anxiety" drug that makes anxiety worse over time) Can you elaborate here please?
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by Arizhel 9y ago
That's irrelevant. If Rolls wanted to, they could very well send you a Chrysler, Chevy, and BMW with every Rolls purchase. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy a Rolls. No, I can't think of other luxury goods pr
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Images are dramatically larger, both in the raw size out of cameras and the resolutions people are willing to put on pages (including higher-DPI screens). That shouldn't be a big problem. Screen resolutions have not increased sign
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>but a business who's job is not to return value to shareholders, but to server the public good. Is this some kind of Freudian slip?
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>the whole point of this thread: that WMF's primary contribution is Wikipedia, and almost everything else is secondary. So long as it's being funded by private citizens because of the value they get from Wikipedia, then this sh
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Making $150k in the US is nothing remarkable, especially if you're a dual-earner family. Good luck affording decent housing in many metro areas if you make less than that.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
That's a poor analogy. No one forces you to hire an artist to create a commissioned artwork for you, but that doesn't mean that anyone actually needs to do that, and in fact, very few people hire artists on commission, because it
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by Arizhel 9y ago
It wasn't just the activeness that drove us apart; she turned into a raging right-winger. The way I see it, people are going to change no matter what, so this idea that people need to "stick together" until they die is not on
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by Arizhel 9y ago
And these are excellent reasons to avoid having children. It's a minefield fraught with peril, and is more likely to end up with a negative outcome than not. Modern society simply does not facilitate having children, and the standard
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by Arizhel 9y ago
No citation needed, it's the truth. But of course it's subjective, just like any opinion, which is why asking for a citation is simply absurd. That's like asking for a citation when someone says "I like ham sandwiches&
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I don't think it's absurd at all. In previous years, the sports fans were getting their addiction subsidized by other viewers by having ESPN packaged in with basic cable. Now with more and more people cutting the cord, their sub
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by Arizhel 9y ago
They're also only getting metrics from people willing to be Neilsen reporters. What kind of compensation do they offer to do this? How many people refuse, because they can't be bothered with it? Is someone who makes $150k going
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by Arizhel 9y ago
All the best video games were published before 1990.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I'm guessing it's because even today, married men still expect the women to do all or most of the housework, while also holding a full-time job, so men in marriage get a better deal as long as they're in the marriage, and don
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by Arizhel 9y ago
No, because it's just a silly romantic fantasy, that's all. People change, and relationships come and go. Embracing change (as this article recommends) means not holding onto relationships after they've gone stale.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Yes, it's really the case. Not for everyone; see the guy who replied bragging about all the physical stuff he's learned to do. However, the odds of both partners in a marriage not turning into fat couch potatoes is very small.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>People taking this metal from sunken ships aren't just cleaning up a mess, they're destroying historical information. Who cares? If you really cared about that historical information, you'd salvage it and put it on displ
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I agree completely. Even worse is how some people (in the article) think that there should be regular patrols to prevent "illegal" diving at these sites. So we want to waste resources and fuel just patrolling some remote ocean s
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by Arizhel 9y ago
What are you talking about? The fall of Rome involved the loss of a huge amount of technology and learning, as people abandoned the idea of specialization of labor and cities so they could go work as serfs in the fields for feudal lords.

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