Arizhel

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by Arizhel 9y ago
>I think it is in society's interest to arrange for there to be a number of job-vacancies of the Panera-kid-type available I completely disagree. It's actively making things worse to not use more efficient methods. Now if a r
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I'm sorry, I just don't see the point in keeping people uselessly employed doing tasks that are better done by machines. Do you think we should stop using travelocity.com and go back to using travel agents? Do you think we shoul
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by Arizhel 9y ago
It's conjecture either way. From everything I see, I think it's entirely possible that humanity could technically succeed like he says: conquer all known challenges on Earth, eliminate biological death even, and proceed to the st
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by Arizhel 9y ago
You may love your children, but that doesn't mean you don't get stressed out by them. It's quite normal for parents to want to take time away from their kids, even having kid-free vacations without them as well as just &quot
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by Arizhel 9y ago
So you're willing to suffer reduced inefficiency just so someone else has a job? Why not just hire the teenager to stand around doing nothing then? Then you get the benefits of both! Risks? I also cited actual, real benefits. How d
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I thought the same, and I'm slightly disappointed: I'm not sure why, but it's somehow interesting (I guess like watching a train wreck) to read about America's retail implosion.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
It's really a shame, because today's web and app UIs are simply atrocious and horrifically ugly, and not really all that useful either. Computing was a lot easier on the eyes back in the days of green text on black backgrounds.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>The greatest UI in the history of films cannot be captured visually: it is the UI in Spike Jonze's "Her". No, that was the absolute worst UI in the history of films. Spoken words simply cannot carry remotely as much info
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by Arizhel 9y ago
They tried doing that at an Amtrak station a while ago and were forcibly removed from the premises by Amtrak police.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I'm not so sure about the surgery thing. I think it's really depair: in rural places in America, the economy is devastated. It's exactly why Trump was elected: he promised to bring all the jobs back (even though he won&#x27
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I can't have a separate office; I'm stuck with the office my employer provides me. I could go find another job of course, but it's going to be the same there, or worse, since all the employers have jumped on the open-plan of
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Sure, but the discussion here wasn't profitability, it was authenticity. You're not going to find many authentic Japanese restaurants in America, especially outside of major cities which have enough Japanese people to support the
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Partially. It's a business expense, so at least you get to deduct it from your taxes.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Currently, with a wife, a kid, and all her kid-friends, carrying on loudly and ransacking the house at all hours, I couldn't imagine making a "bedroom converted to office" work for actual productive remote work. I can&#x2
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>a significant proportion of the population do not grasp the logic behind variables and loops (40% I seem to remember, don't quote me). >These people can still graduate with a CS degree. How the heck can someone graduate with a C
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Yes, and Germany has a significantly higher quality of life than the US. You think that's a bad thing somehow?
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Look at it like this: if you hire a plumber to install a toilet in your home, would you accept it if the toilet was 'free' but you had to pay a fee for every usage ? Hell no. But you'll gladly pay the plumbers hourly wage
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Those are real reasons. If you think I'm going to spend several years visiting every city in America over 250k people so I can see what it's "really like" instead of just reading about it, then you're absolutely
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Tennessee seceded in the Civil War too but it's not part of the Deep South either. I think Arkansas did too, and that's definitely not part of the "South" at all. Same goes for Missouri.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>The human taste for aesthetically pleasing documents is here to stay, and beautifully laid out narratives are instrumental for getting your message across to your audience. Delighting the eye allows the reader to focus on content, rathe
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by Arizhel 9y ago
To be fair, Texas isn't really part of the "Deep South", and isn't really known to be as backwards and racist as places like MS, AL, etc.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Texas is quite nice, and has great weather. No, it doesn't. It's hot. And the people are conservative; nothing nice about that.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Brutal winters and high crime rate, what else? Of course, there's lots of other problems like decrepit infrastructure (like the water pipes in Flint nearby), and I seriously doubt there's any kind of nice downtown area to walk ar
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Biking in drizzle isn't hard or all that dangerous, and if it's not drizzling too much is pretty fun (it keeps you cool). Biking in sub-freezing weather and snow is entirely different. Does Cleveland even have any bike lanes? Inte
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Only because they haven't actually lived in it yet. It's one of those things that looks great at first glance, but only after actually living it for a while do you realize what a dystopian hell it is.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Exactly, and this is why fists need to be highly regulated by the government. I propose mandating that everyone have their hands surgically altered so that they're unable to make fists, and can only close their fingers partway.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
No, they haven't forgotten. They know full well that there's absolutely zero possibility of them getting in trouble with the DOJ under Sessions, no matter what they do.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>They will likely get pushback from the EU, where they were slapped significantly harder back then as well. No, they won't. There's 3 different versions of Windows 10 now: Home, S, and Pro (and Enterprise for big corps). Peop
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Each time I think they've changed, they make it clear that they haven't They've been acting evil like this for 40 years now; what makes you think they're ever going to change?
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on your specialty. I do embedded programming, and there's a bunch of metro areas where there just isn't much work for me; NYC is one of these. There's tons of software work there, but it's

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