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by Crake 14y ago
A little awkward, but not too bad, even for an extremely introverted person like myself. Chances are the people who are there already were at one point in your shoes when they first attended. If you're nervous you can always post to/comment
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by Crake 14y ago
Seconding this! Meetup.com has been great for me. I've met some really cool people there. It doesn't have to be programming related, even. There are many different activities, so perhaps you could find a hobby that gives you a break from pr
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by Crake 14y ago
Living in denial and rationalizing obviously irrational/destructive choices is one of the things that bothers me most about humanity. When we finally go extinct, this will probably be a major if not THE major reason why. :/
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by Crake 14y ago
"A recent survey of top MBA students found that 88% of graduates say they were happy with the investment they made." Funny, that's what all the unemployed liberal arts majors who spent $100,000 in student loans on their college degree said
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by Crake 14y ago
"Electronic medical records don’t save money" If you implement it retardedly, of course they won't. It's just what they were doing before (different formats and methods making it impossible for the hand to know the leg is doing, in terms of
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by Crake 14y ago
I loved this so much. The visualizations were beautiful, and I'm appreciative of the effort that must have gone into such clear illustrations. The only thing I would suggest would be to make the slide progression arrows somewhat more eye-ca
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by Crake 14y ago
I really love Codeacademy. Keep up the good work, guys!
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by Crake 14y ago
There are also considerable ethical issues in assuming that people with estranged parents are somehow undeserving of a college education. If you have no family support, you need college more, not less. Of course, places like Stanford are fa
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by Crake 14y ago
Wow, way to be a dick. I like how you also ignored the part where I said I had to wait six years for the aid WHICH I AM CURRENTLY NOW ON that you somehow think I'm still not familiar with due to laziness/stupidity.
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by Crake 14y ago
Wearing a bra will actually make your boobs sag faster, not the other way around. It's a very common misconception among women, though, who apparently can't be bothered to look these things up before shoving "advice" down your throat that "
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by Crake 14y ago
"and energy prices should continue to fall for the foreseeable future" Are you serious??
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by Crake 14y ago
No shame in going to the library, either. (Less snob cred, though.)
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by Crake 14y ago
Your second + fits my situation exactly. My parents are divorced and neither would pay for college. I'm 24 and basically just starting college now that I can at least get enough loans from the government to afford community college tuition.
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by Crake 14y ago
Unfortunately, a policy that is rarely actually followed. It's amazing how private colleges will bend over backwards to find you have an EFC that requires them to provide little to no financial assistance.
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by Crake 14y ago
Yup, gotta love being punished for working hard. :/ It also especially sucks when you have a high EFC and your parents are only willing to contribute, uh, $0.
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by Crake 14y ago
How much is the non resident tuition? How would you afford the living costs in a foreign country if you can't get a work visa? (It seems a lot of countries have severe work restrictions for students.) A poor US person might not even have en
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by Crake 14y ago
Unless you have no contact with your parents, of course. Or they're just assholes who refuse to provide you with their tax returns. Most private schools won't give you aid unless you fill out their own specialized financial aid forms, like
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by Crake 14y ago
From the comment section: "Oh my god, New York is going to eat this nice lady alive." It's not a problem with twitter, it's a problem with the store you're buying from. Next time buy your ac unit from a place that treats their employees rig
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by Crake 14y ago
I liked it. I've never understood the taboo on income disclosure--it's a valuable piece of data for evaluating many things.
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by Crake 14y ago
Ha! How'd that go over with them?
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by Crake 14y ago
"The team found that metals also accumulate in the excretory systems of termites. The termites then actively rid their bodies of excess metals by excreting little stones, much like kidney stones in people. According to Stewart, these excret
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by Crake 14y ago
1. I heard that too, actually. It looks like they just dropped it from the DSM-5: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/02/aspergers-synd... I guess it makes sense in a way, but it'll probably just confuse popular conception of autis
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by Crake 14y ago
Humans don't like to think about the fact that everything will end for them someday. Most people can barely plan for a week, much less for a century from now. Humanity's downfall will almost certainly stem from the shortsightedness of the m
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by Crake 14y ago
I'm from a poor rural area of Ohio too! Unfortunately, I don't have a success story (yet). It's great to hear about people escaping this awful state.
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by Crake 14y ago
We're such a small segment of history, though. We're just a blip on the timeline of the universe. Look at how our population has expanded in the last 100 years alone...some things are just unsustainable.
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by Crake 14y ago
Two words: peak oil.
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by Crake 14y ago
I don't know--most Americans who have guns are pretty attached to them. I don't think they'd willingly turn them in for cash, and then you'd still have the problem of 300 million guns or so floating around the market even if you nuked the s
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by Crake 14y ago
I'd imagine most people able to afford a private jet (or to let a friend borrow it or whatever) can similarly afford some sort of valet service. That, or maybe there's some sort of parking space right by (or even inside?) the hangar for the
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by Crake 14y ago
I can see why some people would want to think that. Humans are amazing at rationalizing their irrational emotional responses.
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by Crake 14y ago
I think I would be a little offended if my deity liked me as much as my axe wielding rapist counterpart. I feel like not being an axe wielding rapist ought to count for something, relatively speaking.

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