Grishnakh

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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I like to go on hikes with outdoors-oriented Meetup groups. I like hiking anyway, and I frequently find someone to have an interesting conversation with. If I don't, no problem, it's still fun to do the hike anyway even if I don
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Instead of worrying about how young you are when it happens, wouldn't it make more sense to simply GTFO? I really wonder how many Americans now are thinking about this, esp. professionals who have the ability to fairly easily find wor
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>In case of Toyota, the error was not with the driver. Not having ninja reflexes when your car misinterprets throttle input as you are parking is not user error. That wasn't what happened. People were driving at high speeds on the
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Exactly. The challenge now is to predict whether society in 50 years is going to look more like "Idiocracy" or "The Walking Dead". Either way, I don't foresee a good future for the human race. Hopefully, in some par
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
It's not unique. McAfee, Symantec, etc. are scams too, and they're worth billions. AMEX is a scam and it's worth billions.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>Fortunately that is pretty self-regulating, because it's incredibly hard to drive a manual if you haven't had practice and training. :-) Exactly. Why bother regulating this at the DMV when people who can't drive a stick
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
No, they're all bad apples. Have you ever seen what happens when you leave a bad apple in with a bunch of good apples? Very quickly, the entire bunch of apples is bad. That's why we have the whole saying about "bad apples&
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>Broken bones heal. I agree with your sentiment about the relative differences between broken bones and head injuries, but this statement isn't completely correct: if you're an adult, a broken bone almost always leaves behind s
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Enormous amounts of testing prove that those "tiny" helmets do in fact help a lot. Cyclists aren't normally exposed to the magnitude of forces that motorcyclists are in crashes, due to their lower speeds, but they're st
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Actually, I'd worry less about the Bloods and the Crips: they're businesspeople, and as long as you aren't involved in their business (pushing drugs), you probably don't have too much to worry about. The police are a di
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
It's not impractical at all. You clip it to your backpack. That's what I did in college, and if I wanted to ride a city bike in a big city, that's what I'd do there too. Every time I go into a walkable big city like N
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>The amazing thing about katanas is not that they're better than european swords (they're not), it's that they were able to make good weapons at all out of shit-tier iron. How are they not better? I'm pretty sure Eur
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Throw a wrench into the works if this happens: report a bunch of your conservative Christian customers as Muslims. It'll suck for them but it serves them right anyway. (Make sure to leave the country before the authorities figure out
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
There is no such thing as a modern passenger car with an engine more powerful than the brakes. All cases of "unintentional acceleration" where the driver "could not stop" are cases of driver error: the driver refused to
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I call bullshit. Last time I looked up the BRZ, the automatic was far better than the manual, something like 36mpg vs 30mpg (highway). Most likely, the manual has much lower gearing than the automatic.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
The love of manual transmissions isn't irrational, it's merely outdated. Manual transmissions were indeed more efficient than automatics up until about 10 years ago. Governments aren't exactly famous for being completely up-
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Twin bets aren't adult-sized, they're for kids. And full-size beds are basically obsolete, or just for short people. They're simply too short, given that people are taller now than they were 50 years ago. Queen size is now
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
If she wants a diamond so badly, she can spend her own money on it. If I really want a sports car, I don't expect my fiance to buy it for me. If I want a cellphone, I don't expect my girlfriend to buy it for me and pay for the se
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I had a problem a bit like this a while back: I had (and still have) a small side business, and needed a shopping cart for it. I looked around at open-source solutions like osCommerce and Magento and decided they all sucked, especially for
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I don't find that to be true for me at all. Like the other poster said, there's endless possibilities for automation. I just don't have enough time to do all the weird projects I'd like to do, but I've got ideas f
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
There's probably millions of parallel universes where humans weren't so lucky and we're extinct. We happen to be living in the universe where they are. Or, we live in the simulation where the parameters were tweaked so that
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Thanks for the link!! Mods: please replace the NYT paywalled link with this one. It's free, and it's far more useful too.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
No, it's not. Sorry.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I love how questioning a sexist tradition earns me downvotes.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
This is simply not true. Did you miss the part about "limited liability"? The limitation to liability is your involvement in the action. If you're the only person in the company, there's zero limit: you're fully
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Not a lawyer or accountant either, but my understanding is that a single-person LLC is only useful if you're holding business debt: if your company goes bankrupt, your personal assets are much harder to go after. For liability, you&#x
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
She deserves to be treated as a possession because somehow the man is expected to shell out all of HIS money for this stupid rock, solely for her benefit. What exactly is SHE contributing to the relationship anyway? Obviously, she has not
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
There's also another argument: what exactly is the woman's role in this relationship? Is she merely a possession? If she insists on a diamond, then I think she should also be expected to be treated as a possession, and an inferi
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Not if you get married in Vegas at a chapel with a small handful of family members. It's still a fraction of that cost, but a reasonably-large fraction (maybe 1/10 at most, instead of 1/100).
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
My (now ex) wife wanted a titanium ring. She loved it because it was so light and felt like it wasn't even there. That's one thing out of that marriage that didn't cost me much... (Actually, it was a very amicable divorce;

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