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by Kephael 7y ago
I recently witnessed this with oven mitts. I bought a pair of oven mitts on Amazon but also found several other mitts that were slight variations. When I went to Rite Aid, I found they were selling a variant of the oven mitt pair that I had
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by Kephael 7y ago
I would never truthfully answer a survey asking me about firearms.
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by Kephael 8y ago
I don't know, but you're not going to be successful at real math without a lot of practice. The PISA exam is a joke and looks like 6th grade math. http://www.oecd.org/pisa/test/PISA%202012%20items%20for%2
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by Kephael 8y ago
No, I'm saying there's no need to throw resources at the lower 40% of the student population. The educational system is already babysitting for them. The smart and motivated students can already learn far more on their own from te
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by Kephael 8y ago
The flipped classroom model doesn't work with unmotivated students.
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by Kephael 8y ago
Not running schools like welfare systems is one of the reasons why the East Asian countries have been doing vastly better when compared to most Western countries.
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by Kephael 8y ago
Nearby, CenturyLink has synchronous 1 gbit fiber with no data cap for $65/mo.
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by Kephael 8y ago
All this does is further disarm the populace and makes it even easier to carry out an attack. Australia or New Zealand could have an attack like this happen tomorrow, it's not like they are able to keep handguns and drugs away from you
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by Kephael 8y ago
It's easy for someone who is somewhat mechanically inclined to manufacture a firearm, these law changes will not stop the next terrorist attack in New Zealand.
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by Kephael 8y ago
The only parts that are difficult to make are the pressure bearing parts, and those can be ordered and shipped into the country via a freight forwarding service. Changes in the law only stop the dysfunctional, mentally ill but not terrorist
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by Kephael 8y ago
Probably means anything that looks like it was designed after 1940. The Australian Gun Control lobby is calling for bans on "military style" bolt action and lever action rifles. These were military rifles at the end of the 19th ce
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by Kephael 8y ago
If there's damage reduction, how can French terrorists outfit themselves like Soviet soldiers circa 1982? It's getting easier to manufacture high quality firearms on your own, not harder.
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by Kephael 8y ago
I worked at a government research organization similar to JPL much more recently than 2002, the pace was far too slow and industry did all the interesting things. The operational staff seemed to exist as part of a jobs program.
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by Kephael 8y ago
Best Buy, Sears, K-Mart, and Jet (Walmart) have or had the same functionality.
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by Kephael 8y ago
This is another nonsensical plan, between ideas like this and 70% tax rates (that would certainly apply to people earning far less than $10M+ annually) there would be tanks in the street by 2026.
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by Kephael 8y ago
OVH are amateurs compared to Amazon and Microsoft.
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by Kephael 8y ago
The Chinese aren't going to allow any sort of tariffs that would threaten their rapid industrialization without serious saber-rattling.
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by Kephael 8y ago
If the West stops trading with China then they will invade Taiwan and Okinawa and also supply modern weapon systems to North Korea.
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by Kephael 8y ago
This is obvious, but people and loan issuers do not respond to this reality because the government guarantees the loans. Hence, the current situation continues.
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by Kephael 8y ago
Many people attend commuter schools where you don't necessarily get the networking, friendship, and dating benefits. I think in Europe many students live at home which is part of the reason why educational costs are generally lower the
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by Kephael 8y ago
It's irresponsible to borrow when you will not have the means to pay back the debt. Most college graduates end up underemployed or unemployed after earning a degree in a non-rigorous major from a mediocre school. With only a BS degree
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by Kephael 8y ago
The government backs the loans and this ends up being a massive subsidy for academia. If loans were priced accordingly, far fewer loans would be issued and there would be fewer students in college, and fewer colleges and universities.
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by Kephael 8y ago
Except that's exactly what kicked off the Yellow Vests.
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by Kephael 8y ago
I would trust a voting system that spit out a hashed representation of my vote more than paper ballots. Paper ballots can be fabricated or misplaced. We witnessed people transporting votes in their personal vehicles in Broward county so the
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by Kephael 8y ago
A PhD in CS is a waste of time in the vast majority of cases. If you're good you can join FAANG out of undergrad and you'll earn well over a million dollars pre-tax by the time the PhD would be finished.
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by Kephael 8y ago
Big 4 in this context means Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. Google and MS are known to have good WLB, Amazon and Facebook do not.
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by Kephael 8y ago
From experience, I'm not sure the 40 hour work week is an actual thing outside of highly bureaucratic organizations. In part time jobs like retail or restaurant work, it seems very difficult to get enough "hours" assigned. In
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by Kephael 8y ago
This type of behavior is going to cause civil war in Western countries. It is beginning to reach absurd levels, even when facts change there are too many who refuse to acknowledge the situation.
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by Kephael 8y ago
If a company wants you they will pay you market rates, you may need to present them with competing offers if you don't want to be lowballed.
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by Kephael 8y ago
College hires make more at Microsoft than experienced people as well. These companies need to pay closer to top of market for the experience level to prevent losing new hires to other companies.

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