Zimahl

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by Zimahl 13y ago
Thomas Jefferson designed his bedroom with ventilation in mind.[1] [1] http://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/bedchamber
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by Zimahl 13y ago
YouTube most likely decided to pay for videos to encourage more and better content. Without paying their content creators, YouTube would just be the place where you get started and then moved somewhere else to profit.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Well, we certainly live in a very weird time. There's a level of expectation of dads now that there wasn't for my dad. There is now an expectation of 50/50 in raising children even with stay-at-home moms. That means cookin
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Let me rephrase what I was saying. Not every woman out there is settling on a least-common denominator. Some women are single because they were too picky (like the text I quoted) but some are just single because of bad luck.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
While I am happily married, I have seen the 'sexual-market-value' change first hand now that I'm in my mid-30s. The women my age who are attractive but unmarried and childless seem to now be with men who they would've p
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by Zimahl 13y ago
In case you signed up using your work email, like practically everybody does 1) Why would anyone use a temporary email to sign up to a social service? 2) Why would anyone use their work email for a job networking social site knowing ful
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Well, one would assume that had the US not stumbled into 2 expensive foreign wars we probably wouldn't be in the situation we are in now. We went into massive debt during WWII as well we just weren't able to borrow the money from
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I'm not sure the IOC's requirements but I think you can compete for a country if you have just familial or racial ties with a country. Technically, the country just has to recognize you as theirs.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Definitely true. Facebook had a dust-up when a woman posted a topless photo of herself after she had had a double mastectomy. That said, not all sites are like Facebook and we aren't talking about filtering all the images on the inter
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I'm actually annoyed that you got modded down. Your post brings up an excellent point although I don't think it's intended. These days, it comes down to exposure and access. Back when I was a teen (early 90's) we didn&
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by Zimahl 13y ago
That's certainly a possibility, and it certainly is done by the wealthy all the time. At least in the US it is very difficult to transfer large sums of money out of the country without accounting for it, so these end-arounds of taxati
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I think I'd still rather be around people who argue with statistics and logic than people who don't. Step into a Yahoo news comment section with any article that mentions the US gov't or Obamacare. There's so much bull
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Back in college when I was interviewing for jobs sometimes interviewers would first ask you to write any executing Java class because some interviewees said they 'knew' Java and couldn't do even that simple task. A couple yea
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I knew about the 2%/5% but thought it was a pretty fair deal. The amount of advertising that this brings to a many of the companies on the show is worth a ton. Some of the food or plain merchandise companies where all the sharks pass
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by Zimahl 13y ago
That's a nice thought but not a fact. Some who are held down search for what they were deprived, some don't. I would assume the many examples of this are all anecdotal since they make great stories. The flip side is not that un
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by Zimahl 13y ago
You know, I see that argument all the time - 3 minutes here, 1 minute there. But I just wasted 5 minutes of my life where I zoned out staring at the ceiling. Sometimes you can justify 'wasting' 18 hours per year. Also, it's
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Without Myst there's no Grand Theft Auto V or Assassin's Creed Really? That's a bold statement. I don't agree with it, but it's bold nonetheless. There's going to be some big publishers out there who will
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by Zimahl 13y ago
It very well might be worth it Therefore, you answered the question of 'Is College Worth It?'. It is, for some professions. Thank you for agreeing with me. Given that electrical "engineering" (i.e. you won't be
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I feel like you are moving the posts again to support your argument. ... An electrician's job is deeply rooted in the research done by physicist and electrical engineers, so why does it not count? Moving the posts? The posts for thi
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Even still, when ~70% of the population do not have degrees, it seems insidious to say that programming is one of the few professions that do not require a degree. I never once said that few professions do not require a degree. The artic
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Is that assertion based on more than emotion? Emotion? It's based on honest assessment. Please show me one architecture firm who will hire a self-taught architect or an aeronautical company that will hire a self-taught aeronautical
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by Zimahl 13y ago
One would be hard pressed to learn chemistry or physics without the resources of a university. I don't want a building designed by a self-taught architect or a bridge designed by a self-taught mechanical engineer. I don't want t
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Certainly, and some people would be better served by not going to college. The point is that you can't just call it a life after high school and expect to earn a respectable (in a financial sense) income. Unskilled union mill work is
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying. Of course I see that the axes have different scales but both are linear. State schools (blue/purple/green) are at about $75k in cost but span the same '30 Year Wage Premium' a
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by Zimahl 13y ago
At 64, when an 800 square foot manufactured home he’d seen in Plant City, a Tampa suburb, became available for $21,500, he purchased it with a credit card to amass frequent flier miles. He then sold his New Jersey home for $180,000, kept w
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by Zimahl 13y ago
College is probably worth it but that's not what this graph is really showing. It really should be entitled 'Is Private College Worth It?' because it appears that the only significant cost:wage value is to 'Private Engi
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Yes, I know that college was worth it 30 years ago, and even 15 years ago. That is not the real question. The question is will this continue to be true in the future? I know this gets brought up all the time on here but HN is not a good i
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Completely anecdotal but I played two sports seasons out of three in high school and my grades were always better during those seasons. While I did see some students who weren't exactly killing it academically during those seasons, th
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by Zimahl 13y ago
To be fair, this typically doesn't happen for the tennis players, track athletes, swimmers, etc. Most of the time the teams that are aggrandized, like for football, basketball, and sometimes baseball, are the ones what get the free pa
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by Zimahl 13y ago
As someone who didn't play one of the glory sports (football/basketball/baseball) in high school (I played water polo and swim team), I understand the lack of accolades. Our swim team was undefeated, had won our district, an

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