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by Zimahl 13y ago
Not trying to be obtuse, but it is in the best interest of countries not to owe other countries favors or have skeletons that can be used against them. In simpler words - cry me a river that the US is able to use human rights abuses, corrup
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by Zimahl 13y ago
About that, do cars attempt to shut down engines, fuel intake and electric pathways when detecting a collision ? Some do, and a lot of people don't know about that. It can trip in small accidents too so sometimes people can figure o
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Yeah, I don't know how it's useful. I think you could get just as many bad developers who are brilliant as good developers who are brilliant. I worked with a bad brilliant developer who just couldn't produce production code
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Hah, I must be pretty dumb. After over 10 years working on anything from startup to BigCorp, I doubt I could answer a single one of those questions right now. I did learn that in my last round of interviewing (about a year ago) that to pla
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by Zimahl 13y ago
They build it because they can and they are told to. First, they are payed well to STFU, ethics vs. money. Second, if they do speak up they'll just be replaced. Third, if they are replaced, they are legally bound that they cannot sp
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Certainly not and I'm not downplaying the importance of liberal arts degrees, it's just that right now their ROI is terrible. Unless you go to a private school, state schools should never cost $20k per year - ever. I can't
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by Zimahl 13y ago
The problem isn't that there are student loans - people take loans out for many other things and have no problem with those. The problem is that the repayments are killing the spending power of the middle-class. Where does paying back
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by Zimahl 13y ago
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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by Zimahl 13y ago
It's great that you've used your communications studies in your career but you didn't have to get a communications degree to learn that. I feel that the anthropology, communications, biology, history, etc. classes I took in c
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by Zimahl 13y ago
The problem is that the flip-side consequence is dead-end job prospects. It's a greater of two evils - have a disproportionate lack or opportunity or debt. Debt is the easy choice. The only thing kids need to consider is return on i
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by Zimahl 13y ago
The problem is costs won't stay where they are, they just keep climbing for no reason. The quality is only marginally better, if that. It is one thing if the states are covering less tuition for their constituents that would make the
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Commenting as an Oregonian, it isn't going to solve any problems it just makes college more accessible, allowing students to kick the can down the road. College is still too expensive and costs have risen for no reason. I went to stat
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by Zimahl 13y ago
or that they got in a huge fight with their s/o right after posting pictures of hugs and kisses. My wife's friend talks to her all the time about how her and her husband are constantly fighting and their marriage is falling apar
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Also, who wouldn't want to play high-stakes poker with someone else's money!
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by Zimahl 13y ago
3. Amazon considers all SDEs to be fungible but internal politics determines which group gets to interview a new candidate. Have an advanced degree and strong interest in machine learning? Too bad, US Retail needs someone to work on front-
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by Zimahl 13y ago
In general, rocket technology is missile technology. Wernher von Braun agrees.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Even if we were to face China in a war, we'd own the seas. Once their one (maybe two by now) carrier is sunk, even assuming they sink one of ours, we just bring in one of the other 12. I know people fear China but they are no cold-war
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by Zimahl 13y ago
It will. I bought a house 3 months ago and it had a terrible thermostat that was difficult to program and even programmed it would reset itself occasionally. We bought and installed a Nest and it programs itself by learning your patterns.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Completely anecdotal of course, but I've never met someone who smoked pot in their teen years who wasn't a layabout stoner with no future prospects in the 20s. Meanwhile, I know plenty who started smoking pot in college who were
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by Zimahl 13y ago
You're still not sufficiently differentiating between "visual design" and "ephemeral fashion". I don't need to, these things go together. Visual design is entwined with aesthetics that include trends. Here&#
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by Zimahl 13y ago
You can pick and choose a lot of items that we think of as having artistic merit but there are countless thousands of others that were artistic failures that you can't name. There's no argument that artistic merit endures, however
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I guess I should've differentiated between visual design and functional design. I would think I made it clear enough that I was talking about the visual design. That said, the functional design of the site is fine. Outside of the mod
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by Zimahl 13y ago
If you think time has no bearing on aesthetic then you don't know much about design. You might not care but engaging people and increasing views are important to a new aggregator.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
But HN isn't out of place in 2013 and Slashdot is. That's what matters. You can call it a feature all you want but if a new user goes to your site and dismisses it because of the look, you've done something wrong.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Not to say Twitter isn't a fine medium but I personally don't think a real discussion can be had 140 characters at a time. It's a severe limit that just doesn't work (wrt discussions).
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I think his logic toward Twitter is very flawed. Sure, you can get the bulk of your interesting news there from specific feeds, but where's the discussion? People use Reddit, HN, Slashdot, Fark, etc., because they could have conversa
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Agreed. HN is what it is, it's not an all-encompassing tech news aggregator like Slashdot was. HN is fairly focused with a few outside stories that creep in here and there. I know everyone likes to run the 'back in my day'
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I agree with the overreach of the law and possible, obvious abuses. However, police are able to arrest for a crime at any point of the process. That said, other than ones that aren't reversible (like murder), they usually let you comm
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I'm sure they'll be included with the state and judge in a class-action case to be filed shorty (if not already).
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I know there are other more sympathetic stories, there were plenty further along in the article. My issue was to open with that example is poor journalism.

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