Zimahl

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by Zimahl 13y ago
How are you proofreading your copy? I'd hate for an error to result in Seventh Day Advent Hoppists[1]. [1] http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Seventh_Day_Advent_Hoppists
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I can't help you realize that you're not important enough to the US government to justify your paranoia.
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Alright, to each his own. Your focus on Waco is making my point that you are only focusing on very high-profile subset of the negative. Waco was terrible but not as innocent as you are portraying it as. If you would've said Ruby Ridg
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by Zimahl 13y ago
From your profile, I see that you live in Brazil. One of the top 20 countries for homicide rate[1]. Plenty of it's own human rights abuses[2], and one of the bottom 15 for income equality and distribution. The defense you made for t
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Lol, wut? Listen, not getting into the obvious nationalism that tends to color something like this, but the US is a damn fine place to live. Is it better than the UK, France, or Germany? In some ways, yes, and in other ways, no. The prob
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by Zimahl 13y ago
When it comes to politics, sometimes I think the US is a lot more like France than the UK. For example, we have a former Representive who tweeted a sexual picture[1] and then lied about doing so and was forced to resign but will now probab
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I have to wonder how much of a backlash would've been created for someone other than Sean Parker. I don't think this would've been much of a story if not for 'The Social Network' portraying him as an egotistical, a
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I'm pretty sure you can't disclaim liability in the US just with a sign either. All of those 'park at your own risk' signs mean nothing when a runaway shopping cart puts a big dent in your door. A shopping center is re
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I'll agree but add that any withdrawal symptoms (physiological or psychological) should define addiction. If one quits World of Warcraft but can't stop thinking about it and it interferes with their day-to-day life, that's
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by Zimahl 13y ago
The sex ratio was 1:1. Whenever I drink, that's the ratio I'm targeting as well :)
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I've heard our asteroid belt described like this: The odds of randomly happening on an asteroid while traveling though the asteroid belt is about the same as randomly happening on a ship in the Pacific Ocean.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Quite a stretch between divulging state secrets to anti-semitism and homophobia combined with murder. The fact is that Snowden had the opportunity to quit when he found out what his work was going to entail or what his work was being applie
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by Zimahl 13y ago
To be fair, it's not like the US hasn't had it share of human-rights abuses before, just historically less than some other countries. As for the Snowden extradition actually being a human-rights issue that's another story. I
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by Zimahl 13y ago
You're right, it's an indicator that the company doesn't know how to talk to developers with experience.
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Are you going to be so responsive to silly fizzbuzz tests 10 years down the line with multiple successful (and unsuccessful) projects under your belt? If a senior developer gets asked to write a sorting algorithm don't be surprised if
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I see your arguments for #1, #2, and #4. Fair enough responses. As for #3, if you aren't a fairly exclusive 'brand' (like Google, Amazon, maybe Facebook) and you are known for having a long interview process, I think a fair
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I'll leave out the details of the two I've done since it's a sore spot on my psyche but I'll talk about them in general. Maybe yours is different, but I think the first problem is they typically have a lack of clearly de
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Ugh, the take-home test/coding assignment. I've done two of these and I will never do another. Bottom line, if a company can't be bothered to respect that the time the interview process eats up for both parties, they probab
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by Zimahl 13y ago
hopefully it's the last security-related one Not to nit-pick, but it's never the last security-related bug :)
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Sure, if it seems like a reasonable conspiracy theory a healthy debunking is acceptable. In a fair number of cases, however, some of these conspiracies are so outlandish that we really should punish the perpetrators via public shaming.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I posted this in part as resistance against the silencing aspect of anti-conspiracism There is less resistance today than at any point in human history. Post a Youtube video with some cleverly cut news stories and you can have everything
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by Zimahl 13y ago
But then what's the point of Miranda Rights then?
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Unless you are reading a different story: Ballistic reports showed the shells matched the shotgun, but police declined to prosecute Salinas. Maybe I don't understand shotgun forensics very well, but as I understand the only ballistic
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by Zimahl 13y ago
First, Chevy Chase hardly represents the current cast of SNL. He hasn't been on the show for decades. Second, I was talking about how you think SNL is building up Biden with positive sketches. I don't agree that they are very po
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I guess if that's how you see it, I just have to disagree. To me, someone who voted for Obama/Biden twice, in both of those skits they do a fairly good job of making him seem incompetent, simple, and short-sighted. In the second
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by Zimahl 13y ago
SNL does portray Biden as a caricature. Jason Sudekis played him as a quick talking ex-fraternity asshole who takes upskirt pictures of Hillary Clinton and then proclaims "You've been Biden'd!". SNL isn't doing hi
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Occam's razor clearly makes this story less interesting than face value. I think we can assume that the NSA is legitimately looking for real problems, not ones that involve the illegal hiring of an au pair.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Isn't the NSA supposed to be for foreign intelligence only? I don't find it shocking that the US would track the messages of an accused terrorist. What I find funny is that a lawyer used Facebook for privileged communication.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Yes, please! I get tired of quotes from fiction. Aren't there enough non-fiction quotes in the world that are much more relevant?
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Cars are typically much more expensive than guns and we equate car thievery today to cattle thievery of yesterday - we take it quite personally. Registering a car is simply an excuse for the government to charge you money to use your vehicl

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