arbitrarywords

8 ms·

31.
by arbitrarywords 14y ago
There's no shortcut to being an interesting and clever person. You gotta put the hours in I agree, but would mention that where drugs have been useful in my life is in generating interesting avenues to put the hours into. As a shy and awk
32.
by arbitrarywords 14y ago
Can anyone recommend any sensible texts on this? Ideally something that covers minimum wages/unemployment, places the discussion in an international context, and least shows an awareness of the idea of a spectrum between fully employed and
33.
Noda Time v1.0 released(msmvps.com)
7 points by arbitrarywords 14y ago|0 comments
34.
by arbitrarywords 14y ago
I can't remember exactly when, but they clearly changed the colour difference to be much more subtle at some point. At home I see the difference, but on the work dell monitors you can only tell where the ads stop if you view the screen from
35.
by arbitrarywords 14y ago
$500 / (10 hrs/week * 50 weeks) = $1/hr. I'd only worry about it if your hourly rate approaches this.
36.
by arbitrarywords 14y ago
Another option, pay the ransom yourself and then there would be no way for Romney to prove it wasn't him.
37.
by arbitrarywords 14y ago
That's amusing. Can you have two companies that own each other? If so, how long does it take to finalize the books at tax time?
38.
by arbitrarywords 14y ago
I still don't quite get it. Presumably the story is more interesting than "we got permission and used lots of wire", but the first couple of pages of google results don't really explain how.
39.
by arbitrarywords 15y ago
I've installed a greasemonkey script called "Remove Google Redirection" that seems to work fine...
40.
by arbitrarywords 15y ago
Or there's a shade of grey, where patents and IP are a useful idea, but the current implementation in certain areas (e.g. IT) are broken and need reform. Most people here don't seem to be purely black or white on this one.
41.
by arbitrarywords 15y ago
Well one perspective from the sick persons point of view, "The entire resources of the universe should be spent on keeping me alive". If you decide that there is something wrong with this, you need a strategy to allocate the resources. Th
42.
ALDI 4-in-1 device spreads conficker(auscert.org.au)
1 points by arbitrarywords 15y ago|0 comments
43.
by arbitrarywords 15y ago
It's not impossible to be an atheist and still be socially graceful.
44.
by arbitrarywords 15y ago
Yeh, this is weird. A "50% increase" is clearly "in addition to", whereas "threefold" reads as "in comparison to". I have no idea how to interpret a "onefold increase".
45.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
I will also note that women tend to talk less about men and their physical attributes than men do about women and their physical attributes I often wonder if this is a generational thing. This seems to be true of the women I know my age (
46.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
Names are important because they allow you to use your own internal karma system (I will read comments from certain people no matter what their score). One problem mentioned is the overloading of what an up/down vote is - what about separat
47.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
It also depends what you need to learn. Personally, as someone who avoids conflict and always second guesses my decisions, I found poker helps a little to train me out of these traits.
48.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
Trolling? Performance irony? Confusion? "Reading the book" of your text, I just can't tell, but if we were face to face I could probably feel out what you were doing. Some things, especially assisting learning, require intense feedback loo
49.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
Depends on the location of your users. Quicker to have someone host it is multiple places all over the world (assuming you care about perceived page load speed)
50.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
PZ Myers has a fair bit of credibility. After years of helping deal with torrents of nonsense, I'm prepared to cut the guy a little slack on the snark front. Also I think the key word in "it is not always valid in either direction to judge"
51.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
The Queensland Police facebook page http://www.facebook.com/QueenslandPolice is pretty interesting. Nearly everyone I know subscribed. Did a great job keeping people up to date, stopping panic, dispelling rumors, organizing workers. Pre
52.
Steven Novella's response to the Decline Effect(skepticblog.org)
2 points by arbitrarywords 16y ago|0 comments
53.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
How do you deal with things which have no effective market? e.g.ChloroFlouroCarbons, where the cost is borne by people distant from the obvious transaction.
54.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
Algorithm Psuedocode? If website in manually fed list Then demote.
55.
by arbitrarywords 16y ago
It's contentious. It's suggested they may prevent certain injuries (fracture) but exacerbate others (rotational/shearing). So wearing a helmet may prevent a large number of lesser injuries at the cost of causing a smaller number of more p