dionidium

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by dionidium 18y ago
"I don't particularly feel I need my mobile, but my friends consider it unfriendly not to be at their beck and call" I didn't own a wireless phone in 2008 and noticed the same thing. For example, nobody wants to arrange to meet at a speci
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by dionidium 18y ago
Are you friends with David Steinberg? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240900/
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by dionidium 18y ago
Is this forum really so wealthy that a casual recommendation for a $50k car seems normal to most of you? Or is this just posturing? Serious question.
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by dionidium 18y ago
I wrote a greasemonkey script to help me. It marks comments that have already been read. The way it marks comments is ugly and probably backwards (i.e. you probably only want to mark new comments, not the other way around). I did it as a
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by dionidium 18y ago
"The company doesn't have any obligation to share high earnings with their employee. " I never suggested that they do. In fact, I think I rather explicitly argued that they paid those wages because it was the best deal they could negotiate
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by dionidium 18y ago
We can probably all agree that's it's silly to require that workers play dress-up and come to a non-existent job every morning. But, assuming that requirement were dropped, you haven't exactly explained why it was wrong of the workers to as
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by dionidium 18y ago
It’s also largely intellectual activity, which is considerably more fatiguing than routine physical tasks. Jobs in information technology might look a lot easier than manual labor to an outside observer, but they’re not. Burnout sets in mu
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by dionidium 18y ago
You are VERY unlikely to work at the same job in the same company until you retire. Companies aren't supplying reliable pension plans. Many hot fields aren't unionized... I think this is a key thing to notice. Without these benefits (and
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by dionidium 18y ago
To be fair, what is it you think the phrase "hidden feature" could possibly mean other than "frequently misunderstood" or "available, but often unused by beginners"? Surely you weren't expecting "hidden" features in any literal sense?
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In addition, it seems to me that a lot of middle-class homeowners who use this argument would be just as well off (or very close to it) with the standard deduction. I've never owned a house. Am I missing something? EDIT: I live in the Midwe
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by dionidium 18y ago
I think part of what gets confused in these discussions is that there are (at least) two reasons we might restrict a behavior: 1) because the act itself causes harm; 2) because allowing the act to occur will lead to an undesirable outcome.
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I had Blockbuster's Netflix-like service. At the time I canceled (to switch to Netflix) something like 17 of the 22 movies in my queue were unavailable with a "long wait".
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by dionidium 18y ago
For the event I was looking at (a Cubs game @ Wrigley, if it matters) 3 of the 4 links I clicked went to tickets that were no longer available at StubHub. You obviously have no control over third-party content, but the result is that I simp
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by dionidium 18y ago
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a truly terrible book full of mostly questionable advice, platitudes, and poor writing.
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by dionidium 18y ago
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel It starts with a brief history of market bubbles, moves to an explanation of the the most popular theories of stock forecasting (and why you probably can't use them to beat the market), exp