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by dvtv75 10y ago
I replay awkward (or bad) moments occasionally, too. You can actually break that habit, though. When you catch yourself remembering them, just make the effort to blank your mind. "Don't think about cheese" and all that.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I asked a girl out, once, and she said yes, then I never heard from her or saw her again. I can't read people worth a damn, so that basically taught me to stop trying.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
A friend of mine was doing a Masters in Zoology a few years ago, and I briefly discussed the idea of generation ships with her. She explained to me that a foetus can't properly develop in microgravity, and they abort in the early stag
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I'm very curious about this, especially in the long run. Do you need to hire extra staff to work the "other" 20 hours that isn't worked, or do you find your staff are producing about as much in their 20 hours as they wo
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Such a pity that he stopped at just one - I'm sure he could have got at least one more, although I'm not criticising. I did laugh like a buffoon for a while. I'm going to repeat this story at work later today. Nice work!
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Lucky. My boss, who was very much like that, got a promotion in the owning organisation, and now has more power (and pay), and still runs our place into the ground.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I've got a 6km link (about 4 miles). Just had some snow, and have had some really bad weather, link has been nice and stable. I'm using Nanobeam M5 16, they aren't installed properly so the link could be a lot better, but th
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Sounds like the CEO at my work. I was working 75+ hours a week, no breaks (got a warning for taking them), using my own equipment just to keep up with the increased demands on me. Not paid for anything over 40 hours, minimum wage was almo
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by dvtv75 10y ago
9 to 5 jobs are a walk in the park compared with BS workloads. One of my friends, while working full time in the university I was studying at, once commented that I did more hours per week than he did. He said every time he saw me, I was o
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by dvtv75 10y ago
It's reassuring to hear this. I graduated in 2006, having started my Bachelor in 2000, beca8use it turns out that I have a pretty severe neurological disability. I've had much trouble finding a full-time job (one interview start
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I did that one, as well. 9/14, which is a lot better than I expected - I did "cheat" though. I picked details on their faces, and concentrated on remembering them. I have aphantasia (to a degree). For example, I had diffic
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by dvtv75 10y ago
A friend of mine lives opposite some farmland. He told me the story of the owner of the farmland wanting to sell it for housing. He got a geologist in, who looked at the land and explained that this land was prime for a major landslide be
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Under what grounds would you recommend that someone who didn't understand the terms be prosecuted? What law makes it illegal to not understand the terms of the contract that you are signing?
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Is there a medical file somewhere in the history of this amusing piece of knowledge? Inquiring minds want to know.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I seem to recall hearing from my doctor that the micropause software simply made some people freeze up and wait, making it worse. She suggested that it would just be better to get up and do something completely different for a time. I foun
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by dvtv75 10y ago
People who don't know better. I would expect someone who claims to be a medical professional to know better.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I would guess the point at which they say it does.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
In the article, if you read all of it, they suggest point to a study that suggests a better helmet may be of no use in preventing the injury. If you search for "animal" in the article, you should find it. On the other hand, if th
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by dvtv75 10y ago
It strikes me as something of a Roguelike. I've been watching Scott Manley play it (on YouTube) and it reminds me, too, of a lot of the games from the mid-1980s. The drone aspect has me thinking of the game Deactivators, three robots
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by dvtv75 10y ago
You appear to have no problem with a company building up a profile of your likes and dislikes, so they can try and sell stuff to you. That's fine. Why expect that of others, though?
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Do you lose 20% of the lab mice, or the pet store mice, or the B cells?
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I am the same. Always outside, lived on a farm for a few years, lived in the city. No problems with any allergies, and then, about 15 years ago, I worked in a store with photochemistry, but no ventilation. I was diagnosed with asthma som
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I'll take your bait: I do think 51% of all income tax is too little for the top 3% of earners, because they are paid such a large piece of the pie; you're looking at it in terms of number of people paying tax and not percentage of
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by dvtv75 10y ago
As opposed to what? Employers and business lobby groups presently manipulate society and democratic governments for their own ends, to the detriment of their society's future well being. Besides which, "useless degrees" seem
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by dvtv75 10y ago
A friend of mine, aged 46, recently graduated with an IT degree. He has had many interviews, and in about half of them he tells me he was rejected by the interviewers at the end because they're "looking for someone 'fresher&#
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I wondered the same thing. My guess is "custom molder" but that's all it is.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
You're right about that. Much of what I was taught when I studied CS involved learning by implication. We would be shown how to do something, and were supposed to figure everything out after seeing how that was done, while getting on
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Back in the early 90s, a friend of mine was using Imagine on his Amiga 500. I think it was 1992 that he showed me a rendering of the Enterprise-D, and how he had made a shield impact (and the subsequent flash) animation. He eventually end
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Yes, I keep hearing the "What good is a pay increase if you don't have a job?" argument. To that, I respond: "What good is a job if I can't afford to live from it?" I wonder how many businesses would give wage
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Since an increase in labor supply would reduce likely reduce the cost of wages due to oversupply, I can't imagine that would be the reason. Could be wrong, though.

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