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by fixedd 12y ago
Nothing else to offer except "agreed".
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by fixedd 12y ago
Another way to think about it is this: There's two types of advertising (probably really more): 1) We don't care where you buy the thing we make, just buy it. (Mazda) 2) You want that thing in #1, come buy that thing from me! (Maz
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by fixedd 12y ago
> And more importantly why would anyone send anything to anywhere? You're assuming everyone is rational. For instance, if I were a future billionaire I'd totally do it... knowing I'd never see even a glimmer of return on t
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by fixedd 12y ago
The whole Fermi Paradox thing bugs me too, but in a different way. It assumes we have the capability of detecting the presence of other intelligent life. The largest radio telescope we have (the 305 meter diameter Arecibo) would need to hav
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by fixedd 12y ago
Not to mention that every vendor has different formats.
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by fixedd 12y ago
And it's only 5 people if you're offering below-industry pay, not paying taxes, no benefits, no office, no equipment purchases, etc. I'd figure 150k/person minimum, with more like 2-300k in more contentious areas.
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by fixedd 12y ago
* They built everything with DIAMONDS... because it was cheap.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Schools and teachers should be amongst the easiest to test since we have so much data... measured multiple times a year.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Reference: The Princess Bride :P
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by fixedd 12y ago
I swapped all of the incandescent bulbs that run for more than ~ 15min/day out in our house for some 80+ CRI "warm white" LEDs I got off Amazon. My wife didn't even know I'd changed them till I told her. I noticed t
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by fixedd 12y ago
Maybe it's because I've been working "alone" in the quiet for so long, but I can not force myself to not stop and listen when other people are talking. I can, however not switch windows/tabs over to the chat client
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by fixedd 12y ago
At a former job I worked from home where I had peace and quiet pretty much all day. I only really worked 4-5 hours in a day, but I was significantly (in the order-of-magnitude realm) more productive than my in-office teammates. On the occas
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by fixedd 12y ago
I don't know why I was being quite so aggressive when I wrote that. I'm sorry... I think I was taking frustration out on you when you had nothing to do with it. I still disagree with the assertion that "how many friends you d
44.
by fixedd 12y ago
... says the non-married person who doesn't have full-time kids.
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by fixedd 12y ago
If a country starts throwing atomic weapons at it's enemies then it will soon find that it's enemies are "everyone". There are treaties and such.
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by fixedd 12y ago
I guess I'm thinking of the EU nations, to which I thought about moving.
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by fixedd 12y ago
These are largely true for most developed nations.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Maybe I've just been lucky with the coworkers I've had, or maybe the problems I've been working on aren't as hard as they seem, but in all the jobs I've worked we have never needed someone specifically trained on ho
49.
by fixedd 12y ago
What, precisely, is a "linux database"?
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by fixedd 12y ago
As long as CEOs of the companies screaming that "there is a shortage and we desperately need H1Bs" have compensation packages that could pay for thousands of engineers I'm going to just go ahead and assume they've decide
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by fixedd 12y ago
You must have missed the revelation back at the beginning of the year that some of the biggest players in the tech world were caught in an illegal cartel to suppress tech-worker wages. So, there's that.
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by fixedd 12y ago
I really haven't kept up with this at all (I saw the articles, but didn't read), but I'm wondering why saying to journalists (and I'm happy to be corrected if I'm mistaken) "if you try dig up dirty laundry on u
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by fixedd 12y ago
There's also been shown to be an inverse correlation between wearing a helmet and safety. It seems that motorists correlate "having a helmet on" with being safe, and so are more aggressive around those who are wearing.
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by fixedd 12y ago
It's also impossible to talk to someone miles away... Oh, electricity! It's also impossible to travel 30mph... Oh, Petroleum! It's also impossible to go to the moon... Oh, RP-1/LOX! -- Stop pretending we know everything
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by fixedd 12y ago
Don't forget GPS... GPS lock murders.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Ingress can do this on a Galaxy Nexus with a 2A external battery pack (or, ya know, car). I was only able to help with about 1/2 of an Interitus event cause my phone kept dying and I'd have to wait a bit to bring it back online. I
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by fixedd 12y ago
Quite a lot of our Sci-Fi's "FTL drives" are actually "Jump Drives". Take, for instance, Battlestar Glactica. They don't move through space, they jump to a new place within it.
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by fixedd 12y ago
You've got places like The Summit and The Pinnacle which are basically just scaled-up strip malls. Then there's places like The Shopes at Grand River (is that what it's called??? the place in Leeds)that really ought to just b
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by fixedd 12y ago
Considering eighty-something percent of people who responded to the survey despised Australis, I could see a lot of people choosing it for #4 alone.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Sadly, I can't find the link now, but I was reading about this yesterday. According to someone who worked there, there was no insurance.

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