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by ibsulon 17y ago
There's one fundamental difference between China and Japan: Japan doesn't have more land upon which to build, which is what drove much of their housing craze (even our hottest markets were never even close to the Japan bubble) China is much
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Perhaps you were drinking too much caffeine at once?
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by ibsulon 17y ago
That's raising my level of ramen profitibility, no thank you.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
The problem isn't that some protocols can't do these things. The problem is that email is the only protocol that fills this need, so it's time to stop complaining about how people choose to use it.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
I've used it to good effect, depending on the audience. The type of meetings that this works in usually involve multiple levels of management and serve more as a forum for peacocking.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
How do I send email in 24 different colors with pictures of my puppy, then? A more serious restatement of the joke: Other than HTML email, there is no functional way for the average computer user to send personal information with the follow
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Both are happening. However, basic employment protections are near impossible to gain in some states, such as the deep south. On hate crimes, however, I disagree. A hate crime is not about targeting one particular individual; it is a terror
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Imagine if you have rheumatoid arthritis, or minor neurological impairment - the kind that comes with age. Eventually, self-administration is not an option, but delaying this inevitability is a great goal.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Alternatively, people looked at it and thought it was so absurd that everyone had to read it. :)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
power from an outlet, higher electricity bills for cooling (more people, more heat) -- Hypothetically, this would be counteracted by people buying more drinks, but how much sugar can one consume, really? Myself, I'd suggest some low calorie
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by ibsulon 17y ago
It occurs to me that I'd be more interested in reading articles written by experts in sex reassignment surgery (sex change) than most of the tripe on there.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
wait... live comfortably on 2,000 a month, and live on 4,000 a month as a king? Heck, I live on around 3,000 a month (after fairly aggressive savings by American standards) in a middle sized city and it's very comfortable. I could live comf
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Second language acquisition beyond entry level should be in the target language. There are methods ( http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/language_stages.php is a quick example ) that require no actual native language knowledge on the
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by ibsulon 17y ago
...and still less time than if I carry a second battery around. And, if I'm doing the LA-Paris trip more than occasionally, I probably have three batteries.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
800 bucks for the two of us... it might still be worth it.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
I've gotten my last two gigs through recruiters. One was an internal recruiter, one was a subcontractor.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Have you ever heard of "bread and circuses?"
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by ibsulon 17y ago
So, bad methods of code review are bad. To be fair, it helps junior developers much more than senior developers, but I remember one team of good mid-level developers that did peer review for every change, and QA had to work hard to find bug
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by ibsulon 17y ago
"A: Pete has put his money where his mouth is. If the necessary reforms are adapted to address this problem, Pete will certainly see his own taxes raised. A proponent of fiscal discipline for decades and co-founder of the nonpartisan Concor
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Europeans say the same thing about Americans. :)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
"I think the word raped gets thrown around far too casually. You ever listen to a bunch of guys playing video games with each other online? It's like, 'Ah man you shot me in the back dude. You raped me dude!' I'm pretty sure if I talked to
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Many of those kids in India know what COBOL is too, they were taught by Infosys....
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Hiding. :)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Ethos, Pathos, Logos. Remember that. Appeal to authority is only a logical fallacy -- it is, on the other hand, sound persuasive advice. Appeal to emotion is only a logical fallacy -- it is, on the other hand, a valuable persuasive tool in
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by ibsulon 17y ago
You should be sending any clothes you buy to a tailor regardless of how you buy the clothes. Further, you can't buy clothes off the rack without trying them on! Skin tones are different and you really need to try the clothes on.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
However, the government is functioning like a corporation currently with its spending. (And I'm not convinced banks are finished increasing their reserves. Wells Fargo is still in the danger zone after acquiring Wachovia, as one example.)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
I agree with all these points, but the point I had been trying to make is that increasing spending in the face of a trade deficit means that we are doing more to spur China's economy than our own. I'm not sure that the public transport make
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Right now, it's even hard to get a pizza delivery job. An acquaintance of mine has been searching for an engineering (not programming) job for months out of college and was excited to get a paper boy job. (He's okay financially due to an un
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by ibsulon 17y ago
This makes no sense to me, even when I've seen it before. I'm the classic saver. I'm the individual who they want to spend more right now. I'm saving because it's not a certainty that my contract will be renewed right now. I could very well
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Honestly, it's a different thing to be in a position where a job is monitoring -- IE, 8 hours of the day are meetings, 3-4 hours a day are tracking and writing email. I can work 12 hours a day doing that because it's not that difficult. It

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