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by jqm 11y ago
I really wish people would quit with the "Trump scary" thing. Lots of people agree with a lot of what he says. He isn't manifestly wrong on everything. Because you have a different opinion doesn't make it a fact and it i
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by jqm 11y ago
Also preferable to the shark jumping you.
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by jqm 11y ago
Grabbing a bit of Syria would hardly have been worth the propaganda disaster though. The world wouldn't have reacted very favorably... particularly the Muslim world. And yes, Israel has some extremely good technology. But they also hav
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by jqm 11y ago
I guess I'm ok with Stuxnet. What I am most decidedly not OK with is the assassination of Iranian scientists. Iran has a right to be upset... it's only a wonder they aren't more upset.
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by jqm 11y ago
I keep hearing young people don't want to farm but I think there are plenty that do. The problem is, they don't have the experience, nor the millions of dollars in credit required to buy a farm.
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by jqm 11y ago
Programming for a career does appear to affect the soul. I mean soul in the sense of self and relation to the world around self and general sense of happiness. I thought it was just me but I'm noticing it in others. Don't get me w
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by jqm 11y ago
Yes, this appeared to be a very lazily written article. It basically lists a bunch of variations of materials molders and postal workers.
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by jqm 11y ago
I've never actually owned a smartphone. Well.. that's not true. I had one of the first internet connected phones (I think) back in 2001. I used the internet like 10 time on it. It was (as you can imagine) pretty horrible. Fast for
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by jqm 11y ago
That's certainly the hope. But I'm not sure it will turn out as intended though. The thing about people on Facebook is that they are people on Facebook. It might capture some of who they are (or who they want people to think they
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by jqm 11y ago
Right? But worst case, they can probably deduce how Scalia would have voted (which certainly wouldn't be allowed even though it's likely to be pretty accurate in this case).
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by jqm 11y ago
His choice of words was harsh but I think he does have a fair point. The demographics of rural areas don't make for good dating opportunities for educated, secular professional young people.
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by jqm 11y ago
I looked at a couple. Probably for the same reason a girl in the mall looks at how other girls are dressed. And my analysis... OMG such a slut! (kidding... but I do like looking at other people's work).
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by jqm 11y ago
Ya, well, we're all gonna die one day too. (Maybe). I can't prove it though and I'm unsure of when. But please indulge my worrying about it's immanence. I am a glass half empty kind of guy..... As for the apocalypse, I&#
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by jqm 11y ago
I'm self employed and have an away from home office also. Like OP it makes a break between work and home. Plus, a few times clients have dropped by to see something. Also, I get dressed and see neighbors from adjoining offices on a reg
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by jqm 11y ago
Weren't Americans (or at least their ancestors) generally dissatisfied with their lot in the first place and that's why they became Americans? I don't know that dissatisfaction and mistrust is genetic but I'm guessing it
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by jqm 11y ago
IDK... that could have happened at some point. Besides, that's like saying "no one ever got all baked and left their child in a hot car because they were carrying a gun.." In other words, it's kind of a pointless point.
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by jqm 11y ago
My understanding is that there are a relatively small proportion of "Syrians" fighting against the Syrian government.
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by jqm 11y ago
I wish the whole left-right paradigm would fade away. Personally I feel it's a bit of an artificial dichotomy. I'm all for governance by good sense with an eye toward improving society in general.
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by jqm 11y ago
From black lung to carpal tunnels.....
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by jqm 11y ago
This is one guy I wish would just go away. He seems to be perpetually advocating for war.
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by jqm 11y ago
Same thing on Firefox/Linux
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by jqm 11y ago
Nature is good but isn't necessary to trip. The first time I took LSD was under less than ideal conditions. It was in high school... and I mean during school hours my junior year. It was 1988. Yes, stupid and irresponsible I know but i
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by jqm 11y ago
I see your point, but to be honest I'd probably pay not to have to attend Christmas parties at many places I've worked at. I suspect I'm not alone in feeling like this. Point being I don't know that this is really much
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by jqm 11y ago
A few hundred bucks per attending employee for a Christmas party is a lot by most working people's standards... probably like 12x + what their company would spend.
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by jqm 11y ago
Adobe Contribute... i.e. Adobe code mangler. That's been my experience in the past with these kind of tools as well. Its easy to make a mess.
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by jqm 11y ago
A better candy bar. Most of the commonly available ones are far too sweet and filled with cheap filler like peanuts or sugar spun air (I guess they call that nougat or something). It's like they keep reducing the quality somehow... I c
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by jqm 11y ago
Agreed on benefit to the group. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't also be a vast improvement for society in general. Because one stands to gain from an idea doesn't in and of itself make the idea a bad one.
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by jqm 11y ago
I saw the Challenger explosion live. I was a sophmore in High School in Florida and standing outside at lunch. Shuttle launches were a fairly regular thing and I'd seem many. But this time I could see the trails as parts fell away to e
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by jqm 11y ago
What do you mean? That comment was useful. We can't have unclosed parentheses or the compiler will throw an error.
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by jqm 11y ago
The massive and rapid dissemination of knowledge the internet has provided will produce vast and unknowable changes over the next several generations. I believe it may be ultimately a considerably larger change than the industrial revolutio

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