mattstreet

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by mattstreet 14y ago
> That are very pragmatic reasons to invest in signals of social standing. It minimizes the cultural friction between yourself and the people who can help you get ahead, who are overwhelmingly people of high social standing themselves.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
That is so fucking sad. Aren't there literally hundreds of traits more important in a husband than buying a ring? Tell me this statement is satire: "Do I want my daughter to be with a man that is willing to create headwinds for himself out
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by mattstreet 14y ago
So basically buying a ring is a shortcut to actually understanding and trusting each other.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
To be fair, it's easier these days to afford both a smartphone AND a piece of much more hackable hardware. At least as far as prices go. One of the main real reasons for Linus's success (other than say his talent) is that there wasn't a goo
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Yep, and the Nexus 4 has it too.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
So meta, I can't even tell which of the comments replying to you are in on the joke.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/31/this-dog-can-send-you-...
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Fuck you. If you can come up with a problem that needs a law to protect people, you can come up with an example that doesn't consist of "Oh won't somebody think of the children"
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by mattstreet 14y ago
But the way that gets used seems to be the officer somehow smells pot on every damn person they want to violate.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
I think you're wrong about the 100% bad place to work just because someone asked you to reverse a string without using library functions. I would think your computer science education would have prepared you to plan out such an algorithm. S
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Usually people I talk to about this seem to think things are broken, and yet learning from other countries would just make it worse.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Well when they quit molesting old ladies, we'll stop pointing it out.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
And yet when people complain about being stuck working for giant shitty corporations, they get told to just start their own business.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Is it partisan to point out that pretty much anyone in politics is in a different economic class than 98% of the country? I'm pretty sure he meant that when he said group, not Dem vs Rep.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Sadly it seems like they get treated the same as pedo priests, just shuffled around somewhere else.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
The important difference is that patient trolls have some degree of sentience.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Professions who help people just by listening. It has been shown that most of the positive benefit people experience from many of these therapies is just the fact of having someone that cares (or at least appears to) listen to your problems
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by mattstreet 14y ago
And the "War on Terror" isn't exactly to calm people's fears either.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
I agree but don't forget that Stuxnet gained access through sneakernet.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Are you having trouble because you're running a different platform that they developed their implementation on? If so my way of dealing with this when I'm too lazy to deal with trying to get stuff to work on another system, is to using some
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Maybe that's why so many places in the US still have shitty internet - to teach the gamers to cope with lag better.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Or if you kept a camera and added a mic there could be closeup video of the presenter.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
All voting against the incumbent does is attempt to flip flop between our two shitty parties all the time.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
People that don't have jobs don't have to pay taxes. (Except sales tax)
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Many of us care more about the people currently alive than worrying that one day there won't be any more humans.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Everyone worries about their webcams but most laptops have built in mics and most of them don't have an LED for that at all...
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Eventually we won't have either of those.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Yes but what positions in the armed forces are they likely to have taken?
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by mattstreet 14y ago
Quick hardware hack == piece of dark/thick tape.
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by mattstreet 14y ago
More like A) We aren't getting the pictures from the best cameras yet and B) We didn't send the latest, greatest best cameras because we didn't want them to fail after 10 minutes use. We send up camera's tested and hardened against temperat

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