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by mitcheme 15y ago
I don't really see the point in making an explicit effort to avoid doing meaningful work. If your GPA is really the only reward you're getting in all of your classes, maybe you're going to the wrong school. Sure, I lazed off in Computing Et
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by mitcheme 15y ago
For some reason I can't find it on Amazon right now, but it's this one: http://www.thermos.com/product_details.aspx?ProdID=282&C...
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by mitcheme 15y ago
I like to read 1-star reviews (for anything) just to get a rough idea for what a 'worst case scenario' might look like for that particular thing. If the 1-star reviews are all about entitled patrons, that's pretty encouraging, whereas a few
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by mitcheme 15y ago
I find this really ironic. Being easily annoyed isn't an innate difference you can't change, you know. It's hard to change, but not any harder than becoming less clumsy. Most of the people you're getting annoyed at probably have the same mi
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by mitcheme 15y ago
One of my issues is that, although my grades on projects, exams, assignments, etc., are well above average, I tend to zoom in on the mistakes that I make and beat myself up for them. Weird kludges, or silly bugs, etc. So I don't brag about
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by mitcheme 15y ago
I've been pretty lucky with my uni, for the most part the profs and students are all very level-headed and don't care about gender much. There are maybe two somewhat-douchey but bearable guys and one prof who's always saying weird, stereoty
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by mitcheme 16y ago
Ouch. My personal feeling now is that there's no intuitive connection between the logo and the thing it represents anymore. Firefox has a red panda curled around a globe, representing both the name and what it does (the globe being a common
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by mitcheme 16y ago
For a minute there I read "super perogie moon" and was really curious as to what that would entail.
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by mitcheme 16y ago
"Stores that sell cigarettes (grocery stores, corner stores, 7-11, etc) can't have them visible to the customers in any way, and can't advertise the fact that they sell them." I was curious about this, because I live in BC and realized that
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by mitcheme 16y ago
I think the headline is supposed to mean that the GPS device was on his car due to a Reddit comment. It is a really awkward headline though.
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by mitcheme 16y ago
As far as I'm aware, the hedonic treadmill is a culture-bound theory. Has anyone actually done serious research about it outside of the 'developed' world? Also, by my understanding, it doesn't state that long-term lifestyle changes won't ma
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by mitcheme 16y ago
It would be so much more useful to hold happiness or quality of life constant instead. I really don't think it's a meaningful improvement to have ten times as much material wealth if that goes along with a fifteenfold increase in the amount
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by mitcheme 16y ago
I assume it's a reference to Facebook's "poke". If so it gives a frequent FB user a pretty good idea of how the site works at a basic level. I didn't even consider the "dirty" meaning until you brought it up and I hardly use FB.
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by mitcheme 16y ago
'One major problem is what I'll call "balls." Do women really want a guy who's too fucking timid to just come right out and say they like them? No.' I've had lots of crushes on shy guys. Problem is, I'm shy too, so I don't say anything -- a
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by mitcheme 16y ago
IF7's "natural language" syntax is not a pro IME. It often doesn't accept simple sentences, and sometimes rejects previously-valid sentences after a simple change is made. But because it's "natural language", there's very little help in the
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by mitcheme 16y ago
I agree with the general idea but the specific criteria sounds very good from a consumer POV and not very realistic for a company to offer. "Rent should not exceed 1/3 of the cinema price. Purchase should not exceed the cinema price." Rent/
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by mitcheme 16y ago
It leaves that "it isn't several hundreds of dollars, since many people who are downloading from PirateBay would not buy the songs even if the free option wouldn't be available." The average person who casually downloads a huge torrent with
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by mitcheme 16y ago
Oh, I thought I should also mention that the class started at 0% and you could only reach the top grade if you got 100% on all quizzes and assignments, so it wasn't quite the hippie "everyone's a winner" deal some people might be thinking.
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by mitcheme 16y ago
I took a course in high school that used that grading model before (minus the gaming terms ofc). It was an online, at-your-own-pace class in one of those subjects I find interesting but would absolutely hate to learn about in a traditional
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by mitcheme 16y ago
Lifestyle inflation is very sneaky. I grew up fairly poor (and felt it), like trailer trash in a back-woods area known for potsmoking hicks poor, and now that I'm a "starving college student" with a decent PT job I feel pretty rich most of
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by mitcheme 16y ago
That works OK until you hit a site that has a weird method of processing payments, and now you can't pay for your order from email+weirdsite@mail.com because your paypal address is email+paypal@mail.com and they have to "match" (and ofc you
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by mitcheme 16y ago
Hmm, sorry. I thought you were referring to the book being difficult to find because it would be mixed in with an infinite number of other books, not specifically that there would be an infinite number of fake versions of that book.
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by mitcheme 16y ago
And it would also contain an infinite number of books which claim to list which books contain real information, but actually contain some titles that contain nonsense & lies and/or are missing some titles that contain real information.
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by mitcheme 16y ago
How do they make them available only to teachers? I don't know about the databases, but I know you can buy teacher's editions of textbooks online legitimately, like through Amazon. I also know that last time one of my (student edition) text
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by mitcheme 16y ago
You're assuming that the student doesn't own a laptop (or at least doesn't bring it to lectures) and that TPTB know the student's work schedule.
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by mitcheme 16y ago
But they care enough to complain on the behalf of their female friends and relatives? Possible but unlikely, I think.
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by mitcheme 16y ago
No sympathy from me. Anyone who works as a magazine editor should realize that these things are copyrighted (NOT "copy written"; seriously, editor?) by default. The FIRST thing you do is check the article's license, and if there isn't one,
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by mitcheme 16y ago
If you had to guess, is it just that second-time founders have more experience, or is it that a lot of the first-time founders who aren't 'cut out' for startups try once and then give up? (Honest question!)
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by mitcheme 16y ago
I'm no lawyer, so I'll take your word on the legal aspects. But from an ethical perspective, I think the temperature of the coffee is important. They intentionally sold a dangerous product. The woman's only faults were being kind of clumsy
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by mitcheme 16y ago
I'm a woman and I'm pretty sure I was like this when I was in kindergarten, as were most of my friends. I would be kind of concerned to meet a 6 year old girl who never acted this way.

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