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by okmokmz 8y ago
>Because you could be making $100k and banking $50k. But is it really worth it if you have to live in an area you don't want to live, spend time commuting that you'd rather work on something else, etc. that could potentially af
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by okmokmz 8y ago
Conveniently, there's another post on police officers today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18147076
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>OP however came off as condescending (at least to me) when he said stuff like "breathe fresh air", "stuck in subway for 2 hours", etc in responses, making everything a zero sum game. I don't think he was being c
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by okmokmz 8y ago
>I tend to look at most of our 'explorers' as violent colonisers, and consequently have complex (but mostly negative) feelings towards them. It also seems that's the way the public opinion here is moving Yes, I would say i
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by okmokmz 8y ago
> I have more difficulties to imagine these people selling their soul just for money. Despite what you seem to think, police are not more righteous or just than any other person, as we've seen through the constant abuse, corruption,
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by okmokmz 8y ago
>This does not match with my understanding of police Sounds right in line with my understanding of police >I would expect to see many smart people who have a true vocation for the service Too bad we end up with, partially due to agenc
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by okmokmz 8y ago
How much of a hit did you take on salary, and how much did your cost of living decrease? Would you do it again? I've thought about leaving my career to do something that wouldn't require a commute, and would allow me to live in a
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by okmokmz 8y ago
>how to replace Facebook friends Join another social network, add a bunch of people that you barely know, wah lah facebook friends replaced >how to stay connected Letters, phone calls, texts, meet in person, etc. How many friends do y
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by okmokmz 8y ago
I've always felt that if deleting facebook caused me to loose contact with someone entirely, we probably weren't really friends in the first place
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by okmokmz 8y ago
>Generally cursed gems and such are considered cursed for a reason Even if the gems themselves weren't inherently dangerous, were some not considered cursed due to their value/rarity causing people to kill each other for them?
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by okmokmz 8y ago
As the Pontiac Aztek has shown, design by committee is not necessarily an effective approach and can lead to awful results due to the lack of a unified vision or goal. I imagine this will end similarly
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>Do you routinely stop what you're doing to listen to random people that claim that they're more of an authority on various aspects of your life? Yes, regardless of what I'm working on, be it construction/maintenance
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by okmokmz 8y ago
It's interesting, in a purely personal way, that this article was posted today. I've used computers and other tech daily since childhood and never had issues with wrist/hand/arm/finger pain or numbness. However, ove
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>if someone can explain what's in this for customers Second sentence of the article >The satellite radio company says it intends to maintain the Pandora service and brand, along with its roughly 70 million monthly active users (5
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by okmokmz 8y ago
>you accidentally fat finger a button while banking one day and wipe out your checking account sending a transfer or something Completely different situations
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by okmokmz 8y ago
>It is so obviously a genuine mistake that some dude is trying to capitalise on and make a big media hoo-hah out of If the situation were reversed, and due to a genuine mistake FanDuel showed that the customer owed the company the money,
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by okmokmz 8y ago
>In this case the punter must have known it was an error, so it doesn't seem moral to pick up the 82k. If we lived in a world where companies did their best to be reasonable and fair to customers, particularly when mistakes occur, I
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by okmokmz 8y ago
>We can build AI that can improvise Do you have any sources demonstrating examples of AI with true improvisational capabilities?
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by okmokmz 8y ago
A lot of the content is still relevant for those in other IT roles, or even just hobbyists. I'm a security engineer rather than a dev but I still find many of the posts on the site useful and/or interesting
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by okmokmz 8y ago
By and large, most of the "ecstasy"/"MDMA" sold at the street level is a mix of cheap research chemicals and amphetamines. I volunteered at a tent that tested drugs at festivals, and for every 10 people that thought
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by okmokmz 8y ago
Except flood insurance doesn't appear to be economically viable in those areas >More than 861,000 of them do not have flood insurance. And for homes in those counties that aren't designated flood zones, the numbers are even wor
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by okmokmz 8y ago
The study states the psylocybin was found to be effective for acute treatment of migraines. Obviously it's only one study, but unless you have sources I disagree that psychedelics have not been found to work for migraines. Also you say
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by okmokmz 8y ago
Some people have been able to successfully treat migraines, as well as cluster headaches, with hallucinogens such as psilocybin and LSD: "These patients are in a desperate and vulnerable situation, and illicit psychoactive substances a
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by okmokmz 8y ago
Agreed, some of the frames were surprising and quite funny. I've never ridden a bike professionally, or even as a serious hobby, but I would've guessed that way more people would at least get the general frame shape of a rhombus w
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by okmokmz 8y ago
I wonder why such a high percentage of females attached the chain the the front wheel in their drawings edit: a better way to phrase it would probably be: Of the drawings where the chain was attached to the front wheel, I wonder why such a
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by okmokmz 8y ago
Yes, it looks like 70% was required for the resistant bacteria
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by okmokmz 8y ago
That's my understanding as well. Bacteria cannot survive in alcohol because the lipid structure in their cell membranes are disrupted and their proteins become denatured
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by okmokmz 8y ago
Something like this, perhaps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230460/
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It reminds me of the ads you'd find in the back of a tabloid
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Speaking to 5) "Warming causes coral bleaching (Figure 1C), which is the breakdown in the symbiosis between corals and their symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae), which are essential for coral growth. Acidification decreases calci

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