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by omegaham 11y ago
Personally, it's because it's not worth my time. Why should I have any sort of dialogue with such people when it's not going to be productive and will provoke a massive amount of vitriol? At best, it's unproductive, and
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by omegaham 11y ago
This is probably the biggest difference. When you go to a really selective college, you're in a community that values academic achievement. I'm at a community college right now, doing gen-eds, and I absolutely dread all group work
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by omegaham 11y ago
I agree - the entire purpose of this is to threaten other companies into providing better service. Same exact thing with Google Fiber. "If you don't provide service to our expectations, we will step in."
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by omegaham 11y ago
The US operates 5,638 military aircraft, including 222 C-17A Globemasters, 261 C-130H Hercules planes, and 104 C-130Js. The Strategic Airlift Capability has 3 C-17s. The SAC is, frankly, a symbolic gesture to say, "Yes, we're goin
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by omegaham 11y ago
This is one of the reasons why leftists are pretty much universally for massive cuts in military spending. Which makes sense - you can't have both. The Europeans would have to cut their own social programs if they wanted to do any peac
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by omegaham 11y ago
No, but I do know that there was a bunch of outcry when the US started closing bases in Europe to save money. All of that came from governments, though. I'm not sure what the actual people think.
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by omegaham 11y ago
You would have to gut social programs to pay for it, which people may or may not be okay with. Just to provide some numbers - the USAF's budget is $170 billion per year. For comparison, that's about the cost of Britain's enti
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by omegaham 11y ago
Most of Europe would not be okay with that - the US currently massively subsidizes the defense costs of European military forces with its bases. And it's not just the actual US forces there - it's logistics and training as well. F
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by omegaham 11y ago
Does teaching algebra drive down the salaries of engineers? I think that the learning curve between "able to automate simple things in Excel" and "doing software development as a career" is high enough that it's not
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by omegaham 11y ago
I trade my tech knowledge for knowledge with other things. For example, my girlfriend's dad knows relatively little about computers, but he knows an enormous amount about home improvement and car maintenance. I fix his occasional compu
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by omegaham 11y ago
As the saying goes, "If you tell me to chop down a tree in six hours, I will spend the first three hours sharpening the axe." Swinging a blunt axe at a tree does nothing but keep you from devoting time to sharpening the axe.
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by omegaham 11y ago
> If you can ever figure out a single solution to "why don't people 'just' start exercising", you'll probably solve the global obesity epidemic. I've seen this at my workplace. There is a gym that is av
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by omegaham 11y ago
> football is just wrecked Association football or American football? In the US, it's pretty much open knowledge that all NFL players are doping, but there isn't really anything dirty going on. Now, college football, on the o
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by omegaham 11y ago
Depends on why you're complaining about censorship. If you're talking about some God-given right to free expression, sure, complaining about censorship is ridiculous. But if you're talking about what's best for a communi
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by omegaham 11y ago
I get legalizing drugs that don't have addiction potential, but drugs like meth and heroin have the effect of placing a large portion of the population under the control of their suppliers. We found this problem very quickly with legal
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by omegaham 11y ago
My favorite part is when they're in front of the supermarket. "... By Grabthar's hammer... what a savings." It's like he's contemplating his entire acting career and questioning how he got to this point in his
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by omegaham 11y ago
24-year-old here. I don't have much expertise in the vast majority of HN topics, so I mostly lurk. Every once in a while, something will pop up that I can somewhat contribute to, (semiconductor manufacture, fitness, dating, etc) but th
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by omegaham 11y ago
I... don't see HN as being a decent dating service. My guess is that the demographics align to the average engineering / CS program, which does not bode well for the vast majority of people trying to get a date. Of course, for the
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by omegaham 11y ago
Pretty much all of the jobs during pirates' heyday were dangerous, at least those available to the lower classes. Piracy was immensely profitable and comparatively safe for years until the Royal Navy clamped down heavily with summary e
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by omegaham 11y ago
Horrifyingly bad decisions with architecture - Bulldozer completely obliterated AMD's desktop market. Intel doesn't even look at AMD's opportunities when deciding on engineer salaries anymore. They're trying to make a co
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by omegaham 11y ago
One other reason is that current sales pay for future development. Future development is becoming more and more and more expensive, so current prices have to go up (or at least stop decreasing) to pay for it. Since everyone else has to pay
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by omegaham 11y ago
Can confirm, get seven holidays. On the bright side, I'm a shift worker, so I get to take holidays whenever I want, no questions asked. It's bundled in with my PTO, except it doesn't roll over if I don't use it. As a res
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by omegaham 11y ago
I think that's like saying that pilots spend an inordinate amount of time sitting in their chair making sure that the autopilot is working properly. The remainder is why they get all of the training that they do.
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by omegaham 11y ago
I have a quick question about this - there is exactly one business in my area that has actually switched over to chipped cards, and that's Home Depot. Everyone else goes "lol we don't do that, use the magnetic swipe like a no
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by omegaham 11y ago
I do agree that anyone who calls himself an intellectual is probably a pompous idiot, but I'm mixed regarding calling other people intellectuals. The definition of "intellectual," as I see it, seems to be "Someone who st
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by omegaham 11y ago
This is a really good point, and it's not just because of the bankrolling that the parents do. They also set a good example for financial management, discipline, respect for education, and perspective toward business. My parents are up
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by omegaham 11y ago
The funny thing is that pretty much every single curriculum says this in the liner notes and syllabus. It's just as much of a buzzword these days as "synergy" and "outside-the-box." Critical thinking is simultaneous
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by omegaham 11y ago
As far as I know, Y Combinator invests a lump sum and then contributes mentorship. Their only real recourse is to say, "Sorry, we've decided that you're not worth our time" and to terminate all work with the company. Whi
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by omegaham 11y ago
"Excited" is the wrong word for this sort of development. "Interested" is probably a better word. Right now, I see this sort of thing as a project for its own sake, and that can still be interesting. More importantly, pr
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by omegaham 11y ago
In general - if it's a verb, it's "lose." If it's an adjective, it's "loose."

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