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by omegaham 11y ago
I agree - they know exactly what they're getting into. "I didn't think that becoming a celebrity would screw up my private life," said no one ever.
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by omegaham 11y ago
I'll confirm this anecdotally. My sister was extremely good at math and science... until the end of middle school, when she started hanging out in earnest with her friends. Her friends thought that any intellectual interest was nerdy a
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by omegaham 11y ago
> That's what actuarial science is founded on. Oh, you mean "that branch of science that everyone ignores because it's politically unpalatable?" "Gee, we promised the moon for our pension obligations and funded t
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by omegaham 11y ago
It depends, but a large number of rich kids are completely aware of the saying, "Riches to rags in three generations." If the money isn't coming in anymore, acting like spoiled assholes will gut a fortune as quickly as the fa
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by omegaham 11y ago
I disagree - prisons bring large numbers of jobs to otherwise economically depressed areas. If your options are working at Burger King or working at a prison with benefits, guaranteed overtime, and opportunity for advancement, you'll t
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by omegaham 11y ago
> I found it a bit 'thin'. Perhaps that was intentional as a corollary to the breakneck pace of time-dilation Mandella faced and the societal change he faced. I always felt out of place and behind as a reader, never really find
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by omegaham 11y ago
How would you stop them? I'm imagining all sorts of possibilities, and all of the effective ones require totalitarianism. You'll need a large surveillance network to watch the "at-risk" folks, secret police to infiltrate
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by omegaham 11y ago
Having served in the military, I don't think it's possible; the military wastes so much precisely because it's so big. Waste is inherent to large organizations. More administration, less flexible thinking, more room for fra
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by omegaham 11y ago
I see this on Reddit every now and then - there are people who downvote everyone in a thread just for gits and shiggles. I make a point of upvoting grayed-out posts that I like, so hopefully they'll go right back to black soon.
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by omegaham 11y ago
I think that both sides are doing the current situation a disservice. The STEM-Lords[1] are acting like everything without a clearly defined profitable career track is a complete waste of time. The guidance counselors are still living in th
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by omegaham 11y ago
I worked in an ATC tower with the Marines, and we used the AN/FPN-63 as our precision approach radar. It came into existence around 1958, I believe. The scopes looked something like this, but even more primitive: https://upl
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by omegaham 11y ago
I think that you could do some perfectly good science in both fields. Now, as to whether good science is being done in those fields, I'm not qualified to say.
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by omegaham 11y ago
Interesting - I can't do it with either hand. If I bring my ring finger out, the pinky comes out too unless it's held in place by my thumb.
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by omegaham 11y ago
I agree. Law enforcement will definitely have to change, though. Right now, traffic infractions are a way for the police to look for other criminal activity. Pulled over for speeding? Cool - let's run your license to see if you have an
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep. It's hard to be homeless in Michigan.
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by omegaham 11y ago
The biggest problem is that in poor areas, supermarkets / grocery stores don't set up shop because of crime and the smaller amount of money that they can get from customers. So, in general, poor areas are served by convenience sto
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by omegaham 11y ago
It doesn't end after boot camp, though. We frequently referred to the Green Weenie, which was the omnipresent malevolent force that made everyone miserable. It's the main reason why I got the hell out. I've found that a lot o
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by omegaham 11y ago
I think that the big difference today is that they can analyze all data that they can grab. Back in the Good Old Days, you had to devote considerable manpower to this analysis; if you wanted to read letters, you had to be specific because
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep. My girlfriend's cousin lives in semi-rural North Carolina, and it's the exact same culture. He was mentioning friend after friend in stories and then later talking about this guy's rehab, that guy's permanent disabi
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by omegaham 11y ago
Quick background - the damper controls how quickly the flywheel comes to a stop. A typical rowing stroke is mostly a leg exercise. You build up momentum by driving with your legs, and then finish off the stroke with your back and then (at t
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by omegaham 11y ago
My personal suggestion is the ergometer, or rowing machine. Low-impact, cheap as exercise equipment goes, (a brand-spanking-new Concept2 will run you about $930, which is much less than a gym-quality elliptical or treadmill) and useful for
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by omegaham 11y ago
Also known as the "euphemism treadmill." The next phase has already begun - "You were one of the special children, weren't you" is a pretty common start to an ass-chewing in the military. They'll have to move o
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by omegaham 11y ago
Summary execution is pretty expedient, especially if you don't care about the facts.
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by omegaham 11y ago
A society like North Korea is Darwinian in this regard. If you're a good little citizen, you starve to death. If you're bad at breaking the rules, you go to the reeducation camps or to the firing squad. I'm sure that the exam
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by omegaham 11y ago
Man, BSA lifeguard was rigorous as hell. It was the only legitimately serious course that the camp offered, and it was not for beginners. I failed it the first year, and it taught me a lot about the difference between "can swim" a
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by omegaham 11y ago
Seeing as how drunk driving kills a very large number of people every year and is now punishable by imprisonment and extremely steep fines, you might be onto something here.
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by omegaham 11y ago
40,000 people a year in the US. I wouldn't be surprised at all if an experienced truck driver has seen dozens of dead people.
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by omegaham 11y ago
And if your developer time is better spent on producing more features than cleaning up your previously made code, you'll end up with 10.5k warnings. I'm sure that someone will freak out and cry, but as long as you can keep extendi
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep. My dog tags had my SSN on them, which I found to be completely ridiculous, as did my military ID for a while. They started issuing cards with an EDIPI on them relatively recently, which is a step in the right direction, but there'
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep, just like KFC is no longer "Kentucky Fried Chicken" - it's just KFC.

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