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by omegaham 11y ago
This. As always, there's a relevant xkcd[1]. Features that I might decry as bloat are probably someone else's "necessary, to be preserved at all costs" features. If you want to cover a large number of use cases, you have
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by omegaham 11y ago
> assuming you're the culprit of any possible problem the computer might have in the future. I learned this the hard way with my girlfriend's grandmother. After I fixed a whole bunch of stuff, all complaints became "Omegah
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by omegaham 11y ago
> that your client doesn't actually feel comfortable giving you honest feedback about the work your producing because they know you're doing it for free. I call this the "friends moving your furniture" problem. You a
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by omegaham 11y ago
Keto's been around for a long, long time. In my own experience with keto, the biggest reason why it works is that it's very difficult to eat at a surplus. I can eat a pound of pasta in one sitting. In contrast, eating that same am
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by omegaham 11y ago
> Is it actually necessary, though? At steady state, I mean--we currently have a lot of people who are now damaged thanks to the behavior of people like your girlfriend, and short of a purge we probably can't use more reasonable met
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by omegaham 11y ago
> Locking people into cages is an odd sort of profession. And yet it's necessary, unless we've decided that we should go back to the Good Old Days of just killing them. > Sounds like a real thug^Wkeeper. Hard people get hard
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by omegaham 11y ago
Gotta give respect to get it. If you sexually assault people, expect consequences.
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by omegaham 11y ago
A few reasons: 1. The benefit of a larger talent pool to recruit from is easy to measure, and the drawbacks (having to fire a large number of them and increased contraband in the prison from said compromised COs) are harder to measure. 2. I
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by omegaham 11y ago
There's a great short story called "The Last Answer," by Isaac Asimov.[1] In it, a scientist dies and is preserved by a "god" to think for eternity. He is quickly horrified by this and declares that he won't do
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by omegaham 11y ago
I'd refrain from the pickup artist / redpill subs, as the toxicity is genuinely pervasive, but the "just get out there and talk to people " advice is spot-on. One thing that the FA crowd doesn't seem to realize is
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep. And you can see this firsthand in Third-world countries, where people are very reluctant to do business with anyone who isn't a close friend or family member for this very reason. The result is an enormous amount of inefficiency.
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep. The Blazing Saddles model of employment was the norm for a very long time. Life was cheap.
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by omegaham 11y ago
> I've always found the anarchist ideology confusing. As far as I can tell, the most coherent philosophy of anarchy is "participatory democracy." Basically, if you want to be part of a society, you can take part. If you do
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by omegaham 11y ago
> If a prisoner is raped, the prison should incur liability, civil and criminal for allowing it to happen. When guards initiate violence against prisoners they should be liable as well. This should be the case for both private and "
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep. It's gotten bad enough that people will actually take a longer period of incarceration if it doesn't involve probation afterward. And good luck finding an employer who will hire a felon. Hell, good luck finding a landlord who
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by omegaham 11y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that guards put in a lot of overtime. Example: Prisoner gets hurt and has to go to the hospital? A guard has to go with him, and he gets paid for all of it. It's a pretty shitty job, mostly due to the wor
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by omegaham 11y ago
This. On your home computer, use whatever you want. If you're using all sorts of foreign environments, you're going to want to use whatever is common to all of them so that you don't fumble around badly trying to do basic tas
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by omegaham 11y ago
This. Single-engine plane flying around in rough terrain? Hope you don't have a mechanical failure, as you're in for a bad time if you do.
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by omegaham 11y ago
You're probably not a fan, (which is fine - different sports aren't for everyone. I actually find association football, basketball, and baseball to be excruciatingly boring, but love watching track and field) but there's more
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by omegaham 11y ago
This is a fantastic idea. "Hey, you guys obviously get a kick out of my website. Not asking for much - just enough that I can keep the site running and still awesome." I'd definitely pitch in $20 a year to a site that has ent
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by omegaham 11y ago
It makes me think of the typical "mooks" that you see in TV shows and movies. They're not there to pose any serious challenge to the protagonist; they're there to make the protagonist look good. He gets to show off, get
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by omegaham 11y ago
You are correct, but when I'm messing around with bumper plates, the red plate says 55kg rather than 539N. If you're not in the lab, a kilogram is simultaneously the mass and the force of gravity of said mass at sea level.
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by omegaham 11y ago
Can confirm, had a nutball bipolar sergeant. On his bad days, he wanted to fight me and then try to bust me down for "disrespect of a superior non-commissioned officer." On his good days, he would whine about how no one respected
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by omegaham 11y ago
My friend was considering dropping out of school. In the US, you have to get your parent's permission to drop out at 16, and he asked his dad. His dad said, "Well, son, you can make a living as a dropout. It's not easy, but i
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by omegaham 11y ago
Er, isn't blackjack usually against the house? I always thought of poker as the quintessential "fun with friends" game. Hang out, drink a couple beers, everyone pitches in $10 on the poker game to make it entertaining. Blackj
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by omegaham 11y ago
I agree - the only good thing I can say about chalkboards is that they're something like an order of magnitude cheaper.
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep, can confirm. I worked in requisitions in a maintenance shop in the military, and September was always a ridiculous time. "Hey, we have $120,000 to spend. Make it happen." I would then go to the different section chiefs and as
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by omegaham 11y ago
This. It boggles my mind how scared people are of terrorism, especially domestic terrorism. If you live in Pakistan, where suicide bombings happen all the time, I can understand being scared of terrorism. But in the US? Come on. You know wh
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by omegaham 11y ago
One of the biggest reasons why we have scientific magic in RPGs is that it gives agency to the player. When magic is a relatively mundane tool, it becomes an option that a player can rely on, and that is really important. If magic is unkn
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by omegaham 11y ago
> "there is no chutzpah defense." This. If he hadn't created a multi-million dollar drug empire, there would've been no blackmail. Therefore, the fact that he had to resort to murder to stop the blackmail is no defe

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