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by omegaham 12y ago
This applies to a lot of jobs. Lawyers at certain firms are expected to wear expensive clothes and drive nice cars; the guy who drives a Geo Metro to work and wears a "meh" suit is frowned at. Even more ridiculous is the fact that
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by omegaham 12y ago
This is a good point. Men do more dangerous jobs, are much more likely to be murdered, do riskier behavior, and commit suicide more often. On the other hand, women bear children, which historically would have been a huge cause of early deat
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by omegaham 12y ago
I think a far more likely reason is that they grow up in poverty and have no good role models for how to manage their finances. They're very similar to lottery winners in that regard. As a result, they piss it away.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Chinese stream. No commercials. It is, by far, the greatest thing that has happened to football.
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by omegaham 12y ago
I think that this is a great point. It's far too common for people to think, "John is completely opposed to my beliefs. He's definitely not stupid, as I know from other conversations with him that he's thoughtful and sin
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by omegaham 12y ago
I would actually argue that the Left is far more ideologically consistent. The Right is badly split between the fiscal and the social conservatives; half of them couldn't care less about abortion and gay rights, and half of them couldn
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by omegaham 12y ago
I think one of the biggest problems with these types is that they associate opinions with morality. As in, if you hold uninformed / ignorant / bigoted opinions, you are automatically an evil person and should be treated accordingl
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by omegaham 12y ago
It depends on the comedian's material. There's a lot of Louis CK jokes that are standalone funny. You can read the joke in text, and it's funny. Meanwhile, someone like Gabriel Inglesias is also very funny, but it's funn
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by omegaham 12y ago
Depends on the graphics. Sprite-based games are still perfectly playable; Super Mario World is still gorgeous 25 years after its release. Meanwhile, polygon-based games show their age really, really obviously. You can see the difference bet
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by omegaham 12y ago
I still don't know how to checkmate with two bishops. I mean, I've read how to do it, but if you stuck me in an endgame situation, I'd probably draw. Luckily, I have never actually had an endgame with a king and two bishops v
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by omegaham 12y ago
If you employ a certain number of people, it's assumed that they're doing other things. When you have to devote them to a different project, you're doing a few things: 1. Making your staff work overtime. 2. Leaving other work
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by omegaham 12y ago
Seeing as how many European countries are approaching American levels of obesity[1], what is everyone else doing to combat it? [1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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by omegaham 12y ago
I wouldn't call it depressing at all. It's just fascinating how a different culture will take off with something that we consider to be completely mundane. How many Americans get Chinese phrases tattooed on them because it looks c
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by omegaham 12y ago
I don't like the tone of his writing, but he's got some excellent points. I think that one of the greatest strengths of the university system is the idea that "offensive" ideas can be debated. An enormous amount of knowl
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by omegaham 12y ago
Incidentally, anyone who's hiked will tell you that the best position for heavy weight is at the very top of the pack. The reason is that this puts most of the weight on your hips rather than your back.
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by omegaham 12y ago
I disagree, with a caveat: the skills you learn while learning higher math are extremely useful, even if the math itself isn't. At a fundamental level, math is taking stuff you know and manipulating it into answers to stuff you don&#x2
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by omegaham 12y ago
> The paternalistic/maternalistic attitude of Paul and Jessica is more than a little cloying. Frankly, it seems like they enjoyed the position of power granted them by the cash in their wallets. In a setting where ideas change rapid
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by omegaham 12y ago
As an avid Nethack player, it looks to me like the answer to the puzzle is to go around the purple worm. Angband players call it "pillar dancing."
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by omegaham 12y ago
One of the problems with terseness is that it can make code completely unreadable. You can write perfectly readable code with it, but the fact that it's easy to make dense, inscrutable code can make things a nightmare when you're
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by omegaham 12y ago
And most of those were convicts getting executed. Get the people warmed up by killing some nameless criminals, and then send in the stars.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Yep. I don't go to certain parts of Portland because it's so unpleasant. Those businesses suffer for it.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Personally, I think of it as giving your employer "first dibs." "Hey, I've decided that I'm now worth $X. Since you've already hired me and it's less hassle to stay than to change jobs, I'm giving you
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by omegaham 12y ago
I think that all collectors are slightly strange to people outside the group. Coins, guns, action figures, baseball cards, comic books, you name it - there's going to be a group of people spending a very large amount of money to get a
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by omegaham 12y ago
I find video to be extremely useful for learning something new. For example, when learning math, I find Khan Academy's video lecture to be much more useful than reading the exact same thing out of a textbook. After I've learned it
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by omegaham 12y ago
I guess it's another way of saying "I agree." I haven't even thought about its connotations, but I do notice that a lot of people say it on /r/fitness. Maybe it is a meathead thing.
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by omegaham 12y ago
High intensity work is nothing new. Anyone who played sports in high school will tell you that practices are all about doing as much volume as you can in the limited time you have after school. If it works for high school athletes, it works
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by omegaham 12y ago
And herpes. Lots of herpes.
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by omegaham 12y ago
This. I have no problem with people who do reps to failure, but I do have a problem with reps for time. As you get tired, your form gets worse and worse. This is fine for calisthenics, (hard to tear something while doing push-ups) but it&#x
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by omegaham 12y ago
I imagine that a similar process happens for pretty much all mundane jobs in sensitive locations. Sure, people think about the process to recruit high-level personnel for CIA and NSA positions... but what about the janitors, truck drivers,
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by omegaham 12y ago
I think that everyone has these thoughts regardless of their efforts to be "pure of heart" or whatever. I know that I've yelled some really, really nasty things while driving that I'm ashamed to recall. Terry's illn

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