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by omegaham 13y ago
There's a difference between helping someone with the class and walking them through their assignments, line by line. The former is great; the latter is dishonest. I tutor coworkers in exchange for food and beer. My policy for math and
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by omegaham 13y ago
This. Their goal is to change politically hostile environments by deploying in friendly cities. Then, residents of the hostile cities will start asking, "Why are we paying extortionate rates for shitty service?" Even if Google Fib
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by omegaham 13y ago
But you can do so with impulse purchases. There's a hilarious radio ad that I hear every now and then; it's an advertisement for a tire rim store. They certainly know their audience; it's loud, boorish, and ghetto, and they a
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by omegaham 13y ago
> I'm not a fan of Paul Graham Not to dogpile you for daring to insult the Dear Leader, but can you elaborate on this? You go on to say, > Paul Graham was something that would be a rarity now, and probably always has been-- a sm
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by omegaham 13y ago
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2014/feb/11/florida-highway-p... Unfortunately, there are a lot of police officers who are thugs. It's frustrating; I personally know a few cops who are decent enough
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by omegaham 13y ago
Secret recording is illegal in 12 states, the ones that are two-party consent states. These states require all parties to know that they are being recorded. Openly recording the police is prohibited in two states - Illinois and Massachusett
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by omegaham 13y ago
The best way to do it is with a superconducting magnet. And no, it doesn't quite levitate, but it takes a very long time for it to fall through. I think the video we watched in high school physics class had it take about fifteen second
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by omegaham 13y ago
A few things. My girlfriend is a prison nurse, and a good friend's brother is a CO at another prison. 1. The population of guards is pretty bad. The job pays approximately $shit, (Good overtime possibilities, though) and the staff&#x27
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by omegaham 13y ago
> Protest? I'm confused by what they're protesting. I do know what their stated aim is - driving Google and other tech companies out of San Francisco. I just don't think that it's the right thing to be protesting. The
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by omegaham 13y ago
Oh, it will definitely change, and I think that a lot of people will view the changes as negative. It means that more lower-class people will live there. I think that these same people who are conducting protests toward Google would throw a
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by omegaham 13y ago
I think the reason why people don't live in Silicon Valley is that it's even more expensive to live there. I'm also kind of skeptical toward the protestors, mostly because it's confusing to me that people actually expe
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by omegaham 13y ago
Due to the Internet being anonymous, it seems much easier for people to just dismiss people outright. Making dismissive comments about women in the workplace is difficult when you have to actually deal with the fallout of your actions. Mean
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by omegaham 13y ago
I think the biggest difference is that on 3rd and 1, the defense has already assumed that they're going to get a 1st down. The main job of the defense is to prevent a big gain and then get ready for stopping the offense on the next fou
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by omegaham 13y ago
Call me strange, but there are times when I am honestly happy to get a Bud Light. It's cheap, very light, and still gives me a "You're drinking a beer" feeling. It's relaxing. I definitely prefer Sierra Nevada, Ston
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by omegaham 13y ago
Damn it, I thought it was freeware. That throws a monkey wrench in there...
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by omegaham 13y ago
Well, I have an Excel version of this: [1] When I order a part, I have to enter all of this data. Most of the parts I order are repeat orders; I have all of my previous ones on file. I have a program right now that makes a LaTeX document fo
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by omegaham 13y ago
My own job has some form requirements, one of which is a spreadsheet in Excel. Looks like I just found a way to automate that...
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by omegaham 13y ago
This is a really insightful comment. I've struggled in the past with what the purpose of commenting is. I've written some programs where comments were the majority of the code, and it was actually more difficult to read than if I&
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by omegaham 13y ago
This confuses the hell out of me. Why would you make a CD loud and distort the sound when there's a volume knob? It takes just as much (or little) effort to turn the volume to 30 as it does to turn it to 10. Albums like Death Magnetic
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by omegaham 13y ago
The guy is an sad combination of brilliant and stark raving mad. If he were medicated, I think he'd be a decent guy. In the meantime, he appears to be a homeless guy wearing a sandwich board and yelling gibberish into a bullhorn. Who m
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by omegaham 13y ago
Remember that they drafted everyone in World War 2. If you look at the pay scales for officers, you'll see some really weird things like Colonel with two years TIS. This is because they needed industry leaders and engineers to be in
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by omegaham 13y ago
In this case, it's just due to sunk costs. You've already given this defense contractor a trillion dollars. Ten years later, the contractor has a flawed project with a lot of holes in it... but what can you do? If you cut them off
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by omegaham 13y ago
I don't work for Raytheon, but I use a lot of their equipment and deal with their engineers fairly often when stuff doesn't work. The government is weird . Especially when it comes to contracts. There's a massive process tha
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by omegaham 13y ago
You get what you pay for. With competitive pricing, you can fire someone and immediately get a high-quality replacement. Walmart, on the other hand, seems to scrape the bottom of the barrel with their employees. As long as the employees sho
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by omegaham 13y ago
One thing is that Trader Joe's has a much higher profit margin on their produce. Its customers are willing to pay these because they like the tradeoffs of good customer service and the stuff that the store has. Walmart's customers
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by omegaham 13y ago
This is disturbing on many levels to me. Someone who is "maddened" when a guilty criminal goes free demonstrates clear ignorance of the justice system as well as a tendency to be instigated by demagogues. On the other hand, this t
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by omegaham 13y ago
Military here. One of the funniest things, to me, is that the military is having a lot of problems shifting mentalities. The "Shut the fuck up and do what you're told" model works for a draftee military, but it's complet
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by omegaham 13y ago
Another minority that is fucked over in this regard is Native Americans. You can ask anyone who grew up on a reservation - there's very little support for academics because it's seen as betraying your culture and colluding with th
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by omegaham 13y ago
I've always been fascinated by "made it big" stories. It doesn't really matter which genre - every story is unique. From a band that goes from playing in dive bars to playing in arenas to a web startup like Facebook, it&
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by omegaham 13y ago
The biggest example is Texas, as they have laws that prohibit direct manufacturer-to-customer car sales. I think that Tesla has had some problems in New York and New Jersey as well. As for California being the "best place," my gue

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