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by omegaham 10y ago
MMA has the issue of not having enough data. Fighters only have matches every few months - the wear and tear is too high to have them fighting multiple times per week for half of the year. Another example of this is football - a 16-game sea
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by omegaham 10y ago
> but if I opened up a resturant/bar, I would load it up with pretty women. This hits home. There are plenty of bars that have absolutely atrocious service but still get repeat patrons because the bartenders are smoking hot. Sex sel
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by omegaham 10y ago
> so very little pressure to not treat homeless folks terribly I'd go even further - the locals put pressure on the police specifically to treat homeless folks terribly. I live in a suburb of Portland. There are a lot of homeless pe
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by omegaham 10y ago
I agree - in fact, I thought that the page had cut off half of the article. It just ends with something about Walmart. I thought he was going somewhere with that.
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by omegaham 10y ago
It ends up being a really terrible game. You get treated, and then you get presented with an outrageously high bill. You then have two options - negotiate with the billing company, or go bankrupt. A large number of people take the latter[1]
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by omegaham 10y ago
I think that they'd prefer to send the message of "Nothing you did has any consequence whatsoever, but you're still an exile for life." It could deter future whistleblowers from following his example. As ineffective as t
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by omegaham 10y ago
I'm actually not so sure about this, as people have sex all the time while aboard ship; a fan room usually ends up becoming the Love Shack. They're working 12-hour shifts and doing extra duty on top of that, and they're still
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by omegaham 10y ago
This. And it'll be addressed naturally once plumbers retire. The existence of fewer plumbers means that their prices will go up, which will attract more people into the trade. The fact that there is a "shortage" of plumbers m
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by omegaham 10y ago
> military Depends on the job. Infantry is universally a shitty deal, even during peacetime, but the POG[1] jobs tend to be both safer and better for civilian job opportunities. I was an radio tech, and it opened up a huge amount of oppo
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by omegaham 10y ago
I would prefer actual Soviet propaganda posters on the wall over motivational posters. They'd be more entertaining.
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by omegaham 10y ago
> Would you consider it difficult to pass? No. It's literally driving around a few streets, stopping at a stop sign / stop light, and (maybe) parallel parking. I had to do it with real cars, which in retrospect were junkers tha
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by omegaham 10y ago
> Of course you can't (in reasonable time) procedurally generate history Dwarf Fortress does it, and it's awesome. I'm not sure how you would adapt it to a setting like No Man's Sky, though.
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by omegaham 10y ago
This. If the government is really that omnipresent and controlling in our lives, are they really going to let some blogger who knows the Truth run amok and post it everywhere? Yes siree, this government is capable of faking the Moon landing
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by omegaham 10y ago
They nuked that portion of the site a while back.
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by omegaham 10y ago
Reminds me of the Hornblower books, where Hornblower has to pronounce French cities and landmarks with the mangled British pronunciation rather than saying them in the French. The books repeatedly make a point of him doing it, along with Ho
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by omegaham 10y ago
Great article, and it got me to pour myself a bourbon. Cheers.
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by omegaham 10y ago
> Salespeople in the precious-metals industry try to pitch "currency" as paper money and "money" as a store of value, e.g. the commodity they're hocking. This isn't an accepted financial or economic construc
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by omegaham 10y ago
This is why we do 12-hour shifts at my workplace. It takes about two hours to get into the groove, and the other 8-9 hours of work are productive. Doing an 8-hour day means that you get 5 hours of decent work, which is not viable for the ou
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by omegaham 10y ago
The one thing that gives me pause is that it's relatively easy to steal a bicycle, but it's difficult to steal a car. Here in Portland, bicycle theft is an enormous problem, and I'm not willing to spend hundreds of dollars on
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by omegaham 10y ago
If they're newcomers, yes. If they're long-time residents, they're paying $800 a month for that exact same $4k/mo apartment. You're basically asking the long-time residents to vote for measures that will detract fro
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by omegaham 10y ago
The current system screws over newcomers in favor of longtime residents. Rent control and Prop 13 mean that if you've been living in SF for a couple of decades, you're paying bargain-basement prices for either rent or property tax
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by omegaham 10y ago
You're completely right when it comes to regular currencies, stocks, and so on - speculation is how prices stay accurate. If the price goes too far out of whack, speculators can make large amounts of money off of everyone else. With cr
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by omegaham 10y ago
Growing up, I had a cat who got attacked by a hawk. He came running in one day with deep talon scratches on his back. My mom took him to the vet, who cleaned up the wounds and said that it was probably a juvenile who was overconfident in wh
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by omegaham 10y ago
> If your current company is in trouble, they will only blink once or twice before kicking you aside. This right here. The company has no loyalty to you, so why should you have any loyalty to them? I'm very happy where I am right no
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by omegaham 10y ago
Depends on the state. Some states do emissions testing that fails such people, and officers are on the lookout for vehicles that are visibly violating the standard. Other states are indifferent as long as you aren't assaulting others w
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by omegaham 10y ago
This is where I'm confused about the benefits of UBI. So, say that we institute UBI, and people no longer have to work. That increases the cost of labor - you can't attract a cashier for $9.30 an hour, so you have to pay $15 an
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by omegaham 10y ago
This is a really good point, especially since people who live in the suburbs are frequently a short train ride away from the exact same "culture" that the folks who live downtown get to experience. And if you're living in a s
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by omegaham 10y ago
Agreed - the problems I've always had with cats have been the feral ones, not the fatass neutered neighborhood cats.
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by omegaham 10y ago
I would laugh if he put in a link like that just to go "lol, got you again. Is this triple tapping?"
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by omegaham 10y ago
Nope, because I have passion for things outside of work. Hiking, lifting, spending time with my girlfriend, programming, playing Kerbal Space Program, etc. For me, work is something that I neither dread nor enjoy. It simply is .

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