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by omegaham 10y ago
> the vast majority of violent policing is associated to a relatively small percentage of officers Isn't the vast majority of crime associated with small areas? People rag on Chicago for having lots of murders, but if you look at h
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by omegaham 10y ago
Group work is awful in regular classrooms. In a specialized environment where everyone actually cares about the subject, group work can be fantastic. This is why hackathons and similar settings are good things - everyone is there to learn
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by omegaham 10y ago
My employer had one of those physical checkups for a lowered rate on insurance. I'm 5'10", 215 pounds[1]. The doctor sighed and said that he was required to tell me that according to BMI, I was obese and should consider losin
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by omegaham 10y ago
I dealt with this in the military, and it left me with a completely fatalistic look on work in general. Welp, you're signing my paychecks. I will do whatever you want me to do for 40 hours per week. If that's productive work that
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by omegaham 10y ago
It makes me think of watching Zoom on PBS as a little kid. Ask your parents before going online!
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by omegaham 10y ago
I could see this as an introductory voiceover, with a faint guitar riff in the background. drums come in rhythm guitar and bass come in main riff begins begin song
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by omegaham 10y ago
What's really infuriating is that I seem to be the only one with this issue. Dual-monitor setup, computer will completely freeze and refuse to boot if I disconnect a monitor. It will hang half the time that I start up. Opening any grap
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by omegaham 10y ago
Bank only, but I'm also only 25 years old and have nothing but a house, a car, (which I bought with cash) a savings account, a checking account, and a mutual fund. That might change once things start getting more complicated, (Kids!) b
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by omegaham 10y ago
Are video drivers just guaranteed to be shitty in all cases? I can't use Ubuntu 16.04 because Radeon drivers cause constant, infuriating tearing on my screen and the computer hangs on startup every other time I boot up. fglrx isn'
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by omegaham 10y ago
Yep. LibreOffice works... except when it doesn't. Similarly, getting Ubuntu 16's AMD drivers to work well is a clusterfuck and a half. Linux fits 99% of my use cases, and the other 1% is unbelievably frustrating.
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by omegaham 10y ago
It just so happens that protecting you might fall under covering their ass. If it doesn't, watch out.
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by omegaham 10y ago
The biggest reason is that Gawker had a court order not to release the tape, and then did anyway. That's a very different issue than publishing a story.
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by omegaham 10y ago
> justified by the minority of companies that come out of such foam-swells that actually create value? I think that this is, ultimately, the way that this will either remain or be replaced by something else. If the foam-swell actually en
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by omegaham 10y ago
I added vblank_mode=3 to my .bashrc, and then removed my xorg.conf (which was configured for fglrx, I assume from when it had the Catalyst drivers). ~/.drirc didn't exist on my system. No change. :(
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by omegaham 10y ago
The best example of equipment-induced hubris that I grew up with was people buying a 4-wheel drive pickup to drive during Massachusetts winters. Yes, it raises your performance. It doesn't magically turn icy, snowy Massachusetts roads
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by omegaham 10y ago
> and their desire to recoup their shitty investment still shouldn't be allowed to bankrupt people who just want to live. The natural response to that is, "Well, okay then - we won't be investing in lifesaving medication d
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by omegaham 10y ago
> but nobody in the security industry will employ him because they (rightfully so) consider prison guards to be tainted by corruption. Just to elaborate, there are a few factors that go into prison guards having a hard time pursuing othe
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by omegaham 10y ago
Tearing is the big one. As soon as a game starts playing, I get a whole bunch of horizontal lines that will continuously shift and flicker as the screen refreshes. It doesn't happen with regular video, but it happens with Kerbal Space
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by omegaham 10y ago
Incidentally, this is why serious gyms, which are built for powerlifters, Olympic weightlifters, strongmen, and similarly dedicated athletes, charge a lot more money. When you get a membership at a 24-Hour Fitness for $30 per month, you&#x2
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by omegaham 10y ago
I'm dealing with this right now - I (foolishly) bought a Radeon 390 instead of an Nvidia card of the same price, and the Linux drivers for it are complete clown shoes. Hell, Ubuntu 16 doesn't even have fglrx. The open-source drive
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by omegaham 10y ago
This reminds me of that old Steve Martin movie, The Jerk , where the protagonist finds out that he's in the phone book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aIf1YnbbU
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by omegaham 10y ago
Same thing happens at restaurants. If a restaurant gives away excess food to employees at the end of the night, you're guaranteeing that employees will then cook excess food to take home a shitload. As the saying goes, "This is wh
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by omegaham 10y ago
Yeah, the "They had torpedo factories there" argument is a little silly from an argument standpoint. The intent of the atomic bombs was to show that Japan's strategy of "Make the cost of invasion too high to stomach&quot
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by omegaham 10y ago
I think the biggest difference is that those 16,000 families aren't just sitting on dollars that are stuffed into Scrooge McDuck vaults. Their money is invested everywhere and is part of the economy. In contrast, Satoshi's coins a
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by omegaham 10y ago
The real answer, as always, is to stay away from the default subreddits because The Public is shitty. There's a spectrum of communities, ranging from obscure and niche to mainstream and general. Too obscure, and communities become insu
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by omegaham 10y ago
Then the prices will keep going up and drive out the regular renters anyway. Either you expand, (up or out) or the place gets turned into a playground for the rich.
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by omegaham 10y ago
This right here, man. I start off going "I'm trying to do X. How do I do it?" Then I have to exhaustively Google to make sure that it's not an obvious Google search away. Then I start listing the steps that I've t
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by omegaham 10y ago
My guess is that it would be too expensive. Also antitrust issues might pop up as well.
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by omegaham 10y ago
Having worked in requisitions, that's exactly how it works. Design new radar? "Here you go, have fifty parts!" Trying to get a power supply for a radar that's been around for sixty years? "Nope, no one's made t
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by omegaham 10y ago
> we don't currently have appropriate metrics for productivity in a market increasingly based on information I like this xkcd comic for a great representation of this: https://xkcd.com/1629/ How, exactly, do y

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