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by r_smart 8y ago
I've been learning WPF, and I want to shoot myself. It looks pretty, and is very flexible, but it's just so much damn typing. Plus the errors you get out of it are often pretty useless. Maybe my brain just doesn't get it, but
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by r_smart 8y ago
>It appears you're conflating two things. I probably am :) I'm definitely guilty of playing loose with my words. I was thinking of all of the various pensions. But as far as unfunded liabilities go, I was thinking of public emp
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by r_smart 8y ago
Why do people always seem to forget that that 'Shareholders' frequently means pension funds for retired workers? This accounts for a pretty large pie of 'Shareholders' and many of them are struggling with unfunded liabil
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by r_smart 8y ago
My brother and his girlfriend both worked at the same retirement home when they were in high school. They both were harassed extensively and on a daily basis. And yes, they were both minors at the time. Your experience is exactly what I&#x2
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by r_smart 8y ago
Your worry seems misplaced. Addiction is usually co-incident with some other kind of pathology. In your case, it sounds like your home life was falling apart around you and coupled with a teenager's fairly normal apathy towards school,
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by r_smart 8y ago
>Good rhetoric is redundant. I'm not sure you can state that as an absolute. And certainly we can agree there's degrees of redundancy, a threshold that once crossed, is belaboring the point rather than expanding on it. >I al
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by r_smart 8y ago
Well, T is Technology and E is engineering. I will leave it up to any person in either category to decide where they go. My rough estimate was Sysadmin, IT support, etc is T. Electrical, Mechanical and Civil engineering are E, but I'll
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by r_smart 8y ago
Screeds about cultural decline will exist as long as there's a culture. If it's not this metric, it'll be another.
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by r_smart 8y ago
But you're really just one small part of the E in STEM. Others use math all the time.
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by r_smart 8y ago
I'm not really sure what you're arguing here. The speech at the end is really just a disguised essay that summarizes everything you already have figured out, but does it really slowly, in a book that's already taken its sweet
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by r_smart 8y ago
Yeah, I got wondering the same things. One of our dogs is getting older, and we love her so much. I wouldn't, and couldn't afford to, do something like this, but I can understand why people might. How different would she end up? T
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by r_smart 8y ago
I have two rescues and think it is good if people adopt more of them, but I also thinks it's wrong to shift the moral condemnation to people who want dogs (puppies, clones or whatever) from whoever is abusing these dogs in the first pl
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by r_smart 8y ago
The 100 page essay at the end that basically repeats the themes of the previous 800 pages, but with even less subtlety. I like Rand btw, but that essay in a book of that length is pretty much inexcusable. Just write a collection of essays o
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by r_smart 8y ago
This reads like those stories you'll hear delivered by a certain kind of priest / pastor / etc. It feels contrived, and buries a decent piece of advice in a boring and phony-sounding parable.
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by r_smart 8y ago
That feeling when an article published by one of the largest professional engineering organizations in the world has no data to support its claims. Also, what does this even mean: >It’s likely no accident that women, underrepresented min
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by r_smart 9y ago
You're confusing insurance with healthcare. Insurance is supposed to be for risk mitigation, rare but extremely damaging events. If everyone uses insurance for everything health related, like we all want to do now, it's impossible
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by r_smart 9y ago
I would be surprised if this doesn't get a nod.
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by r_smart 9y ago
Oh I'm sure I am :) It just seems like a total non sequitur from what I had said. Trying to figure out what they meant. Sadly, we'll probably never know.
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by r_smart 9y ago
I have no idea what you're asking me. Is this wit? Are you implying everyone dog-ears books? Were you ruffled by my hyperbole?
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by r_smart 9y ago
I nearly cried laughing at myself the first time I put my finger against a page to get a word definition. Also, people who dog-ear books are war criminals.
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by r_smart 9y ago
Your choice is: Press X or have to do the QTE again. Be happy we gave you that much.
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by r_smart 9y ago
It really depends on the year. The people who top income tax payments one year will generally not be anywhere near it on subsequent years because they don't draw a steady income, but instead cash out periodically. So while none of the
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by r_smart 9y ago
Assuming you're talking about the US, we already spend more per student than pretty much anybody else. I'd argue we spend plenty, but if we're going to inflate education spending, why stop at 500%? Why not 5000%? We can print
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by r_smart 10y ago
The first amendment only applies to the government, but it elucidates a natural right all people have, and thus forbids the government from tampering with it. Other people should also not tamper with it, but enforcing that is beyond the sco
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by r_smart 10y ago
Not to mention the value to the businesses running these systems. $800k doesn't even qualify as an expense to a lot of these companies relative to what they lose if the system goes down. They probably think they're getting a deal.
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by r_smart 10y ago
Teacher salaries in 2013 (there's more data there than that, but whatever)[0]. Census data for the same year [1]. And lastly, per capita spending on students[2]. Perks teachers enjoy are variant as you mention, but tend to be solid. My
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by r_smart 10y ago
Teachers in the US make more than the median salary, and get a ton of perks. The US spends more per student than any other developed world. I'd say we're paying plenty.
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by r_smart 10y ago
You think they're doing a good job of educating the public school students, particularly in terms of money? I don't think I've got the information to agree or disagree with that. I'm inclined to say they're not succ
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by r_smart 10y ago
Interesting points. I think there's definitely something to be said for education curricula having lost the plot. It seems more and more to me that a lot of the first few years of college is really just teaching things you should have
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by r_smart 10y ago
I haven't really watched his show before, so my impression of him comes from things like the Joe Rogan interview and having seen some clips. I think that he roughly believes what he's saying but is playing a hyperbolic character f

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