relaytheurgency

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by relaytheurgency 11y ago
I was unaware that banning things rendered them impossible.
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by relaytheurgency 11y ago
Seems like it borrows a lot from Axe Cop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHGfSBr2FrY
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by relaytheurgency 11y ago
While I don't disagree with you on the perceived unfairness of a lack of overtime, it could be argued that my base salary is higher than it would be if I were only available 8 hours a day before OT kicked in. Not saying I agree with th
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by relaytheurgency 11y ago
Are you not from the US? Being "on call" is pretty common in certain professions. Doctors, for instance. A lot of vital IT workers are on call all the time. If a server goes down in prod, who are they going to call?
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by relaytheurgency 11y ago
I, for instance, am on call and required to have my work phone on my person 24 hours a day unless I'm on vacation with a pre-arranged backup.
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Illicit drugs are the minority of overdoses[1], so I don't see how your logic follows. If anything, they might increase. 1. http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/overdose/facts....
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that you can still deny someone a job for being a drug user, even if the drugs are legal. In fact, several of those things aren't solved merely by legalization and regulation. Overdoses happen on legal, regulated d
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Glidden’s design took off, and by 1876, his company was producing nearly 3 million pounds of barbed wire annually. Sentences like this always bother me. Of what use is this information? Barbed wire isn't used as a counterweight. How
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Could use some refinement of results. For instance, I run "clf tar compress" and the results are all over the place. # Copy a MySQL Database to a new Server via SSH with one command mysqldump --add-drop-table --exten
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
"I learned more than enough welding when apprenticing as a metalsmith but now as a chef use none of it."
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
I tried to make this comment a reply to a separate comment but it errored out. I had a funny thing happen to me in college that ruined my one chance at a 4.0 semester. I had just begun my physics major but had some electives to take as well
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
I have never gotten that impression, and given that 1/3rd of the Chinese population are still in small farming communities, several of which do not have access to things the average American considers basic and fundamental to life, I d
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Maybe you're projecting your own lifestyle onto the entirety of society. Honest question: Have you been to China?
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Yes, it's sad. It's as if dimensions/units don't matter. There was a story about this quack on NPR that thought he could prove Einstein wrong. Turned out the guy couldn't differentiate (or wouldn't?) between mo
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Well, it doesn't really matter how old the pipes are as long as they continue working and provide water that meets the EPA/state standards for health. The US public water system is, for all intents and purposes, a miracle that mos
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Before I got Google Fiber I was definitely happier with my water and electric than my service provider. Now I am probably actually still happier, but I don't have too many complaints about Google Fiber. I can't think of the last t
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
An open wound was almost certainly a recipe for gangrene prior to antiseptics and antibiotics.
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Taking medications that alleviate the symptoms of upper respiratory congestion also aid in preventing sinus infections down the road. Diminishing the effects of a cold has more benefit than just providing comfort, you are also helping to el
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Prior to the advent of modern medicine people didn't heal themselves. They died at record rates from things that are minor inconveniences now.
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Barely enough to cover the medication required to keep your blood pressure at a healthy level. Luckily when you fall over face down in a balmy server room the people you need to save you are close by.
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
I guarantee you that on average the population of somewhere like Peru is doing better now than 50 years ago.
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
At that level (you're using linux, know what 'root' is, how to access root and how to execute a shell file as root) you're being lazy if something like that bites you in the ass.
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Thank you very much. I am happy for once to be mistaken :)
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
I'm a paying user. My fiance pays as well. It's a great service, but I wish they would come out with a "family plan" or something. Often we are both listening at the same time to a single account which negates the utilit
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
I'm confused. Do you mean you made x/3 as much as a software engineer? Average salary for a software engineer here is somewhere around 80,000 and I have not met a single teacher making even that. Edit: Nevermind. As a software eng
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
It doesn't even have to be political. I had a parent supposedly "so angry that he could not meet me in person for fear of hurting me" because his daughter supposedly came home crying from school every day due to my class. He
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Yes, exactly. One can criticize a consequence of a thing without criticizing the thing itself. I did not actually criticize constructivism anywhere. One might criticize, for instance, certain aspects of US economic practice which are derive
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
"More" implies that some is already being done, for the most part. I don't want to get into an Internet argument with someone about pedagogy because obviously there's no objectively correct answer. But you can believe wh
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Because in practice it's impossible to do what is being asked. Maybe if your class size was six students, but that's the case basically nowhere. I believe that learning is best achieved when people struggle greatly. If someone is
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by relaytheurgency 12y ago
Perhaps I should clarify. I am not claiming that there is a superior educational philosophy. I am only claiming that in most modern educational institutions, constructivism is the practiced philosophy of education and is taught to all teach

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