rsheridan6

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by rsheridan6 9y ago
I tried to use Scheme years ago, and I found that no matter how good a language is, writing something to interface with some ugly API or something like that, or debugging an existing one that hasn't been used thoroughly, is a lot of wo
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by rsheridan6 9y ago
Trump's crassness, and the fact that the other coastal elites legitimately hate him, makes him seem authentic, despite his background.
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by rsheridan6 9y ago
I lived in Houston for a few years and I'd take its flaws over being house poor in a coastal city.
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by rsheridan6 9y ago
I don't get how this is supposed to fit in with the fact that discrimination against older workers is a big thing. Who is supposed to be hiring these 70 year olds with no savings?
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by rsheridan6 10y ago
I just bought a sub-$300 laptop, which was unusable with the default Windows OS. It's snappy with Ubuntu/unity. I don't think very many people care about running 2001 laptops anymore.
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by rsheridan6 10y ago
You do interact with other players via gym battles, and if gyms are dominated by cheaters it ruins the game for everyone else.
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by rsheridan6 10y ago
Walmart recently (this year) changed their pay structure so that nobody will make less than $11/hour, which is good for jobs that don't even require high school or the ability to speak English, so data from 2011 is outdated. But b
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by rsheridan6 10y ago
Any unskilled job is going to have a low enough pay rate that many of the employees will qualify for public assistance. This goes for Walmart, Target, and the mom and pop shops Walmart replaced. If Walmart went out of business tomorrow, the
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by rsheridan6 11y ago
They look purple and orange to me, and I am not colorblind. I have sometimes disagreed with other people whether a color is orange or red so maybe there's some other variation in color perception that's never been worthy of diagno
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by rsheridan6 12y ago
It's the standard size of a vial of insulin - 1000 units, same as the extremely expensive insulins referenced in the article and by other people in this thread. How long it lasts depends on how much you need to use, which can vary wide
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by rsheridan6 12y ago
The article fails to mention that you can get a vial of insulin (regular or NPH) without a prescription at Walmart for $25. Not generic, but inexpensive. The rapid acting and the once daily insulins are indeed very expensive, but $25 will g
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
The whole thing shouldn't weigh very much, assuming it's limited to delivering lightweight objects, and the rotors could be covered with a screen. I don't see much potential for danger. The worst thing that could happen would
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
Xanga.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
There was an error in my calculations, which are based on freshman college physics I took in the 90s, so never mind. Attempt #2: Gravitational potential energy = kinetic energy = .5 mass escape velocity^2. = .5 human bodyweight kg 11,200
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
It is not safe to say that. By many measures, including height, disease burden, and hours worked per week, paleolithic man was better off than his descendants until pretty recently.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
That's not going to solve overpopulation problems here, because it would be cheaper to feed someone for life (ie it would require less energy) than it would be to send that person outside of Earth's gravitational field.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The people who know all the new terminology get to feel superior to the ones who don't keep up.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
How many people were fired or expelled over things like not wearing flag pins?
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
Why should "oriental" be offensive? It's derived from a word for "eastern." What fool came up with the idea that we should be offended by it, and start using the term "Asian," which could refer to anyone f
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
Most killings in war haven't involved looking a man in the eyes and shooting him for a very long time. At least as recently as WWI, most deaths (excluding disease) were caused by artillery shells fired by someone who would usually neve
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
I had the exact opposite experience - our chromebook is used all the time while or tablet collects dust. Having a real keyboard is a big advantage. The features you list that a tablet has that the chromebook doesn't are all on our phon
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
I thought jobs was a father of one, but a quick look on wiki shows I was mistaken. But I'm pretty sure pg is, and probably always will be at his age and the age of h his wife. One child is better than none but still fails from a reprod
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
I would think little kids today don't get talked to as much as they did in the past because many or most have single mothers with jobs and few or no siblings, whereas the baby boomers had a dad and a stay at home mom and lots of siblin
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
Sure, if you define success strictly in terms of reproductive fitness. By that standard, two of the heroes of hners, pg and Steve jobs, are abject failures, while a crack whore who has eight kids who were taken away by cps is a paragon of s
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
There are a lot of situations where you have to know a lot of facts and there's no way around rote memorization. Critical thinking isn't enough - you need a corpus of information. For example, if you're in a medical field, yo
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
This guy seems remarkably youthful for 77. A lot of people his age wouldn't be able to handle his jobs, or would not be able to convince an employer to give them a chance. Even a burger flipper has to be able to stand for hours at a ti
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
LA and SF are not representative of all of the US. A professional in flyover country is going to have a lifestyle more like the Mexican professional you describe than the American one in the expensive coastal cities, except that the flyover
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
And being a non-poor human is not exactly playing in the park, since, unless you're born rich or have your dream job, you have to make some sort of sacrifices that involve doing non-fun work.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
If we did equalize everything, then the result would be random luck, which is also unfairm - sort of like how genetics are random luck. Why don't we just change the rules so everyone wins?
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
You should have tried expressing your thoughts while being Paul Graham.

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