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by russgray 13y ago
You advocate, in your own words, allowing people to die on the street unless private citizens decide to render assistance. I would far, far rather have state aid than that.
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by russgray 13y ago
I think that your worst-case doomsday prophecies for what our current system will lead to are hugely, overwhelmingly preferable to your alternative.
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by russgray 13y ago
You seem to think that anyone who disagrees with you is a fanboy who doesn't want to hear alternative viewpoints due to fear. It's amusing, because you yourself are the worst offender here on all three counts.
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by russgray 13y ago
I think that depends on your priorities. You couldn't pay me enough to relocate to California.
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by russgray 13y ago
It doesn't have to be dramatic, but I would at least have made it clear that I was leaving rather than being fired. I couldn't stand there silently at a standup whilst some jerk insinuates to my team that I'm being shown the
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by russgray 13y ago
"My bank has fraud protection but if I use my debit card and the transaction goes through, it is very unlikely I will ever see those funds again" Why would you think that? My wife had a couple of fraudulent transactions on her deb
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by russgray 13y ago
Yes, those ST movies.
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by russgray 13y ago
The only drinking problem I see here is that people are drinking whiskey out of plastic cups. Philistines.
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by russgray 13y ago
5 guys in a 4BR? So are two of them in a relationship and sharing a room, or is one paying $1200 to sleep on a couch?
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by russgray 13y ago
This whole 'deathbed' theory has always seemed entirely bunk to me. At 35, my values and thought processes are almost entirely different to what I /thought/ they would be when I was 20, and so any decisions I'd made
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by russgray 13y ago
I agree that the new iPhone camera will be no substitute IQ-wise for a half-decent point-n-shoot, and it probably will not be enough to convince me to upgrade from my 4S. On the other hand, I am very impressed with the path Apple are taking
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by russgray 13y ago
> in a PIN system if I know your PIN and get your card I can loot your account and you are SOL That's not entirely true - legally the bank has to carry out an investigation and prove fraud or negligence on your part. Simple use of t
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by russgray 13y ago
"So what's my incentive to work? Screw this, I quit" Your incentive to work is that you earn $100k instead of $12k. I certainly wouldn't quit my job if it means that much of an income hit. This is actually a real situati
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by russgray 13y ago
"I'm just saying you cannot give people free money and not take that money from somewhere else" No-one is saying that you should. A theoretical BIG would be funded by the money that is currently spent on inefficient and misma
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by russgray 13y ago
My other gripe with it is that as a member of a non-hunter-gatherer society I value the fact that my diet is more interesting and varied than just mongongo nuts.
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by russgray 13y ago
From my visits to Paris, I'd say the biggest detriment to driving there is other drivers. It's common to see parked cars completely blocked in (cars in front and behind leaving literally a centimeter of space between bumpers), and
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by russgray 13y ago
I'm not a banker and never wanted to be one; but some of the things on that feed are hilarious.
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by russgray 13y ago
I assume he was performing some sort of authenticated action - e.g. against the svn repository - and providing the password as a command-line argument rather than interactively. This would not only leave the password in the history, but wou
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by russgray 13y ago
Yes. Robocop.
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by russgray 13y ago
Well I googled myself just now, as a direct result of reading this thread. The last time must be well over a year ago. I don't think I even bothered the last time I looked for a new job.
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by russgray 13y ago
Do people really google themselves that often?
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by russgray 13y ago
After step 5, I was sure you were about to say that a remote operator could then activate the nearest turret and shoot the mugger.
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by russgray 13y ago
That's an entirely reasonable trade-off. Freedom may be the destination but there's no reason that the journey has to suck.
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by russgray 13y ago
To be fair, exactly this happened to a friend of mine living in Fulham, London. His laptop (a very pricey MacBook) was visible through the window from the street. Someone was in through the (old, poorly-secured) window and back out with the
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by russgray 13y ago
This blog post helped me when I took a look last year: http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/09/installing-statsd-on-ub...
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by russgray 13y ago
It's a commitment I made happily. I've bought a house I love, near to both my family and my wife's family, in a nice neighbourhood, near a train station that gets me into London (for huge career flexibility and opportunity) in 35 minutes. I
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by russgray 13y ago
I've worked in the UK tech industry for 15 years, none of it for an investment bank, and I don't recognise your description at all.
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by russgray 13y ago
Out of interest, what does qualify someone to decide what is best for a country?
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by russgray 13y ago
I dunno, less than many people I suspect. 100 or so per day (not counting spam)? Search works well enough for me at the moment, though I do confess to tagging things like order confirmations and shipping notifications.
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by russgray 13y ago
I thought the point of gmail was that you didn't need to organize. Just search.

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