smelterdemon

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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Amazon already has a (albeit relatively small) office in Detroit, so they must not be so skeptical of the talent pool.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Fair amount is an understatement when talking about the whole field of engineering. IIRC Metro Detroit has the largest population of engineers in the US. Granted a big portion of those jobs are in Auburn Hills, Dearborn and Warren rather th
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
If you're looking for a purely financial reason, tax benefits and better insurance rates.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
The problem is automation could conceivably create a (sufficiently) closed system wherein a capitalist class can fulfil their desires for material wealth with minimal need for labor, while the masses lack access to the means of creating wea
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Maybe not science, but the Rosetta Stone?
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what did the 25% increase in housing/income ratio come out of if your savings rate stayed the same?
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Because it's one of the only fields you're virtually guaranteed an an above average salary straight out of undergrad and it's an easier path relative to medicine and law
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
It doesn't seem like it. I just did a quick look through the YouTube data/API and it seems like even with Vevo's auth (it looks like these are all artists with videos on Vevo and you need the content/channel owner's
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
>So apparently $100k+ is not enough money to interest the citizens. I wonder why that's the case. Lots of other career fields which offer more money and/or prestige? Anecdata: many of my friends with the aptitude for software d
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
>You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly If only I had thought of this rebuttal in middle school...
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Whether or not you find C++ uniquely useful for more general (e.g. desktop application) programming, it's still one of the most popular languages. There are lots and lots of legacy C++ codebases that are being actively maintained and u
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
It's not like it was impossible to tip before. Now you just don't need to carry cash.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Can you give an example of how one could recover from a bad alloc (especially in a "bare metal" situation where you probably can't move anything to disk)?
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
>using vectors for statically-sized arrays of data, which I recently replaced with a C array See the idea is you can use std::array, so you can use modern idioms (and at() for bounds checked access).
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
I have similar concerns, although I'm shocked the quoted question is where someone would draw the line. That in particular does not seem at all personal, or potentially damaging at all (if an employer regards an employee trying to gaug
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
They still give (pilots at least) speed.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
>what to eat when I'm hungry but I don't have enough time to prepare a full meal. In what way is Soylent any better than a handful of almonds and a banana?
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
>Even in the event of another crash specific to the tech industry, I guarantee I'd have an easier time getting another job out here compared to flyover country. In "flyover country" many (possibly most) tech jobs are creat
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
>All gyms around my home open from 9:30/10:00 I find this bizarre, both in that every gym I've belonged to opened before 6:00AM and that these gyms must be excluding a significant market of potential members.
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
You can get an aftermarket remote start installed for $150. That's not some innovative feature unique to Tesla
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
Mathematics is also based on foundations which are in some sense a matter of taste e.g. Euclidean vs non-Euclidean geometries. IMO at a certain level of abstraction mathematics and philosophy are the same thing.
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
IIRC (circa 2009/2010) only certain schools are sponsors, where you are guaranteed the award. Some portion of finalists are awarded the scholarship from the National Merit program itself that can be used anywhere.
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
How do you define "accepting money from the government"? I assume you're mostly referring to SNAP, TANF, and Section 8 but where do you draw your ideological line? Anyone accessing any Federal Assistance? Does SSI count? Tax
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
Sweatshops, environmental destruction, child labor etc. has only been effectively fought through government intervention. Personal empathy has no net effect in a free market.
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
The Electoral College is in the constitution to stop a demagogue from taking office.
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
Eastern Market has been around since the 1850s, it's nothing new
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
A car being driven all day (especially in cities, where the demand will be highest) is going to wear cars down incredibly fast. Manufacturers won't see that big of a hit if fewer people buy cars, if those people will replace it every y
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
My access point was catching Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 on PBS late one night. I'd recommend it as an intro to his earlier material.
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by smelterdemon 10y ago
I don't see the need to bristle when the rest of that paragraph dispells any notion of an "impoverished poet": "Cohen, whose family was both prominent and cultivated, had an ironical view of himself. He was a bohemian wi

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