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by zaccus 12y ago
I drink coffee every morning, and drink a moderate amount of alcohol. Why does no one have a problem with that? This is not an issue. Moving on.
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by zaccus 12y ago
I value my free time more than my money. I can always make more money; I will never have more time than I do now. So up to a point, I will gladly trade money for time. In any case, unless your work is very low-skilled, it doesn't make
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by zaccus 12y ago
It's not a misconception. It doesn't say "thou shalt not kill unlawfully" or "thou shalt not kill without social sanction". It says "thou shalt not kill". Period. Nowhere in the Bible is any condition
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by zaccus 12y ago
I think that telling yourself that you're "successful" can be a huge impediment to doing what you need to do in order to be happy. If you are not happy with your job/life, then you are not successful. Take a pay cut and
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by zaccus 12y ago
I think Snowden is a hero and totally support what he's doing, but he's being selfish and arrogant when he says stuff like this. If allows himself to be caught, the US government will have a golden opportunity to make an example o
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by zaccus 12y ago
By what measure is it unearned? The guy said he would make potato salad, the market decided that was worth $70k. Assuming he follows through and makes the salad, he's earned his money.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Anything relating to culture. If you think you can control your company's culture from the top down, then you don't understand what culture is.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Cyclists and motorists need to stop demonizing each other. The problem is not with either of those groups, the problem is with indecisive, inconsistent enforcement of the law. A cyclist knows that there is most likely no consequence for run
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by zaccus 12y ago
What a stupid argument. This is a great example of how statistics can appear to support any random premise, no matter how obviously wrong it is. So why don't we take basic protective measures to mitigate safety risks? Um, we do. Driver
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by zaccus 12y ago
So? Sometimes people get things they don't deserve, that's life. As a taxpayer, I can live with that tradeoff if it means more opportunities for those who need them.
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by zaccus 13y ago
None of this is gender-specific at all. Pointless linkbait.
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by zaccus 13y ago
I'm not going to directly contradict everyone here encouraging you to go to college, because that might be the best move for you or it might not. However, I will say that if the only thing you want out of college is a degree, you will
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by zaccus 13y ago
>This thread seems to assume that there's a clear distinction between 'work' and 'not-work'. If I'm coding for someone else in exchange for money, that's work. If I do it on my own time for free, it&#x2
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by zaccus 13y ago
Sorry, but wealthy people choosing to live austerely for spiritual reasons is not the same thing as poverty. Poverty is spending every waking hour worrying about money for rent and food, having no access to a doctor when you're sick, e
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by zaccus 13y ago
Wait lists are great for marketing; they increase a school's "prestige" in the eyes of potential students. A university doesn't want fewer applicants because that would mean a higher acceptance rate, which is bad.
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by zaccus 14y ago
Whether piracy is wrong or not is irrelevant. The fact is, as long as piracy is possible, people will do it. And it will continue to be possible for the foreseeable future. Complaining about it is as pointless as complaining about the weath
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by zaccus 14y ago
In Chicago I've almost never seen a cyclist stop at a red light or stop sign. Cyclists here feel free to ride on the wrong side of the road, weave in and out of traffic, and cut off drivers. I'm no lawyer, but I fear that if I hit one of th
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by zaccus 14y ago
Some panhandlers really need money, and some don't. There's no way to know for sure which is which, and I can't afford to give money to everyone who asks for it. So the only "rational" solution is to not give money to panhandlers at all. Of
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by zaccus 15y ago
It's the prerogative of a performer to ask someone to stop taping their set. But I'm not buying the whole "you're taking food out of the mouths of children" argument. Give me a break. There's no way to gauge how many people don't buy an a
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by zaccus 15y ago
median!
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by zaccus 15y ago
...so Apple wouldn't need Apple retail stores if only their products were better. Right. If your product is new to the market, chances are that nobody woke up this morning dying to try it out. It doesn't matter how great or intuitive a prod
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by zaccus 15y ago
Why do people pride themselves on the number of hours they work? It's like being proud of how long you can go without food, or how long you can hold your hand over a flame. What exactly does it prove? Would Calcanis be happier with his empl
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by zaccus 16y ago
Last I checked, software development kinda sorta is really changing the world. Now, if they claimed they were trying to take over the world, that would be hubris. But changing the world? A noble goal if you ask me. Not creepy at all.
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by zaccus 16y ago
I read the whole article, and he didn't say "peers," he said "friends." And he didn't explain anything beyond that. People do not passively participate in a culture. We collectively create a culture by forming relationships with everyone ar
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by zaccus 16y ago
He states that he does it because the money is good, and because he can't do anything else. He can't believe there are people who program on the weekends, for fun. He can't be bothered to learn anything new, or to even hear about concepts h
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by zaccus 16y ago
If he wants to alienate himself from his peers and colleagues, that's fine. But that's a pretty self-defeating position to take, is it not? What, is programming culture going to change because this guy has a problem with it? He should be th
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by zaccus 16y ago
People don't generally "grant" or "deny" social experiences to others. That's not how that works. Being social means being interested in others with different backgrounds from your own, and meeting them halfway. People who work in very tech
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by zaccus 16y ago
So this guy's coworkers are arrogant for engaging in shop-talk that is above his current level of understanding? OK. But instead of saying to himself, "gee, I should crack a book and learn about this," he calls them asshats and demands that
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by zaccus 16y ago
Assigning numbers to scale degrees isn't half as interesting as assigning numbers to each pitch class, then analyzing a composition using set theory.
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by zaccus 16y ago
Chew on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_series

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