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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
The headphones are crap, way too much bass and the build quality is pretty bad even for low-end headphone. But they have fooled people into thinking they are a premium product, somehow. Is that why Apple bought them? I hope we don't st
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
Sure, subsidizing public higher education is a matter of debate. So: in my opinion, we should entirely subsidize higher education. I don't think that anyone should disagree with the statement that everyone would benefit from going to c
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
That's two different questions. Is college worth it to any specific individual vs is college worth it to the nation as a whole. As far as the nation goes, it's obvious that the answer is yes. Should we have entirely subsidized hig
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
I don't think the question is whether or not college is worth it. Because that's a generalization. I also don't think the question is whether or not college is worth it to some people. Because that's exclusionary. The qu
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
Religion is another hot topic. My wife may need (minor) brain surgery (minor as far as brain surgery goes) and her family believes they can pray it away instead. It's a whole thing here.
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
Yeah the whole "but where do you get your protein" thing gets old after about 30 seconds. I have answered many emails and Facebook posts with this: http://bit.ly/1nQx8EQ
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
There is a pretty strong anti-vegetarianism sentiment where I'm from (the Southeast U.S.). I see it (as a vegetarian for almost 5 years now) when I visit the grocery store and, annoyingly, from my family. At the grocery store I am ofte
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
On my last trip to London I noticed several people riding unicycles around and I started wondering if it's a growing trend in urban environments (I'm intensely intrigued by the urban landscape and how people cope with the challeng
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
U.S. cards just have the card number, which of course is separate from the account number, and then there's the "security code" on the back, which is typically a 3 or 4 digit number. But there is no other account information
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
Exactly! I could have more easily paid my way through college :-)
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
iPhone, MacBook Air, iPad Air, AppleTV. These are the devices I use every day. It used to be Blackberry, iPod Touch, HP Laptop, Xbox 360. It started with the Xbox. I played a lot of games in college, but before starting grad school I realiz
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
My elementary school had an "academically gifted" program which I was a part of. They put us there during the school day, isolating us from our classmates and making us seem even more "weird" than we already were. It did
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
Interestingly, he did get caught. Severs times. I asked him just before he shipped off to his first deployment and he said "You know, that's one thing I've learned. The military really doesn't have their shit together. I
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Figure out the scalability issues, work on performance, and of course anti-detection. Then roll it out somewhere more sophisticated.
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
Interesting point that the NSA spends billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, along with some of the most sophisticated technology on the planet to catch b-level smugglers and criminals.
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
Besides that, food and the process of eating is not just physical and chemical, it is also psychological and social. Could you meet the bare-bones nutritional requirements of the homeless by replacing soup kitchens with soylent kitchens? Pr
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
The niche is for hipster-nerds who want to have something "cool" that defines their personality. It's kind of like kids who work so hard to look like they haven't brushed their hair: "I just don't care what soc
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
I'm not advocating just throwing caution to the wind and hoping everything works out. But this culture of fear that drives people to nearly always take the safest path is not one that will lead people to happiness. My best friend took
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
I think we understand how the human brain develops now a bit better than we did 50 years ago. And that at 19 you're basically not fully cooked yet. So yeah, at one point you were thought to be fully developed by 19 and that meant you s
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
It's less about the total loss of money and more about the valuation of the currency. The mid-nineties saw the pound drop even further in value and it's only recently begun to grow stronger again.
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
It's an interesting cycle. Lots of people from my home town have never had any sort of technical work and thus the people in my age group were sort of compelled toward the non technical also. So when you're 16 and you try to get y
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
I've worked in two factories, striping down old machines, unloading trucks, overnight shifts at gas stations where you're just as likely to get shot as you are to make it through the night. I've cleaned up blood, shit, vomit.
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
I'm very loyal to my department because they were awesome and extremely supportive (luckily we survived the axe), so I don't want to shame the whole university. But it's a medium-sized school in the South East of the US and i
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
My brother has several friends in Ireland and he's described their outlook similarly. They have a sort of government stipend and some of them can find odd jobs (odd as in strange, one of them is a part time fire eater) but for the most
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
There were programs in my uni that got dissolved before people had matriculated. Students who had several semesters of courses under their belts were left out in the cold and had to try to rig their courses into other programs as electives
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
At one point in my life the IRS estimated my income to be a whopping -$500. I could barely feed myself and my wife, who was constantly sick because we couldn't afford insurance or medicine. There weren't any simple things in life
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
That's fascinating. I'd not heard of this before.
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
Yeah this is a problem. I think a lot of it comes down to cultural value shifts. My wife asks her students why they choose major X or Y and they almost always answer that they think it will help them to get a job. She then asks why they wan
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
I have similar experiences. I almost hate running in to people that I went to high school with, or getting friend requests via Facebook and then having these getting reacquainted discussions. I see my friends and they are struggling to find
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by zacinbusiness 12y ago
What's your point here?

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