How to iron the gown...?

doughjthree · 2012-05-26T04:10:30.320094+00:00

Had I known I was paying $70 for what this is I would have just cut holes in a giant garbage bag and called it a day.

Ghostofazombie · 2012-05-26T04:00:53.447974+00:00

Sweet - I'm at Palantir in Palo Alto. Do you know where you're going to be living in SF?

legolover64 · 6 days

Words have as much power as you're willing to give them.

zegutgaj · 10 days

Wow that's a bit overly harsh.

It was a light jab at the area not a personal attack on you. (The someone defining real america was referencing a hypothetical foreigner).

I've lived in Buffalo, Queens, Newton, Troy and Palo Alto - there really isn't that much in Troy relative to the others. It's a small city, decent food though.

zegutgaj · 12 days

At the same time I'd remember the US is a big place and the idea of someone defining REAL AMERICA as Troy NY is a bit sad.

I suppose it's better than deliverance country.

happot · 12 days

They are quite powerful - pretty top of the line and a nice balance of power/mobility.

professionalgriefer · 19 days

Definitely

thesecretbarn · 19 days

Wow thanks for that awesome well thought out response (although it's mildly frustrating that a bunch of people downvoted me).

Your perspective makes sense and I can definitely see your point.

I think total tax reform would be the best possible course of action too, but I tend to disagree on your percentages. High taxes necessitate a lot of trust in how the government spends the money and that they're actually representative of the population's interests. I'm not so sure I can make that threshold especially in a country as large and varied as the US.

I was including SS and Medicare (which you're right are different), but I don' think it's really returned to the workers in the 100k-million bracket based on what they're paying in and their actual need for it - they're more or less funding it for other people (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but makes the discussion about the role of government). Most business people are not paid that level base salary (though many are), but lawyers, doctors and small business people tend to be. Even a 35% tax cost is pretty substantial.

thesecretbarn · 19 days

Removing the cap also screws a lot of people in between the billionaire and 100k range - salaried people between 100k and 1mil already pay an enormous amount of taxes (close to 50%).

I agree the government shouldn't be dipping into the funds (which you'd think would be obvious).

xanderdad · 19 days

It's their spam system and a false positive.

dmlanger · 19 days

Mildly related information I think is cool (but not certain is true):

Apparently in Australia nobody steals phones anymore because IMEIs are marked stolen in some DB and the phone becomes deactivated.

I read people were trying to set that up here, but the telcos didn't want to do it because they don't mind people using stolen phones on their network.

cjeremy · 19 days

I ask one question when buying android phones.

Is it running stock android?

No? - Then waiting for next nexus.

BelleAme · 26 days

Haha just a mild commute away.

raks1991 · 28 days

Things were much much worse in those previous situations. Things today (for all the complaints of the people) are actually socially better. People for the most part have food to eat (usually too much) and the country is relatively internally peaceful.

Rhydnara · 1 month

That video is definitely an extreme example, but some of what I'd seen in EMPAC is similarly uninteresting - container of balloons, plates banging into each other on a pond, 'experimental music' of people banging on random metal things without much thought.

cwassoc99 · 1 month

Definitely reasonable (and that windows phone demo is awesome). It mostly comes down to preference and choice - like most things I suppose.

iammollyringwald · 1 month

Alan Shore's charm continues...

cwassoc99 · 1 month

A nice native app is almost always faster, prettier and nicer to use than a mobile web version. It can also fit in with the style of the OS much better.

Agree reviewing your own app is super cheesy.

I love the <INSERT FEATURE HERE>

Rhydnara · 1 month

It's possible that it wasn't students that did it (considering other graffiti and damage that was done by random people).

As far as not respecting art, at some point it's just bullshit

nsfwdreamer · 1 month

Good - fuck the carriers.

Obscene monthly rates without discount for buying the phone at retail (with the exception of T-Mobile which is a great telecom, but has poor coverage).

trot-trot · 1 month

I just graduated with CS and there were constant job offer emails/interviews. Engineering and medecine both have tons of jobs. My job contract came in the mail before my diploma - CS is a really exciting field to be in right now.

davidreiss666 · 1 month

There are a wide variety of problems with the current system, but to say that teachers are not part of the problem - I think - is disingenuous.

The following is anecdotal so take it as you will, but I've experienced far more terrible teachers than good ones and my public school system was far from poor. Great teachers make an enormous difference, but they're hard to come by. Most of the teachers were people who barely passed through school themselves and majored in "education" as opposed to a real major with a masters in education. They went into it because it was easy.

The particularly bad ones have negative effects that can resonate with students for years and tenure makes it particularly difficult to get rid of them. On top of that the teachers that complain the most about teaching or the system are typically the bad ones.

HowSeriousIsYou · 1 month

I think you severely underestimate the effect of the environment people in the poorest provinces of China are living.

Your personal (American?) anecdotes about how obvious things are to you is abrasive and arrogant.

StoleYourCheese · 1 month

Really cool expressive art style.

Austin-G · 1 month

I actually usually see RPI advisors tell people to skip CS1 (since the class is usually big). I still don't see that much of a benefit to it -- especially if you haven't been exposed to C++ or C.

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