if you found yourself in the middle of koreatown during the 1992 LA riots, do you think that stuff in your trunk would get you very far?
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damn, you're right. if only the tech industry were still around.
i think your mind is playing tricks on you. most people over 25 without children know exactly how difficult life is with children -- that's why they don't have any.
what it probably won't do is make plenty of money for investors.
hint: they're not local engineers. buying a house like this is like going down to the porsche dealership and buying a couple of cayennes as graduation presents for the kids.
but i mean, yeah, i guess you're technically correct, rich people break the law all the time in saudi arabia without any consequence. film at 11.
one might even say that there are countries that follow the law ... religiously.
non anglophone countries also include most of europe. please put a little more thought into your racism. you get a point for originality but it's not nearly as entertaining when it's so weak logically.
i don't think physical movement will be a requirement of vr as a concept. you can sit and eat cheetos all day long if you want.
and in the future, i think we'll have instant-on instant-off see through LEDs so you can hit a button on the side and see through the headset into reality.
i'm trying to get 10 years out of it, which looks do-able, maybe. it refuses to install the latest OS X's though, so it may finish its life as a linux box.
will 2019 finally be the year of linux on the desktop???
this is how it works. you don't think those lenders were lending you their own money do you?
> What if the interest rate changes in those 30 years?
the original loans are almost certainly fixed rate, the end borrowers may very well have to pay an adjustable rate, which just means more profits for the intermediate lender.
that's more or less how it still works at the good private schools, with exceptions at the margin for extremely bright talent from less wealthy family/means.
public schools are supposed to break this pattern, but the best ones basically have turned into the same thing (california, michigan, virginia, north carolina, etc.) with their own hierarchy of elite campuses/locations and in-crowd associations (greek, etc.)
the entire system breaks down if you treat it as something fundamentally different, or have some invented set of expectations for what you get out of it.
i fear much of the enthusiasm behind self-driving cars is from people who understand neither driving, nor computer software, very well.
in such an environment i wouldn't expect any other result. fix the environment, not the rational human response to it.
most people can't, because the real problem is something else.
my point stands, and i'm doubling down on it. go check out the rest of america and the world, and you might see what i mean.
the entire point of language and thought policing is to shame and embarrass people.
you are doublespeaking to an intelligent audience and it comes off creepy as hell. you sound brainwashed.
also, this is basically lefty version of "i'm not a racist but..." nevermind you assumed gender, assumed it in the context of STEM (doubleplus ungood, comrade), assumed helplessness based on that gender, and assumed incorrectly that females do not have wet dreams/noctural emissions, all of which is pretty much the textbook definition of sexism, you sexist.
most people call it whiteknighting because it's offensive, but just think it's normal because you live in a world where sexism is normalized.
let's suppose he does. let's also suppose a probate lawyer will notify you that the principal of the firm you are working with has been killed, the company will go into receivership and run by an organization that specializes in that sort of thing until all the customers have been notified of the need to switch providers. then the assets will be liquidated, either by the estate or the government in lieu of an estate if there is no next of kin or trust / family / whatever.
suppose your large provider goes bankrupt and is bought out, and accidentally shuts off your fiber as part of the takeover process? what then? do you think anyone gives a shit about you then?
this has happened to me, personally. i have 3 internet connections at home for this reason (2 LTE lines and a cable line). in addition, i know _ALL_ the spots around my house where i can get a wifi signal. this is because i take my business seriously, like most people do. i don't expect some magic person to drop out of the sky during an emergency and fix everything for me.
my primary cable ISP is one of the largest in the nation, i'm not going to be fooled into thinking they're somehow reliable. they're never on time, and their service sucks. yet my plumbing company, owned/run by a single guy, always shows up on time and fixes my problem (i live in an old building with plumbing problems).
you live in a world of constant "what if" fear because you lack the experience to know how to handle bad business situations. a small business has more to fear from their customers simply not paying than from inability to deliver good service.
but that's just like, my opinion, man.
but ... i mean, if you can't sell yourself into a job, you're not going to be doing much sales.
there is no reasoning behind these policies. it's just someone's decision. you'd be surprised at how much business 'logic' is really just arbitrary choices.
the way to fix it is to quit and work for someone/some place that has a sane policy. these social shifts take decades to fully manifest because old rich people don't like changing their way. because they're old, and they're rich. why should they? they're old and rich, remember?
you do you, don't try to fight against what can't be changed.
1. yup. he doesn't take vacations.
2. if he's sleeping, he gets woken up, or he loses the business.
when you run a business there's nobody to pass the buck to. it's your problem, end of story. you're a big boy now, pull up those pants.
ask a line cook or sous chef how many vacations and how much sleep they get.
there are people who get blown up by bombs in the middle east, today. right now. those are real people. do you think not taking a vacation is some kind of huge sacrifice in the grand scheme of things, especially if you're trying to make a large amount of money?
these are the hard facts that people don't write fun blog posts about and that normal people with jobs find impossible to believe because they are not business owners and never will be.
you sound like one of those semi-retired lawyers that thinks opening a restaurant is a carefree experience just like hosting a fun dinner party every night for 300 of your best friends.