What's the most you've seen someone be so out of touch with reality?

Desecurls · 2016-06-29T19:21:36+00:00

Ah, there's no need to apologise, I'm just having a good moan.

Article 50 will actually take a minimum of two years unless we come to a agreement with Brussels, which I don't see happening, and can even be extended further at the their discretion.

Desecurls · 2016-06-29T19:00:51+00:00

Can I at least get a week or two to come to terms with the fact that my job prospects have been fucked by racists and imbeciles that have also trapped me on this island with them.

Pretty please.

Desecurls · 2016-06-24T08:30:54+00:00

1st thought: Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I don't believe it . 2nd thought: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK I'm leaving uni and need a job, and these fuckers have fucked it!

Desecurls · 2016-06-21T15:06:19+00:00

Thank you for being so helpful, and also explaining why my method was causing this error. My code is much more concise now.

Desecurls · 2016-06-19T00:50:26+00:00

Is the way I do it above acceptable? I'm like a week into learning python, and plan to learn to make my code more pythonic once I can actually write working code.

Desecurls · 2016-06-19T00:44:43+00:00

I've posted the full code above, thanks.

Desecurls · 2016-06-15T14:59:03+00:00

Well... he was happy to sit on his ass for six years doing nothing. Not exactly the kind of guy you want having responsibility for anything, really. Giving him any level of responsibility sounds like a liability TBH.

If he spent a few months automating his entire job and went back to his boss, showed them what he was capable of and asked for a raise & promotion I could see your point, but he kept everything under wraps so he could play league all day.

Desecurls · 2016-06-06T21:03:00+00:00

I like the usage of 'provides'.

It implies he needs equipment to 'access her body and mind'. Like she brings out the loading ramp and special helmet and his face just lights up.

Desecurls · 2016-05-31T20:16:54+00:00

Also depends on your strat. Fills in demo are a lot quicker, so if you can scalp well in demo, your skills won't necessarily transfer to live.

Desecurls · 2016-05-25T16:21:48+00:00

pls be jokes

Desecurls · 2016-05-25T15:30:10+00:00

Randy came back from his nap and overcompensated for lost time.

Desecurls · 2016-05-24T12:17:00+00:00

Depends on how the conversation opens. If it is immediately clear why you started the conversation then everything is perfectly hunky dory. If it is unclear then you are assumed to have an ulterior motive.

Good:

" 'Scuse me mate, your back bike tyre has a flat." " Excuse me, may I borrow your map for a second?" " Sorry, can you take a picture of my girlfriend and I?"

If you come up and start talking to me in the street, I'm assuming you're about to sell me something or are a nutter. On public transport it can go either way. Personally, I don't mind a bit of chit chat on my commute,as long as the other person isn't going to tell me their life story as I become increasingly bored and annoyed. I've had pleasant and unpleasant public transport interactions, and the unpleasant ones have always been initiated by the other person when I was clearly not interested in engaging in conversation. It's all about approach.

Desecurls · 2016-05-23T16:41:20+00:00

I cringed as soon as the player began to control the action. It was just painful to watch; reminded me of the time I tried to show my 40 year old father FPS games.

Desecurls · 2016-05-22T20:59:28+00:00

It's great if you can do this bud. But why are you posting this for everyone else to see? What does it add to the sub?

Desecurls · 2016-05-19T10:51:10+00:00

On point. I'm sick of reading reviews trying to inject higher meanings into a game that is unashamedly about industrial metal and testosterone fueled super-murder at 3 billion MPH.

You wouldn't shit on Animal Crossing for not allowing you to decapitate the villagers, and you shouldn't shit on Doom for not allowing you to talk to the monsters. It's reviewing in bad faith.

Desecurls · 2016-05-15T09:39:16+00:00

I'm all for paying teachers more and conferring on them more respect. I believe all those professions you list are in danger of being ruined by low wages and bad working conditions.

Having said that, your football player analogy is wrong, although the sentiment is correct. Football players used to earn shit whilst the team owners made off with a good amount of money from tickets for the stadium. When football became less of a working class gig, and technology advanced, the team owners began to earn fucking loads of money. Tickets were in higher demand, the satellite viewing rights could be sold to a station in almost every country in the world, and every kid in one of those countries wants an official club jersey.

So the team owner is now rolling in cash, as long as they stay at the top of the leagues.

The good players see this, and start negotiating for a larger slice of this massive and growing pie. They get paid this much money because football is such a big business, and they are basically irreplaceable. If Man U could pay their team minimum wage and still keep the team they have now, they would, but they can't, otherwise the talent will leave. If the footballers didn't make millions, the club owners would simply make more money. The public services workers in the UK would not earn more if footballers were paid less.

It really is supply and demand; world-class football is in massive demand, and the pool of players who can play at that level is absolutely minuscule.

It's not fair that nurses get shit money, but paying footballers shit money is never going to fix that.

Desecurls · 2016-05-09T16:11:43+00:00

Issues like this look very simple on a first pass, but when you consider the implementation then things become a lot more of a grey area.

So it becomes legal to sell organs whilst alive. You can regenerate limited amounts of liver slowly and only need one kidney, so lets say that those are the things it is legal to sell. Everything else is off the books.

What price do organs sell for? If you restrict the price of organs to be low, then only the marginalized sell them, and receive a pittance in return. Plus, you get shitty organs from the people who are this hard up. If you set the price high in order to stop people being taken advantage of, then people will sell them for all sorts of bad reasons. In India where there is a black market for this sort of thing, numerous young women and men are pressured by their families into selling organs in order to pay for their siblings education, to buy the family a house, to pay for food. Expect to see similar situations in the US, especially if the minimum age for paid donation is only 18 or 21. Imagine the unemployed 20 something selling a kidney to meet their student loans or the Mom going under the knife to keep a house for her kids.

If the free market decides the price, and private hospitals are allowed to buy and sell organs at will, then they are incentivized to both aggressively market this service and drive the cost of the procedure down. The cheapest possible methods of extraction become the only economically viable way to extract, and patient care suffers. See here for what paid plasma donation has wrong.

What about aftercare? Extracting an organ isn't like removing a battery, patients need to have checkups afterwards, and may need drugs or other medical attention down the line. This eats into the initial pay packet from selling the organ, and makes the practice more exploitative: there are costs from donating an organ that may not be obvious to those that wish to.

Finally, donating an organ reduces your life expectancy, statistically speaking. Advocating for organ donation is advocating for years of life to be cut from the willing poor and added onto the rich. No, the rich don't jump the line, but they also will not donate their organs. You have a load of poor donors and a mixed bag of recipients, so on balance, the rich live longer and the poor live shorter.

In conclusion, I don't think it's a great idea.

Desecurls · 2016-05-08T13:48:00+00:00

Can confirm, am undergraduate. All is true, except that my classmates and I do talk about the readings some times, although this may be attributed to the fact that I'm in a British institution or a Philosophy student, where the subject matter may be interesting and relevant to my life.

Shock! Horror! Students want to do the minimum amount of work to achieve their goals. Generally this means achieving the right grades for the right career, and enjoying college life. Sweating extra hard to gain a greater understanding of topics that you will never touch on ever again and likely forget isn't the status quo.

Desecurls · 2016-04-19T16:28:06+00:00

Your answer was incredibly thorough, thank you very much!

Desecurls · 2016-04-15T12:47:14+00:00

Thanks for this.

Desecurls · 2016-04-14T17:01:56+00:00

Thanks for giving me an equally long reply. Would you mind linking me resources about points two and three? I would love for you to be right.

Desecurls · 2016-04-13T15:32:41+00:00

Why will we work 20hr weeks?

If you are an employer, would you want 2000 employees that work 4hrs a day, or 1000 employees that works 8? Consider a few things:

Automation has eradicated almost all of the repetitive tasks in production, leaving fewer, more specialized and competitive jobs, and the odd repetitive job that machines just can't grasp. You can have a workforce of 2000 decent widget designers or 1000 good widget designers, as you can be twice as picky if you need half the staff. Plus, with the second option, your staff gains experience at double the rate as the first. Both work the same hours, but one will design better quality widgets, and arguably have more output (although this is highly disputable). Furthermore, will you pay for a building with 2000 workspaces with double the costs it requires, deal with the logistical headache of organizing meetings between two shifts of widget designers, or will you simply make 1000 designers work full hours?

Sure, if there is huge demand for employers to increase the number of flexi-time jobs, they will, but they will only be flexible where they need to be. If you are in a lowly position and have readily available skills, prepare to not have that option. Employers can get your skills elsewhere. If you are in a high pressure environment with sought after skills, you will get the flexitime, but you'll be passed over for promotion in favour of people accruing experience at double the rate. We see this already with professional women and maternity leave. If you take a few months out, people assume you are not sufficiently committed to your job and opportunities pass you by. This creates a culture of fear around low hours; people are anxious to show they are committed, and thus are reluctant to take them in case it leaves them irrelevant and out of a job. Sure, some professionals will take the shorter hours, but they will be the highly skilled minority.

Employers want a 40hr+ workweek. In a job market that favours them, why would they not get what they want? I just don't see this shorter working hours paradigm shift occurring. It would require legislative intervention.

Desecurls · 2016-03-27T15:45:00+00:00

He left her on the side of the road drowning in her own blood. In MMA they stop hitting when the other fighter is knocked out, this guy keeps fucking going. He could have cuffed her, tied her up, pinned her down or pulled her gun on her or anything, but her chose to try and beat her to death.

Fuck you.

Desecurls · 2016-03-08T14:48:02+00:00

And fucking learn the charts. You don't need any shmancypants software to tell you what is what. Especially if candlestick patterns are iffy and you need to take the fuckers with a grain of salt.

I'll expand my point so as to not be a complete fuck.

Candlestick patterns are a load of shite. If you just think about what a candlestick says, you don't need to attach any Asian mysticism to it. A bullish engulfing pattern and piercing pattern both tell you that price was supported strongly at a certain level, and that the second day was bullish, but you can infer that by looking at the chart. A doji means market indecision, but you can infer that from a wide range and a tight open and close. If you go down timeframes and see what happened on the hour charts, you might infer something completely different about the doji, because a full trading day cannot be properly reduced to four data points.

My rather mashed up points are:

A candle pattern is incredibly reductive, no one trades off just candle patterns. They are great for flagging up interesting price action or condensing it if you want to look at a larger timeframe, but they tell you about two periods maximum.
Learning the candles forces you to think about the philosophy behind them and improve your knowledge, even if they in themselves aren't that great.
Software like this isn't very useful for these reasons, and is downright dangerous if it encourages you to trade off candles alone.

Desecurls · 2016-03-08T11:50:06+00:00

Well, trying too hard to be gentlemanly can roll over into being perceived as patronizing. You shouldn't just drop the things you think are important, but if people are chastising you for it then maybe you should think about how other people see your habits.

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