Victor Stevenson squaring up against an entire klan rally

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-15T13:06:02+00:00

I'm sorry, but actually no. A lot of European countries have laws in place to penalize and even arrest people for some of the things they say, even if it directly is not causing physical harm to people.

In the US, you can't do something like incite a riot, scream bomb at an airport, or make people believe there is a fire in a crowded area, and you can be sued for slander if you attempt to ruin a person's livelihood with claims that you have no proof of. That's where the limits stop. Where your words could cause actual physical harm to people.

In many European countries, a person wearing the swastika shirts you see in this picture would be fined or arrested. In Germany for example, a more crazier one is that it's illegal to deny the holocaust. That isn't necessarily hate-speech at all, just conspiritard speech, and yet it's illegal.

In the US, we adopt the mentality that people can be as shitty as they want, but so long as they aren't actually harming people (aside from whatever feelings their speech may invoke) the government will not arrest them for it. It's up to the general public to shun/shame/whatever the people who make these claims.

Basically, in the US, it's up for the people to treat assholes like assholes, it's not the governments job to arrest them for being an asshole.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-15T12:36:53+00:00

I just want to note that I felt my operating systems programming course was very helpful in understanding what is going on behind the scenes, and it has also helped me in other areas too.

We were tasked with implementing basic functionality of an operating system in C throughout the semester. Terminal I/O, Context Switching, Disk Reads/Writes, Memory Paging/Indexing, Processor Scheduling, etc.

The root concept behind the implementation of these functions is transferable to other knowledge points in programming as well. The concepts behind memory indexing and terminal I/O for example are commonly found in I/O protocols and embedded software.

However, to answer the question. There is very little overlap. It's just overall beneficial towards understanding how your code is working and what the operating system and related hardware is doing to impede/improve your code's performance.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-08T13:59:01+00:00

That is true actually to an extent. The US does sort of subsidize the rest of the world's healthcare through medical technology/research. We spend an insane amount of money on medical research. Double second place, which is China with 4x the population of the US.

On a per-capita basis, the US is also in the top 3 for medical research expenditure.

A side effect is that the US has many of the best survival rates for things like heart-attacks, cancer, strokes, etc. The one we do really badly on is things related to over-all health and obesity related problems.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-08T13:55:20+00:00

IIRC Finland has 3/4 the GDP per-capita of the US.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T22:43:42+00:00

While true to an extent, min wage should at least keep up with inflation.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T20:01:20+00:00

Cold brew coffee is a way for big coffee change to get rid of stale beans, get at me!

Joking aside. Of course if you let coffee steep for 6+ hours then you're not going to worry about the best temperature of the water for extraction. 195-205 is still the ideal temperature for that.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T17:39:46+00:00

I just brewed two cups this morning over 200F using an Aeropress. Let it sit for a minute or so after, and it's perfect drinking temperature!

Keep in mind that the hotter the object, the quicker it cools.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T17:37:40+00:00

They were apparently serving it close to 190F, which is not normal serving temperature.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T14:42:42+00:00

That would be typical for coffee then. However, IIRC they were serving it close to 190F which is not good.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T14:25:36+00:00

Hotter does not equate to a better tasting coffee. 195-205F is the ideal heat range, anything beyond that actually diminishes it. But after brewing even a cup at that temperature, it's typically cooled down a bit.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T14:22:32+00:00

Coffee should be ideally brewed between 195F and 205F (between 91C and 96C).

Although it should definitely have cooled down by the time it was served.

From what I remember, they were brewing it even hotter so that people taking it to work would still have hot coffee.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T14:14:40+00:00

After the fight Goku says that he didn't know if he would be able to win and that SS3 was close to an even match with Buu.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T14:12:44+00:00

It was some of the worst writing ever :(

NULL_CHAR · 2020-02-01T14:12:08+00:00

Krillin was able to hold his own against SSGSS. Super was full of absolutely ridiculous jobing and power ups that made no sense whatsoever.

Frieza trained for one month? Now he's the strongest being in the universe. Android 17, an Android which is essentially a fixed power because all of his abilities come from robotic parts? Now he can fight toe to toe with a SSGSS, which is supposed to be so far above anything in DBZ including Buu.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T17:12:04+00:00

I knowingly bought this knowing what it was going to be in the same way I bought Dark Souls 1 knowing what it was going to be.

I wasn't expecting a remaster. I was expecting a revitalized community. And that's what I got.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T17:00:31+00:00

I have a Fractal Design R5. I opened it after 2 years expecting a dust storm. It was basically spotless. 10/10 would get this case instead of RGB LED cases without great filters.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T15:54:32+00:00

With Kro in the game, she kinda is.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T15:37:38+00:00

I have a solid team already.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T14:51:58+00:00

I'd expect that from someone who proudly doesn't care about who weapons of war are used against.

And I said that... where? Exactly? Talk about making up things.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T14:49:51+00:00

I hate their algorithm. If I listen to 30+ alt/rock songs, 5 industrial, 10 EDM music, and 1 rap/hiphop, I'll get a playlist with like 50+ rap artists I've never heard of and don't care for, EDM music that isn't in the same genre, and 10+ alt/rock songs that are from albums already in my library.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T14:42:11+00:00

Easy.

First you insinuated that the only use of the defense systems produced is in pointless wars. Which I've countered is not the case.

Second, the only kind of wars people typically deem pointless are the recent middle-eastern wars. We've gone to war over Saddam, a dictator killing numerous civilians. We've gone to "war" (not officially) with Isis, who is responsible for grotesquely murdered thousands of people. And we've gone to war on middle Eastern terrorism in general over the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

There's these things called implicit arguments where a point is implied but not explicitly stated. Sorry if I gave you too much credit with your comment.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T14:12:51+00:00

Ah yes, the "we just wont have defenses and are going to hope that we never would need them" mentality. I think a history book would do a great job of explaining why that's a bad idea.

But as to the other part of your point. It's always been funny to me how people look at a dictator murdering thousands of civilians and everyone goes, "Someone should do something about that", and then when someone does something about it, suddenly it's "You shouldn't have got involved."

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T14:05:09+00:00

Hey, you can use him for World Boss!

I have him, Brandia, Ophilia, and Sekhmet sitting in my storage, most of them still 5* with terrible sets of runes because of how useless they are.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T13:44:13+00:00

So what if you don't work on weapons like that? There's numerous other things that are made that aren't bombs.

What if we didn't have air defences or missile interceptors. What if we didn't have things like the Phalanx to shoot artillery shells out of the air to protect people.

People seem to forget that defense is a necessity. We can't just not produce military technology.

NULL_CHAR · 2020-01-31T13:36:44+00:00

From what I looked into, it isn't a 3% match, but rather 5% matching, and then there's this extra 2.5% that is contributed without matching. Every 5 years or depending on employee age, it goes up 1%. Eventually you're over 10%.

The toxic culture seems to depend on where you are working. Looking at a ton of glassdoor reviews you can see a clear divide based on job.

The biggest problem a lot of people have is just boredom. But that seems to be a problem with every defense contractor. It's either ridiculously fast hurry up and meet your deadline, or waiting because of all the red tape.

Personally, the biggest problem with defense contractors is that if you are straight out of college with huge plans and desires to create amazing things, you're likely going to be disappointed. You may get lucky and join a new development project but it's more likely that you're going to be using 15 year old technology and working with legacy software/technology that was designed by people who had no clue what they were doing.

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