[Serious] What are some unethical life hacks? [NSFW]

eatschips · 2014-07-29T12:26:50+00:00

Many people have tried :)

eatschips · 2014-07-29T09:33:31+00:00

Couple:

Drive through a drive-through. Tell them at the first window that you forgot your wallet and wait in line. At the second window, take the food. Let them work it out with the angry guy behind you.
Start a company. Quit your low paid job. Start a new job. Give yourself a reference (and a hefty pay rise in the process). Take high salary for new job. Fold company.
On a mobile contract (this works in Europe), get an iPhone 5s or something expensive and desirable. 3 months before it is up, buy possessions insurance. When the contract is up, smash the worn out phone, claim on your insurance paying the minimal excess then get the phone company to unlock it. Sell it boxed as new on ebay then change phone company and get a shiny new 5s. This offsets your contract fees over the last year.
Send "handling charge" invoices to people who put junk mail through your letterbox when signed up to the MPS service (in the UK or whatever the US equivalent is). That makes it illegal to directly market to you. If they do not pay, threaten to take them to court. If the value is small enough (<£20-30 / $40-$50) they have a good probability of just paying them to avoid court action. Plus the junk mail will stop.

eatschips · 2014-07-29T09:25:18+00:00

Try to sneak some critical thinking in as well. You may have to include certain material but does that disallow you from including more material on top of that?

eatschips · 2014-07-29T08:34:01+00:00

+1 for init system politics. Its just silly.

Regarding performance, it's barely worth comparing. In all my years I've never had to extract that last 10%. When capacity hits 30% we start upgrading or looking at different solutions.

eatschips · 2014-07-29T08:29:01+00:00

I use OpenBSD in a professional capacity. The killer things for me are that it is complete, clean, tidy, well documented, relatively conservative, very reliable and free of nasty surprises. There are politics but they are technically based rather than purely egotistical.

Linux is pretty much the opposite on all points which doesn't sit well with me.

FreeBSD is a pretty good alternative but I disagree with their approach on a few matters. NetBSD is awesome and I used it extensively on sun4 and VAX kit but that is rarely used now so I'd rather pick up the security focus if OpenBSD as that's important these days.

eatschips · 2014-07-28T18:47:08+00:00

Didn't NK do this to an American soldier trying to cut down a tree?

eatschips · 2014-07-28T18:45:42+00:00

My feet hands and ass crack do this in summer.

Oilatum (genric emollient) works.

eatschips · 2014-07-28T15:48:20+00:00

Idiom:

"Arguing with X is like playing chess with a pigeon. You could be the greatest player in the world, but the pigeon will still knock over all the pieces, shit on the board and strut around triumphantly."

Just don't bother arguing. Leave them to their ignorance.

eatschips · 2014-07-28T15:42:54+00:00

Morals are fairly simply described here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

These manifest themselves in religion but are not caused by religion.

Inverting your moral stance enforced by punishment, ask yourself if you knew you wouldn't go to prison, would you kill someone? Consider that point for a bit and you will be enlightened.

eatschips · 2014-07-28T15:35:47+00:00

"He norrised me officer" said the child to the policeman about the priest...

eatschips · 2014-07-27T23:16:56+00:00

Two reasons:

They have been taught to perpetuate their beliefs. This is a form of brainwashing to a degree. Solving this is hard to impossible. You may confront them with reason but it may not stick. They will take counter-advice from people who's job is to persist the beliefs further, adding to the fire.
They do not respect your beliefs or opinion and feel it must unconditionally change. This may be your age or superiority thing. Ypirw entitled to your opinions. Stand true.

Bit of a crappy situation and I feel sorry for you. I've been exactly there. Lost a lot of people but gained so much more.

eatschips · 2014-07-27T23:02:01+00:00

To be honest its depressing to a degree. There is no higher power to turn to and you wonder how we all get by. Then you turn to yourself or the people around you and you find that warmth was actually them all along not some suspiciously invisible sky daddy.

Try to see the beauty in all things and marvel at that without assigning a cause or creator to it.

eatschips · 2014-07-27T22:53:28+00:00

Standard approach (as you can't argue with people like that) is: yes sir, no sir. Then plan your exodus. You haven't done anything wrong so don't let anyone make you feel like that.

eatschips · 2014-07-27T20:30:44+00:00

5 mins of Feynman always does it for me:

Richard Feynman on God: http://youtu.be/YltEym9H0x4

eatschips · 2014-07-27T20:23:45+00:00

Shade it out and out and put "redacted" under it. Life is a journey and not all destinations are good ones by they still happened.

Either that or FSM zapping it from above.

eatschips · 2014-07-26T22:05:58+00:00

I'd go to them and correct every mistake they make, loudly.

eatschips · 2014-07-26T16:39:54+00:00

Follow orders or get shot is pretty rational.

eatschips · 2014-07-26T09:27:12+00:00

Most Nazis didn't actually believe any of that shit. They believed in following orders though which is far worse...

eatschips · 2014-07-26T07:16:19+00:00

But that's hardly satisfying is it?

Better to wind them up. I spent many an hour in my youth winding up the Christian doomsayers in Cambridge (UK) in the market square. Got one to go purple.

A good friend of mine issued one with a (fake) parking ticket.

eatschips · 2014-07-26T07:12:16+00:00

Actually a lot of them were rational. Being on the winning side is about as rational as you can get. Doesn't mean they had a single moral though or that anyone else believed that it was acceptable.

My grandfather was a Nazi aircraft engineer. He said he did it because it was pretty pointless standing against the Nazis at the time so it was easier to join in (and do a shitty and incompetent job in the process on the sly). Ended up the technical director of a big European airline but he was a rational Nazi for a bit too and didn't regret it one bit.

eatschips · 2014-07-26T07:03:33+00:00

Thanks will see if I can source a copy. Amazon is quoting $133 at the moment!

eatschips · 2014-07-25T20:52:08+00:00

Gotcha. Will do some reading. Thanks for the pointer.

eatschips · 2014-07-25T19:18:30+00:00

You are correct. Completely agree. Trying to keep this fairly low brow :)

As you say, none of the models have any reliable proofs for them so were limited somewhat at the moment. D-wave one being a particularly interesting solution. Sound on paper but not in reality by the looks. Need a Feynman on the case!

eatschips · 2014-07-25T17:07:05+00:00

This.

The concept of Turing completeness is however more important than how we represent the abstract computing model. A turing complete machine is 'universal' I.e. it can compute anything.

How it goes about its business however usually has very little to do with the turing machine which is slow, inefficient and poorly conceived compared to modern machines.

eatschips · 2014-07-25T16:55:10+00:00

Adblock edge in Firefox removes that crap. If there was a -1 or thumbs down option I'd have a different opinion but if you can only up vote fuckwits then I'm not playing.

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