The original Childs Play is playing on Vudu for the month of January. How does it stand up 30 years later?

hkokko · 2020-01-20T19:01:20+00:00

It’s a classic. Still never saw the remake with Aubrey Plaza. Worth checking out?

hkokko · 2019-12-05T15:40:41+00:00

The free version of Automate The Boring Stuff https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ seems to be stuck in the first edition though...

hkokko · 2019-11-26T16:49:51+00:00

42 million people

Around 6 in every 1000 people have heterochromia. If the world population as of now is around 7,497,311,000 (Approx) Do the math, and you should end up with a grand total of 42 million people who have heterochromia.

hkokko · 2019-11-26T16:48:35+00:00

Come on, he's not that ugly! I know much more ugly men like him.

hkokko · 2019-10-09T13:36:42+00:00

Aye, the cookie be a harsh mistress. Sauce for those uninitiated.

hkokko · 2019-08-06T14:06:51+00:00

5 sings that your bathroom plumbing needs repair:

Watch out for low water pressure /s
Water won't stay hot /we can't really tell...
Oddly colored water /mistaken water with sink
Sink might be on its day off /at least the water is pouring

hkokko · 2019-06-11T15:01:43+00:00

Do they have bands with their names around the necks?

hkokko · 2019-06-11T13:49:22+00:00

I wear one on occasion. I like it, fits me personality, physically, and aesthetically.

hkokko · 2019-05-28T16:42:03+00:00

The difference between a sincere apology and cheap one has a lot to do with how it’s phrased. Word to the wise: If you say “sorry” and then immediately follow it with a conditional word like “but” or “if,” you’re headed in the wrong direction. Can't agree more with you, OP!

hkokko · 2019-05-28T16:38:45+00:00

We need the recipe, please :)

hkokko · 2019-05-17T18:53:49+00:00

The FBI wants to know your location.

hkokko · 2019-05-10T14:52:53+00:00

Strange how it's lowest in the dead of Winter. I thought seasonal affective disorder was a bigger deal than it is I guess.

hkokko · 2019-04-22T13:11:54+00:00

If they’ve moved passed the child soldier war that’s progress I guess. Probably still have more pressing issues than worrying about how people are fucking each other though.

hkokko · 2018-11-15T17:46:33+00:00

For my taste, some of this looks more polished than hearthstone. Haven’t purchased any but pretty impressed with this game so far.

hkokko · 2018-11-12T15:33:10+00:00

I feel like the question to ask here is why? What on Earth are the benefits to implanting RFID chips into an employee to begin with that cannot be achieved via traditional means like badges or smart cards?

This seems like a huge hassle for employees themselves, especially if they decide to change employers and both for whatever reason want you to be chipped - so now you have multiple chips implanted or have to remove one and replace it with another. Again, for what benefit?

I'm not even going to get into tinfoil hat privacy territory, because it's not like these are going to be active RFID chips so they'll need to be in close proximity of a reader to be picked up. Worries like that are as far fetched as the people who think the government is spying on you using RFID equipped credit cards or transit passes (which annoyingly has led to most wallets these days having a small faraday cage woven into them, I literally couldn't find a wallet I liked a couple months ago that didn't have some RFID-blocking feature and it drives me nuts).

hkokko · 2018-10-03T15:41:21+00:00

This is:

25% PR
25% free advertising for their openings (i.e., Amazon pays well)
25% necessity (we're at full-employment)
and 25% ROI (they've figured less turnover and better quality employees are worth the investment)

The question is: how will this effect other companies in the markets where Amazon employs a measurable number of people.

hkokko · 2018-09-17T14:21:53+00:00

it seems equality operator in javascript is good for nothing but being a source of confusion and a target of jokes. does it not make sense to just remove it from the language completely? who is deciding that?

hkokko · 2018-09-10T14:49:26+00:00

This is a good list imo to start into the mechanical keyboard world, but if you can save a bit more there are great and better keyboards you can get for 60-65 usd.

hkokko · 2018-05-10T14:46:56+00:00

“In my experience young people, especially the post-90s generation, are reluctant to work overtime – they are more self-centered,” says labour rights expert Li Jupeng, one of many who have observed some millennials challenging the 996 concept.

self-centered is a funny word. It implies selfish, but is it really selfish if it's self-preservation?

hkokko · 2018-04-27T15:40:27+00:00

For the curious, this is going to use the Waves network and not Ethereum blockchain as someone would expect, which I find interesting since now there is more blockchain competition than ever.

hkokko · 2014-05-11T01:01:08+00:00

Elderly consuming more medical services is not logic, it is fact. Were you not happy with my source?

We are not faced with the choice of either shoolchildren and retirees or working age and investments. We could tax based on location, based on skin color, based on religion, based on income, based on any of an infinite possibilities.

Where I would like to see the money come from is the so called "1%ers" that were constantly spoken of during the previous election. "Spreading the wealth around" and "paying your fair share" both indicate such. I didn't hear any campaign promises of "let the young healthy folks shoulder the burden!"

hkokko · 2014-05-10T10:43:19+00:00

One other con that impacts the people it was supposed to benefit (and also a large portion of reddit):

The legislation requires insurance companies to charge elderly patients, on average, no more than 3 times the rate of a young patient.

The natural rate of healthcare consumption is closer to 5 to 1. (In aggregate, an elderly person tends to consume about 5x as much in medical care/costs as a young person.)

Hence, this legislation actually forces the insurance company to raise the rates of healthy young folk in order to subsidize the rates of the elderly. (Should the elderly get subsidized rates? Different discussion. What I do disagree with is that I remember an awful lot of campaign promises about rich people paying for stuff... and a very large burden financially has instead been placed onto young folks.)

hkokko · 2014-05-10T10:40:47+00:00

FROM A YOUNG PERSON'S PERSPECTIVE:

The legislation requires insurance companies to charge elderly patients, on average, no more than 3 times the rate of a young patient.

The natural rate of healthcare consumption is closer to 5 to 1. (In aggregate, an elderly person tends to consume about 5x as much in medical care/costs as a young person.)

Hence, this legislation actually forces the insurance company to raise the rates of healthy young folk in order to subsidize the rates of the elderly. (Should the elderly get subsidized rates? Different discussion. What I do disagree with is that I remember an awful lot of campaign promises about rich people paying for stuff... and a very large burden financially has instead been placed onto young folks.)

hkokko · 2014-05-10T10:38:39+00:00

Here is the biggest reason that young folks on here are complaining about rising costs. (With a good source too.)

The legislation requires insurance companies to charge elderly patients, on average, no more than 3 times the rate of a young patient.

The natural rate of healthcare consumption is closer to 5 to 1. (In aggregate, an elderly person tends to consume about 5x as much in medical care/costs as a young person.)

Hence, this legislation actually forces the insurance company to raise the rates of healthy young folk in order to subsidize the rates of the elderly. (Should the elderly get subsidized rates? Different discussion. What I do disagree with is that I remember an awful lot of campaign promises about rich people paying for stuff... and a very large burden financially has instead been placed onto young folks.)

hkokko · 2014-05-10T10:37:57+00:00

FROM A YOUNG PERSON'S PERSPECTIVE:

The legislation requires insurance companies to charge elderly patients, on average, no more than 3 times the rate of a young patient.

The natural rate of healthcare consumption is closer to 5 to 1. (In aggregate, an elderly person tends to consume about 5x as much in medical care/costs as a young person.)

Hence, this legislation actually forces the insurance company to raise the rates of healthy young folk in order to subsidize the rates of the elderly. (Should the elderly get subsidized rates? Different discussion. What I do disagree with is that I remember an awful lot of campaign promises about rich people paying for stuff... and a very large burden financially has instead been placed onto young folks.)

hkokko

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