I tried to read the article. But then I got to the end of a sentence, and there was an exclamation point! They should be reserved for truly remarkable things. If you have more than two in an article that size, you're devaluing them! I stopped counting at five! Just got annoying.
This sounded pretty cool until I realized they didn't mean "Technology Group Promises Scientists Their Own Clouds" literally.
Seems like once you've got the world creation piece down pat the rest should be easy enough.
Just a matter of adequate storage then.
do you know how fucking hard it would be to resurrect someone... like, really? the persistence of consciousness alone... or magic. a world with magic is not compatible with the world we think of ourselves in.
It's just a matter of restoring from a backup. That's what backups are *for* anyways.
By the way; what the fuck are Rite Aid and CVS?
They're two large drugstore chains in the US. CVS has locations in almost every state (looks like about 5 or 6 don't have one).
And, quoting from Rite Aid's site
With approximately 4,600 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia, we have a strong presence on both the East and West Coasts. Rite Aid is the largest drugstore chain on the East Coast and the third-largest in the United States
That's the only one that bothered you?
If you're fat enough, that's not really a problem.
In rural Illinois you'd pay $500/month mortgage on a reasonable 3 bedroom home in a safe middle class neighborhood, in Dallas you'd pay maybe $700, in Albuquerque you'd pay $800, in Miami you'd pay $1200. So, the biggest gap there is $700/mo. That's $8,400 a year.
I paid around $1300 / month to rent a 2 bedroom apartment roughly 30 miles east of Manhattan. Was a decent but not great neighborhood. And this was 10 years ago. Mortgage + taxes for a decent sized house in NYC suburbs can easily run you over $3k / month. Now your biggest gap is $2500 / month, or over $30k a year. Other expenses add up as well. I've often joked that the nice thing about being a tourist from the NYC area is you barely notice how much you're getting gouged for food at tourist traps. It's a comparatively small markup.
And your sister might make that, but the average salary for a teacher in the US (across all levels of experience) is close to $50k.
Going to quote a bit selectively from various spots for a second here...
My sister-in-law is a teacher for a high school in NJ, and makes over $80k a year.
If those high salaries are in Silicon Valley or New York, though, they might not seem as high as half the same rate would in Omaha, or Houston, or Raleigh.
Emphasis mine.
If the highly paid programmers are skewed towards certain high cost of living markets, then it's fairer to compare salaries against other professions in those same markets, and not nationwide averages.
Are these concerns listed anywhere? I don't want to assume they're unreasonable or far-fetched without having seen them. Or is "unintended consequences" about as much details as was given during lobbying?
Yeah, couldn't help but notice that the basis for the whole article is also the piece with nothing to back it up.
That would at least be interesting. And you might even get some straightforward answers. Though I think the overall hostility might be greater. Florian isn't getting questions like "How do you think your enemies will kill you?"
Is there anyone out there who you think would be even less well received by the slashdot audience than you? If so, who?
I suppose this is where I'm supposed to be indignant because the language I use got listed. But, I suppose it's fair. Ruby has always been one of the trendier languages, regardless of its utility.
Really struggling to avoid defending it, though.
Feel free. I mean, perl is on that list, and as much as I'd love to see every line of perl vanish from the face of the earth, there's no way in hell I'd say the language is on the verge of extinction.
If you're thinking that ruby isn't headed for the trash heap, you'd be right too. And you don't have to like (or dislike) it to see that.
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