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New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:52:52 +0000

The difference is the approach — they look for the cause and sometimes the cause is the blame.

When you only look for the blame, you tend to be satisfied once you reach that goal and might ignore the cause.

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:43:28 +0000

They're currently working on a Mac Pro backtrack; moving from this super-powerful tube to something modular like previous Pros

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:12:57 +0000

I think we've all made gambles despite the odds. That's a bit of an unescapable human element.

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:35:56 +0000

>but I think people know what a longshot is.

Gambling addiction and various mega-jackpot ticket-purchasing fervors are an indication that many people can't really comprehend the odds. A human can easily visualize 1 (the number of jackpot winners), but less so the scale of the 292,201,337 chances you have to lose (Powerball odds)

If you had a contest where you asked someone to pay $5 to correctly choose a single grain of rice out of 10,000lbs of rice... I doubt you'd get many takers because you're confronted with the physical reality of the odds.

It would be harder than picking a random year between now and when the first dinosaurs existed.

>Is this so much more stupid than throwing your money away on useless consumer junk?

"Junk" in the form of physical goods still holds some level of value. If you bought $1,000 of random physical goods in a year you'd more likely than not have something >$0

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "Let Consumers Sue Companies"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:28:47 +0000

The court system should be able filter (and if that's a problem they should solve it on their end), we shouldn't just throw out an entire avenue because some people abuse it

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "Why I am moving to Cleveland"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:39:46 +0000

I grew up in Springfield, MA — and I was seeing similar red flags reading his post about Cleveland. Springfield also has a very clean heart of downtown, but it's a total ghost town after 5pm and really only has one significantly sized employer (there are also museums and good places to eat in Springfield). "Clean" means nothing for a downtown area.

Real estate is also very cheap because no one wants to live there (few jobs, violence) and people struggle to upkeep the very large houses from the times when Springfield was actually prosperous.

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:04:11 +0000

good point

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:12:16 +0000

...because these companies can just go somewhere else that won't pressure them, so when cities are faced with a billion dollar tech campus or none at all they often feel like they have to bend. Cities often even cut taxes to see big companies come into town. Capitalism will always win against public infrastructure.

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 03:20:53 +0000

dude you're being pedantic about how bad nazis are, is this really worth it

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 03:19:51 +0000

no one should have that power, but fuck nazis

New comment by ahhhhhhhhhh in "Dr Bronwyn Tarr: How to live a happy life"

ahhhhhhhhhh — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:47:57 +0000

You should listen to yourself, maybe for you that means listening to someone else or maybe it doesn't.