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  1. Mist

    The Video Thread

    garglechimp in his native habitat:
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    Silicon Valley

    Yeah, that's the obvious connection but when you actually think about it, it seems way more like Amazon.
  3. Mist

    MTG thread

    Yeah, who wants to pay 10 dollars a pack to draft Scars Block 2 Electric Boogaloo?
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    Desktop Computers

    Achievement unlocked, MASTER RACE.
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    Silicon Valley

    Do you think Hooli is more like Google or more like Amazon?
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    This is a good point. It would have been a much better scene if he died defending her. But it could have been kinda hokey too.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Yeah old guy with no armor murderslashes 12 people is not a bad way to go out.
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    Desktop Computers

    Qualcomm and Intel NICs are good. All the others blow. The realtek NIC drivers really used to fucking suck.
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    Desktop Computers

    Shouldn't we wait until they have VNAND or similar PCIE SSDs?
  10. Mist

    Starfighter INC

    STARFIGHTER INC. by Impeller Studios Kickstarter Starfighter Inc. aims for a ??ohard-science driven, zero-g experience??? | Ars Technica Looks like the Kickstarter is just for show/free money, since it looks like they're already working on this.
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    Star Wars: Battlefront, as told by Dice on Frostbite 3 (PS4?/XBone?/PC?)

    Quake 1 and 2 mods were awesome.
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Yeah, I don't understand what market chaos is talking about where they're filling seats with underqualified people. In the north east companies are looking for super overqualified people at really lousy pay rates. Exception: defense contractors if you already have a security clearance. Then...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    I got hired by the school department at age 15 because I knew more about Windows 95 + Windows NT + networking hardware than either of the techs they had on the payroll, and because I was small enough/crazy enough to run CAT5 in the walls and ceilings of old rural New England-style school...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    I have 6 years educational IT experience and I get recruiter spam all the time too. But those starting pays (at least the local ones) aren't much better than what I make all total between the university system and my IT jobs I do on the side, and they'e not giving me a graduate degree like the...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    You realize this is completely manufactured bullshit right? They're FIRING people and replacing them with H1B visa workers. It's one thing the right and left are in complete agreement about. Just the latest of hundreds of similar examples:Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Great job for the client like losing their money? Is that the same great job Goldman Sachs does for their clients, when the lose their money then make bets against their own clients with their own money? It's hilarious that your example of meritocracy is actually about someone who's rich...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    So nothing about actually producing useful output, and everything to do with arbitrary rankings, arbitrary test scores and politics. Sounds more cloistered than academia if you ask me. At least in academia you have to publish things of merit, aka produce useful output. HAHA HOLY SHIT YOU SO...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    This is bullshit. For instance, anyone in the current startup world right now will tell you that having a goodstoryto tell investors is way more important than having qualifications or even a viable product. You know what's another word for story? Bullshit. They'll also tell you that...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Do you understand how steps work? Step 1 is work hard, which you need to do first (hencestep 1, for those who didn't go to kindergarten) to put yourself in a good position for step 2 to happen. But sometimes step 2 doesn't happen. Nearly everyone that is successful worked hard and then...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Oh fuck off. Go look at my first post. Work hard is #1.
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Step 1: Identify a field that's in an employment and/or investment bubble. Step 2: Bullshit your way into that field. This may or may not require a degree. Step 3a: Bullshit your way up the ladder in that field. or Step 3b: Spin off into a startup in that field. Step 4: Plan an exit before...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Step 1: Work hard. Step 2: Get lucky by getting one of a rapidly dwindling number of opportunities. Step 3: Step 4: Profit. Step 5: Ignore all the people who did work hard but didn't get lucky, claim the system works. Step 6: Get a large stock portfolio, stop working hard. Step 7: Let your...
  23. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    The hard drive shortage was why RAM prices got so cheap. OEMs couldn't ship PCs without hard drives, so they weren't buying up the ram.
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    Star Wars: Battlefront, as told by Dice on Frostbite 3 (PS4?/XBone?/PC?)

    If you're going to spend time hoping things, isn't it more productive to hope that it's a good game?
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    Star Wars: Battlefront, as told by Dice on Frostbite 3 (PS4?/XBone?/PC?)

    I'm going to buy this. Everything seems good except for the whole 'no space battles' part.
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    MTG thread

    Which one of us is which again?
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    MTG thread

    I think MTGO is fine. I might be biased though!
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I'm going to disregard everything you say from now on. That was so far from the truth it's not even funny.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Winter really needed to come a while ago. Unless they plan on fast forwarding us at some point like 3 years later and it's the depths of Winter.
  30. Mist

    Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

    I thought they were just going to keep going after 9.
  31. Mist

    MTG thread

    You will get to keep the cards. You can win packs. There is no skill-based matchmaking, but generally better players play 8-4s and worse players play pack-per-win (formerly just called swiss) drafts.
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    Dr. Cliff Huxtable was a mega rapist

    Like if you rape statues in the sixteenth chapel?
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    Star Wars: Battlefront, as told by Dice on Frostbite 3 (PS4?/XBone?/PC?)

    Lol you're like 10 years too late on that complaint.
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    Silicon Valley

    Na, that's not me. I'm Cunty.
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    Star Wars: Battlefront, as told by Dice on Frostbite 3 (PS4?/XBone?/PC?)

    That's not awful. Assume 4 in each DLC? Assume 4-5 DLCs. I like 48 player BF4 servers better than 64 person servers. This could be decent.
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    Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)

    Soontill Relics, the Regor Permit Sector and DB's cryptic hints.... Some form of mystery is afoot.