Radical Service Announcement

myponyhasamohawk · 7 days

Yeah, I imagine a white bloc would cause confusion until they realize you're not on their side.

In seriousness, though, I would be very careful about wearing all white and covering your face, especially in the South.

andreasw · 9 days

Bagpipes aside, there is a pretty memorable moment of Jesus chasing moneylenders out of the temple with a whip. If anything, the New Testament advocates for violence when it is the only thing by which powerful interests can be dislodged, but certainly does not advocate for arbitrary violence to achieve all ends.

crowdsourceforthewin · 15 days

First, you really need to be talking to your advisor about this. They know you, your program, your chances in finishing and your prospects after finishing.

With no further context, here's my advice: you should only be in grad school if you know for sure that it's what you want. Now, I'm not going to say that it shouldn't be for career opportunities, but if that's your concern, you should be somewhere with a history of placing people in careers you want to be in. The only other reason to be in grad school is because you want the opportunity for (as nearly as possible) unfettered work on a problem that keeps you up nights thinking about it. Those are the only payoffs, and if they don't sound compelling to you, cut your losses.

That said, everybody gets existential crises, so don't make a rash decision. There are so many reasons that you can feel like you're grinding your wheels to no end: you could not be sleeping enough, eating right or exercising enough; you could be stuck on a project that holds no interest for you but you didn't know what else to do; you could have just been dumped. I don't know. Again, it is a good idea to talk to your advisor, because they'll have a better idea than you of what normal progress and potential look like.

It is also worth considering that you could just not work well with your advisor. Talk to other faculty who are doing work you're interested in. Hell, if you want, take the masters, and apply to PhD programs you're more interested in that place people better.

There are a ton of options out there, so do what feels right for you. If all else fails, here's a decision making strategy: make a decision, either way, and commit to it. If, having made it, it feels like the bottom's dropped out of your stomach, cancel that and make the other.

SarahLee · 20 days

Interesting. I feel that way about Ben Stiller movies and many episodes of The Big Bang Theory, but this didn't make me cringe at all.

Though, I have started a bit early, today.

mecrio · 24 days

Writing parsers and emitters. Easily 50% of my time doing bioinformatics was translating between file formats or writing a parser to load a new format into an existing framework.

If you actually want to understand what you're doing in bioinformatics, you mainly want machine learning, and a bit of information theory couldn't hurt.

KaratInversion · 29 days

Should be fairly easy to script the majority of it... I'm procrastinating now by giving it a go...

zidar11 · 29 days

I would assume that OP was talking more in terms of choice in companies to patronize, not variety of products.

Quouar · 1 month

Absolutely. I didn't really want to get deeply into this, as it's complicated and there's rarely labor exploitation without at least the implicit threat of sexual exploitation. I was just saying that "any other servitude" does not require sexual exploitation, while prostitution is entirely defined by it, and that this is pretty much universally seen as worse, particularly when most labor can be masqueraded as capitalist enterprise.

Quouar · 1 month

defrauding an individual into working as a prostitute seems no better or worse than defrauding an individual into any other servitude

There is something so profoundly violating about forced sex that it is pretty much universally seen as worse than brutality or forced labor.

DropshipRedditor · 1 month

Not sure if you're still going... What do you spend all this money on?

effigies · 1 month

Totally agreed. Assuredly this was not a change made by choice, and I did not mean to imply a moral judgment, but rather to show how a people reacts to times of economic stress. It's true that the author frames this in terms of "German thrift", but it is interesting in that he is himself Greek, and so perhaps less likely to slip into the extreme patronizing, borderline-colonial idioms that have been surrounding the whole Greek collapse.

Typically, people make out either as if the Greeks are profligate wastrels who basically stole from Europe and are now reaping what they've sown or that they're completely blameless dupes being wrung out by the banks. (I happen to be inclined to the latter, though I don't know that blame is really a worthwhile metric.)

Bypassing all of that, this looks at the changes in Greek culture from the perspective of Greek culture, noting that, while previously any sign of frugality was seen as stingy, now shows of excess are socially unacceptable.

therealpersona · 1 month

That doesn't even require tinfoil. If you thought the government was doing it to keep you subdued, that's tinfoil-worthy; that Congress protects any entrenched industry is just common knowledge.

DrJulianBashir · 1 month

I post this not to be argumentative, as I'm not emotionally invested in any of these three languages, but you might find this old usenet post informative: http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

DrJulianBashir · 1 month

It's more a derivative of Objective C, I believe.

FairEnough · 1 month

Presumably a scam is harmful, otherwise it's just a trick.

With shark fin soup, the scam is that people are paying a very great deal for broth with a tasteless bit of cartilage floating in it. No matter how tasty the broth may be, they're paying for the cartilage, and are being sold it as a luxury.

It's a scam in much the same way that diamonds are a scam.

FairEnough · 1 month

I don't know. Shark fin soup seems like a fairly big scam, and one that's far more harmful than simply taking some money from people who can afford it and don't know the difference.

effigies · 1 month

And it looks like they won't report it as a late payment to credit agencies, and for people with relatively small lines of credit, that may be worth the money not to take the hit.

Prestigeo · 1 month

Does it have USB tethering working, yet?

DrRichardCranium · 1 month

For a version that wasn't posted on April Fool's: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/12/city-ikea-built/816/

00boyina · 1 month

I sincerely doubt it, at least for Occupiers. From what I saw, Smith's op-ed was taken as confirmation of the culture within the bank, but there wasn't a whole lot of sympathy for the guy. (See willis77's comment for an example of the general feeling.)

twolf1 · 1 month

I love how this is good press. Verizon and AT&T have decided to stop fucking customers in this particular way. Isn't it great?

And not only will they stop, they'll stop in a bit:

"AT&T made the right decision to end cramming by August,"

How benevolent.

Sumpm · 2 months

The code is now up on GitHub. (Also at AusIV's BitBucket, but he's not maintaining and I use git.)

I worked on the early stages of this with AusIV, almost 4 years ago now, and I think he last touched it 2 or 3 years ago. I've begun to update some of the utilities so they'll compile on 11.10 x86_64.

Feel free to play and get it working and submit whatever changes you like. I don't have a ton of free time, but I would like to get it back to a working state this spring/summer.

magister0 · 2 months

This seems like a great opportunity for OWS. As people see the institutions of faith sacrificed at the altar of profit, they may be more sympathetic to the message of people decrying the system. If OWS occupies the churches and lets people get on with their religious services while the banks (and state) try to stop them, that would be a huge PR boost, I should think.

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