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[meeko713]

minesweeper, real life

courtesy greg. awesome find.

opening scene of saw4. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. it's really graphic. they call this genre torture porn for a reason.

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okay. moreso just because... the guy is really goofy? i dunno

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[disquesinge]

my big issue with this essay is that it is classist, yet not looking into how classism is causing this situation. I mean, if the kids getting into college have no experiences, because they've been doing SAT prep, that means that they have had the necessary priveledge to get those resources, yet not enough to live a "normal" life and get in based on family name or something. I mean, for lower class students, the only way to get into a place like Stanford is to STUDY YOUR ASS OFF and do everything right. For upper class students, you probably have an alum parent, some money, or the opportunity to do research abroad during high school/ travel and do volunteer work in belize, etc

[meeko713]

yeah. i was thinking about this today. about your point of money affecting life experience/growth as a person.

agreed, and building on that point, i feel like money doesn't necessarily buy happiness, but it's SO MUCH EASIER to be happier when your family does not have to go crazy when cutting corners. i feel like very few broken families exist at stanford. true or false. dunno. my perception, at least.

it's just so frustrating when i look around and all of my friends do seem so rich. with such happy families. seemingly happy families.

1590!??! lol. very nice. props.

[ajent13]

so i use 3d printers at work. essentially they just layer thin strands of melted plastic on top of one another, one layer at a time. so they lay the melted plastic down for the first layer, in the shape of that layer, and just build up from there. if something folds back on itself in such a way that it wouldn't be supported by any plastic underneath it, the printer then uses a glue, essentially, that is laid down for the support. after the part is done, you dissolve the glue away in a soapy solution.

at least, that's how the printers at work function. i've used them to my uterus models.

[lambchop1117]

When you say 3d printers I immediately thought of Mission Impossible 3 where they have that machine which spraypaints the guy's face in about 60 seconds. They have such ridiculous gadgets in those series...

The Office: Why is Michael so mean to Tobey???????

To respond to the Economics issue you were asking me about. Basically you can just boil it down to opportunity cost and get the main idea without getting into serious terminology. The whole "perfectly rational" obsession in Economics is one thing that has started to kind of drive me crazy about my major. Econ people get all high and mighty about how they let logic/rationality do the talking but they rarely talk about how big some of the underlying assumptions are...like assuming people hate their jobs and just work for the money and benefits. The whole Stanford Econ department is basically libertarian and it gets a bit much

[meeko713]

that's what i was thinking too!!!!!!!!! with lasers that rotate around the object and shape the face... hahahaha

so my argument was that the opportunity cost of 1 hr of leisure is not the effective hourly wage. especially if you have a salaried job. possibly!?!? i think so.

[lambchop1117]

Yeah that's a good point. Of course, if we assume that productivity determines wages, then somebody who works that extra hour consistently will be compensated accordingly when salary is readjusted. There is lag in this, so it definitely doesn't seem to be true for the one-time case (which is what typically matters when making a decision, no?)

[meeko713]

yeah. well the argument originally came up when deciding whether or not to buy a house. and if you could save 1.5 hrs every day on your commute, turn that into an opportunity cost, multiply it out to 10 years every day, and that's how much more a good location is worth to you. but the opportunity cost for those 1.5 hrs of commute is not necessarily the effective hourly wage. was my argument. because it ends up being pretty absurd (around the range of $200k for the person that he was looking at)