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Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street
  • The image in the article shows the entire thing being 20cm and the actual 'blade' portion of the toy being around 13cm long. a little longer than the blade on a pretty standard multi tool like a Leatherman.

    Is this seriously what the police were actually concerned about, I understand that it's different in the UK vs the US, but this is definitely overkill. This thing would need to be pinched between your thumb and index finger like a cigarette to be wielded and is arguably less dangerous than a fork.

  • Basic American etiquette
  • No it wouldn't.

    Even in France, arguably the biggest of the bread snobs, they call American style white bread: pain de mie (soft bread) and they call it pain grillé (toasted bread).

    This is just standard regular sliced bread.

  • Wikipedia graph for generational spans over time
  • Generations are divided like that, at least some of them.

    Boomers for example, refers to the population boom after WW2 and millennials refer to people who generally came into adulthood around the widespread adoption of the internet.

    Generally though, generations are divided into cohorts and they do have arbitrary cutoff points. Generally the goal isn't to say "this group of people experienced x event" it's just meant to say that the general cohort had similar over arching experiences in society.

    That's also why there are mixed definitions, and over lapping time periods, because not everyone identifies perfectly with their cohort.

  • Used to do this to my rule all the time
  • I know too many people whose dogs and cats died from getting run over.

    Also, I was bit in the face by an off leash dog as a child, went to the hospital, they had to stitch my lips back together.

    A "well trained dog" is very subjective and requires a well disciplined person, and a "well trained dog" can still get confused, scared, or angry.

    It's like saying seatbelts are absurd because a good driver doesn't crash.

  • When does investing become gambling?
  • But term is all relative, long term means something different for everyone.

    A four week t-bill has the same term as a hugely out of the money long call on a meme stock, and yet one is a tried and true investment strategy and the other is very clearly gambling.

    The difference isn't the time, it's the risk profile.

  • When does investing become gambling?
  • Ultimately it gets to the point of, is the risk higher than the risk of money in a bank account.

    Given that (at least in the us) money sitting in a checking account is 100% risk with guaranteed negative returns (over time inflation will outpace interest), there are investments that can generally be considered safer (bonds, tbills, etc) than just holding dollar bills.

  • When does investing become gambling?
  • This is a bad outlook, there are plenty of low risk investment strategies that are meant as income generation, and it's generally what you should switch to as you start needing to cash in on your savings, these are things like laddered tbills and dividend stocks.

    You can go slightly riskier doing things like wheeling options if your tolerance is higher.

    Investment profiles differ for a reason and the term of the investment is just part of the strategy.

    I should add that 'buy and hold' does not make something not a gamble.

    If I told you I bought a random crypto currency or penny stock with no future or fundamentals and plan to hold on to it for 10 years because I just know it's gonna hit big, would you not consider that a gamble?

  • What do you think of this prediction?
  • Stack ranking is toxic and removes individuality from a given employees expectations in my opinion.

    People should be qualified to give proper unbiased reviews. Just because someone is an excellent engineer does not mean they are good at understanding other people's expectations and work outputs.

    I worked at a company that had no 'managers' just the owner, and everyone else. I hated that I had no real way to settle disputes and every single disagreement has to ultimately be resolved by the literal one person who was in charge.

    I think there is merit to flat structures, but I don't think the extreme is always the way to go.

  • Fully Virtualized Gaming Server?
  • Yea I do, you brought up that local isn't always the option.

    I desperately want it to work for me, i just can't get it to work without spending thousands of dollars on hardware just to get back to the same experience as having a regular desktop at my desk.

  • Fully Virtualized Gaming Server?
  • What is the cost of the thin clients and are you doing this over copper?

    Are your desks multi monitor? To get the bare minimum in my households scenario I would need at least 12 streams at greater than 1080p

    For 5 seats how much did it cost versus just having a computer in each location? For example looking at hdbaset to replace just my desk setup, I would need 4 ~$350 devices, just looking at monoprice for an idea (https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=21669) which doesn't even cover all of the screens in my office.

  • Is there a way to create filter lists / community lists?

    For example, I would like to group many related communities together and then browse just that grouping.

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