Cyclists that disobey the rules of the road, but complain when motorists don't follow the rules of the road really bother me. (I am a cyclist.)
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I ask why you would even keep an account at such a bank then?
I have had accounts with 3 banks and they have all had similarly terrible experiences, if anyone has suggestions (UK based) more than welcome (halifax, lloyds and natwest are the 3 I have tried)
Nationwide is great for my needs.
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#153ageism. It's so common today that people who would never exclude women or minorities or the handicapped or whoever have no problem excluding people over forty.
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#154Living expenses.
Currently it takes nearly 30% of my income just to afford the physical shelter. Then pretty much the rest for basic necessities. Not to mention the time it takes to maintain all of this stuff. Pay bills, car maintenance, home maintenance, clothing, grocery shopping. I feel like just living takes up so much of my time.
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#155lies & laziness.
I see people around cribbing why they are not rich or can't or not being treated at par or not getting due credits. Dig in a little and you see they don't even want to work hard.
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#156The fact that most people seem to think that it's okay to get sick from the diseases of aging, get frail, suffer, and die, and that we shouldn't try to do something to fix that problem (really fix it, not just prolong suffering a bit). I think it's probably partly rationalization because they think it's inevitable (but it is not inevitable, and I'd like that to become a more mainstream view so we can hurry up and wor…
I might be the only one who thinks this around here, but I think the concept of mortality is kind of beautiful. However, ask me about that when I'm facing my own and the answer might be different.
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#157Software patents. Need to spend time and energy to get around them.
The increasingly extended copyright term. Come on, create something new instead of milking the old stuffs forever.
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#158Deception online. Tricking people into providing their personal information and reselling that information to third parties.
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#159Customer Support.
If only they knew what they know forget what the customer needs. People trained to very politely deliver long quotes without really meaning an ounce of what that sentence is. And of course not knowing much to really resolve the issue unless it is listed.
A good trouble-shooting software would be less annoying and more truthful.
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#1601. Seeing a traffic jam where every car has exactly one person in it. This is just a tragedy. 2. Job interviews that require quizzes and an "intensive" multi-stage interview process. As a candidate, I've just sent you a bunch of links to open repositories where you can review my code and offered to give you other code examples from my private repositories on request. I give you links to my previous work and letters o…
This mythical "programmer that can't program" myth has disrupted the hiring process... It's not a myth.
I'll admit it's pure speculation on my part. I have a hard time believing that ninety-some-odd percent of applicants believe they can blatantly lie their way into a position they are clearly not qualified for. How embarrassing is it to be caught in such a lie? Not every needs to be keenly self-aware to at least have an intuition about the limits and potential of their own capabilities...
Maybe I'm just not cynical enough...
update: and even if it were true, it's still a pain for qualified applicants to get through these draconian hiring practices.