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by HEmanZ 5y ago
When we are yanked (or freely leap, depending on your perspective) from our deeply religious world views it can be terrifying. I remember being incredibly nihilistic and depressed for at a few years. I highly recommend diving into Philosoph
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
There is a massive tradition, spanning thousands of years, of people trying to wrestle with morality and the good life with or without a God involved. We broadly call it Ethics in Philosophy, and you can spend an entire lifetime exploring a
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
That's possibly fair. I honestly don't know much about motivating kids to learn, and I never saw successful examples growing up. Do you know of any basic theories about it or places I could read more? My problem is that I remember
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
The problem with mistakes is that there are at least two kinds of mistakes that happen in school: 1) Mistakes where a student genuinely tries but fails because they didn't quite find the right solution. 2) Mistakes where a student gets
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
"Stop overengineering" was the excuse I heard back on a rough project when I insisted we add logging beyond just the returned HTTP status code to our service before shipping to 200M+ people. But that would take an extra week or tw
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
It is not 70% of kids, and this number is not hard to look up. It has been trending around 30% for enrollment into 4-year institutions. Of those, ~60% complete the degree within 6 years. I agree that most students who got to college don&#x2
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
I mean you can disagree with me, no problem with that. I would bet I have more knowledge about shipping major search engines than you do. I have worked extensively on both Bing and Google's search engines and now work on a third very l
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
I really think you underestimate how hard it is to "roll a search engine" the size of Google or Bing. Even a company like Apple couldn't do it in anything under maybe 7-10 years, regardless of how much money they throw at the
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
I think it's important to put this book into a few contexts: - It was published in 2007. I think if you picked up the book around that time it was extremely prescient in many ways. If you hopped on the "sell anything online"
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
I don't know how residencies could not be profitable for hospitals. Hospitals receive something like $120k/yr per resident, then work residents 80+ hours/week at $50k/yr pay, amounting to right around minimum wage (for m
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by HEmanZ 6y ago
And most people don't flip burgers. The median household income in the US in 2019 was $68,000/yr [1]. In the part of the US I am from, and the parts I have lived most of my life, this affords an extremely good quality of life with
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by HEmanZ 6y ago
In the USA top 5% income is about $300k USD[1]. With the relatively low tax rates, I would expect you can take home at least $200k (depends on the state). Like the original poster said, it's not that hard to live off of $50k in most of
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by HEmanZ 8y ago
A quick search shows the average salary was $13/hr according to Glassdoor, with a range of $10/hr-$19/hr. That makes this on average a 15% pay raise, which isn’t something to scoff at, but isn’t as crazy as the pay raise of 7