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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Do you have evidence for this happening after marriage? The only case I have literal evidence against your case is Physicians in the US. About a quarter of physicians marry other physicians, and this has been trending up for a long time: h
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
It’s more of an observation. And it applies to the examples you have. In fact, I can’t think of a bigger realm for snake oil salesmen than I the realms of food/nutrition and alternative medicine
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Sounds like a watered-down version of the 90s. I feel like everyone was a “stock trading genius” back then, and “finance gurus” were so plentiful you couldn’t avoid them. Every generation needs to re-learn the financial mistakes of the prev
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
It’s really basic social studies in the “world history and cultures” category, I would expect them to learn it in high school. The US had a literal race based “caste-like” system for much of its history. In the South this didn’t end until t
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Or, ya know, they can’t raise prices that high because people will just stop buying eggs and they will stop making money. Eggs are very much an elastic good. Does no one understand basic economics anymore?
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I’m sorry this is happening to you. The job market is very bad right now by tech standards, but people are definitely still hiring. A few things I notice from my very-myopic view as a backend engineer at a large-ish tech company: - Hiring h
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Texas, and other “Southern” states are like this. The people with old power in these places are a special breed. This part of the country seceded in the not-too-distant past, and there are still confederate rallies in Texas to this day. It’
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Have adds been getting worse? Adds I get in the last 3 years have been way too good for me, so my personal experience has been the opposite (or maybe not? Definitely makes me want to buy more stuff). I guess I’m easily targetable
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
The mods have a heavy hand, stuff gets loudly or silently removed all of the time. Dang seems to work full time at it, and I suspect he’s not the only one on the team doing so
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Here in Texas, it’s a hard working truck if it ever even transported a couch.
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Microsoft is pretty famous among engineers for not paying unless you force their hand, but totally willing to negotiate if you do. Which is pretty much business 101, so I’m not sure why anyone is surprised. Line up another offer and watch t
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
1) there is lots of opportunity in the market 2) the opportunities in the market are less common and more difficult, in labor, luck, or expertise required than the past 3 generations experienced. How are these two contradictory things? Put
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I don’t get the vehemence on these threads. If you don’t like it, work for someone else. There is and always has been massive diversity in tech work arrangements. I’ve met engineers who have been remote-only since the 80s. Most large compan
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
The Bay Area is about the same population as Finland. And it has a higher gdp per capita than Finland. I agree that we are working with more “technical debt” than Finland is, and copy-pasting exact policy won’t work. But strategically I don
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I think the problem with “food deserts” (kind of dramatic term but that’s probably the point) is that they are significant hurdles for the working class (maybe they can order, but can they justify that in their budget?) and serious issues f
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
East side as in Bellevue? I moved from Bellevue to Seattle proper because I found the neiborhoods there to be insufferable. Like you mentioned: no desire to socialize, hostility to any kind of group activity, serious mistrust of neighbors,
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
People used to be able to maintain large remote friend circles before the telegram was invented. If they could do it by snail mail, you can do it with a phone and no social media.
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
People here seem to go straight to politics on US healthcare, but does anyone ever stop to consider that this really is a complicated problem? I’ll look at two political extremes: - in a pure-market healthcare situation, these hospitals lik
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
It’s always odd to me people ask this, because you see it all the time if you work on big infra. It just goes to show my experience at mostly infrastructure at big tech is just not normal. Anywhere there are extremely large or technical com
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
It’s possible your story is true for bigger schools, im not sure on that. My school graduates 5-10 people per year, and I add all of them on LinkedIn, every year. So I feel I have a good handle on how many are getting jobs.
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
For CS grads, it’s got to be close. I’m sure it’s not exactly 100%, every year, forever, but I’m well involved in the program and can’t think of a single student since I graduated that didn’t land a job out of college, and the program adver
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
The article you linked is about ALL STEM majors taken combined. Computer Science degrees have a much much better placement. Also the above commenter mentioned that it needs to be a “real” comp sci degree, not one that calls itself comp sci
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Also now “The Passenger”, it strikes me as a lot like Suttree and is a surreal experience to read. If you’re crazy, you can also try “Stela Maris”. just be warned it’s not a story, it’s a philosophy book that doesn’t even try to pretend it’
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
The linked examples literally contain cases where the signer had diagnosed dementia or was tricked in an extremely dubious way (e.g “oh this is the exact same contract as last time just sign it”). And the contracts were upheld. Idk if it wa
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I think you’re strawmaning, and extrapolating the worst possible argument from the broad statement. I’ve not seen western urbanists who are extreme. I think every one would say “ya, that sounds nice”. For example, it’s usually the conservat
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Throw in a small cafe, local pub, and corner store, and that looks like a really nice little spot. Give it 30-50 years and people will have painted them different colors, and it won’t look like a retirement home
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I disagree that the McMansion is back. Leave it in the 1990-2008-ish time frame. The “new ones” I’ve seen going up are genuinely better, have much more sensible layouts, and don’t try the same goofy throw-design-out-the-window stuff the McM
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I have one even better, as a TA, twice I had students turn in 100% identical printouts of their code, with only a couple of variable name changes. Like someone grading them just wouldn’t notice. In one case it was 6 students who all turned
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Of course they’re choosing their best option. Because there aren’t better options. That’s the point of pushing these discussions right? So that as cities evolve over the next generation, Americans get more options
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
It’s really weird to me that Americans automatically assume that “soccer mom” suburban lifestyle is just the default way to raise kids. Like it’s normal for kids (children! without jobs!) to need to travel 20 miles per day for their daily a

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