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by ahoyhere 14y ago
A maid is not a product, she is a person. Her hourly rate is a service, because she is physically in your home cleaning for the time you pay her for. That is the definition of a service. Unless you only buy books where the author comes to y
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
First: Books, video courses, etc. aren't training OR consulting. You write once, and infinite people can buy them. A workshop is training but it's also a product because you only have to make it once, then you could present it yourself or e
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I agree with the author about the questionable nature of women-focused events. Here's why: Do girl-only schools produce more scientists, mathematicians, or programmers? That's the vital bit of research people need to know. Some research su
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I'm a woman and when I say such things, women either A) (subtly) turn away from me and act like I'm the Crazy Racist Uncle that everybody pretends doesn't exist, or B) tell me to shut up. But the fact is, there's no evidence that these ende
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you didn't learn from an experience, chances are high the blame lies with you and not the experience. Here are some things you can easily learn from this article… "Smart" people are easily duped. Things which seem obvious at first are of
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Agreed, this is the best thing I've read on a newspaper site in as long as I can remember. What a story. True journalism at work.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"especially at a time when finances are stable at best" Sloppy reporting. Here's what the author should have written: > Just four years after the worst shock to the economy since the Great Depression, U.S. corporate profits are stronger
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You deserve a pat on the back for digging up research instead of simply spewing opinions like most other HN comments. Bravo. This is the gateway to reasoned argument. (Although, I notice, I am the only one replying to you.) People pretend t
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Proof?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I sure made some pocket money and got a job offer (editorial position) from a deal web site, which they unfortunately rescinded when one of my references foolishly mentioned how old I was.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Sad that I'm not "idiot" enough for you to mention! ;)
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I used to compile a bunch of tech-product-related coupons and discount codes and tricks for saving money on buying the hot stuff of the day (RAM, DVD-ROM drives, etc) and sell that as a report on eBay.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I think you're overstating the risk and need to be exceptional, actually. For the kinds of jobs we're talking about. # of employers who asked why I didn't list any high school on my resume: 0. # of clients who asked where I went to school:
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Get the book "The Teenage Liberation Handbook." It's a bit facile, but it's all about unschooling and how kids like you (and me, at the time) can and do succeed. Dig up the statistics on unschooled/homeschooled kids going to college. My par
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I think the confusion here is that Tobi is telling his story, not your story, and he's not telling anyone what to do. If you reread the essay and don't believe he's talking about your choices, it will make sense.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
There's also a bias if you look at dropouts as a homogeneous group, because they aren't. It's just as ludicrous to predict the same outcome for someone like me, who was always way ahead and bored to death of school, and a poor kid from the
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"So what you are saying is nice in theory but for the average mobile/web developer thinking about contracting they don't have the volume necessary to assume the risk that the market ordinarily bears for development projects." I know VERY "a
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Empathy. That's all it takes to understand how easily people get stuck, because they're not superhuman. Yes, yes, personal responsibility etc. etc. but there's no point in denying that environment (and ecosystem -- viz a viz propping up inc
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Perhaps I shouldn't have picked medicine as an example." I don't think the mistake was in picking medicine, but rather declaring things without the benefit of facts.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"The real crime is that programmers have so little time for the exploratory work that the career requires that they have to do all of that off-hours." One should be wary of making generalizations like this. "Programmers have" or "Programmer
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I don't personally find the bell ringing nearly as obnoxious as their discrimination and religious message. The iPad giving sounds like a good idea, but I agree with Livney, I hope people don't use it as another way to avoid human contact.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
No offense, but I have friends who teach in inner city schools and who mentor teens in places as diverse as Washington DC and Portland, OR. We talk about the plight of these kids all the time, and all the "obvious" stuff they don't know, an
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You've never spent time with people who were really poor, have you? A lot of people live in situations where their simplest appliances (like ovens) don't work. Or they cannot afford a real (rental) home at all, and live out of extended stay
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I wasn't talking about their nuggets — although, there are a few facts you ought to know: One, the FDA allows you to report nutritional categories at 0g if there is .9g or less per serving. A lot of "low carb" foods push this ruling to its
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
First of all, even those articles are untrue unless your time is valued at zero. Secondly, there are just as many - if not more - studies that show that junk food is, in fact, cheaper. Because weight is an obvious, but subtly wrong, measure
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If the govt were concerned with the health of its populace, it could enact a law to limit what govt-subsidized fruit and vegetables could be used for. Imagine it: only whole corn, kernel corn, and popcorn from subsidized corn. Doritos would
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Why not Google for research instead of speculating? It took me 5 seconds to find this: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-he... "Healthy eating really does cost more. That’s what University of Washington researchers
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"The first study showed that male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard diet of rat chow gained much more weight than male rats that received water sweetened with table sugar, or sucrose, in conj
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Perhaps, but the intention doesn't change the result. Who is left unprotected? The taxpayer, who's funding all this.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you believe that McDonalds is the only one stuffing natural-looking food with HFCS, you are mistaken. And while educated people expect fast food burgers to be bad for you, the salads look like a smarter, reasonable choice (even though th

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