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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I work as a DS as well. I don't think there's such a thing as "should be paid more" - the market shows us that SWE's are more highly valued presumably because there is more demand for those skills. However, this wil
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I think there is just more demand for SWEs. Nearly every company will have software engineers, but not every company has data scientists and even the ones that do will almost certainly have more engineers than data scientists. After all, yo
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Pay has a lot to do with it because if you can switch to an engineering role (SWE or Data Engineer) and have more focused responsibilities and a higher salary then that's what most of them will do. Although given the demands made for a
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Isn't it a net benefit to everyone if each country pursues its comparative advantage though? I don't see why becoming some sort of Juche state would help anyone.
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Don't most wealthy people invest their savings though? So the money is getting used, unless they are just hiding it under their mattress or something.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
This is the best online course I've ever done. Not only does it teach you loads, but it teaches you a much greater appreciation of the technology and it's really fun. I realise this sounds like an advert but honestly I cannot reco
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
In Spain, Amazon is pretty decent. I prefer it for buying general stuff just because the delivery is fast and reliable and they have a good choice of items. For important items though like my monitor, computer components, various electronic
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I mean at work you have literally nothing to gain by being honest about your views (it's not a polling booth) and could curry favour by professing the same views as those around you. Therefore, it's not surprising that this tends
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I can't help but feel that CEO's are over-valued and it's fundamentally an attribution problem as it's hard to know how much value they actually add. A comparison would be to fund managers and how the rise of index funds
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
In France that's a reasonable salary for an experienced engineer. I agree it's low for someone running the whole show, but then he is doing it as a non-profit. Tech salaries in the US are really high compared to RoW, even once CoL
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I don't support the death penalty because as has been mentioned the justice system is unreliable. But I can understand why some people do when we see so many violent offenders released only to reoffend. If people are going to have fait
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Yeah, I also played that game and had pretty much the same experience as you. Hopefully, the world has improved somewhat since the game was written.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
This is me. I have Spotify Premium for listening to music while I work but I started listening to podcasts while doing mindless chores like laundry or dishes. It's convenient to just have the one app.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Socialism is the worker's ownership of the means of production not "when the Government does stuff" Taxing unoccupied properties could help to ensure existing properties were actually used and not just held empty by speculato
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I think it's going to be hard to create regulations for an industry that largely doesn't exist yet, without strangling it at birth. The rules don't really make much sense either: > Social scoring systems, such as those lau
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, I don't think it's a good idea, just that was my limited understanding of what had happened. Honestly, I think we'll only solve it via legalisation as anything else just leaves the money in the hands of the drug cartels
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Within the EU? That's an exception due to the freedom of movement rules which don't really exist anywhere else.
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You can usually infer quite a lot from income data anyway given that wealth and income tend to be quite closely related. Obviously, there are exceptions but in general there is a strong correlation. Furthermore, Piketty and other researcher
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
It's probably due to the issue that Piketty noted in his book, getting reliable and comprehensive data on wealth is far, far harder than doing so for income. I agree with your criticism but it doesn't seem entirely honest when the
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Exactly, I live in relatively wealthy Western Europe and emigrating to the United States would still be a hell of a lot of work. It's not 1900 where you can just jump on a boat. Comments like the one you quoted just seem completely div
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
>You get bigger, more violent cartels. Are bigger cartels actually more violent? I thought a lot of the history of the Mexican cartels was the Government almost collaborating with some of them because having one dominant cartel resulted
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
But except for the interest that is still money going to the landlord as they have the property itself.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
My dad has a 3d TV and I found the main issue was just the fundamental physics - like unless the TV is absolutely massive like a cinema then there are fundamental limits on how "3D" it can appear. This meant that even the relative
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Aren't male children referred to as Master? It sounds terribly old fashioned though.
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I quite liked the series of blog posts called Hypermodern Python: https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-01-setu...
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Like the other commenter, I was also expecting them to use Poetry. It's the best one I've tried so far.
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Yeah - I'm amazed this is the first comment that has brought it up. If you need to identify the passenger as child/adult (especially for something as safety critical as this) then it should be its own field.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
But why is it even using the title to determine whether or not they are a child? The whole thing is just bizarre - I guess it was outsourced to some chopshop.
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Yeah, disconnecting can be hard. I was one of the guys who always left my laptop in the office. But I'm not working extra hours every day, and given the time I save on commuting and lunch hour and being able to do various chores during
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I didn't mean sports clubs. I don't like sports much either other than the gym, where I go alone. But in my city Meetup.com has a huge amount of clubs and groups for basically anything, and I'm in Barcelona so the city isn&#x

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