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by ams6110 8y ago
I have no problem if all someone wants out of life is to get high and jack off. I do have somewhat of a problem being forced to pay for it.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Depends where it comes from. If it's just printed by the government, yes. If it's taxed and redistributed then in theory no, but accounting for all the incentives that taxes create on both sides of the transaction is tricky and th
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by ams6110 8y ago
When you're not paying for it in the first place, there's no "loss." It's all profit.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Fast food is pretty bad when it's fresh. It's awful after it's been in transit for 20-30 minutes or more. The idea of spending $10 or more to get a lukewarm burger and mushy limp french fries has no appeal to me.
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by ams6110 8y ago
A long time ago I used to deliver pizza. We'd never take an order like that, it was an easy way to get robbed (business was pretty much all cash in those days so the drivers always had cash on them). We'd only deliver to an actual
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by ams6110 8y ago
Students will do all kinds of "harmless" under the table stuff to get/save a little extra spending money. That's different to me than an person desperate for money to pay rent or buy food.
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's no more immoral than the business model of Deliveroo, Uber, etc. themselves. In fact it's almost exactly the same.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I nominate Buick.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Hate to think a politician could be bought for a paltry amount like $5,000. I mean, should not be able to be bought at all, but $5,000... That's nothing .
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by ams6110 8y ago
Someone has to set the example. Preferably someone influential.
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by ams6110 8y ago
For those who are really unable to work, we already have a safety net.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Really, UC tuition was essentially free before 1990? I had no idea. Is that true?
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by ams6110 8y ago
SROs have also largely gone away. Not that many of them were very nice, but better than the street for a single person with limited means.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Sounds like you had a bad experience with college but I think you raised a couple of good points: - college is in every way, dumped on teenagers as THE ONLY way forward Absolutely true in my experience. High schools are entirely structure
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by ams6110 8y ago
That's all true, but as a consumer I think a percent or two is worth the conveniences that cards offer. I pay for virtually everything with cards. I rarely even carry cash. Cash is bulky, dirty, inconvenient to get, and has absolutely
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by ams6110 8y ago
Some people are just not happy unless they are unhappy. Or outraged. Or both.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Such as... Java? (Hint, they tried that)
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by ams6110 8y ago
That does sound excessive. I've never had more than 2 rounds of interview, and even at that the first round was typically over the phone and the second on-site.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I'm in the USA, and this (probationary period) has been the case with every job I've had in the past 30 years. I've never heard of a company not doing this in fact.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I was mostly through that phase of my career before any of those things were available. Toward the end of it, stack overflow had just launched. I mostly relied on printed books for help with languages and frameworks I was using.
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by ams6110 8y ago
From what I have seen, most of the academic research principals in computer science are not actually practitioners anymore. They are more like coaches. The actual code is written by graduate students, and most of it isn't even very goo
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by ams6110 8y ago
People who make enough to have agents negotiating their salary (famous actors, professional athletes, other celebrity types) are usually looking at an order of magnitude higher compensation than even the best software developers get. At the
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by ams6110 8y ago
Agree, in the Midwest USA for example even very experienced developers are barely into six figures. Of course cost of living is a fraction of what it is in SV. And quality of life is (subjectively) better.
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by ams6110 8y ago
> software that solves the problem (poorly) now is better than software that doesn't exist. That has always been the case and is about as good a one-line summary of the software industry as I can think of.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Those are ridiculously extreme alternatives.
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by ams6110 8y ago
One problem is that the public "sales pitch" for a new tax is almost always a lie when compared to what the money is actually spent on and loopholes and exemptions that are never disclosed up front. Nobody believes that a carbon t
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by ams6110 8y ago
Not uncommon in most rural areas, from my observation. I see it weekly, more or less.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I just cancelled my Prime subscription this month. I did it online, and other than having to click "yes I really want to cancel" on three separate confirmation screens, it was pretty frictionless. My subscription was about to rene
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by ams6110 8y ago
I there anyone who is keeping track of the "probability of counterfeit" for various categories on Amazon? I've heard that phone chargers almost always are fake, and perfume doesn't surprise me. I'd assume brand-name
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by ams6110 8y ago
The IRS doesn't care about this. It's a state thing.

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