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by charlesu 6y ago
> When you put it before the voters as America's relevance to the international order versus their houses, jobs, and communities, they're gonna choose the latter. It’s sad because they’re not getting those things through nation
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by charlesu 6y ago
Interesting. According the FBI data in my previous reply, white men are far more likely to be driving drunk, statistically speaking. I guess we should teach cops to pull them over far more often than everyone else, right? That would be a si
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by charlesu 6y ago
Seems like a bad strategy. America’s technological and cultural relevance depends on the internationally mobile professional class.
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by charlesu 6y ago
It depends on the threat. If the United States actually descends into any real chaos they can and will bail. For now, they can just move to their second home in Montana. But if gets bad, they’ll leave. They always do.
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by charlesu 6y ago
I think you’re right. But what people don’t realize is the the rich and the even the upper class aren’t stuck with this country and generally don’t feel much allegiance to it. They can benefit from lax regulation and low taxes and political
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by charlesu 6y ago
> They look at how childish the left has become and have decided the right is less evil. The left is childish? President of the United States literally tweets gifs of himself beating up CNN on Twitter. We live in differently realities. I
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by charlesu 6y ago
NYC is a corrupt disaster? It's one of the largest economic centers in the world. It's fine. Maybe you just don't like large cities. The MTA is struggling but it has nothing to do with "Democrat rule" and everything
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by charlesu 6y ago
Like that time a professional athlete was blacklisted from his league for kneeling silently during the national anthem? Is that the cancel culture you're talking about?
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by charlesu 6y ago
Do you support child labor laws, weekends off, and reasonable working hours? Because if you do, I got news for you...
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by charlesu 6y ago
What is a "statistically high crime demographic"? Men? It's men, right? Statistically speaking the vast majority of violent crime is committed by men [0]. [0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012&#x2
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by charlesu 6y ago
> I have a lot of family who have views which would terrify liberals, but I know these people are also not evil but just have had their own life circumstances shape their views. Like what? What life experiences have shaped their views to
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by charlesu 6y ago
Restructuring to low tax, low regulation won’t fix anything. That’s been our position at the federal level for years and it doesn’t seem to do much but lead to worse outcomes with less accountability. It does further enrich the wealthy and
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by charlesu 6y ago
It's unsurprising that an algorithm would optimize for the same kinds of outcomes as those of actual health professionals. Garbage in. Garbage out.
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by charlesu 6y ago
My point is that these criteria are largely meaningless. It all depends on what you're working on. In some jobs, you'll occasionally need to write a recursive function. In others, it's probably a benefit if you can't.
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by charlesu 6y ago
I'd argue that not being able to program in C marks someone as not serious about programming, but that's mostly because I know and like C.
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by charlesu 6y ago
Candidates talk. If we hear that a company has a terrible recruiting process, we'll generally avoid it. This is especially true of qualified candidates who are heavily recruited. You'll send an email or a LinkedIn message to a can
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by charlesu 6y ago
> I think many landlords would prefer a potential to pay (owing rent) than full eviction and being forced to lower rent and uncertainty wouldn't they Every land lord thinks they'll be able to rent their apartment, hence the n
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by charlesu 6y ago
The rust belt cities are booming. Akron, Ohio is up 7%. So is Cleveland, Madison, and Toledo. Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Scranton are up even higher. [1] These are figures from before the pandemic. The idea that the rust belt has lots of
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by charlesu 6y ago
Not sure that's true. L8 at Google is a total compensation of >$500k. You can afford to live on that in the Bay Area. If you leave Google for a job in Raleigh, you're probably going to take a massive pay cut. Remember, the aver
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by charlesu 6y ago
Can you name some? I would gladly leave my HoL city for a cheaper one with great job opportunities in technology (not necessarily at a tech company) and cheap housing. The only city that seems to have all those things is Minneapolis. Even A
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by charlesu 6y ago
Gluing together "bits of framework boilerplate" can be immensely valuable. There's no shortage of mid-career engineers at FANG doing just that.
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by charlesu 6y ago
You're surrounded by the children of the elite, who model the etiquette and behavior of their parents. After a few years, you tend to imitate them and that allows you to move in those circles effortlessly. That gives you access into hi
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by charlesu 6y ago
Pretty sure no one pays for their own social security at this point.
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by charlesu 6y ago
I'm not saying market forces are categorically bad. I'm saying they're bad at some things. Market forces are terrible at distributing housing, healthcare, and primary education. As with most things, there's a happy med
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by charlesu 6y ago
The Near South Side is a desirable neighborhood and the situation there is as I described. It's small condos with exorbitant HOAs. Do you mean Bronzeville?
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by charlesu 6y ago
How is that racist?
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by charlesu 6y ago
There's nothing to discuss because you don't really have much of an argument. "Look around. Things are better than what they were" doesn't negate the fact that market forces are bad at distributing resources. You ca
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by charlesu 6y ago
Maybe higher education shouldn't be a market.
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by charlesu 6y ago
> Look at the wealth, convenience, leisure and abundance all around you. Even people with lower income experience high standards of living. The system we have now is not without fault, but it has done better than any other before in meet
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by charlesu 6y ago
Do you live in Indiana? Did you move ten years ago? I can't think of a single safe neighborhood in Chicago or its surrounding suburbs that are $150k today.

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