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The current system in the US was not created as a program to efficiently educate a modern workforce to maintain a modern economy , so it fails miserably If anything, the problem with the US education system is that it was designed to do
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Going to college is still the optimal play for almost everyone, save the highly privileged who can actually drop out and get right back in at any time. The trades are often romanticized, but overrated in their ability to reliably provide a
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The problem is that financial pressures never improve people. Sure, extreme financial abundance can turn a person into an insufferable, amoral twat; but no one's life has ever been improved by deprivation. Should a kid spend a summer d
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It was the mid-2010s and "college dropout" was the mark of an up-and-coming genius. Headlines were questioning the need for degrees at all and billionaire Peter Thiel was awarding high school graduates $100,000 not to attend coll
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I'll agree that being a manager sucks. Being managed is worse. Corporate is hell and it's an embarrassment to us as a species that we haven't managed to overthrow it. Our current system has all the bad things of Soviet-style
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The plurality of the Jewish population is believed to be in the US (there are some issues around estimation) although it's close. As for Israelis and support for their government, that is... complicated. Unfortunately, if the Israeli s
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As a quant, you should aim for management, not software development. If you still want to code, then pick a small (but funded) company where you can be CTO and still write software. I'm only slightly older than you. You do not want a J
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these HR systems also use "bad culture fit" to encode red flags they can't legally record: health issues, political disagreements. This is absolutely the case. That said, you're probably not going to get fired over you
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His manager was definitely a power-move playing prick (although probably this way because he himself was insecure within the organization) and, unfortunately, they are exactly the sorts of people who turn estimates into deadlines. Decent ma
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This is atrocious and in a better world there would be physical consequences for people who pull things like what was pulled against OP, but ultimately, this is not unpredictable or surprising. The truth of the corporate world (we say &quot
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No. In fact, most Jews I know are intensely critical of Israel's policies and recent actions. Unfortunately, there is a degree to which antisemitism is disguised behind disproportionate criticism of Israel and the Israeli people, and i
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A big part of the problem is that the web is full of parasitic mechanics. Javascript is shit, both the language itself and most of the code written in it, but the person who suffers from shitty Javascript is... you. It runs on your computer
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I used to refer to turning 35, as a programmer, as "being turned into magicite". I'm almost 40 and I'm better than ever, but I doubt I'd get hired for a corporate programming job at this point, not that I'd wan
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That's not what the programmers want. It's how they're incentivized. If you have to meet your "they're not deadlines but, really, they are" sprint targets, then what can you do but minimally complete the ticket
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I do realize that, at least if we're talking about middle managers. It'd be a stretch to say that executives are "labor" or are "employees" except in a strict legal fashion. Executives don't work for comp
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Part of the problem is that people have been conditioned into accepting this weird binary division between Work (measurable, institutionalized, subordinate labor) and Not-Work (everything else) that doesn't exist in healthy societies.
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The corporate work week was never going to go below 35-40 hours per week. Bosses know they only get 15 good hours out of most people, if that, and it doesn't bother them as much as you'd think it would, because they get enough. It
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Given my income and my economic situation I shouldn't feel anxious, yet I can't relax thinking every hour spent watching netflix is in a way costing me ~110$. It doesn't work this way. Money is a fiction we created, a way t
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As someone who suffers from anxiety and bipolar disorder, and who has been ridiculed as not having real problems because of having worked in tech at high-paying companies--although I always got fucked over because of my disability and merel
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There's two prime examples of a publicly owned internet in the world today. One is run by the CCP and is sardonically known as the Great Firewall of China. The other is the state-run intranet of North Korea. Nothing about the Chinese
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Exponentiation is done through repeated squaring, e.g. x^21 = x^16 * x^4 * x ... = (((x^2)^2)^2)^2 * (x^2)^2 * x Integer square roots can be done using binary search, which is O(n) for an n-bit number, but Newton's metho
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Also, I know people in minority groups who are fantastic at their jobs and have had year-plus job searches. The "labor shortage" is bullshit. So many good people can't find decent jobs even today, and wages are still hilariou
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A modern religious ethnographer would distinguish between NRMs (new religious movements) and the minority thereof that are actually criminal, coercive, etc., as the term "cult" has come to imply. That said, NRMs aren't always
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These days the preferred (I hate to call it "politically correct") term for what used to be called a "cult" is NRM: new religious movement. Cult is reserved for the minority that are actually deranged, coercive, and dang
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Network lag can be worked around with concurrent programming techniques--you don't even have to use a high-performance language to do it. The problem is that concurrent programming is far beyond what the typical Jira jockey can do--bos
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You're not wrong. Ultimately, companies are run by bosses optimizing for their personal utility functions, which put them on the strategy of remaining bosses. They want reliable mediocrity, not risky excellence. Variance minimization,
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I used to be a hardcore functional programming weenie, but over time I realized that to do high-performance, systems programming in an FP language means writing a bunch of non-idiomatic code, to the point that it's worth considering C
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Have you ever lived in modern society? It's basically occupational anti-therapy keeping you busy with paperwork for rich people. And it's hugely unpopular, but the bad guys have all the resources and weaponry, so it hasn't ch
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It's grammatically correct but possibly unclear, so I edited it for clarity.
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> being "antifascist" could mean anything from protesting against the KKK, to actively working to bring down the capitalist world order (which happens to be the framework in which most companies have to operate.) I'd say I

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