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by dikdik 9y ago
There's very few people that would not be deep in poverty if they only received 2/5 of their wages. I spend 1.25 days a week working just to afford rent (roommates, very crappy construction, no AC, no central heat, semi-decent are
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by dikdik 10y ago
Which of the companies paid the best/has the best benefits? If it's the tech giant, it's very possible they attract better candidates because they offer more.
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by dikdik 10y ago
I have never heard of that, will check it out. Thanks.
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by dikdik 10y ago
No, he just took every precaution he could to prevent his identity from being linked with the sample he sent.
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by dikdik 10y ago
Do you plan to have children in the near future? Are you currently pregnant? Do you prefer men or women as romantic/sexual partners? How old are you? What religion were you raised with? Do you currently attend a church? >Why is this
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by dikdik 10y ago
A friend of mine did this when he used the service. Used the office of an acquaintance as his address, a fake name, and paid with a pre-paid Visa card that he bought in cash.
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by dikdik 10y ago
There are already companies out there using DNA sequencing for some absolutely bullshit products...Vinome comes to mind, they suggest wine you might like based on your genome. Personally, I'm all for it though. It's a way to have
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by dikdik 10y ago
I used to work for a medical lab and worked on a lot of projects that involved aggregating and cleaning medical data to sell. Often it would just go to pharma companies so they could target the best places to sell their drugs. Anyway, it&#x
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by dikdik 10y ago
I did an undergrad in biotechnology which was effectively worthless, could barely make a dent on my 20k in undergrad debt. Now I've got a MS in bioinformatics and while I got a slight raise, I also had to take out more loans for the se
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by dikdik 10y ago
I fall in this category and I would love to be a stay at home husband, not sure about wanting kids though. I'd do all the domestic duties happily and work on my own projects with my freetime, what a dream that would be!
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by dikdik 10y ago
I have the same reaction to the word "opportunity" thanks to some pretty horrific past managers (who of course had MBAs).
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by dikdik 10y ago
While it should be, it's not. There has been lawsuit after lawsuit of pharma reps that promote off label uses of drugs among many more egregious acts (typically at the behest of the pharma companies).
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by dikdik 10y ago
Yes, I know a TON of doctors and used to work very closely with about 50 of them. Well the solution to your problem is not to inundate them with misleading or false information from someone whose entire base of scientific knowledge comes fr
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by dikdik 10y ago
WHAAAAAAT?! You don't hang around scientists much, do you? The people researching and making these drugs do not make a very good living. Not caring about your salary is seen as a mark of a good scientist, I've heard it from many,
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by dikdik 10y ago
>The notion that every practicing doctor has enough free time - or is even smart enough - to keep up on the latest pharmaceuticals, is ridiculous. That's part of the doctor's job, if they can't keep up with new medical&#x2
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by dikdik 10y ago
It could be a cultural thing, they want those that care more about having fun than just keeping their nose down and doing the work. Or they may be want people who aren't very bright because they might be willing to take more abuse from
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by dikdik 10y ago
Interesting. I suppose that could have some effect, but I was not even born until housing discrimination was over with and when I moved into my small town it was largely farmland and not much of a suburb until a decade later. Further, if ho
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by dikdik 10y ago
Isn't free speech restricted in certain contexts. Like you can't incite a riot or run into a building a yell 'fire!' to rile people up? Stoking fear/attempting to create societal tension regarding race/class&#x
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by dikdik 10y ago
Only in some areas. I grew up in one of those flyover states, according to wikipedia the demographics of my town were 97% white while I was a teenager (~94% white now). I much prefer being in more diverse areas, but I don't think where
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by dikdik 10y ago
So you are against the ability for people to declare bankruptcy then? Many boomers that spent beyond their means and lost their homes in 2008 were able to walk away from their loans. While they had a house to "give back", that ass
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by dikdik 10y ago
And what happens when you switch majors? All of your scholarship money gets revoked? Most schools do not require you to declare a major when applying or during the freshman year. Most people that have a major in mind when entering college e
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by dikdik 10y ago
> It was weird because he is such a staunch right-wing kind of guy, yet here he was putting money towards what seems like a very left-wing socialist idea. Many Democrats where I live, Southern California, find these ideas quite repugnant
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by dikdik 10y ago
If farm work paid 200,00$/year, farmers would all of a sudden have status. Status follows money, not the other way around.
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by dikdik 10y ago
I waited tables in college at a medium priced restaurant. On my great shifts I would pull down $50/hour on my best nights, $25-30/hour on typical weekends, and $10-20/hour on weeknights. Like most servers, I did not report mo
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by dikdik 10y ago
Why? Low-level jobs shouldn't have huge, if any, barriers to entry. If a manager/foreman/etc can't teach high-school graduates how to do a basic job well, it reflects much more negatively on the manager/foreman than
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by dikdik 10y ago
>At the same time, we have a public school system that after 18 years with a child...has not actually prepared them to get a job. Maybe I just went to a great public school, but I could have easily done by first professional job at the a
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by dikdik 10y ago
So, you've never met a poor person that's also responsible? While you probably are poor people at Starbucks, most of them don't go there.
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by dikdik 10y ago
Everything you state is true, but are we really supposed to use third world countries as our baseline? If Michael Phelps used Terry Schiavo as his competition, I doubt he would be as good as he is. In the US we should be comparing ourselves
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by dikdik 10y ago
> the bottle necks they would put up to raise the wages to MD level. Dentists can easily make more money than the majority of physicians. Not to mention they don't have a residency, my few dentist friends came out of dental school a
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by dikdik 10y ago
So assuming someone that went to Harvard must be really smart means you deserve a black mark?

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