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by dikdik 10y ago
I drive a beater, it cost me $4k 6 years ago. I spend $40/month on insurance in a big city - liability only, about $150 a year on maintenance (2-3 oil changes, plus misc.), and generally have 1 big repair a year that runs me $300-500.
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by dikdik 10y ago
It's weird how companies will hire another company to build a tech product and never ask to see examples of code or put them through white-board interviews. You just show them previous work and talk about what the client needs and how
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by dikdik 10y ago
Relative and absolute deprivation have absolutely little to do with how the poor feel in the US. Further, your argument basically boils down to "people used to be in concentration camps and you're not, you don't get to be ups
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by dikdik 10y ago
So your landlord is losing money by renting it to you? This doesn't make any sense to me...
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by dikdik 10y ago
>He told his entire team, "Tell me how much money you want. I will tell you what you need to accomplish to get it." This is my dream manager. I've never had a manager ask what they could do for me and actually mean it.
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by dikdik 10y ago
What a waste of time. Raise taxes and pay them more.
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by dikdik 10y ago
Wow, that is extremely depressing for me
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by dikdik 10y ago
Hasn't Uber shown repeatedly that their "standard channels" are broken and don't produce results?
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by dikdik 10y ago
I'm a bioinformatics scientist with an MS. 1) There are a lot of jobs for people with an MS, the hardest part is getting the initial experience though. 2)Pay seems to be all over the place, I make 65k in an expensive city right now. I
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by dikdik 10y ago
Don't we already have a huge surplus of PhDs?
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by dikdik 10y ago
This is literally a plot line from the show "Weeds".
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by dikdik 10y ago
Also, if I could be guaranteed completely honest and helpful feedback on any rejection. Not just "not the right experience", but "we need someone who has built a product with xyz framework", or "looking for someone
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by dikdik 10y ago
>Then there's of course the fact that almost nobody (with citizenship) actually wants to pick crops... This is complete bullshit and needs to quit being touted. Americans are not afraid of hard, back-breaking labor. I grew up in the
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by dikdik 10y ago
The same argument can be made about taxes. Based on your reasoning, it's a race to the bottom for all countries in order to attract businesses. Are we supposed to have no regulation and no taxation on businesses because otherwise some
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by dikdik 10y ago
Make more money...
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by dikdik 10y ago
maybe you should start a scholarship fund for them....you know, be the change you want to see and all that.
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by dikdik 10y ago
Disagree with rolling out a product EU first or disagree that companies need the American healthcare industry to become profitable? I can't go too much into the product, but there is a solid strategy behind the rollout. And of course i
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by dikdik 10y ago
> We pay 10x what Sweden pays for medical devices, but the US market is the only reason those device companies can be profitable. Lies, lies, lies, and more lies. This is always quoted, especially in the context of pharma. It's wron
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by dikdik 10y ago
So then maybe it would be cheaper for the company to hire a low-skilled American worker and actually gasps train them? The CEO of the theoretical company is always welcome to put in an extra 30 hours a week and reap the extra economic val
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by dikdik 10y ago
So we should invest more in education so we can have even more highly educated people? We should also make it easier for people to take risks (one of the most common attributes of successful entrepreneurs is that they came from upper-middle
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by dikdik 10y ago
If this was true, salary increases would follow suit. Biotech is not a well-paid industry, especially considering the level of education required. Ergo, we have way more people than we need in this industry already (yes, business owners pro
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by dikdik 10y ago
If he did it in a pleasant manner, like every other pharma exec, there would not be this level of outrage about what he did. Are you ok with being price-gouged on your healthcare as long as the pharma companies say "please" and &q
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by dikdik 10y ago
>they would need to either spend less on education (and consequently become less prestigious) Given many studies (notably Google's) showing that school performance is not a good indicator of future performance. Is losing prestige su
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by dikdik 10y ago
Interesting. Often I hear that you are only worth what value you can provide in any one role. Like for me working in bioinformatics, I am paid much less than if I took my skills to pure tech. There is only so much value my skills can provid
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by dikdik 10y ago
I agree here. Over the holidays I was speaking with a sister of mine, she recently finished her undergrad degree and moved from working in a salon (all women) to working in an office environment with a very strong sales culture (~90% men).
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by dikdik 10y ago
The big way they are figuring out how to repurpose old compounds that fell out of the pipeline is by using biomarkers. We are now much more equipt at finding biomarkers, generally through gene sequencing. Drugs that failed, often failed bec
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by dikdik 10y ago
Right? A family member was out with me at a wine tasting a year ago, stepped outside for 30 minutes to take a phone interview, and came back. She received an offer two days later. I think it all boils down to being in a profession that&#x27
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by dikdik 10y ago
Meanwhile, family and friends that are traveling nurses (ie a job that ACTUALLY effects life and death) have 1 phone interview with a hiring manager that can last 20 minutes to an hour. That's it. Then they receive a decision within a
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by dikdik 10y ago
I'm not too sure about that. I spent several years working closely with a massive group of physicians (40+ in the same specialty), where I routinely had to check medical reports before they went to clients. While all very bright people
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by dikdik 10y ago
Some people actually have trouble getting a risky surgery performed because surgeons don't want to screw up their stats. It's a very tricky problem to solve.

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