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by dikdik 11y ago
Not when we have millions of unemployed and underemployed people in this country. There is a reason Trump's message is resonating with so many people (I'm not a supporter).
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by dikdik 11y ago
But what if normal school becomes what used to be a gifted school. if "gifted" is normalized, will these children still feel alienated and be "unfit" for school?
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by dikdik 11y ago
I believe a lot of these social issues are due to lack of understanding between society vs. a "genius". But if 20%+ of the population are on the same wave length, they may not feel so alienated. An individual's "social i
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by dikdik 11y ago
So just hire for "culture fit" where people aren't so damn sensitive about their own salary and understand and are content with others being paid more.
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by dikdik 11y ago
> Don’t be fooled. Do you need to pay thousands to meet middle managers from industries that you have no interest in? This line gave me a pretty good chuckle.
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by dikdik 11y ago
Isn't it amazing when corporate interests actually align with American peoples' interests?
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by dikdik 11y ago
It's bioinformatics. Pretty typical, frankly with only requiring a BS it seems like a good deal (though not a ton of people have a BS in bioinfo). I have similar degree and looking at a lot of jobs in Bay Area, those mostly require MS&
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by dikdik 11y ago
Well now I have to eat some crow. I ended up hearing back from one of these companies a couple days after my original comment. It was very positive, too! Hang in there, my friend, need lots of patience for this.
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by dikdik 11y ago
>"They worry that the burgeoning marijuana industry, like alcohol and tobacco before it, could eventually use its profits to gain clout and subvert attempts at regulation." Or they worry about corporations being corporations, b
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by dikdik 11y ago
Hopefully some of the tax revenue is going into research on marijuana as well, if we hadn't basically banned research on this substance for so long we'd have more data. However, can't the officer give a field sobriety test if
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by dikdik 11y ago
Very interesting comment. We do have to realize for semi-complex to complex diagnoses, many different doctors will be playing different parts. If you have a complex/rare form of cancer, it's common for a group of 3-6 physicians of
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by dikdik 11y ago
All of this anger is not about the wage the employee agreed to, it's a result of the perceived expectations that were set. Maybe OP was stupid to believe the employer or maybe OP completely misread the expectations from the get-go. Re
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by dikdik 11y ago
I worked for a medical lab and a large part of my job was double checking that the doc selected the correct macro. For some stuff a large amount of interpretation is needed, for a simple PCR test it is not needed 99.99% of the time. The pos
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by dikdik 11y ago
I thought this too. But I am in the middle of my job search (applied for several on the ASK HN thread) and the calls I have received back are for jobs I did not write a cover letter or at most a paragraph that I sent with my resume. The tw
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by dikdik 11y ago
I agree, but I think stepping outside the problem is necessary here. Not in defense of the VC, but for solving the problem. The VC is projecting here. He has a family, his work requires being on nearly 24/7, and he cannot imagine havin
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by dikdik 11y ago
Sounds like the developer was just being a shrewd businessman.
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by dikdik 11y ago
Sorry facts are offending people. http://www.bls.gov/cex/anthology/csxanth8.pdf Anyway looks like a 60:40 split between men and women for buying vehicles from 1991-2000. However, there is a much more stark differe
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by dikdik 11y ago
LOL. Who are they selling to mostly? Let me guess....straight men.
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by dikdik 11y ago
This follow-up isn't meant as a disagreement, just thinking 'out-loud': So what do we solve this problem then? While our economy does demand increased knowledge for a good wage we also ALL know about the near pointless demand
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by dikdik 11y ago
I agree, I just finished my masters online at Johns Hopkins University in bioinformatics. Holy shit was it a slog, I about had a break down halfway through. The best way I study, with a small group of people focused on a similar topic, was
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by dikdik 11y ago
Diversity does not just mean skin color. You might as well try to empty the ocean with a spoon then pat yourself on the back for "doing your best."
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by dikdik 11y ago
Shareholder value theory is just an excuse to act immorally and on short term-grounds. Over the long-term the pump and dump schemes do not create shareholder value, only short term bumps. Here's a decent article for thought: How to rea
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by dikdik 11y ago
There's a comment above talking about a sociology degree making 30k. I knew lots of Biology and Chemistry majors who were making that or less right out of undergrad in industry. But we did it wrong! It's our fault. I guess in a co
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by dikdik 11y ago
This is the argument that pisses me off about job creators. I know a plethora of middle class kids that would LOVE to go out on their own, however, even one slip up would ruin them. We love to praise those who take risks, but it's prob
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by dikdik 11y ago
I'm one of those people with "uneducated parents" and it's true they do not know the least about it. My father actually told every single one of his kids not to go to college. 4/5 did (a couple have grad degress) an
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by dikdik 11y ago
You're probably very close to correct on this, but it doesn't make it right nor the moral thing to do. Also, a lot of patients end up exploited by docs and companies who sell these very expensive samples taken from patients with r
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by dikdik 11y ago
I agree here, expectations drive a huge amount of emotion. Take two people who receive a 5k bonus, if one expected twice as much they will be pissed off and ungrateful. If one expected nothing, they would probably be very happy. This is why
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by dikdik 11y ago
I spent 4 years in a healthcare company in a job that REQUIRED a BS in the life sciences. I never had single day where I was challenged by the goals set by my managers. For 2 years I doubled those goals every single month, some days I was a
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by dikdik 11y ago
Yes, how else would we keep the poor people out?
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by dikdik 11y ago
They don't owe me a purposeful, challenging job with a livable wage you are ABSOLUTELY right. However, I don't owe anyone 40+ hours a week when I get nothing out of it but the ability to pay rent and eat. I am okay with dying. I d

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