drauh

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by drauh 11y ago
All countercultures get coopted. "Counter" is a dynamic thing. I understand the nostalgia, but this is the same old "get off my lawn" stuff that all old punks/goths/hackers/hippies/whatever write 20 y
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by drauh 11y ago
The United States is an illegal country. It seceded from the United Kingdom, so it was owned by the King of England at the time. Property rights are paramount, so property cannot be seized by the state (or anyone else). We need to hurry up
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by drauh 11y ago
- More work? Do they work longer hours? - Don't the employees also do more work, and spend more money on their own training (college, vocational education, conferences) to remain competitive employees? - Supply side economics really wo
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by drauh 11y ago
Did you know that people who earn less than $10k per year pay no taxes at all? How is that fair? We should see that beggars get taxed on all the loose change they get from people on the street. http://www.efile.com/tax/
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by drauh 11y ago
Pull the other one: it's got bells on it. One additional number to be calculated, after the reams of numbers have already been calculated. If your accountant and lawyer cannot get that right, it's time to find new ones.
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by drauh 11y ago
Even without referring to wealth inequality, "capitalism" is supposed to be a sort of "economic meritocracy", i.e. those who get a lot of money did so by their abilities. (I hesitate to use the word "work".) Or
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by drauh 11y ago
From the WSJ: CEO Pay vs. Performance Executive compensation is increasingly geared toward results, but some CEOs still got big paydays even when their investors didn’t do so well. http://graphics.wsj.com/ceopay-2015/
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by drauh 11y ago
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/05/429628037/... * It is an unimplemented part of a law that was passed 5 years ago. Why the 5 year delay? * In the past 2 years, there were 280,0
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by drauh 11y ago
Wait till you get a load of the Obfuscated C Contest
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by drauh 11y ago
> My idea of education is one that teaches you skills that are broadly used throughout your career. ... applying arbitrary labels like "vocational" (whatever that means) vocational - adj. 2. (of education or training) directed
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by drauh 11y ago
FWIW, I have, in the past, applied for jobs at colleges and other research institutions which all have their own resume input system. All different from each other, of course, so it takes 30--45 minutes to completely fill one in. Yes, they
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by drauh 14y ago
My background: I am a HPC sysadmin, and I administer a cluster of about 240 nodes. I have a PhD in astrophysics, and have done research in computational medical physics. The users I currently support are mostly people who molecular dynamics