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I... I think you entirely missed the point of the commencement speech. The point of his speech is NOT that the world is hard, and difficult, and in order to combat, survive and thrive in that environment you need to reshape your viewpoint s
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So HN, who should I be buying external HDDs from anymore? Because this is the last straw for me with WD
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In the future? Mods of the major subreddits have been on payrolls for years. Its a topic that used to come up with regularity ~6 years ago. I would be absolutely shell-shocked if it wasn't commonplace now.
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You're getting a lot of heat from HN about the IQ comment here, instead of being give actual helpful advice or given a charitable reading of the intent behind your statement. (Is it just me, or has HN's quality dropped somewhat s
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Selective enforcement is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarian systems
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Is it a bubble? Or is it devaluation of the dollar?
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When they bought the company that now makes what they sell as Bitbucket On Premises, they should have literally thrown away their cloud offering, and just offered that... in the cloud. This years long process of badly re-implementing bitbuc
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Employers: We are looking for an applicant with 3/5/7/10/20 years of experience in the following technologies. Also Employers: Some of our applicants turned down our job offer, when we revealed that we don't use spe
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Something like this happened to people who left my first job in the industry. They didn't have to win the lawsuit. The competitor that the employee went to fired the employee after they started. Presumably, it was because they didn&#
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Historically, when a democratic government meets an existential problem that it can't convince or use its richest members to pay for, then that democratic government is, either slowly or quickly, replaced by a more authoritarian govern
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074DVRW88/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
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This has been true whenever a society has injected large amounts of capital into the bottom classes of its society. Slavery, colonialism, and cheap imported labor are ways that lower mercantile classes can see significant wealth (generated
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disaster capitalism is a term coined by Amy Goodman to describe the efforts of the most politically influential to steer the economy towards regular crises, and then take advantage of those crises via crony capitalism
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You're getting a lot of downvotes, but this is legitimately the first time I realized that a 1.5C temperature difference really means a 5 degree difference in Fahrenheit. I think it would genuinely help Americans if this were reported
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Fun Fact, Sea Levels were on average 330 feet higher (110 meters) than they are now by the end of the Jurassic period. But I guess that won't be a problem if your apartment is above the 30th floor.
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> Wisdom > racism. America is no longer a de jure segregated society. America is generally meritocratic, and with the right combination of intelligence, hard work, and luck, people of all types, races and creeds can succeed and do we
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Understood, but two problems here. 1 - We are talking about the American retirement system, which is not different-pay-same-outcome. It is different-pay-different-outcome. and 2 - median pay isn't the right metric here, but you are
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I have seen the internals of Frontier communications, and the area I saw, was completely run by consulting companies, that were all competing with each other not over contracts, but over which parts of Frontier's corporate hierarchy th
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Isn't that a bit like saying the media focuses on sports car crashes, because you can crash in any car, but sports cars are objectively better than other cars?
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I don't know about Rove, but Gingrich is famous for his love of the animal kingdom, and the fact that he views life and politics through that lens (a lens that is, imho, both very inaccurate, and a very obvious rationalization of the d
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My understanding is this is how people felt about traditional advertising during the rise of Madison Avenue as well? Or at least, this is how it was portrayed on Mad Men : )
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https://academictimes.com/economic-news-reporting-suffers-fr... No. News sources are focusing on business instead of labor's issues, because news statistically favors business interests, not labor's. If your hypo
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Yeah, exactly. I was in that role, though it took me a few months to figure out that that's really what it was.
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I had the opportunity to be one of those. The money was clearly good. And you quickly built a network that you could turn into your own business (which was actually expected. They expected you to ultimately not get promoted fast enough,
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I used to work at Accenture. I was quite literally the ivy league educated white face they used to interact with clients, so they didn't have to have clients interacting with their h1bs. Though it took a while to figure that out. We
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There are extremely good consultants. And there are extremely good offshore teams. These people do not come cheaper than onshore or inhouse hires. That's the easy way to know whether or not dealing with the new consultants / offs
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That is literally their purpose. Don't want to go through the hassle of offshoring your entire IT / enginering or other division, and will be gone before the inevitable rot and overages kick in? Accenture will happily do that fo
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nyc has sued verizon multiple (?) times for failing to roll out fiber into the city and just keeping the money. Each time verizon does some update, or rolls out a little bit more, and the story repeats. Telecom is a utility, end of story.
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And a recruiter is not really looking at your resume as anything other than a wordlist with which to shotgun applicants that might earn him/her commission into the process. And then the engineering team just jumps to leetcode. What&#
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Better yet, solve two birds with one stone. Pass a law that caps the maximum percentage of a person's income that can be paid to college loan (minimum) payments. Just like that you would have stopped the primary source of collegiate

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