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by fivestar 9y ago
But you will never likely be financially stable due to your housing situation.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Maybe not suck as compared to a lot of jobs, but the problem with software development seems to be that salary growth rises rapidly up to a plateau and then basically stops. The opportunities for salary growth past a certain point require
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by fivestar 9y ago
'04 was just post dot-com bubble, though. Sad if those numbers haven't picked up since then. We badly need people who are doers and not just rent seekers or mid-level functionaries.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Eh, my college girlfriend majored in Chemistry while I was CS and Math. P. Chem was certainly a huge challenge, but I never got the sense that she was smarter than me, just maybe more determined in certain ways and better at memorizing shi
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by fivestar 9y ago
But that kind of information should just be in the instructions for the assignment. It's a problem with the instructor, is what I'm getting at.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Again, Rasp Pi and the whole "maker" movement are mainstream. My daughter is in a STEM Middle School and she has done more things at age 11 than I did when I was 18! They're teaching Android game coding to kids age 10.
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by fivestar 9y ago
You forget that Arduino and Raspberry Pi exist now and fill that void quite nicely. If anything, I think it is far, far easier to learn the intangible CS skills today than at any time in the past. The one problem I see is with kids'
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by fivestar 9y ago
Wow, this all sounds...sketchy.
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by fivestar 9y ago
The nuclear deterrent has prevented a world war that would probably wipe out our species, though.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I actually think the "bombing other countries" is just a horrible side effect of the MIC system that is designed to absorb a tremendous amount of wealth and filter it to those corporations. They have us all living in fear while t
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by fivestar 9y ago
I'm not sure what being "underemployed" has to do with the actual blog post? The post talks about railroad workers and how the 40hr. work week got started, but I should point out that it's only in the US, really--other
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by fivestar 9y ago
Eh, one some contracts I've had there was a lot of slack time and so I did the same thing--some would consider that to be double-dipping, but I just call it "using my time to its best advantage." Chuck Palahniuk wrote much o
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by fivestar 9y ago
Sure, but the trouble with that is you still have to be someplace--either at an office or at home. It's not like you can actually enjoy life more. Which is what this is really all about--being able to be free of "work" for
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by fivestar 9y ago
Yes! You are woke!
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by fivestar 9y ago
Yes, entrepreneurs are flocking there to take advantage of their low, low taxes and non-stagnant economies.
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by fivestar 9y ago
And that is your healthcare and insurance industries writ large.
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by fivestar 9y ago
There were no free markets before 2008 and none after, either. So what is your point? Had we real free markets, a one major thing would have happened--all those banks that broke the law and did so many hugely unethical things would all be
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by fivestar 9y ago
I see the "I don't disagree" bit a lot on here. You mean you agree, then, correct? Then why not just say "I agree!" Is that so hard for you? I'm not "super trolling" I really want an answer as to w
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by fivestar 9y ago
The NY Times editors chose to print that versus something else. They only ever print items related to their agenda.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I'm not cool with it no matter how many countries do it and the reason why is that it takes your very freedom right out of your own hands and puts it into the hands of bureaucrats. The US isn't perfect, and we have allowed oligar
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by fivestar 9y ago
The entirety of the NY Times is nothing but one huge editorial.
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by fivestar 9y ago
That's all great in theory, but if I were you, I would not rely on that plan to save you. When it comes to insurance companies, you are at their mercy. This is experience talking here, do with it as you will. Nothing will bankrupt y
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by fivestar 9y ago
The whole article starts off with bs: First, non-competes are rarely so airtight that a person can't work in their field for another employer. Second, the whole FUD about healthcare is total bs as well--the ACA is screwed up and Amer
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by fivestar 9y ago
You could do a blog of your own to capture whatever it is you found out.
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by fivestar 9y ago
One problem is that the correct answers have to change over time and SO does not account for that except by having drive-by downvotes from dweebies who have no business even answering questions. I used to answer questions on SO, but got so
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by fivestar 9y ago
Still waiting on a Neuromancer film or better yet, a mini-series.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Yes! I can't get over how people can think "smoking bad" but "alcohol ok". Alcohol is a fuel. Do you drink gasoline? "But muh beers..."
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by fivestar 9y ago
Uh, yes and no. I have gone on and off caffeine for years. The withdrawal is mild--nothing a couple of ibuprofen and staying hydrated can't mitigate. It's not heroin! After say 48-72 hours, you're caffeine free. I drink co
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by fivestar 9y ago
Because you can now buy caffeine in pure liquid and powder form whereas for most of human history, that kind of concentration was not possible.
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by fivestar 9y ago
The fatal dose of caffeine is fairly low, though. I'm sure it depends on body mass and such, but it's on the order of tens of grams.

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