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by hiram112 10y ago
Median wages have been stagnant for 30 years in the west - since the Reagan / Thatcher era. Any person or study claiming another opinion can look at the birth rate of natives and just stop there. Environmental protections have certainl
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by hiram112 10y ago
We know exactly why this is a problem right now. The labor market has been hot for a few years and the top 5% of software devs living in high cost of living cities are doing well, relative to other degrees. Any field that appears lucrative
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by hiram112 10y ago
I'd be interested in seeing this study. That is nowhere near what I encountered in my large engineering school. CS101 was probably 33% women, but after a month, we were down to about 15%. By the 4th year, maybe 10% at best. From what I
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by hiram112 10y ago
>Computer programming used to have a lot more women I have yet to see a valid study showing this. Instead, I've seen numerous studies that have not mentioned that a 'computer programmer' included employees whose job consis
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by hiram112 10y ago
What would be the point? The citizens of California have roughly the same standard of living, similar environmental protections, same currency, etc. as the rest of the US states. What we've seen for the last 30 years is NOT free trade
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by hiram112 10y ago
>I'm asking people to consider the fundamental rights of others and to notice that they're at risk. The cognitive dissonance is unbelievable, especially from those who are otherwise pretty intelligent. 1) immigrants making choi
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by hiram112 10y ago
>I think anyone being racist should be heavily reprimanded. The problem with this is that many who share this idea don't have a good idea of what 'racism' actually is. Note: it is NOT racist to vote for policies that advan
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by hiram112 10y ago
Microsoft is about 5 years too late with this. I'm sure their MVC stack is fine, but this isn't a problem needing a solution in 2016. There are dozens are frameworks in your favorite language that can deal with taking HTTP request
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by hiram112 10y ago
Yes, exactly. I watched the Grapes of Wrath (1940) a few years ago. The amount of pro-communist idealization in the film would never, ever be allowed to play in a main-stream theater in the US today. I think most younger people don't r
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by hiram112 10y ago
I've read that the reason US and other Western workers have done worse since the Cold War is due to the breakup of the Soviet Union, and with it, the fear that the population might support communism if capitalism became too predatory.
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by hiram112 10y ago
1st Amendment of US Constitution regarding religion: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; This has nothing to do with restricting immigration of certain groups for WHA
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by hiram112 10y ago
>It is a project conceived by US planners... Any proof of that? From a US perspective, I can't see how a unified Europe would benefit the US - neither economically nor militarily. The EU is the only state (besides China with 4x the
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by hiram112 10y ago
Why are you assuming a trade war with Mexico or China would necessarily lead to a loss of jobs as if it were some universal law of physics. Cause the specific media that you watch says it would? I've never seen a coherent argument expl
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by hiram112 10y ago
> ... against any scapegoat that can be blamed for this assault. Mexicans, Muslims, China, Free Trade - all perfect targets. The definition of scapegoat implies that the reasoning or blame isn't valid. If you're an out of work
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by hiram112 10y ago
>...Trumps and ISIS.... I know election season can make us all a little crazy towards the 'other team', but are you seriously putting Trump in the same camp as ISIS? Hitler, Nazis, etc. have been used so often in the past 50 ye
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by hiram112 10y ago
I agree 100% with you w/ regards to the Nordic countries vs the US. In that same vein, I really believe that there is a huge cognitive dissonance with many in the US, e.g. the majority of Bernie supporters, when it comes to the desire
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by hiram112 10y ago
Learning through reading is one thing, but I've found that I never truly understand the concepts until I begin to write some code in a functional way. We have some Scala in my work environment. I had taken the course, read the book, an
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by hiram112 10y ago
The most interesting thing about many naive Americans' view of the Nordic 'paradise' is the lack of understanding as to how it is able to exist: a small population of homogenous people of similar ethnicity, shared culture, an
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by hiram112 10y ago
Yes you are trying to time the market but interest rates cannot go any lower, literally. In hindsight, it will have looked obvious.
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by hiram112 10y ago
I also applied. It took about a month for someone to send me a two sentence 'thanks but no thanks' response. No interview offered. I'm no rockstar, but I do have nearly a decade of experience, half of which is gov. contracti
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by hiram112 10y ago
Not useful for MS Shareholders. You'd have half of MS users worldwide (that dont require ActiveDirectory) moving to CentOS tomorrow if they could run their old VB apps, MS office, etc.
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by hiram112 10y ago
'Clearly and affirmatively expressed' meaning in terse legalese, 6 point font, on page 16, section 2, sub section iii of document #8 of your HR welcome package.
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by hiram112 10y ago
The younger generation is simply not having children at the high rate of previous generations. Anecodotally, most of my mid 30's friends have either 0 or 1 child, a few that got started earlier have two. On the other hand, the millions
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by hiram112 10y ago
>It was harder and less acceptable to use international labor then This is very true. I know the big US car unions ended up screwing both the employees and employers, but have you ever wondered what would have happened in the 60's o
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by hiram112 10y ago
Spot on. Every time I mention the high price of homes and how hard it is for non-boomers to enjoy such things as their own home, possibility of kids, family, stable jobs, there's never a shortage of defenders telling me that I'm o
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by hiram112 10y ago
Real question. I avoided Twitter for years, and finally bit the bullet recently. The problem is my feed is out of control. Is there a way to filter it? For example, I want to only match the travel deals by regex (my city), the politics stuf
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by hiram112 10y ago
I've been hearing this low-inflation nonsense for years. Okay, 1 lb. of chicken is still $4 at the grocery store, same as it was 10 years ago, but I'm guessing the cost of that chicken has been cut in half considering the 'ch
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by hiram112 11y ago
Intel ranks #14 in H1B use and was a large proponent of the bill to increase the allowance foreign tech workers. So I'm assuming their inability to find 'talent' is no longer an issue? Same as Microsoft, IBM, and the numerous
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by hiram112 11y ago
Agreed. It's easier for me to smell something fishy when my working class neighbor pulls up in the new Benz. Much more difficult when it's the massive amount of luxury homes going up along the Potomac.
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by hiram112 11y ago
Can you recommend a decent, used thinkpad I7 model, not too heavy, available on outlet or EBay for $700 or so? Or would a Dell XPS be a better choice?

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