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by hiram112 11y ago
How are Arch fonts? I use CentOS on a VM. I dislike Ubuntu, but it's the only distribution that has good fonts.
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by hiram112 11y ago
The point is that the very rich are making huge multiples of the rest of us. $200k in SF is probably double what a unionized teacher makes in the same area.
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by hiram112 11y ago
Spot on. It's becoming increasingly clear that the student debt bubble will blow up, no differently than the housing bubble. And just like the housing bubble, the clever ones are going to end up getting Uncle Sugar to pay off their loa
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by hiram112 11y ago
>if software engineers want to get into the "doctors and lawyers" category we need to start doing doctory and lawyery things like "professional societies with teeth" and "board/bar certifications" and &
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by hiram112 11y ago
They exist to keep their own wages artificially high. Honestly, I think half my freshman Chem. I lecture of 500 students was pre-med. Only about 1/20 of them ended up in medical school, due to the artificial limits imposed by the AMA.
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by hiram112 11y ago
I agree that "working class" has typically, in the US at least, referred to blue collar workers. OTOH, as more and more blue collar type jobs are being obsoleted by machines, I think we're coming up upon a more modern definit
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by hiram112 11y ago
Doctors and lawyers have created their own barriers to entry via the AMA and Bar Association. Honestly, I don't think I've ever met a decent software engineer that wouldn't have the intelligence to make it through either medi
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by hiram112 11y ago
The point is that one income could provide for a family. Now two incomes cannot adequately do that. We're all under agreement that women having the chance to work is great. But I think many people, including most women I know, would be
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by hiram112 11y ago
The value of my paycheck can not buy an average home in my city. I'm not talking about a large McMansion, but a house built in 1940. It's great that I can buy an IPhone, but basic necessities in life like shelter, children, etc. a
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by hiram112 11y ago
I wouldn't count Trump out. They've been saying there's no way he'll win since the moment he entered. And the media certainly has done everything they can to stop him. The fact of the matter is that Hillary has had it ea
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by hiram112 11y ago
Are you kidding me? Plumber or cop? Try IT worker. Along with factory workers, we've been screwed the most by the elite. It's bad enough to have your job move to India, China, or Mexico. But that wasn't enough for our masters
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by hiram112 11y ago
Yep. They're looking out for us so much that they can't even let us read what's in the next big agreement.
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by hiram112 11y ago
You're not supposed to point that out. If ALL economists say free trade is good, who are we to question their wisdom? And if you do, you're obviously a [racist, xenophobe, uneducated, commie, etc].
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by hiram112 11y ago
Why can't we all increase? Cause part of globalisation's promise is increased productivity which should mean we ALL get richer. Except, it turns out only the wealthy capital owners get more in the US. And please don't tell me
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by hiram112 11y ago
Straw man argument. Technology increases have been around forever. The difference is now, capital gets to play wage arbitrage in places where labor can't roam to create an equilibrium. That is not free trade as defined.
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by hiram112 11y ago
They're not having children (the non immigrants, at least) in DC, NY, and SF. I'd say most millenials are still paying off loans in their late 20s and 30s. No way can they afford a home in one of these cities on top of that.
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by hiram112 11y ago
This isn't free trade. Consumers used to buy air conditioners made by Carrier in the US. Now the exact same air conditioner made in Mexico can be bought. If the price went down the same amount as the labor savings, you'd have a ca
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by hiram112 11y ago
Upvote. I think it was here someone said something like 'economists are the modern day clergy - paid by the rich to promote ideas that benefit the wealthy'.
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by hiram112 11y ago
Read my comment from above. There are no jobs in which a assembly line worker can easily retrain. No company on Earth would ensure these types of workers, in the same vein as insurance companies didn't ensure people with expensive pre
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by hiram112 11y ago
What? Consumers in the USA before could have purchased Carrier air conditioners made here. Now they can purchase the same air conditioner made in Mexico. And we know that prices won't go down. That's not why Wall Street pushes com
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by hiram112 11y ago
>there can be solutions like wage insurance, free or subsidized retraining + relocation, and basic income. I hear this idea of 'retraining' offered as the panacea to globalisation in every article promoting it. What exactly are
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by hiram112 11y ago
This is basic supply and demand. Not everything needs a peer reviewed study to make a valid assumption.
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by hiram112 11y ago
These $300k+ salaries you speak of are no more common than any other field where maybe 1/1000 makes this. HN is quite heavy with Silicon Valley coders at Google, Facebook, etc. The 99.9% of the rest of developers are making $90k in the
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by hiram112 11y ago
I hear this all the time. If it could have been sent overseas, it would have been already. The reason H1Bs are popular is it allows cheap workers whom can be managed in the US onsite. The management that uses H1Bs doesn't want to move
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by hiram112 11y ago
I was only referring to salaries regardless of technologies used. In my relatively expensive US city I do not see any companies willing to pay more than about $150k for a senior dev. This is similar to what I see in most cities, and there a
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by hiram112 11y ago
I'm mid 30's and the salary cap is what I'm experiencing. Inversely, many of my friends in business, law, medical, etc. made less than I throughout their 20's and have now caught up, with potentials to earn far more. For
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by hiram112 11y ago
What type of positions in DC @ $200k?
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by hiram112 11y ago
Don't fall for the same tricks that the establishment uses. Yes of course the wealthy pay more in absolute taxes than the rest of us plebs. That's because they HAVE so much more. My parents lived at a time where their savings earn
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by hiram112 11y ago
"If voting mattered, they wouldn't let you do it". Honestly, voting gets more credit than it deserves. I don't think it's 100% corrupt at the booths, but the candidates that are allowed to compete are vetted by the
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by hiram112 11y ago
> If you look at issues like racism or homophobia, the young are the wise ones. Maybe I'm getting older myself (30's), but the way that racism, homophobia, etc. is being handled by the young is troubling at best, facist at wors

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