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by hiram112 11y ago
I'd be careful about those statistics. The amount of legal immigration is more or less known, but the US government implicitly turns a blind eye to a rough estimate of 20-30 million illegal immigrants in the last two decades.
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by hiram112 11y ago
It is a serious point. The same claim - that immigrants are a benefit to the economy - has been stated without refute for 20 years now in the US, for both low level Latin American workers (construction, agriculture, minimum wage service) an
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by hiram112 11y ago
One thing rarely mentioned when these questions pop up is the ratio of single women / men for various criteria. For example, certain areas, mostly in the West, are heavily lopsided with single men in various age brackets. This means, i
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by hiram112 11y ago
If the Fed were to keep rates artificially low we would see inflation, if they kept them artificially high we would see unemployment. Right now because of the zero lower bound we are seeing much more of the latter than the former. It seem
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by hiram112 11y ago
Part of raising kids is providing them with the means to excel - good nutrition, education, clothing, etc. In our society, this equates to money. While I understand it is not fair to trivialize a typical stay at home mother, it seems we&#x2
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by hiram112 11y ago
Funny how globalization was going to flatten the world for everyone. Turns out it doesn't actually include the plebs. Capital gets to traverse the world - its factories spewing waste and arbitraging cost of living and currency differen
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by hiram112 11y ago
I was a Thinkpad guy for about a decade. However, this time around, I went with a refurbished Dell Precision M4800 instead. This is mostly due to the numerous articles I've read bemoaning Lenovo for crappy 'modern' designs, p
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by hiram112 11y ago
10 years ago I never paid a toll except when travelling interstate over long distances. Voyaging through the DC-NY Megalopolis would cost about $15. It now costs about $70. What's worse, most intra-city travel is or will eventually be
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by hiram112 11y ago
In a sense it is possible when you're very young (i.e. early 20's or so). I was able to slide by at that age with minimal employment, for months at a time, followed by a few months here and there of retail / delivery work. O
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by hiram112 11y ago
I'd love to be able to agree, but in the US at least, it seems like it's all or nothing. There is little possibility of trading in half my salary for a 20-25 hours work week. Instead, it's 50+ hours or nothing. Employers want
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by hiram112 11y ago
I've noticed that there are two groups that downvote posts like this on both tech forums and in general: 1) 25 year old software guys making $100K while their friends are at half that, possibly living at home. 2) Older people (i.e. Boo
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by hiram112 11y ago
Come back and tell us what you think in 10 years if/when you're married and have a few kids. It is exactly the same with the tech hubs in the US - SF, Seattle, East Coast, etc. I'm from the midwest, which I suppose is the equ
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by hiram112 11y ago
You meant subsidizing women's health issues, I think.
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by hiram112 11y ago
In the long run, this is probably a benefit for Linux users. I always use Dell Precision laptops, and they usually support Linux pretty well (you can buy them with RHEL and even Ubuntu on some models). Once sales and accounting begin to rea
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by hiram112 11y ago
I'd be happy if Big Pharma had to play on the same field as us. But as it is now, they reap huge amounts of cash from NIH and other public entities for research. Of course, the profits are all privatized. For 20+ years, they've be
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by hiram112 11y ago
From what I've heard, the cost of research is already heavily nationalized via the NIH and other grants. In typical US fashion, though, the profits are privatized. Actually, I don't believe letting the government take over would b
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by hiram112 11y ago
I've seen numerous posts lamenting the use of typical Java Beans. The problem with the struct approach is that numerous tooling / libraries expects beans with typical getter/setters - Jackson Json, Spring binding, etc. Yes it
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by hiram112 11y ago
FWIW, I'm relatively quick, pick up languages (both CS and natural), frameworks, algorithms, etc. without much trouble. But I've tried again and again to understand how our basic Federal Reserve System functions - Gov't debt,
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by hiram112 12y ago
Java Dev on Win7 Intellij Pro, Cygwin with Emacs, Git command line, sometimes SourceTree (though Intellij Git is almost as feature complete). Tortoise on projects still using Subversion. Firefox with Firebug, LiveHttpHeaders, and WebDevelop
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by hiram112 12y ago
could you send me an invite also, if you have one?