iamasoftwaredev

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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
She has an EU passport for her and her kid (husband is american though).
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
China is capitalist.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> like we're now seeing in Ecuador and other countries. The protests in Ecuador are about IMF austerity measures. The sort of cruel anti-working class policy we've been seeing peddled by neo-liberals for a long time. The sort o
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
As opposed to the US where it's rob the poor give to the rich and it's so wonderful?
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
Or they worked for 40 hours assembling computers for minimum wage while the company made billions and billions off that worker labour.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
Except Harvard has limited slots and the failsons of the rich buying in takes away a spot from someone who is actually competent and driven.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
I think the point is more that he's a useless failson who can just go from thing to thing wasting massive amounts of money and it doesn't matter.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
So basically no one from a rural area and no black people?
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices graduated from just two law schools. The latest two went to the same high school.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> I missed the memo on when meritocracy became a bad word When people realized that the guy who starts with a billion dollar dad and a buy in to harvard is being graded on the same scale as the guy who started in a trailer park with a si
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
That's because people like Michael Dell have truly absurd sums of money. 30 billion dollars. His failson can piss away money all day every day and never even make a dent.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> 1. How easy/difficult to get Switzerland citizenship if you live and work there? I know someone who was born there, raised there, currently lives there (after a while in North America) and does not having citizenship or want to go
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11pcs1/while_i_l...
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
I don't think I could stand Texas. I don't like heat and I hate having to deal with commuting. Also I abhor the politics of the state and region, in general.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
So move to Switzerland and have a lower quality of life?
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> In any other low-key metropolis (Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Des Moines, whatever) I'd wager the typical city in Switzerland is much more liveable (i.e. not being trapped in a car as you commute to and from suburbs
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour. If that was true businesses wouldn't show profit (or would show low profit margins consistently) because the value of the workers labour would have been been paid b
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
10 years ago it was absolutely 1/3.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> I think 30%+ of my class were foreigners. Because foreign born people can't be rich? What income percentiles are Harvard MBA students coming from?
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
It teaches you the value of Harvard on a resume. It teaches you the value of having rich and well connected contacts in your phone.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
It's a 2 year program and you're also supposed to be learning business administration. I know they like to select the smart people who have lots of extra money, but when in the program is all this stuff taught? Being managed by so
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> It's a pedigree that allegedly excludes the dumb rich kids Yeah, it's exclusively for the smarter rich kids.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> Companied worth working for are eager to hire people who know better. Position yourself as someone who has learned these lessons the hard way. Learning those lessons the hard way still requires doing those projects, which means you lea
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
Why does hacker news allow paywalled content?
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
How do you balance avoiding this with wanting engineers who have ideas and agency?
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> This development came at extraordinary cost for the org and, in the case of the people who were laid off, cost to people's careers. Except the people who were laid off, if they have been there a while, got much deep knowledge than
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> She may have been a visionary I fail to see any indication of that.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
They maybe fail because they won't outright lie or "cheat". Theranos is obviously an extreme example.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
> push their predetermined left leaning narrative. The NYT Op Ed department is largely despised by leftists.
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by iamasoftwaredev 7y ago
AN honest Theranos would never have existed as a company. People still laud Uber for illegal behaviour.

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