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by jazzyk 10y ago
Undermine? You mean: Disclose that the intelligence apparatus is spying on its own citizens/taxpayers who pay their salaries? There, fixed it for you.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
A company may choose who they want to employ selecting from the pool of the citizens and legal residents of the country. Works like this everywhere in the world, why should the US be different? If we want to go global, then: - All kinds of
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Conversation-killing words: Great. Fine. Fantastic. Perfect. - How are you doing? - Doin' great ! Everything is fine . Sally and the kids are doing great - So how was your vacation? I heard you went to <insert-desirable-location
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>I'm having a lot of fun Are your downstairs' neighbors having as much fun? :-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I prefer pragmatism and common sense to rightism or leftism, but just to add balance to your statement, let me point out that leftism may lead to unavailability of toilet paper :-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The food has changed a lot - as other commenters have pointed out. But our lifestyles have changed a lot, too. Most people in sub/urban areas spend 1-2 mins walking to/from their cars and the rest of their waking hours (12+ hours)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Not conspiratorial, but the government picking winners and losers is certainly ripe for abuse. The government's job is certainly not to use taxpayer's money to support businesses who made poor decisions (started with LTCM' ba
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Example of focusing on facts: 1. The government releases a report with an important indicator looking good 2. Mainstream Media cheers, telling us how good we have it 3. ZH looks at the report and notices that: - the number was "se
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by jazzyk 10y ago
If there is shock value, it is because ZH focuses on facts (yes, they are usually well documented facts), which the so called mainstream media chooses to ignore, because the narrative does not suit their corporate owners. Most of ZH's
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by jazzyk 10y ago
"Socialism" is rarely actual socialism. There are usually good intentions in the beginning, but then "some animals become more equal than others".
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by jazzyk 10y ago
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” -- Margaret Thatcher In this case, they managed to run even out of petro-money. Takes some skill.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Ha, ha. I would hire you in an instant. Wit/sense of humor is an indicator of intelligence. Which means even if you are not entirely familiar with the whole stack of tech we use, you will pick up things fast. Sense of humor also helps
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The government should not be involved in the market in the first place , other than ensuring fair play (through simple, enforceable regulations, primarily to ensure transparency and prevent monopolies/duopolies and). No government bail
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by jazzyk 10y ago
This is going off-topic, so I will try to keep it brief: My "model" is based on common sense. You can't create prosperity through financial engineering - but you can hide worsening prosperity for years (if you are a central
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by jazzyk 10y ago
What "unbridled '00 capitalism"? More like statist, crony-capitalism intertwined with kleptocracy.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Not sure about "doomed", but you can't spend money you don't have forever, you are taking the money from the future. Also, aging demographics is a big issue, because there will be fewer and fewer people to pay for retire
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I've been to Japan a few times and I like many aspects of life there (I love Japanese art/sense of aesthetics, for example). I certainly wish the best to all humans, the Japanese people included. But we are discussing economics, a
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Yes, but low unemployment comes at a price. Most domestic companies are shielded from competition, and can employ many more people than they should. These companies are backed by the central bank (BoJ), which has been printing money left an
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by jazzyk 10y ago
What about the post-Meiji period? The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was just a misunderstood act of extending an olive branch?
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>You can't put a price on peace of mind The peace of mind may not last too long. The Japanese public debt exceeded one quadrillion yen (US$10.46 trillion) in 2013, more than twice the annual gross domestic product of Japan [1]. &g
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by jazzyk 10y ago
One of my favorite quotes -ever-: Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Stock grants for non-executive employees are rather rare (at least on the East Coast). And even then, once the bubble pops, if you don't sell (there is usually a vesting period), they could be worth much, much less than today. Rememb
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Looking at the reponses (and downvotes), it looks like my comment was understood as a comparison to software engineers' salaries I was just pointing out that, even though both family doctors and neurosurgeons go through long and arduou
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>The market (not society) is treating us developers pretty >well. I am on the East Coast (outside of NYC, though), have been in the software business for 20+ years and know a lot of smart /accomplished people. I don't know
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>and all are highly skilled professionals Apparently (and unfairly), our society thinks otherwise - family doctors make $150K/year and neurosurgeons make $750K/year :-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
About 18% of computer science graduates are women [1], so Apple (22% female) discriminates against men and Facebook (15%) discriminates against women. Yes, the above is partly tongue-in-cheek (I realize that not all employees are programmer
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Agree on the class aspect, but it is a bit more nuanced: It really is a question of your family's values , not finances. I know a few affluent families who don't really value education, and there is enough money for the kids to l
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by jazzyk 10y ago
You picked a poor use case to support you claim. If you change "35-year old black woman" to a "35-year-old white man", the 25-year-old still gets the job.It is about a "culture fit" (or, most likely, ageism, in
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Don't forget availability of credit to finance all the fun.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
This. See my comment in this thread (basically saying the same thing)

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