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by jibjaba 14y ago
Sorry, it's not what I think. I am basing my analysis on the many polls I have seen on what government services people expect. For example a large majority of people expect to have Medicare available to them when they turn 65. I am not talk
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by jibjaba 14y ago
To me this is a symptom of the twisted politics around taxation in the US. You have one very powerful group that is continually fighting to lower or eliminate taxes and another somewhat less powerful group that wants to bring in enough tax
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by jibjaba 14y ago
Thoughtworks using any opportunity to market themselves as usual. I hated working there.
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by jibjaba 14y ago
HN needs down votes for crap like this.
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by jibjaba 14y ago
I'm sorry but this is a very ignorant assessment. I spent 5 years doing research in academia and none of the professors on our team had as easy of a work life as 99% of the software developers I have worked with do. I am in no way criticizi
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by jibjaba 14y ago
There are a lot of very entitled comments to this post. I have a feeling that many of those commenters have never experience true hardship. It's easy for such a person to overlook the myriad of advantages they have and have no conception of
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by jibjaba 14y ago
I could not agree more. Great read.
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by jibjaba 14y ago
I wonder who was deciding what to do at the bench and how those decision makers were spending their time. I would be willing to bet they spent a lot of work hours reading up on the latest developments.
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by jibjaba 14y ago
How about life without nonsensical ancient superstitions? I am very much not being purposefully offensive when I say that. The initial premis of needing to fast is highly flawed when looked at rationally.
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by jibjaba 14y ago
A college student should be putting every significant "side"-project on their resume. You need to show that you enjoy programming and problem solving and for a student showing off projects is the best way to do it.
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by jibjaba 14y ago
If Kyle is being honest in this article he is a sociopath, no question about it. He obviously has major problems understanding social norms.
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by jibjaba 14y ago
Anything that pushes back against the insane gun lobby is great. Let them build their own sites, the more insular and backward they appear the better.
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by jibjaba 15y ago
There is one huge factor this article is overlooking: Do Asian-American students take more SAT training than other students. In China and Taiwan there are strong traditions of after school "school" where student basically go to another scho