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by kcplate 1y ago
2025 version of the Chrysler K car…
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by kcplate 1y ago
Um…Is any one of note in public still talking about that? Way way out of the news cycle now.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Many still use recruiters…
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by kcplate 1y ago
The degree generally just gets you past the HR gatekeeper in tech, human or otherwise—ticking a job requirement box (unless you are in a super specialized situation).
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by kcplate 1y ago
Probably about the same amount that you do, it’s just you don’t have media following you around everywhere reporting your every step.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Ahh yes, and here we see on display the inability of some folks on HN to perceive concepts figuratively, treating everything as literal. It was a perfectly fine analogy.
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by kcplate 1y ago
That seems to me to be the least likely outcome of that decision. A common outcome would seem to be a year spent bombing in their classes because they can’t separate themselves from some stupid game to study while accumulating $10-20k in st
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by kcplate 1y ago
Not the original commenter, but if I was that parent, I’d explain to my kid the amount of money I would be contributing towards their education and expenses if they bring it…and if the don’t bring it. They can make the educated choice then
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by kcplate 1y ago
Considering a base MBA M4 can be had for $899 (and it's a monster) and a base MBP is about 80% more, I can’t imagine the bulk of freshman buyers who have so many things to buy just to go to university for their first year would opt t
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by kcplate 1y ago
> And if it’s Dell, a built in rattle! Best comment on HN today.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Correct, mine weighs about half an ounce and I think I have used it maybe twice in the last 7 years. To be honest, this comment is going to prompt me to go find it in my bag and toss it.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Yeah can see how that would help. We built in a neighborhood where the builder was building super high efficiency homes so that might be influencing the chatter around me. Downsized now since our kids are all out of the house to 2100 squa
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by kcplate 1y ago
What’s the net difference though? Most of my neighbors with solar I have spoken to (central FL) are at basically a wash between payment for the solar vs power bills pre-solar, although admittedly recent rate hikes are probably changing tha
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by kcplate 1y ago
The disconnect seems to be that the political apparatus seems to characterize these “no expert who would argue we know everything there is to know about climate science” folks as “experts who argue that we know everything there is to know a
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by kcplate 1y ago
“All of those people are deplorable and garbage because they think I am the scum of the earth (because I think they are all deplorable and garbage)” I wish all y’all would just own up to the fact you hate each other for a million different
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by kcplate 1y ago
> How far we have fallen This presume that we were once at a level where the rule of law actually existed. Humanity across the world and across the ages has never been in a place where there was equality of all under the law.
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by kcplate 1y ago
It’s a lovely concept but has literally never existed in the US or literally anywhere else in the world—ever.
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by kcplate 1y ago
I think there are a couple flaws in your logic. One, $50k is $50k and spends the same whether you make $174k or $1M. It’s money you didn’t have and now you do and if it’s completely legal to receive it, why wouldn’t you take it? I would
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by kcplate 1y ago
Why do you assume they would stop gathering money from side channels? You would need to tie the increase to a prohibition against side/back channel money. Both seems highly unlikely to me.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Pretty much all technology suppresses human labor to a degree, that’s the whole point
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by kcplate 1y ago
Gawker killed Gawker. You don’t get to sucker punch two strongmen (both literally and figuratively) and then whine and cry when they knock the shit out of you for the sucker punch.
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by kcplate 1y ago
> evidence that only adequately talented self-taught people can make it in the field, in the long run. I’d accept that, certainly the ones competing for positions against CS grads are going to be the more capable and confident (more than
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by kcplate 1y ago
There are assumptions on both sides. I would say that a big one on your part is just assuming that everyone with a CS degree is by default a competent and capable developer because of their education. Every CS program, professor, and stud
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by kcplate 1y ago
Well, I’m still going to say “thank you” to Siri even if it means people tease me about it.
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by kcplate 1y ago
> Yes, my point is that the CS grad has done 4+ years more work in the field than a self-taught I’d say it’s the opposite. Self-taught folks I know and have hired started their careers earlier than 22 and have had more practical, “actua
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by kcplate 1y ago
Not sure what that has to do with me, gulags, fascism, or the current administration.
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by kcplate 1y ago
I’ll just continue to “not break any laws” since that has kept me out of the gulag so far.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Those are “tactics”. You are confusing relatively common control and power tactics that are used by some governments with an ideology that encompasses many different characteristics. The Soviet Union used many of the same tactics, but you
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by kcplate 1y ago
Good. Obviously my comment is not referring to them . You have my attention…so What are you doing about it?
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by kcplate 1y ago
> If two people are similar in almost every way but one has a relevant degree, the degree wins obviously. In my original comment I said this: “I would have definitely given an advantage to a self-taught dev over a CS grad provided that

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