learc83

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by learc83 6y ago
>They will take the low pay of government to prove their abilities, then jump to the private sector. So the job of running a $10 billion dollar per year company that manages nuclear power plants, hydroelectric dams, and supplies power to
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by learc83 6y ago
>("game programming" and "embedded development" aren't limited to Windows-only stacks If you're not developing a mobile or console game, windows is 95%+ of your market. At some point your going to need to do
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by learc83 6y ago
Yes but many don’t. Which is why I find it absurd for someone to say they don’t understand why someone would need to use Windows.
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by learc83 6y ago
Gaming, programming games, some embedded development using proprietary windows only tool chains, windows only CAD software etc... As you said people use computers for different things than you.
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by learc83 6y ago
They mean what qualified person is going to take that job. If you're qualified to run a company that size, you can make much more than $500k.
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by learc83 6y ago
It is, but it's very easy to game. Hire someone for QA, then make them work as a software engineer etc...
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by learc83 6y ago
Not when it's done through several layers of employees and then potentially multiple layers of foreign companies. It's very hard to find individuals to hold criminally liable for things like this. When was the last time you saw a
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by learc83 6y ago
Executives don't go to jail when their companies kill people. There's no way we manage to restructure our justice system so that they go to jail for paying ransoms.
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by learc83 6y ago
The philosophy being sound is worthless if the execution is flawed. As to investing look at page 35-36. It’s not literally just T-bills, but treasury holdings with very low interest rates compared to the kinds of investments private compani
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by learc83 6y ago
>FedEx and UPS are subject to the same pension and retirement benefit funding requirements as USPS. No they FedEx and UPS were required to prefund pensions in the 1970s, but they were given 40 years in which to do it. USPS was given 10 y
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by learc83 6y ago
I’m suggesting you conduct interviews for experienced candidates like virtually every other industry and trust that if they have 10 years of verifiable employment experience as a programmer that they aren’t complete charlatans. If 1/1
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by learc83 6y ago
Well Congress can definitely ban foreign owned companies from operating in the US under at least 2 sections of the constitution that I can think of. And Congress has delegated part of that power to the President.
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by learc83 6y ago
If you’ve only ran into 2 of them in your entire career it seems like there we’re probably better off trusting people’s verified experience than wasting millions of hours per year trying to a filter out the tiny fraction of people capable o
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by learc83 6y ago
To me TikTok feels like ytmnd.com with videos instead of images. I spent hours there when I was younger.
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by learc83 6y ago
Is that based on soft drink revenues or because Pepsi owns dozens of other non soft drink companies?
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by learc83 6y ago
I think it’s less that they won’t to define their own space than that they don’t want to hangout with their parents. But your point holds either way. Eventually TikTok will become so popular that their parents/grandparents/older s
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by learc83 6y ago
And yet I’ve never ran into one. Sure there are some people that ho are just bad for employees or with bad software engineering practices. But I couldn’t say that they didn’t know how to program. I’m talking about people with actual verifie
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by learc83 6y ago
It would create a marginal combined income tax rate of 54% when you combine federal and state taxes. From the article: "California’s top marginal tax rate is 13.3%. The new proposal would add three new surcharges on seven-figure earner
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by learc83 6y ago
> Before it reaches my eyes/ears, it has been meticulously edited to remove anything the author / editor _thinks_ I won't be interested in. Nearly every single technical book I have ever read has pages and pages of fluff t
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by learc83 6y ago
>A median is a median >in a country where the median salary is just under 85k$ per year If $85k is the median salary for the country, that says nothing about the median salary of US expats in the country. > But it is also the case
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by learc83 6y ago
>The point is a US passport is great to live in the US, that's it. Yes assuming you never want to work or live in the US, compared to a Swiss passport and a handful of other passports that's true. Compared to 90% of countries o
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by learc83 6y ago
>I think it’s more accurate to compare them to other federal agencies who all also have to prefund pensions, including medical pensions. Other Federal agencies don't have to finance their own operations, so it makes no sense to comp
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by learc83 6y ago
Some people have contracts that forbid divulging any information or techniques they learned during their employment. This doesn't stop companies from asking questions about previous work projects, or asking them to solve problems on wh
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by learc83 6y ago
>or perhaps even the other party that paid you What are the damages? As for suing you? Again what are the damages? It’s almost certain there are no damages assuming you are just working on a take home project not something that they are
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by learc83 6y ago
"The benefit of having different files is it doesn't require changing Ruby code to start type checking. You can opt-in type checking safely without changing any part of your workflow."
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by learc83 6y ago
>This can add a lot of overhead, and some candidates may have jobs that forbid them from accepting outside work How is this enforceable? Even in the case that someone finds out about it, what’s the company going to do? Sue the interviewi
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by learc83 6y ago
> What there a time since 1776 (or whenever passports became a thing) that the US passport was in the top 10? Yes in 2006 and 2014 it was #1. The numbers fluctuate every year because the difference between #1 and #20 is only 7 countries.
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by learc83 6y ago
I'm not sure what that metric is supposed to prove? That Switzerland has a higher number of rich US expats who want to avoid paying US taxes than other countries do? It's very difficult to get Swiss citizenship in the first place,
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by learc83 6y ago
Out of 200 odd passports you could have, top 10% is definitely a reasonable definition of most prized. Particularly when the difference is so insignificant. The vehemence of your disagreement in the original post vastly exceeds what one w
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by learc83 6y ago
You are hugely overestimating American power 50 years ago. We were in the process of losing the Vietnam war, the Korean war was basically a draw, were unable to impose our will on a tiny island nation 90 miles off of our cost, and we were o

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