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by linuxftw 4y ago
Is everyone just making lateral moves? New job should mean new money, that's the only reason to move jobs, unless you really want to build your resume in an area in order to... make more money in the long run.
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by linuxftw 4y ago
There's a lot to unpack here. College is not synonymous with education. I'm anti-college insofar as I feel that it is a net-negative for society, and greatly so. For the vast majority, college is a means to an end, a way to rec
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by linuxftw 4y ago
The pro college crowd has a tool the anti-college crowd doesn't: They understand that the masses respond emotionally rather than rationally. If there is to be meaningful change in society, we need to make people feel embarrassed for
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by linuxftw 4y ago
> Imagine if we charged every criminal a fee for their jail time and legal apparatus. And compensation for all victims? This already happens more or less. Now after serving some time, you have a big bill to pay off as well.
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by linuxftw 4y ago
Yeah, but, there's a certain class of injectable drugs we should always trust them on, no matter what. Always and forever, and never doubt them, because doubt alone is a conspiracy.
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by linuxftw 4y ago
I have experience with the VA system. It's an absolute sham. Privatizing it would absolutely increase costs, because then people would actually been seen, let alone treated, for their conditions.
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by linuxftw 4y ago
> I'm fine waiting for months and pushing the date, but will they still want me? Yeah, most big corporations will understand you can't give a 2 weeks until you're cleared to start. For you, this is a life impacting decisi
908.
by linuxftw 4y ago
People save money doing a job they hate to one day start a business they don't hate all the time. The key part of this story is 'raising capital.' Most people joining the tech industry today aren't doing it because they
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by linuxftw 4y ago
> The government coddling the wealthy while trampling the poor is not socialism. It's socialism, just as other forms of government. Nobles vs peasants. Is there a head of state that doesn't live in a palace?
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by linuxftw 4y ago
The 'mental health issue' is a symptom, not a cause. Personally, I believe the cause is public schools. Boomers and Gen Xers didn't have to do standardized testing, they had meaningful break periods between classes, could l
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by linuxftw 4y ago
I said living beyond their means, not necessarily pretending to be rich. They're just pretending not to be impoverished, because being impoverished is shameful in America.
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by linuxftw 4y ago
How much of a population has to meet a criteria for a generalization to become acceptable? I would say 2/3 is a nice measure. For sure, 2/3s of Americans live far beyond their means. I also think that the word "average&quo
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by linuxftw 4y ago
What you did doesn't matter, and they gave you the right amount of recognition. There are 1000's of imported indentured servants that will happily do your job the moment you leave. Of course, we don't call them indentured s
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by linuxftw 4y ago
Everyone knows "Americans" refers exclusively to the people in the USA. True, two continents also happened to have the name "America" in them, but their relation doesn't matter. As you can see here [1], America is
915.
by linuxftw 4y ago
This is referred to as 'daddy's money.' A large portion of the youth today are living off of their parent's income or existing wealth. Their parents might not pay for their car, per se, but they're likely footing t
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by linuxftw 4y ago
For many people, a nice vehicle is 'the thing' they've always wanted. Many people I know seem to spend as much as they can afford on a vehicle, it's part of the personality somehow. On the one hand, I can't really
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by linuxftw 4y ago
Roku doesn't have this problem, I highly recommend it.
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by linuxftw 4y ago
> High-dosage tutoring—which educators define as involving a trained tutor working with one to four students at a time, three times a week for a whole year—is one of the few interventions with a demonstrated benefit that comes close, pro
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by linuxftw 4y ago
There's nothing stopping the single party wealthy states like CA and NY implementing whatever they want. Just raise taxes on the rich and do whatever you want with their money, right?
920.
by linuxftw 4y ago
I just tried it. Can't 'goto definition' for dependencies for Go or Python, so that function is almost useless for those languages IMO.
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by linuxftw 4y ago
Previously they had announced expanding their NFT offerings. Hopefully the executives realized that was a fruitless endeavor.
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by linuxftw 5y ago
> I want children getting the best education that they can get. Again, the funding is not unlimited. We're sacrificing some less than average students' learning for the sake of the small minority of above average students. &gt
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by linuxftw 5y ago
The problem here is economic disparity. If people can't afford to send their children to the school of their choosing, then it's a signal wages are too low. This also applies to public schools, you can be the smartest kid in cer
924.
by linuxftw 5y ago
You're missing the point. The purpose of public school is to provide a basic education. If you want to do more work, or your parents want you to study more, you're free to do so. In your very own example, you went to a private s
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by linuxftw 5y ago
> As an example, how seriously would you take an aircraft flight controls software engineer who willfully chooses to never learn how an airplane flies? This describes exactly the Boeing and MCAS fiasco. In fact, not only did Boeing hire
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by linuxftw 5y ago
In 1985, the average 30 year mortgage interest rate was 13.5%. A $150k house paid off exactly on time would have cost $618k total. This would also be a 41% debt to income ratio for a $50k income. A $500k house today with a 30 year mortgag
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by linuxftw 5y ago
Public school should provide a basic education to all students, not a better education to some students. Resources that were used for a 'gifted and talented' track should be allocated to help the more needy. Especially in later y
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by linuxftw 5y ago
It makes one wonder why they administer remdesivir and other similar drugs to hospitalized patients.
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by linuxftw 5y ago
That depends. In the case of vaccines, the placebo is often all the ingredients of a vaccines minus the biological component, or in other cases, an already approved vaccine is used as the placebo. So, it's probably a poorly controlled
930.
by linuxftw 5y ago
The first one to mention conspiracy theory was the poster I originally responded to (possibly you?). When I read "conspiracy theory" I think to myself "this person gets their facts from CNN and no place else." Just ign

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