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by lsc 9y ago
I think you are being too absolute. There is some value to the content, even though I totally agree that the contacts are dramatically more valuable than the content if you go to a good school. Personally, I find that finding management a
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by lsc 9y ago
Hobbes, like Milton, was dramatically effected by the English civil war; Milton's "On the tenure of kings and magistrates" was very clearly a "Please don't kill me" and it's generally not read for this r
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by lsc 9y ago
hm. It appears I'm off on my car prices. I thought japanese minivans were in that range, and with pool, those are really common. looking, they look closer to $30K than $40K if you don't spring for the extras. doing a survey o
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by lsc 9y ago
As a passenger, I'm very often in $40K+ vehicles. Even on a 60 month loan, that'd be over your $600 number just on car payments.
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by lsc 9y ago
MBAs are different from engineering degrees in that while a MBA from a top school is super valuable, a MBA from a so-so school is, as far as I can tell, worth very little. Keep in mind that one-year MBAs from disreputable schools are ofte
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by lsc 9y ago
Which is a good first step... but if I'm injured at a regular job? workers comp will cover my own bills and lost wages while I recover(usually even if it was my own goddamn fault) - Uber drivers don't get that benefit, and the
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by lsc 9y ago
>Most factory jobs are not skilled in the sense that programming is, and the least-skilled tech job is still more complicated and difficult than the least-skilled factory job - meaning, tech jobs are not the new factory jobs, because by
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by lsc 9y ago
>In actual practice, that model doesn't work for anything but dry goods... which means somebody is making an additional trip yet for temperature-critical perishables. Safeway uses a refrigerated van Amazon fresh packs produce with
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by lsc 9y ago
Sure, it's a ritual that doesn't directly relate to the work required, like all interviews. Evaluating someone before you hire them is hard - Being interviewed and getting hired, in my experience, is way easier than intervie
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by lsc 9y ago
I thought pay was stratified among roles. For that matter, I would assume that the two would be in different unions. I don't think a forklift operator would be in the ibew with the electrician.
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by lsc 9y ago
Huh. But I would assume that pay scales with skill? I mean I did warehouse labor one summer myself for a few months, and they mostly wanted people who could show up on time, who could pay enough attention to get a list of compact disks int
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by lsc 9y ago
So I am at the beginning of my mechanical and materials engineering education, but I do know enough to tell you that making your injection molding come out okay is not easier than swapping the head gasket on your motorcycle. Machines need t
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by lsc 9y ago
Linked list, yes. It is hard to write anything in c without doing a linked list. You aren't a real Unix sysadmin if you don't have at least really basic c skills. Bubble sort, no. The libraries are enough better than I am to put
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by lsc 9y ago
except that most of those trips are pooled; the grocery picker (I use amazon fresh, but have used the Safeway delivery in the past, but the same idea applies to both... the insticart model may be different, but I haven't used them.)
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by lsc 9y ago
>Anyone could work a factory job. The least intelligent, least motivated people could punch a clock and earn a decent living tightening the same bolt a thousand times a day, all day long. I don't have personal experience as a '
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by lsc 9y ago
>Sysadmins are also historically a non-degree position, because there is no degree for it. Sure there is. Computer information systems. Management information systems. Computer Information Technology. Now, as far as I can tell, the
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by lsc 9y ago
>If you're not admitted to one of the best schools you're arguably better off going it alone these days. Just a note to people making this decision now. I did pretty well without a degree, but my dad and my stepdad both wor
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by lsc 9y ago
> That's boilerplate for positions that can't legally require a degree. They'll still ask and filter on CS questions. I don't have a degree, I haven't had a job that didn't either straight require a college
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by lsc 9y ago
Makes sense. I mean, I say that it was totally impractical to not have a car and live in silicon valley before the rise of the ridesharing services; but I know a guy who did it. He had a bicycle and just always lived near work and a groc
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by lsc 9y ago
>My desire is that we develop ways to make cities hospitable to carless families. That goal seems more remote now than it did in 2010. Eh, from where I stand (in silicon valley) being carless is way more practical now than in 2010; I
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by lsc 9y ago
>If the most effective way to do that is to organize and negotiate together with my fellow workers at Megacorp X--which is both ethically permissible (freedom of assembly, etc) and our legal right--why wouldn't I do that?? Sure, if
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by lsc 9y ago
I was just talking to a guy who started out in the airforce; (enlisted, so probably no flight suit) he said the food was really pretty good, comparable to what we get here. My friend who started out in the army, though, tells me that the f
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by lsc 9y ago
Ah, the spirit of Glompers. "More" - fundamentally, there's nothing wrong with that, but really, there's no reason for anyone outside of your group to support you any more than there is for you to support my own perso
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by lsc 9y ago
> Equal ownership of something that’s likely to be zero. I dunno; co-ops have been successful in other areas of endeavor. It's as reasonable a way of organizing a company as any other. I mean, mostly they are businesses that provi
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by lsc 9y ago
>The games can be stratified into economic divisions but in terms of striving and human drama they are quite similar. The poor person who has never tasted really expensive food gets the same pleasure from something more simple than a ric
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by lsc 9y ago
> You are being fooled. Those meals and buses are to keep you at work. Anything other than cash only ties you more tightly to the company. Demand money, not better snacks at the company store. I'm not being fooled. I totally unders
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by lsc 9y ago
Perhaps I am not parsing. I'm reading this as "We should work to increase our wages in order to increase the wages of those who are paid less well" I think that in a real way, people who create and maintain automation infras
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by lsc 9y ago
>Additionally, you're not all addressing any imbalance in impact. "Imbalance" as seen from a perspective of dollars per worker isn't very meaningful unless you advocate for removing incentives and defaulting to a syst
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by lsc 9y ago
>Great that you're content with crumbs, but I'm not, and I certainly don't want to see the next generation of technicians laboring under the same conditions as so many of ours has done. I'll do my part to leave the wo
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by lsc 9y ago
to follow up: > But, I know too many people that discovered only upon an exit, that the financial reward was never destined for them. When I interview at pre-ipo companies, they usually tell me how many options they are giving me and a p

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