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by morgante 10y ago
> Of course you have a right to say who comes and goes in your neighbors properties and what kinds of things they are allowed to do Why? I have a right to intervene if their behavior affects me (ie. noise) but I certainly don't ha
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by morgante 10y ago
> I don't think asking for a password that doesn't unlock a device in your possession would pass muster, but unlocking your phone would. I don't think they can force me to give up my PIN. Not even a court can do that. My r
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by morgante 10y ago
> If they find anything politically disturbing on the phone, they can refuse you entry. No they can't. Refusing to allow a US citizen to (ever) re-enter the country isn't allowed. At worst they can detain you.
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by morgante 10y ago
Yes, which makes this especially abhorrent. The government insists the searches are only of "visitors." Nobody has an obligation to refuse to comply (and be detained and/or jailed) but if put in this situation I would refuse.
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by morgante 10y ago
I'll protect myself by refusing. They can detain me for as long as they want. I'll fight it in court, because I am a US citizen and god dammit they do not have the right to warrantlessly review my encrypted communications. If we&#
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by morgante 10y ago
If by "investing" you mean picking and trading stocks, this is terrible advice.
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by morgante 10y ago
If a raise is truly unfeasible, it's time to look for another job.
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by morgante 10y ago
Contracting is by far the most efficient way to make money in your spare time as a developer. Make sure it's okay with your employer, but you can generally find plenty of small projects to do (~5-10 hours a week) which will bring in a
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by morgante 10y ago
You're not the target customer.
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by morgante 10y ago
Oh please. You can do plenty of SAT prep at the library. My parents certainly couldn't afford an SAT prep course for me. The effect of such courses is vastly overblown—they mostly just sit you down with the same books you can get for f
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by morgante 10y ago
Sure, it was "premeditated" but that's because I always did extremely well in school and it seemed like the obvious choice. It's not like my parents groomed me to succeed or something. They were busy enough with their ow
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by morgante 10y ago
She probably said that because of all the people pushing the narrative that elite schools are only for rich kids. Spreading this myth dissuades thousands of qualified students from applying to top schools where they would get a great educat
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by morgante 10y ago
> University of Illinois has 32,878 undergraduates That's a fair point. It'd be interesting if YC could do some sort of data analysis on attendance for their events at a big state school vs. an elite school. > Illinois stude
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by morgante 10y ago
> SO being at that tier of school doesn't guarantee intelligence, just being outside of the tier doesn't exclude intelligence. You continue to argue against straw men. I never said everyone at top schools is smart, nor did I cl
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by morgante 10y ago
Sure, but do you disagree that P(smart|elite school) > P(smart)? I feel like people on HN have a giant chip on their shoulder when it comes to top schools. They're filled with lots of very smart students and ignoring that is ridicul
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by morgante 10y ago
Eh, it's hardly impossible. My parents have qualified for food stamps at times yet I still had a pretty decent education.
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by morgante 10y ago
> Being set up for success is different than being inherently intelligent. Sure, but you're arguing against a straw man. It's simply objectively true that students at elite are on average much smarter than students at other sch
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by morgante 10y ago
These schools are actually some of the most affordable in the country due to their extremely generous financial aid. Poor families pay nothing and even middle class families have minimal contributions. (For example, all of the elite univers
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by morgante 10y ago
Top schools attract a disproportionate of intelligent young people. Ignoring that would be stupid.
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by morgante 10y ago
I guess I'm having a hard time seeing what exactly is so inspiring about what Sebastian did, and why it's any different from my gambling "product." He's very far from being the first developer to play stocks. What s
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by morgante 10y ago
> At least when I was a student, I would be pretty unlikely to ask on Stack Overflow because I'd probably need answers quickly and not want to wait for a response, but I don't expect everyone to be like me. Many classes have as
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by morgante 10y ago
Yup, seeing the top 10 list made me immediately think of homework assignments. In the real world, programmers don't take their questions with "recursion" or "pointers" very often. Nor is Assembly a common language f
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by morgante 10y ago
> Most of the IH audience will read this, care very little about the "secrets" behind the trading strategy, and instead focus on what you call "trite lessons". I'd like to think I'm part of the core IH audie
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by morgante 10y ago
What are your standards for including interviews on Indie Hackers though? Honestly, my criticisms are less of Sebastian than of you. He admits that his strategy is unlikely to be profitable in the long run, but what exactly is the merit of
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by morgante 10y ago
Yea, I'm sure they do. It's just that I don't know anything about the Indian market, which makes it slightly harder to dismiss completely out of hand.
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by morgante 10y ago
Can I do an Indie Hackers interview about how I went to Vegas a few times and made $10k? I even have some Python scripts modeling my "strategies!" This is almost certainly a fluke, if it's true at all. There aren't any v
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by morgante 10y ago
The biggest red flag is that this guy is supposedly still freelancing. If he had a strategy this good, he would've quit freelancing and be a multimillionaire by now. The only reason I'm not 100% convinced this is fraud is that it&
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm not saying the H1B system isn't abused. It absolutely is, and should be reformed. What I'm disputing is this notion that there's no shortage of qualified developers. There absolutely is—that's why you see substa
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by morgante 10y ago
If there's not a shortage of skilled engineers, then why is Google paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year? While it's true that the industry has a bit of myopia and tends to focus on a specific subset of engineers a
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by morgante 10y ago
Realistically speaking, it's unlikely that something which provides as much value as essentially replacing QA would be priced transparently.

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