normal_man

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by normal_man 8y ago
No, and I guess I could. But why should I? More importantly, why should/would a prospective employer?
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by normal_man 8y ago
This guy probably got a negative reaction because he says "hiring is broken", when what he meant was "my strategy for getting hired is broken." The goal of "hiring" is for companies to satisfy their needs, not
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by normal_man 8y ago
I mean this is already an acknowledged good approach. Companies don't want to make that investment though, hiring both a senior and a junior who won't be immediately productive, and keep chasing the mythical senior who will work f
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by normal_man 8y ago
Individual actions like driving or biking to work are drops in the bucket, basically insignificant. We know that 100 companies cause 70% of the pollution on this planet. We know their names, and the names of those who decide their strategie
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by normal_man 8y ago
True, but it's helpful for a junior to know the lay of the land even if they don't know how to use every one of these technologies. It does a junior no good to keep their head down and focus entirely on PHP, then when they look fo
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by normal_man 8y ago
This seems to rely pretty heavily on the "title" to the land being respected. Works fine until the foreign army ISN'T expelled.
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by normal_man 8y ago
Depending on where you're sitting, the US being the greatest superpower hasn't worked out that well either.
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by normal_man 8y ago
We spend on military to protect our economic and imperial interests abroad, and no other reason.
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by normal_man 8y ago
I think you are giving way too much credit to your average TSA agent.
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by normal_man 8y ago
This is overly simplistic. People may start to abuse substances because of a feeling of powerlessness, depression or some other form of unhappiness, but once addicted, a person's life can improve and the use will continue until the psy
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by normal_man 8y ago
Even if wages are "going up" over the last year or whatever, they have been largely stagnant over the long term in the face of skyrocketing corporate profits. It's a problem 30 or more years in the making and it will come to
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by normal_man 8y ago
If you think he's purely altruistic you're very naive. He's doing all this to both enrich himself and feed his massive ego. And there are plenty of reasons to dislike him - inserting himself unnecessarily into the cave traged
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by normal_man 8y ago
Absolutely not. Just look through this thread. So many people fetishize "markets" to the point where they act like it's reasonable for people to simply roll over and die if they haven't achieved a certain level of wealth
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by normal_man 8y ago
It's entirely possible to have health coverage and still be financially ruined by a health emergency due to deductibles and pre-existing condition loopholes.
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by normal_man 8y ago
Yup, it's worked nearly all over the modern world, for years and years. The last thing I want in healthcare is more startup maniacs trying to "disrupt and innovate" when there is a clearly viable alternative.
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by normal_man 8y ago
You shop around for health insurance (which is another annoying nightmare altogether, and most people's only option for that is the provider chosen by their employer). If you were in an accident and taken by emergency services to the n
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by normal_man 8y ago
Yeah, the idea that "shopping around" is something that people want to do, or is even possible to do, with health coverage is utterly absurd propaganda designed to discredit single payer policy.
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by normal_man 8y ago
Not OP but I would guess it refers to the differences in material learned and needed between school and work. School will teach you to implement sorts of varying complexity, when your day-to-day duties at work will be things you never cover