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by pastProlog 12y ago
> government is now regulating the internet...government takeover Who do you think we are, a bunch of Fox News watching yokel fools? I was on the Internet back when the NSFnet AUP banning commercial use was in effect in the early 1990s.
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> why you want your back to the wall. All the people I know that do this are chronic goof offs. "Goof offs" sounds like something a McDonalds manager has to micromanage for amongst his summer hire of local teenagers. I didn&#x
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> currency is not that stable Do you mean like a currency that was worth $650 against the US dollar a year ago, and today is worth $250 against the US dollar? That kind of stability?
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> The three great ones are the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and the one we are now in the middle of—the software revolution. There is a case for skipping over the technological changes that shifted the slave societ
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> this reads exactly like some communist screed Well, if the idea that people who work and create wealth should keep the wealth they create is a "communist" idea, then so be it.
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> "I'm only getting paid $100.000 per year and it's so low, boohoo" And you advocate that more of the wealth that we create by our own labor goes to the only other involved party - those LP heirs who do not work, an
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> if you are complaining about earning $80,000 to sit behind a computer screen and type all day, you are one entitled SOB. What does that make the LP's, and VC's, and angels, and accelerators, who do no work, and sit on their y
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by pastProlog 12y ago
Sometimes people haven hidden agendas - they want to bring their friend in and want to show they had dozens of interviews and could not find anyone. I was at a Fortune 1000 company and we interviewed one guy. He answered every technical qu
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by pastProlog 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4seubKdRs4
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> The German government, in collusion with the German business establishment, has wrecked Europe, first through its irresponsible lending... I do agree that this sanctimonious moralizing of the virtues of the German over the Greek is ris
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> It is hard to imagine a more consequential singular leak than one that reveals a carefully-planned human-intelligence counter-proliferation mission against a hostile state. It is hard for me to get up in arms about Iran seeking a nucl
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> he helped kidnap and kill two people I think you mean: * he helped capture and execute two soldiers I'm not sure why one person working in military/intelligence being killed is a "political assassination" while the
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> this case makes me wonder if political assassinations also occur in Western politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JghQ0ZcRfQs
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> To me it's just astrology for people who know calculus. > [...] > While I may disagree with methodology, and I may even argue politically about policy implications based on conclusions various sciences reach Economics is a s
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> This is a flawed, Marxist labor theory of value that can't explain why an artisanally-made handbag that takes 120 man-hours to produce still is valued less than a Coach/Prada/LV handbag that was machine-manufactured with
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> My home town is literally at the bottom end of Australia. Beautiful place but there are very few development jobs and no paying startups here. You should work to go to events like Startup Grind Melbourne, or at least such events in Ade
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by pastProlog 12y ago
When going for a CS degree, the usual rule of thumb is one should spend three hours studying for every hour in the classroom. To get the education you'll get at a college, you'll have to spend those three years studying any how.
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> This has not been my experience at all How far back is this experience? Is this what the job listings (of what there were) said during the 2008-2009 recession? Is this what they said in 2001 after the dot-com crash? They may not say t
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by pastProlog 12y ago
Right. From the essay: "But it is dishonest of the anti-immigration people to claim that companies like Google and Facebook are driven by the same motives". "Dishonest", "anti-immigration people", if that&#x2
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> "When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of schoolchildren." > - Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, 1985 This is of course an
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by pastProlog 12y ago
The US State Department, this page has a graph of H1-B visa issuances and links to some of the reports - http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy... The US Citizenship and Immigration Serv
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by pastProlog 12y ago
There already is a program to bring in exceptional programmers - the H1-B visa program. The 100,000 people it is bringing in a year is not enough? There are more exceptional programmers out there?
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by pastProlog 12y ago
Also throw in all the college debt they require you to pile on before being hired, not to mention the hours spent studying instead of working. And that it is a cyclical feast or famine industry where it ping pongs between 70 hour weeks of
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> From the essay: But it is dishonest of the anti-immigration people to claim that companies like Google and Facebook are driven by the same motives. An influx of inexpensive but mediocre programmers is the last thing they'd want; i
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by pastProlog 12y ago
The H1-B visa IS supposed to be for top-notch programmers. That's what it exists for.
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> Footnote [2]: it is dishonest of the anti-immigration people to claim that companies like Google and Facebook are driven by the same motives Profit? Who is being dishonest here? How is being against an H1-B indentured servant coolie v
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by pastProlog 12y ago
Yes. Over 100,000 H1-B's are coming over every year. This keeps discussing exceptional programmers. You mean we need more than 100,000 exceptional programmers coming over every year? The reality is that the idea that even 10,000 of
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> Anti-immigration people Like the author? He wants a tranche of immigration slots to open and for that tranche, indirectly if not directly, to block immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, Nigeria, and so forth. These slots are effectively
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by pastProlog 12y ago
Like the glossed over fact that US occupation and military domination of Italy, rather than populist uprising, is what kept Italy with its economic system undisturbed? The US didn't even try to hide what it was doing during the fixed
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by pastProlog 12y ago
> European states mobilized their populations with an efficiency that dazzled some Americans (notably Theodore Roosevelt) and appalled others (notably Wilson). Yes and no. People nowadays really don't even remember the end of World

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