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Most of the population of Japan were sad, angry, and humiliated in 1945. They blamed traditional society (in general) for having failed them. The result was that most people discarded traditional social value systems and customs on a wholes
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No, actually, I speak from painfully learned experience, as a former poor student who is now the holder of a non-marketable university degree in history and philosophy, and a pile of student loan debt. But my personal experience is entirely
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It's not at all, though she seems to think it is. It's about how indignant she is that she got two college degrees and still can't get a middle class job. The headline is: "Two College Degrees Later, I Was Still Pickin
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With the advent of government subsidized mass higher education in the US starting in the 1960s, that changed. Many high school teachers and college professors began heavily encouraging their idealistic, young, poor students to "follow
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Nobody has commented on how race fits into this because race is entirely irrelevant to the theme of the article. Her skin color is not relevant to her picking kale for a living. She's picking kale because she got two college degrees in
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The message is that it's massively unfair that someone with a college degree cannot find a job that grants a middle class lifestyle. She entered higher education believing that having "a degree" (in any generic subject) wou
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She doesn't mention what her degrees are in, which I'm quite sure is deliberate: she doesn't want a bunch of people writing to say, "well, of course you are picking kale, you studied {creative writing | English literatur
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The headline ("Two College Degrees Later, I Was Still Picking Kale For Rich People") is a statement of disappointed entitlement, of outrage over a belief that some implicit social contract has not been fulfilled. The reality is th
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This "that's just like, your opinion, man" attitude may be fine if you have no worldly goal affinity and are planning on spending the rest of your days in a remote mountain monastery. If you don't care about achieving an
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Yes, totally. I can understand why management does this. Coders have a very high turnover rate as a profession. When your genius Clojure or Rust programmer leaves, it's much harder and more expensive to find a replacement than when you
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The point is that for most things, there were no such off-the-shelf parts in software engineering until recently. You had to invent each screw and bearing yourself, because you couldn't just order a bunch of screws and bearings. No
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Specialize. Pick a subfield of CS that you really enjoy, that really resonates with you -- machine learning, NLP, algorithms, whatever -- and become an absolute expert at it. Know your subfield inside and out. Start thinking about what spec
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Yes, or more accurately a large new generation of coders is entering the workforce who know how to code only in a superficial sense and think this is a good thing. Programming, and especially startup programming, is being taken over by peop
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Yes. Y Combinator, which (very unusually) funds people with no track records and just a concept, has had only two really big successes (AirBnB and DropBox) in 11+ years and close to a thousand companies in the program. http://ycl
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Yes, combined with the facts that workers in China, Mexico, and many other places will do the same work for a tiny fraction of EU wages, and can also be fired at will rather than enjoy extensive worker protection laws such as in Europe.
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All EU countries except Germany, as well as Norway, have higher youth umemployment rates than the US. Germany is not much lower than the US. http://www.statista.com/statistics/217448/seasonally-adjuste... http:&#
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Norweigan youth unemployment was 10% in December 2015[1], which is pretty high, though not as bad as Spain or Greece. It's higher than the US. Of course Europe is not monolithic nor uniform. Nonetheless one can discern valid generaliti
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Yes. The idea of "intellectual property" as such is nonexistent (and widely considered absurd) in those countries' cultures, combined with a pretty high level of technical sophistication among the general populace.
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Sure, you can install Postfix or sendmail and run your own mail server. That's a tremendous administrative hassle, though, which is why these services sprang up in the first place.
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The issue is that the risk of investing in a startup is extremely high even if you do limit investment to serial founders or post-product, post-traction businesses. It's already very hard to generate a positive return even with thos
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My company, Databaase Labs ( https://www.databaselabs.io/ ), runs fully managed Postgres DBaaS and now has Google Cloud as a deploy target in beta. Mail me if you'd like to be in the beta - pjlegato@databaselabs.io.
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They expect that because, in many cases, it actually happens that way. They will stop expecting that only when it stops working.
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Europe actually has a massive unemployment problem, particularly youth unemployment. Much worse than the US. European manufacturing has been just as decimated as US manufacturing has.
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You are not a unique snowflake. Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything(databaselabs.io)
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Why the faux-demure attitude, with the "let's say"? Call it what it was -- outright bribery, known as "payola" in the music industry. It's been widely documented -- Google it.
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Agree. I support having Lisp support in WebAssembly! Now what?
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These generalizations about education in "the US" are inaccurate, since there is no universal norm of "US" education. The US is an enormous country. Educational policy is defined at the state level. There are 50 states,
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Maybe a better idea than homework is to include mandatory "study halls" within the actual school day, where kids are expected to work quietly and independently on this followup work.
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It's a general filtering mechanism. Almost nobody wants to get up at 5 AM to get to school or to the jobsite. If that's what you have to do to get in, this selects for those participants who are more highly motivated to particip
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Many factories are completely or almost automated now, especially in Japan. This trend will only grow larger in the future as robotics improves. Even the repair and maintenance of the robots will soon be done by other robots. AI is already

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