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by r_smart 10y ago
Right, but that's not what they're doing right now. They fired what are probably the 20 lowest paid engineers in their company. They've closed the office as well, but it was probably the cheapest real estate in their company.
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I think one of the big differences between a traditional engineering degree and computer science is that in the traditional engineering education you get some insight into this expectation. I was required to take courses in public speaking
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It seems weird that they would choose to do this. From what I understand, they're a company in need of something big happening for them. Laying off 20 people, who are probably some of the lowest paid on their staff, doesn't really
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by r_smart 10y ago
On top of other comments, don't forget that pilots are highly trained professionals, with a good knowledge of their vehicle and its operation. Very few drivers fall into that category.
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>His code was the kind of code you'd expect an electrical engineering professional to write. Very clean and well documented and technically very good. Boy have we worked with different electrical engineers!
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>why is losing out to immigrants more of an issue than losing out to local competition? The trouble is that the laws, in the US at least, are set up and (not) enforced in such a way as to advantage people coming from abroad. The H1-B is
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The thing that really a noticeable difference in my immune system was working in a bar. You come into contact with so many people, many of whom don't take good care of themselves, and end up collecting / washing the glasses they h
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>Is private consumption stagnating due to less people wanting to consume or due to less income? You (sort of) left out a factor: Slowing / arrested population growth.
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I know everyone is different, but one of my greatest periods of productivity was when I was finishing my EE degree. My employer let me drop my hours down to 30/week, but it didn't really change my responsibilities / workload.
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For those who aren't aware, Scott Adams recently appeared on The Rubin Report and talked about this stuff[0]. It was a really interesting interview, and Dave Rubin's show is awesome. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by r_smart 10y ago
I recently picked up the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People". It's full of story telling, with very little fact, and the main thrusts of each chapter are summarized in a sentence. The bulk of the chapters is mostly
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by r_smart 10y ago
That's a good point. Trusting your math of a selection of people that are typically bad at math, and that have a bad track record of accuracy in general, is probably not a good idea.
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That's...a really good point. Talk about a massive blind spot on my part :)
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Not trying to be flippant, but just pull the USB cable out. Just takes a second, even if it's plugged into the back of your computer (I do it all the time with my keyboard if I'm working on my laptop that day).
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by r_smart 10y ago
I've pretty much stopped reading articles entirely. I'd rather click through to the study, read the abstract, then skim through looking for anything interesting or obviously wrong. Combine that w/a high quality comment site a
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The reality is that most IoT products are really just 'How do I get you to pay a subscription for something you never paid a subscription for'. The solutions, thus far, have been lackluster. They're like the infomercial produ
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Perhaps it shifted a lot in the last few years. I went back to school to get an EE degree, and it's mostly pretty high interest. Sadly I was pretty financially ignorant until maybe my senior year of my second degree. Plus since I was o
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Honestly, based on the interest rates, and their comparison to the market rates on other things, I assume we're already having to do that. I know a lot of people that choose to just not pay their loans, then people who do pay them get
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Below inflation interest rates are long gone. I'm sitting at around 6.5% for most of my debt. And that's after refinancing.
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I think my issue is that I don't like seeing the state making more and more decisions for people. Like I said, I am sympathetic to the need though, and am a donor, hence my ambivalence. And from the article, it looks like the yes vote
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I'm with you. Like I said, I'm a donor. I think there's a good chance the families care, and the person might care. While I'm also not religious, if we're going to allow freedom of religion, it's important for
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I never stated Islam is uniquely problematic, just that the person I was replying to was making a poor comparison. I think at this current moment in the world, one could certainly make a case that it's uniquely problematic. Would you c
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>Have you looked at the gay-bashing that Christians indulge in? But look at matters of scale. In Islamic theocracies, it is frequently illegal and the punishments severe. Even in attitudes, the numbers are really, really bad. Compare the
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But why is this decision better than other ones to accomplish the same means? And is it an ethical violation? I have no clear stance on it at the moment. I appreciate the goal, but this particular solution isn't entirely sitting well w
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I'm pretty sure Trump has said he is under audit and will release his tax returns once the audit is finished. What surprises me is that his audit hasn't been fast tracked in order to hold him to that commitment. I don't think
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On the one hand, I'm an organ donor and think it's a good idea. Once I'm dead, you can have what's left over. On the other, a person's body is the one thing you can't take from them (without this being a Cronen
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Thanks for that, it's an interesting difference from my own opinion, and totally understandable. I don't like it because it clearly (to me) is a censorship of art, and famous art at that. It violates principles of free speech as I
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If you can convert inflation adjusted to today's money, why can't you do it backwards? To your second point, you're probably right. Journalism is in a sad state these days.
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Maybe, depends on how you did it. Like I initially thought of doing her whole body, but I guess you could just do the parts of her that makes it nudity, so it would be a censorship bikini. That would probably make it more obvious that she w
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Sorry if the previous response was overly terse, but it seemed easiest to point out what you were doing with your own words. Namely, demonstrating the behavior you're decrying. Also, how is showing you sentences from different parts of

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