resueman

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by resueman 5y ago
The others are misleading you with very limited perspectives. Are you comparing yourself to the father and the kid together or just the kid? The kid is using the parents' space. And while house prices have shot up recently pricing out
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by resueman 5y ago
The big dark areas are just fluid. He had some kind of shunt to drain fluid from his brain as a child because of too much pressure. And sometime in the next 30 years there was a problem with the shunt failing, which caused fluid to back up.
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by resueman 5y ago
I had something like this happen becasue I was logging in to some microsoft service, and thought I was supposed to be giving them my microsoft account password but apparently they wanted my gmail password for whatever they were up to. And d
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by resueman 5y ago
Wechat does this to me just to use the app. They keep making me play stupid recaptcha games and do verification codes then ultimately block me anyway. I finally gave up on using it.
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by resueman 5y ago
How about the distibution of income for youtube accounts with millions of views? which is what the article says he has. He also has a patreon account linked on there.
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by resueman 5y ago
Well if you choose passion over money, it's not really luck anymore when someone has more money than you. An engineering undergrad can probably earn more in a summer internship than your stipend pays in a year.
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by resueman 5y ago
The point of anticompetitve behavior in the hiring market is to be able to pay less to get people. The fact that they pay the highest prices for people means they sure suck at it.
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by resueman 5y ago
> The article notes that his dad is a very successful engineer... The Wired article? Where does it say that? I only see reference to the skeptical engineer consulted by the father.
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by resueman 5y ago
I hate to say it, but I can imagine that a group of engineres with a manager nipping at the heels can be much more valuable in total to a company than a group of engineers left to their own devices. Some may be great at being independently
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by resueman 5y ago
Well that goalpost sure made a leap. Spread it out over six years and imagine the kid is pulling in real cash with a youtube channel showcasing his projects.
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by resueman 5y ago
So basically a member of the middle class in a developed country. How remarkable.