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by seem_2211 7y ago
looks at Daly City with befuddlement
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Seems to have worked out pretty well with Elon... when were we supposed to get the Model Y/Roadster/Full Self Driving/Profitability (and all of the other things) again?
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Taking a more benign view, I don't know if Austen is a scammer, but he seems like a smart guy, who's a bit over his head, with a smart team, who are in over their heads. The kind of students they've targeted need more help, n
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by seem_2211 7y ago
This is a golden example of where in person beats online. It's so much easier to weed out the people who will not show up when you do things in person (and there are plenty of those in College). But even diligent people are more likely
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by seem_2211 7y ago
There's a good Top Gear episode where they tried 'cooking' with a car engine (apparently the food tasted awful) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9vhGiSL904
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I work in sales recruiting (agency) with various tech companies in SF. Compared to the people in this story, it's a totally different world, where candidates have a lot more power (partly evidenced by the fact that companies will pay f
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I think there's a supply & demand thing. Most people are not that excited about finance, or sales, or computer science. And there's a need for a few million of those people across the US economy to do those jobs. Whereas there
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I don't think most technical startups are that interesting (especially as a non technical person) in a pure 'solving the problem' way. What makes it interesting is all of the real world variables that come with it. Admittedly
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I went to University in New Zealand, but my student loan for undergraduate study is higher than every single one of my American friends. In America the price you see and the price you pay are not the same thing.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I don't think the average American has any real sense of how much better off they are than even people in most of the Western World. People point to places in Europe with high tax rates as these absolute havens, when in reality you&#x2
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I think the amount you need to make to 'afford' to have a child is so small, that it's not really worth talking about for the average American family (NB: in this case I'm talking about a married couple). If you want to
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Well yes, but the majority of it is captured by the middle class, in the form of public pensions, 401k's, the stock market etc.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Surely there's a few red flags that could have come up and that's what we're preventing here?
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Yes, Ive was absolute shit, which is why Steve Jobs (widely known as a cuddly man who never had a sharp word to say), said "If I had a spiritual partner at Apple, it's Jony. Jony and I think up most of the products together and th
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Rolling deep into anecdotal avenue, but my thoughts on grad school • Lucrative fields like medicine & dentistry saddle you with enormous debts (often in the mid six figures) that take multiple years to pay off. The ROI is probably worth
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Yep, I was giving up about $30k a year ($120k / 4 years). I was working in a supermarket. $2 more an hour needed over the course of my career to make the juice worth the squeeze. Nothing to write home about.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I've done the math on the opportunity cost of how much I would have made if I hadn't gone to university. It was about $120k over 4 years, and raised the opportunity cost to about $160k (I borrowed $60k, but some of that money was
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Correct - I didn't study a STEM subject, but I've done ok for myself despite that. I think there's a world of difference between "I want to study acting and I'll end up successful like Brad Pitt" and "Hmm,
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by seem_2211 7y ago
And I'm not going to feel bad about it either!
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Oh yeah, it's a great deal for me. What I meant was Americans who studied and then work in America end up paying roughly the same (when you take into account average earnings) as Kiwis who study and then stay in NZ.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Haha, especially if you like burning couches! I went to Waikato.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Fair enough. When it comes to career advice, I prefer anecdotes to large data sets, because there are far too many variables, and it's too easy to torture numbers.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Does STEM actually pay off, or does engineering/technology pay off? I've got a few friends who work in science, and it seems to be a pretty poorly paying field, with a real lack of job prospects, unless you secure a job at a gover
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Yeah fair points. I was sick of studying by the time I graduated - I enjoyed my experience at University, but I wanted to get into the private sector (probably worth mentioning that I studied business at the undergrad level, so I think a lo
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Yeah it's not great! There's fairly decent financial aid available to cover your living costs if you're from a low income family, but that cuts off pretty quickly, and unlike the US, there isn't really a culture of payin
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by seem_2211 7y ago
The argument you put forward doesn't make sense. It's not a ripoff to make close to minimum wage for a number of years (and possibly take on high levels of student loan debt), all to work in a field where there is an oversupply of
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I went to university in a country with a Gini coefficient of .35, and now live in a country with a Gini coefficient of .39 (See OECD link below) The funny thing is, my student loan is one of the highest out of my American friend group† (alt
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Good point, I was more thinking Med school / Law school / MBA / masters level study.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I have a degree from a no-name university in New Zealand. I'd do it again for a few pragmatic reasons. 1: Lots of companies will reject you on sight without a degree. I don't think it's a good thing, but it is reality. 2: Wit
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I don't agree. I think enterprise software is a big lever that we can use to improve society. It looks different to biotech and cancer cures, but it's still important. Enterprise software should make businesses more efficient, and

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