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by shams93 7y ago
If we get rid of student loans this could change overnight, we have fashioned a society that punishes risk taking on so many levels but the student debt is the strongest driver I can see its basically a return of the indentured servitude cu
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by shams93 7y ago
If you're over 40 these apps don't even work then you find it's not so much about commitment phobia its more to do with a system that taxes income to poverty. The ordinary working person in places like CA have lost so much tr
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by shams93 7y ago
I know a place in Burbank that's hiring. The job market in LA is rough really h1b people go to the front of the line I've been through tough times here myself and was born here it's a really mean town. But don't give up
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by shams93 7y ago
It's become a platform for music production. A lot of music apps like beatmaker3 only exist on the iPad. It's replaced the computer for me as my daw system for music production.
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by shams93 7y ago
If we changed focus to reliance on web standards rather than complex build systems like react it would help. The idea that you have to compile JavaScript comes from all these people coming in from CS programs into front end. You don't
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by shams93 7y ago
We heavily tax income and hardly touch capital gains, we discourage work, even if you get a decent salary the tax system obliterates that income. If you gamble with stocks you make money without doing anything productive and your lack of pr
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by shams93 7y ago
It depends like graphql requires a pretty heavy client library while rest can work with vanilla Js fetch with no client library
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by shams93 7y ago
Yeah it was brutal I managed to scrape by doing short term contracts but it was some deep poverty and on top of it my options in Yahoo were upside down so I had not only poverty but a relentless IRS pursuing me for whatever they could for 1
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by shams93 7y ago
It has the most openings however it's an area where there is more age discrimination. If you're over 30 it might not be the best choice
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by shams93 7y ago
Tesla is the most expensive case how about comparing the Toyota to the less expenses electrics like the Fiat e500.
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by shams93 7y ago
However you could use the tax system to do things like pay certain workers "reverse income tax" where instead of taxing their income you support the lower prices with tax credits for their profession.
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by shams93 7y ago
Call me cheapo but I use a $150 desktop that I then maxed out with 20 gigs of RAM and two GPUs. I never have to take my environment out of my house so I can't see the reason for even using a laptop seems like another thing to lose or g
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by shams93 7y ago
They always find ways out of it I've gone nearly 18 years now without any access to healthcare is it ethical to be forced to fix a broken elbow with duct tape in the richest country in the world? I had to, even after Obamacare I still
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by shams93 7y ago
I use the new iPad mini along with cubasis 3 as my main DAW for music production and also my main video editor.
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by shams93 7y ago
In LA nothing has been done since I was born it just gets worse and worse but ultimately the homeowners and landlords control the government and you'll see any change over their dead bodies. In California high taxes make it such that m
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by shams93 7y ago
If you legalize it you can arrest the human traffickers while enabling professional sex workers to be professionals just look at the enlightened approach to the problem taken by Australia. No brothels allowed and no pimps but independent se
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by shams93 7y ago
Teaching critical thinking skills is the only way to combat fake news we don't want to do this in the US because the powers that be get their power from dumbing people down so they can use their own fake news tools to control them thes
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by shams93 7y ago
I had this problem at a job where music was piped in, at one time I was a professional musician so I'm trained to hyperfocus on the song at hand when listening, I like having background noise but listening to actual music is distractin
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by shams93 7y ago
I doubt it Disney always treated engineers are disposable overhead not treasured talent. I got a Lyft ride from a former head of Imagineering really Disney's poor treatment of technical talent is their huge weakness.
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by shams93 7y ago
What is interesting is that the same family owned company that created oxycontin also created valium originally. Amazing to think of how much damage one family owned business has done (Purdue Pharma) to an entire nation.
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by shams93 7y ago
I had this job that thought you were stealing from them if you got more than 90 minutes sleep a night they would literally call the engineers 7 days a week at 3am to make sure we were not "slipping up" by getting sleep worst job o
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by shams93 7y ago
He's the only other CEO with that much hair I thought it was satire
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by shams93 7y ago
Between Jerry Brown and Pat Brown one single family has ruled the state as governor for over 40 years combined.
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by shams93 7y ago
This has been true long before ai. Writing and journalism have always been weaponized. The opposite could be true in that it's easier to recognize automated fake news than well crafted hand done human deception.
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by shams93 7y ago
It has in Hollywood especially things like key grip jobs are passed down generation to generation. Having none of this in LA I spent half my working life homeless with a master's degree in Socal the economy is all about what you inheri
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by shams93 7y ago
It's not just electron it's the fact that a $30 prepaid Android phone with chrome can be more web capable than a $1200 iPhone
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by shams93 7y ago
It just doesn't have either the api power or ease of use of ios and ipad os. On the developer side lets say you want to build an advanced audio app, on the apple side targeting arm64 for ios is trivial its all there in xcode ready to g
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by shams93 7y ago
I'm having the same experience but I keep in mind that the Trump admin lies and also promotes discrimination. I lost my job to an h1b, in a good economy it takes me 2 weeks to find a new job this is anything but a strong economy. Lie w
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by shams93 7y ago
With rising Chinese sales makes you wonder if the trade war isn't doing more damage to the us than China. If it was about more competition that should also hurt overseas sales.
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Yeah so far coastal prices are far above the inland prices

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