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by sidlls 5y ago
Okay; and that's fine by me, as I do consider it a rather shallow minded concept anyway. But it does mean something in certain communities, and there are indicators when someone is mouthing words without understanding their meaning or
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by sidlls 5y ago
On some black employees' perceptions. This is hard for people new to working and living alongside minorities in America, but these are individuals and not a monolithic group. Identity politics is dangerous because the loudest mouth
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by sidlls 5y ago
Oh, absolutely. The appearance of "x" instead of the "a" or "o" is an immediate signal of someone who is trying to signal wokeness, but isn't actually.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Let's look at the data, shall we? In 2019: - 0.95% of CS degrees were awarded to black women - 0.86% of degrees were awarded to women who identify as two or more races - 1.63% were awarded to latina women Looks like they're hiring
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by sidlls 5y ago
It’s a bit of a stretch to say someone who speaks with a thick accent in grammatically questionable English has “learnt” English. One can respect the effort while at the same time being incredibly frustrated with having to carry an addition
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by sidlls 5y ago
The data indicate that it is quite rare to have $1MM at (roughly) the retirement age (fewer than 20% of those aged 65 have that amount[1]). It may seem like 20% is "common" or even "infrequent," but it's not: it&#x2
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by sidlls 5y ago
According to https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/48/locations (based on https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide... ), $1MM invested (excluding equity in a primary residence)
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by sidlls 5y ago
Those are important, but nearly as much as luck. Without the luck he had in terms of timing and location it is absolutely not clear that Gates (or Jobs) would have been as successful. This is a simple empirical observation: there are many i
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by sidlls 5y ago
I’d agree with that. Luck is absolutely a requirement and it is definitely more important than any other factor.
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by sidlls 5y ago
All the things you noted aren’t substantive arguments against the essay, in my view. The casual assertions, the unsupported and contentious theme, and the complete omission of anything approaching a consideration of alternatives are common
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by sidlls 5y ago
The fact that over 80% of individuals don’t even have $1MM in assets certainly is a basis to dismiss the point. “It’s possible” is technically correct (no, that’s not the best kind of correct), but leaves out just a ton of context. “It’s po
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by sidlls 5y ago
> I grew up in poverty I grew up in poverty, too. Not the caricature "TV in every room" "fake-poverty" nonsense some use to try to "prove" poor Americans aren't poor, but actual poverty. Like, almost ho
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by sidlls 5y ago
That doesn't account for the events of life, like illness, maintenance on vehicles and property, etc.
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by sidlls 5y ago
It's a bad argument, though. Financial literacy isn't even necessary, though it may help. Life happens, things occur that make sustained savings impractical or impossible, and so on.
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by sidlls 5y ago
It’s so hard to get $1MM that only about 19% of people age 65 or over ever reach it. Is software overrepresented in that group? Probably. But not to the extent that it’s reasonable to make the claim that it’s common for software developers
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by sidlls 5y ago
All these replies with the typical 7% return for 20-30 years calculations are missing the point. I know what the arithmetic is. It is not common to be in a position to do that, even in the software industry.
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by sidlls 5y ago
That would mean putting effort ("working hard") at understanding something outside one's own thought bubble. PG's essays are exercises in narcissism and confirmation bias: they're the last place to go to for the kin
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by sidlls 5y ago
> millionaire is a common outcome for software developers who work hard through their 20s and 30s now. No, it's not. It's common for some FAANG engineers. It's not common at all for the industry as a whole. Look at all t
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by sidlls 5y ago
I'd leave as soon as I could not use the system without connecting to their WiFi, and especially if it required any personal information at all to do so. I have a VPN, but that's just too much.
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by sidlls 5y ago
On HN it seems like there is a huge anti-US/sinophile presence which seeks to elevate any achievement, no matter how minor or retread, as if it were some major accomplishment done in spite of insurmountable purposeful opposition by the
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by sidlls 5y ago
The proportion of Chinese stem graduates who aren’t simply copying their way around and are gifted enough to run these programs is likely about the same as the proportion anywhere else. Chinese people are no more or less intelligent than an
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by sidlls 5y ago
Such a system sounds nice in theory. In practice it leads to a byzantine nightmare of configurable interfaces, support systems, and so on, with a result that is ultimately fatter and harder to maintain.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. They are a bit bland and more salty as compared with properly done from-scratch versions of the sauces, marinades, and sautés, but they're not too bad.
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by sidlls 5y ago
There's a certain squeamishness some have about eating something labeled as "lab-grown", as if it's somehow tainted with "unnatural" origin. At the same time, there's a certain machismo, bravado, "man
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by sidlls 5y ago
We have those sauces in jars available on the shelf at my local grocer (Safeway, Bay Area, US). Bastardized or not, they are tasty.
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by sidlls 5y ago
As an American who goes to restaurants in America in heavily tourist populated areas, I can assure you that you are hilariously wrong. Non-americans are not superior in any way to Americans in this regard (and many others).
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by sidlls 5y ago
It probably doesn’t mean what you think or are trying to imply.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Yeah, it’s a bit much. The “extreme” reading is slowly becoming the only acceptable one. Partly because of comments like the one precipitating the thread: there’s no good reason to try to connect these items.
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by sidlls 5y ago
An extreme reading: white men of the past and (some) of the present were/are racist, therefore we all are. It should go without saying that (probably) isn't a charitable reading.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Yes, and unsurprisingly urban centers (especially impoverished ones) have the most negative interactions with police, exacerbated by the heavy-handed presence.

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