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by simplestats 5y ago
Harmful according to other ideologies conlficting in the mind of the same person. You think murder is morally wrong. You think some govt policy is so important that when govt kills people while it is carrying out the policy, the ends justif
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by simplestats 5y ago
Hey I have anecdotal evidence proving it. It's all about risk management. At some point you have to make a choice.
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by simplestats 5y ago
I think it's just hyperbole. I wonder how sensitive 97 year-olds are about their age. If it bugs them, they probably also wouldn't appreciate having it pointed out prominently in headlines and articles about their other accomplish
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by simplestats 5y ago
govt bonds aren't generally expected to decay over time either. But I suppose they are these days.
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by simplestats 5y ago
Ah. No that's not what I meant. Option #1 is risk the money. Option #2 is sit on cash. You forgot about option #3: invest it somewhere that is both not risky and safe from inflation. Institutional investors have hedging strategies that
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by simplestats 5y ago
It's not completely about time you mean. Time is just a rough proxy for experience. It's not just about significant accomplishments either, but rather significant accomplishments that are recognized by your employer. For all you
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by simplestats 5y ago
I was being a little generous, yes. I wonder if that's what is triggering people. The stated goal of govt seems to be low (but positive) levels of inflation and high growth. The current situation with high inflation and low interest ra
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by simplestats 5y ago
I'm saying it's a step in the right direction. No more starting at zero or even being "under water" like with ISO's. With RSU's they just grant you the stock like they used to only do for execs (with nonqualifi
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by simplestats 5y ago
Is principal engineer typical for 20 years experience where you are? Or are they typically stuck at senior engineer? Because if you're ahead of the average already like that, then indeed it will be hard to do better elsewhere. Having s
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by simplestats 5y ago
> Inflation is insipid. You _must_ take risk with your funds just to not lose the value of it. This certainly seems to be the case, but it's fustrating. I can think of no fundamental reason why it should be so. Other than speculator
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by simplestats 5y ago
Er you think I was saying that women getting pregnant more often than men was not a reflection of reality? I did make the argument with more. I gave you actual stats. Where's yours again? (other than a thorough analysis of undesirable
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by simplestats 5y ago
It's not wrong to discriminate against women? where? And where are you getting these statistics you refer to? I think I disagree with pretty much every point you made here. Tech jobs more like fast food than research? If you're no
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by simplestats 5y ago
It's not so different in the ways that matter here. The point is that hard mental work isn't a "young man's game". It's about time and energy still. You need to work very very hard for years to win a nobel priz
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by simplestats 5y ago
This is bs, sorry. This isn't pro basketball. Your eyes degrade slowly and your memory does too eventually. But unless you're talking about 60+ when such issues really start to catch up with you (still to variable degree depending
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by simplestats 5y ago
"de facto " is better, but still, it's "may be" considered evidence.
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by simplestats 5y ago
People who name and shame tend to want to hurt their target. That motivation tends to also lead to spinning the story, even a tiny bit, to sound worse and therefore hurt them worse. It could be the interviewer was trying to ask something be
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by simplestats 5y ago
There's always a conflict between leveraging your background and optimizing for what is highest pay currently (unless you're really lucky). Neither direction is a guarantee. Certainly we would like a society where a person who fol
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by simplestats 5y ago
Well in the past employees got ISO's. Now employees are getting RSU's. And in our lawsuit-happy culture (with a perverse incentive for companies to always settle lawsuits even when they can win), even the most employee-friendly pl
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by simplestats 5y ago
I don't think "straight up illegal" is quite right. More like discrimination is illegal and if they ask then don't hire you, then they're practically asking you to sue them. They might deny it of course.
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by simplestats 5y ago
Is "at will" the right term here? What's the alternative, granting you tenure at their little company or something? If you are an at-will employee who is kept around, then might that demonstrate actual loyalty (and probably h
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by simplestats 5y ago
Buildings are traditionally paid for by a benefactor who gets their name on it. And the school often ends up with higher costs as a result (and one less parking lot or green area). Such donors are kind of a mixed bag.
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by simplestats 5y ago
It's a simple economic argument. If students care only about quality, Universities will only care about it also. And improving quality leads to higher price.
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by simplestats 5y ago
Depends how you look at it. If you're from a poor state, you can get into a solid flagship school (including medical school) even if you could never get in to places with single-digit admissions (like the top tier ofCalifornia schools)
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by simplestats 5y ago
Overall I'd say the whole point of the interview process at senior level and beyond is to make as sure as possible that you are productive immediately. They give you tasks you can do without thorough knowledge of their process. And the
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by simplestats 5y ago
No. the new comes with new shortcomings that need to be countered with something extra before you can treat them equivalently to the old. This is what I meant above when I said: "part of the reason for that investment is the verifiable
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by simplestats 5y ago
> Given pseudonymity not linked to any real assets (unlike a company), it's even easier. A pseudonym can be linked to a company with real assets. I don't follow you here. I even referred to such a situation above. As did the ar
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by simplestats 5y ago
Are you talking about victims of Indian consulting companies that are basically hacking the H1b system? Yes they need to be dealt with. Perhaps they need to just block consulting jobs from the program generally. Stick to at least enriching
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by simplestats 5y ago
Because this isn't an article about the current systems of legal identities, it's about pseudonmys. Identities come with their own hangups and prejudices. I can't help noticing we both are both posting behind pseudonyms.
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by simplestats 5y ago
the footnote says that sometimes identities are revealed to stakeholders.
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by simplestats 5y ago
I think it's an interesting topic. Rather than lumping the author in with criminals and scammers, who would of course love nothing better than to take money from naive people (anonymously or not), try to identify what it would take to

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