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by unz 13y ago
Somehow they've educated the populace into not accepting low pay for dangerous work. Personally I'd prefer good privatised education, but good government education is OK alternative.
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by unz 13y ago
The doc Waiting For Superman is a troll and dick. So is Michelle Ree. So are supply and demand curves. Sure.
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by unz 13y ago
Pay a more reasonable rate for the dangerous job. I don't only think about my own personal needs, I'm also thinking about the welfare of those low paid men and their families. Roofers deserve more pay than hipster designers.
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by unz 13y ago
Yes. Scandinavian countries and Australia have a lot less low paying jobs that are dangerous. Guess what - teaching system is also working better there than US/UK.
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by unz 13y ago
Wow, that's pretty rude. The sociologist in the article - getting paid over 120k. Read the article before jumping with rage. Basic economics - the low pay is a result of oversupply of people willing to do the work. The oversupply is be
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by unz 13y ago
The sociologist is making way too much money for a government job, our tax dollars at work. The low-paying dangerous occupations are only that way because there's so many foolish men to take them up. And you can blame the education sys
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by unz 13y ago
The problem with that was that you can just type stuff into google and search it yourself (google answers). The alternative is a few minutes of typing. This is different, it's for physical work monitoring, and where real time face to f
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by unz 13y ago
This is amazing. Google will really do well with this, they need to branch into ecommerce as their ad business isn't growing much. With mobile gaining traction, this could be a central hub for a decentralized solopreneur economy, even
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by unz 13y ago
This is a great tool for other startups, funds, and companies. Just clone these companies in that order, they're already pre-vetted by good VC's like PG and also somewhat market tested. A smart VC could just send of them as a spec
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by unz 13y ago
There's also other jvm lisps that you give you natives too. Kawa scheme (native chicken,bigloo,racket). Armed bear common lisp (native sbcl,clisp).
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by unz 13y ago
David Cameron is going to have answer about this at the next election. He should be trembling in his boots.
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by unz 13y ago
Let's say you're a college student or career changer who just learned python. You can write a script, upload it, and have the world use it for free. You then learn sql and build complex apps. Learn about bigtable and build a viral
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by unz 13y ago
Not to get argumentative, but I often come across people trashing app engine and I just don't get it. I think it's absolutely great and how software development should be done, They should be teaching it to everyone and it should