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by whatok 11y ago
I know that. I take issue when it is stated as an absolute fact when the most well-known study was done in a very specific field and therefore makes it hard to really extrapolate out to the entire workforce.
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by whatok 11y ago
Citation please.
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by whatok 11y ago
Consider this. I have a group of 100 people, 50 male and 50 female. Job x is available in industry y. Job x is highly sought after and all 50 men apply for it. Industry y is traditionally male dominated and for whatever reason, none of
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by whatok 11y ago
Under our current wage system? No. I have not claimed any of those scenarios. I'm claiming that by reducing pay incentives from the equation, you will see a decline in certain professions and also the education typically required fo
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by whatok 11y ago
Pretty much all financial news outlets receive research from all the sell-side banks. ZH stealing a chart from a GS report is nothing special.
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by whatok 11y ago
You're right, it's not breaking news. I misread your quote. Nonetheless, it was a decently done, freely available analysis done on a semi-esoteric topic that really would not be covered by anyone else. If you solely rely on any
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by whatok 11y ago
Little old but this is the first example I could think of but this was absolutely not covered in depth by any mainstream outlet http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-26/coming-soon-theater...
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by whatok 11y ago
That's completely untrue. Zero Hedge breaks news before a lot of outlets and writes on a lot of market events that other sources will not touch. I'm not disagreeing that you need to have a filter when reading but they absolutely
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by whatok 11y ago
In a system of equal wages the supply of engineers would vanish because there would be no incentive to spend four years in college and whatever local licensing. Literally no one would know how to do the job. In a system of equal wages the
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by whatok 11y ago
> The worst thing that can happen in programming is my application throwing an error (assuming PHP/Python or similar). This is not remotely true at all.
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by whatok 11y ago
People absolutely complain about artists earning millions of dollars. Do you remember Lars and Napster?
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by whatok 11y ago
Why?
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by whatok 11y ago
And what is unemployment in article's subject's age group in the Eurozone?
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by whatok 11y ago
Yes, but ultimately it goes back to being unable to hire at current wages. Let's say that consumers stopped doing business with Yelp and they did not raise wages as a result. Yelp does not have a monopoly and someone would create a c
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by whatok 11y ago
Too bad you didn't grow up now, you could have just started a Go Fund Me instead of dipping into your savings.
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by whatok 11y ago
For some reason it's okay for developers at tech companies to get paid market wages for their skills but not okay when it's CSRs.
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by whatok 11y ago
Sure, she's learning by moving to another extremely expensive place that could once again easily lead to financial ruin. Whose fault will it be then? I'm not disagreeing on the fact that she had a tough childhood. All I'm s
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by whatok 11y ago
I find it hard to take someone seriously if they are complaining about having to eat rice for every meal (hey welcome to whatok's childhood) and then somehow has money for non-plastic bottle whiskey.
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by whatok 11y ago
> You're saying that you wouldn't make the mistakes she has made because you'd know better, right? You'd use math or logic or any of your abilities to make the CORRECT choice, right? No, I'm saying that was red f
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by whatok 11y ago
The market demanding it would be Yelp being unable to hire CSRs in SF at their current wages and being forced to raise wages to attract talent.
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by whatok 11y ago
> precious few examples around her to show her how to make good vs. bad decisions. I don't need examples to conduct basic arithmetic to show that I cannot afford somewhere to live. There are millions of people with similar or worse
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by whatok 11y ago
He might advise her to not spend money to move to somewhere for a job that cannot pay her rent.
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by whatok 11y ago
I have issues with employment restrictions, more on the public to private transition. A public sector job in almost any fashion is not going to pay as much as a private sector finance job. n years is overly punitive for someone who is lik
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by whatok 11y ago
For people complaining about revolving doors, how do you get regulators with current industry expertise without.... industry experts?
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by whatok 11y ago
It's all about delivery. You can't read those jokes and get the same experience. I could read those lines on stage and no one would laugh at all. Anthony has great stage presence and his deadpan delivery really enhances his jok
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by whatok 11y ago
Depending on the industry, college choice matters from when you graduate and very long into the future. I'd argue it might be worth parents going into debt for certain colleges but then I'd also argue that if a kid was smart enou
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by whatok 11y ago
Apparently Manhattan weddings are on average your 401k contribution and then some more expensive than the next highest, Chicago. http://www.businessinsider.com/manhattan-weddings-are-us-mos...
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by whatok 11y ago
None of that excuses poor financial decisions. Raiding your 401k for frivolous (yes I'm calling a wedding that) expenses is against any personal finance 101. I'm willing to bet that the author's financial illiteracy did not
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by whatok 11y ago
They just announced earnings. Press release for restructuring announcement: https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/news-release-intel-...
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by whatok 11y ago
I'm wondering what really lead to such a huge miss. Whether it was just an incompetent estimate or what. Guide down is kinda crazy too.

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