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by zjaffee 9y ago
See, I'd add digital music to the list of apples core competency, while they haven't stayed as relevant since streaming took off, you could make the argument that the initial success of the iphone could have been attributed to the
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The big thing is having access to a big university, where students who attend that university want to stay local. BYU students are attracted to Utah, Georgia has enough universities that produce graduates who want to stay in state. However,
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People neglect to realize that a master plumber can make just as much as a software engineer should they have the skillset to be on the right kind of projects.
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Sorry the comment came off harsh, but this particular piece of fake news is spread heavily among popular youtube channels and other social media pages that are ordinarily deeply intellectual and thought provoking. Now, while I understand wh
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I agree, so maybe mobile is a bad example, but look at how different the field of data infrastructure is today than it was ten years ago. While yes, many of the old concepts still exist. A person who worked with big data for 5 years with mo
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Personally speaking I feel very different as I grew up in NYC but then later moved to the suburbs during high school. In NYC, a 6th grader has the same level of freedom that you only have once you get your license in the suburbs, and it&#x2
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I think it very much depends, some professions have much longer interviews (at least historically), namely where banks would do super days where you could be having possibly 10 interviews (compared to maybe 4-5 you'd have in software).
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Except for the part where other professions do hire like software development (and a lot of firms don't require take home tests). Generally jobs that require a technical skill set and are equally high paying do focus on these things. C
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This isn't necessarily true, they could likely justify their valuation by playing a big part in the freight industry and through ubereats (as restaurants decide they no longer want to employ their own drivers). Abet, these areas still
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Note that a lot of public libraries and universities provide free one day access to the NYTimes, and by using such passes you are supporting the company as there are fees paid when users take advantage of these things.
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For what it's worth, for a lot of the types of software roles out there, many of them only have existed in their current forms for <10 years. A person whose been working on mobile for >10 years is incredibly rare, so to even find
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The aspect of freedom derived from cars is based on ones ability to get themselves from where they live to the point of destination at anytime, no matter where that location may exist. Self driving cars only increase the degree at which tha
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It's total bullshit when people say that all the countries without central banks were the ones being attacked by the US military, north korea has a central bank, Libya has had a central bank continuously since the 1950s. The fact that
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The truth is that they should evaluate need not based on your parents income, but on their net worth - the price of their home. If you struggled to make ends meet for 15 years at the beginning of your child life but then suddenly started ma
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Actually, this has stopped being true in at least some sense. All Universities that take a part in the coalition application are need aware at least for students applying in that way.
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UCLA is actually important to note, as from a NYTimes study, they turn the largest population of students who grew up in the bottom 20% to people who are in the top 20% of income earners.
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This is a good thing, but mostly because it will help those who went to school in the united states, and struggled to win the H1B lottery during their time under F1 yet are able to command salaries well over the new 90k minimum.
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How large do you think that population of people in finance making 6 figures is in raw numbers? When you compare that to the tech industry, there are certainly high level engineers and managers that make 7 figure salaries all things include
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That was Ohio, however, there was the belief that medical cannabis providers in California wanted to keep their control over the system where legalizing would have made things more restrictive.
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Car pool lanes will likely be a big reason people choose to pool in autonomous cars. I imagine that self driving cars will make traffic much worse, and we will see a movement where cities create more and more HOV lanes to reduce traffic in
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One of the NYTimes largest investor is carlos slim who made his money in not the most ethical ways.
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There's been a lot of google posts on HR relating to google products. Are people just genuinely excited by what they are doing, or is there astroturfing going on?
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For most younger people, the solution to this is some combination of snapchat and instagram.
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Or maybe, Google just wants to train people to work on their platforms rather than moving to a competitors. I doubt google has the intention of hiring the people that graduate from these programs, they just want people to learn google apis
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Do those apps that 14 year olds work on require an in depth understanding of how threads work? How different hardware components work together at scale? Most people with CS degrees never acquire the skillset to do such work, why should I be
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The internet absolutely needs to be regulated more. Namely, in regards to the large scale surfacing of user generated ads and other webpages without any amount of in person monitoring before they are deployed. A couple weeks ago I received
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Maybe it's just me, but the Armenian genocide is much more well known than the greek one. There are pulitzer winning authors who discuss the Armenian genocide, and at least for me it was taught on when I learned about world war 1 (abet
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It's because tons of unsexy companies had tried doing it the other way, to the point where so many companies have done it that it's started to leave a bad taste in peoples mouth. People are starting to get into the whole, we aren&
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A lower valuation without strict liquidation preferences is almost always better for the company, however publicly announcing that you could've been valued for more helps attract engineers who want to profit off of startup valuation mu
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It 100% would raise the wages of tech workers, but it could also hurt the stock price of many tech companies from which many senior employees make such kinds of wages anyways. Additionally, there is complexity around where goods are produce

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