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I'm an American and I wouldn't consider trading my Toyota Prius for a Cadillac. If someone was going to give me one, I might, maybe.

I don't completely disagree, but if these clinics are anything like the "nutritional supplement" racket (e.g. mannatech and others like them), then there's no informed consent. There's a lot of lies and promises about completely unproven bs that unlike the supplement market, is much more dangerous.

While the field may not need full blown regulation like the regular pharmaceutical industry, I'm guessing it needs something more than what exists now.

Or, if the blogs you read are good instead of time wasters, it could be "What Blogs Could Help Me Avoid Becoming an Expert Beginner".

>I cannot get at my local big box and for less is almost always worth the occasional confusion

I've been finding a lot of things seem to cost more at Amazon lately - although I'm not generally looking at things that are very expensive - like <$50, so I'm probably seeing that "free shipping with prime" being added back in.

While this is a personal feeling and I don't have any data (metrics) to back it up: I think a large percentage (and probably a majority) of metrics don't end up helping a company once they are created - especially if any salary or bonuses are based on them. They are always so gamed that they become worthless.

This is a great case in point if true.

>Try a decade.

And even longer if you're willing to pay outrageous sums of money.

To save everyone else the trouble, it means "meal with items selected by the chef". e.g. Screw User Feedback.

I say this as someone who hasn't used Basecamp, so I don't really have an opinion there.

I don't know anything about Travis or Uber directly except what I've read. But I've read enough to know something is really wrong.

>What would be the motivation for him to allow it to continue happening?

Because the company got where it is with exactly this culture. Look at AIG in the 2000's -- huge portions of the company lying about their finances, leading to the ouster of their CEO. Only to be followed up by a huge bailout in the 2008 financial crisis under the new CEO. The culture was poisoned, it comes from the top down - everyone in management is cutthroat because that's the only way to survive. And it's pretty much impossible to change.

I worked at a company that was purchased by AIG - American General. My executive level boss was dishonest - lied about people working for her, and lied to other executives. She made her way from a low level executive to a Executive VP once the company was bought by AIG. Once you've got a toxic culture, that's how the company works; and I think there are a lot of companies like this.

If I were you I wouldn't worry about doing anything about the code being on Github. You need a lawyer to get the money you're owed, and then find another job.

As far as the bank goes: this is what they get when they outsource their work to an unscrupulous company. The company you're working for likely cheats both ways - don't expect to be treated any better in the future. They probably screw a lot of their employees over. They seem to have no issue doing illegal things. You don't want to be working for a company like this.

Just so no one else has to try to find the price (you have to search for it a little). The cheapest new user price for Delphi is USD $1,405.

It's not bizarre if you look at it from someone elses point of view: Someone (e.b. your manager, or your managers manager, or higher up) had said there wasn't anything they could do; you made them look bad.

It's stupid behavior as far as the company is concerned, but from whoever you made look bad, well, they stopped that from happening again, didn't they?

So let's say the minimum is $130k. That means you could hire an American for $90k (or even less depending on experience) and spend $20k training them and still come out ahead. For a lot of jobs that I've seen H1B's doing at the company I work for, you could find someone from the U.S. willing and capable of doing it - they might not be a perfect fit, but $20k worth of on the job training is a lot. I'm talking CRUD apps and basic infrastructure kinds of stuff, and that's what I've seen a lot of H1B's doing.

Now I realize that there are real specialties that you can't train someone for that easily, and if that's the case, then those people should be making a lot of money no matter where they are located.

I can confirm that. Live in the US, work for a giant company. I make very good money, but someone in management just 2 levels above me (e.g. my boss's boss) makes over 2x what I make. There's no way most of those people contribute that much more to the company - some might, but most don't.

In reality, it's made more than just the 1% wealthier, but the balance is that it's made a whole lot more people poorer. I don't have references, but I remember reading them at some point, in terms of numbers there have been more losers than winners when you look at inflation adjusted wages.

But if you want to watch something that's DRM'd (like HBO), the HDHomeRun will only work with a few devices when it comes to watching the video.

I wouldn't be surprised if the boots fit the person that confiscated them -- or someone else who was working that day. Are they really supposed to not be allowed?

High as compared to other jobs. If the demand for programmers is "1,000" and there are "100" programmers available - how is that different from demand of "100" interpreters but supply is "10"?

If the supply of those interpreters is so limited that you have to go outside of the U.S. to find them, then doesn't supply/demand indicate that they should have a high salary?

>stay out of the illegal drugs business and you'll be fine.

It's not that simple. Imagine if you have a relationships with the daughter of someone in the drug trade (or one of your children do) - and have a bad breakup. Imagine if someone in a cartel decides to take a liking to your daughter - it happens all the time in certain areas. It can happen in America or anywhere - you or someone in your family can get in an abusive relationship - but in Mexico, cartel members are used to getting what they want and acting very violently when they don't.

Considering the fact that the "welfare state model" is Socialism, I'm guessing here in the US we're going to go with the second option eventually.

I think that the point is though that for all of those things listed, even if a majority find it repulsive, there were enough who agreed with Trump to get him elected.

>they pick a rich European country

Aren't we (U.S.) the richest country in the world?

Since Java interop was a #1 priority w/ Kotlin, it has the same library support that Java does. Almost all of the major libraries just work.

Lately bigger players have started to take notice:

https://spring.io/blog/2017/01/04/introducing-kotlin-support...

https://blog.gradle.org/kotlin-meets-gradle

I'm still not sure where it will end up, but things look pretty good right now.

But wrt Type Erasure, Kotlin doesn't completely get rid of it; but it does offer some ability to retain Types in some generic situations.

If a company is relying on someone coming up with a trick answer, then they deserve the employees that they get.

Occam's Razor answer: Because time travel to the past is never invented because it's impossible.

I don't think most state income taxes are that burdensome. My state's is 3%, so on a $100,000 salary not considering any deductions, the difference would only be $3,000 between my state and a non-income tax state. If you were making $200,000, it would still only be $6,000. Neither amount is peanuts, I realize, but it's not the difference between good and meh either.

I'm curious as to what you think would work?

There's only one (more or less) answer - you can't have a few people owning the output of the machines. The wealth will have to be spread out - whether that's thru some form of Socialism/Communism that doesn't exist yet or not, I don't know.

But once you get to more or less full automation, the only people who would make money under the current system would be the owners - there wouldn't need to be any workers.

What's your Rackspace hosting cost / month? I realize it would vary for different situations, but just curious if you don't mind sharing.

As a (almost) 50 year old dinosaur, the costs of ESPN and other sports related networks are what caused me to cut the cord - over 10 years ago.