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Anecdotal of course but from my own experience and from the few teachers I know now, there are so many issues with students assaulting teachers, assaulting each other, kids who can barely read, write or do math, etc.
I strongly preferred my liberal arts classes at my university but most people in them were just checking the box because they viewed the expensive ($20k+/yr in state) school as a job training program even though it isn’t that.
I knew a lot of lifelong smokers. I believe only one got lung cancer, didn’t die of it, but all that lived long enough had oxygen tanks, at least periodically, later in their lives.
People frequently make this statement and I think it’s wrong at face value.
If you vote you are giving legitimacy to the beltway uniparty. If the election is “free and fair” why does voting give you the right to complain?
This is an interesting thought, assuming a call center employee is paid $35k, total cost of employment being $70k, you could hire 14.25 employees for every million dollars.
If every Concast exec got paid a paltry $5M (lowest paid exec salary), they’d be able to hire around 975 more CS reps.
They have 13.6 million subscribers, so they’d increase the number of support reps by 0.000071691176471 per customer.
My thought was maybe they could reduce their marketing budget but it seems their business has shrunken by ~50% in the past 10 years.
https://www1.salary.com/COMCAST-CORP-Executive-Salaries.html
https://www.statista.com/statistics/497279/comcast-number-vi...
Read any good articles about this phenomenon?
Right, but I think the point in this case is that Microsoft was rent seeking with the logs.
To your point, I’ve been wondering lately how much of a national security threat outsourcing, offshoring and H1B in tech poses more generally.
I often wonder who they have working there and applying that is so much better than me they won’t grant me an interview. I’ve always been a top performer so it’s really quite puzzling.
Average Indian earns $571/mo. Even if devs earn 2x average you’d be able to hire at least 3 for just the average SF/NYC rent a developer in the US has to pay let alone taxes, benefits, etc.
Not particularly good for the country or economy long term; is the end game to destroy the US and start over paying people here $571/mo?
Eg, you can have a private fork you use at work. You can host it for your own use anywhere you want.
I just want to retain the exclusive rights to sell it.
So 2 questions;
Is this not open source?
What’s a palatable license if you want to be able to sell a hosted version of your product?
Insane pricing pushed us out initially.
Philadelphia is such a horrible place, pre-covid I was longing to go back.
COVID restrictions and now the fallout from that don't make it feel like a good idea.
Really thinking about Florida now.
Controversy with the angular team or high profile developers — why?
I’ve been off social media for years but I’d hear about it second hand from coworkers.
The used car market is a $150bn industry. A quick spot check found that a 2010 Honda Civic still costs between $5k and $10k depending on mileage, etc.
By the time that self driving is required by the NHSA or whatever body requires backup cameras and the like in new cars self driving will be standard.
A $20k Subaru will come with it out of the box, no add ons, just like a backup camera today.
I agree that Walmart can be extremely unpleasant compared to a regular grocery store for many reasons.
However, I’ve found Whole Foods staff to be extremely unwelcoming unless you seem like you fit in regardless of how much money you make.
Can definitely recommend wegmans for a more upscale shopping experience (Eg fancy cheeses, meats, selection of fish) without any of that “too cool for school” factor if you’re not in an “in” group.
Edit: Trader Joe’s is also pretty cool but it reminds me a bit of Aldi.
Why would you destroy something you think is possibly a car bomb or a detonator?
Wouldn’t the best general course of action be to call the police? Possibly unless you’re a meth dealer as pointed out in a sibling comment, of course.
That’d be libel / defamation.
It’s pretty great that such a desirable feature is at the bottom of the barrel
I work a full time job and contract for at least 25hrs/week.
In my full time job I’m paid for 40hrs but not all 40 of those are productive. I take an hour lunch, we have a bunch of meetings and social things, etc.
If you ask, I work 65+ hours per week. If we’re being honest I probably only work 40 or less between lunch, catching up with coworkers sitting in meetings not doing anything, etc.
I only use my work computer for work and some very light and sparse HN browsing (via safari). I am signed in to chrome with my gsuite account from the company.
I feel that it doesn’t really matter if googling dev stuff or a random article is tracked, it might even be to my benefit in so far as I will be viewed as a dedicated and diligent employee thus raising my social credit score
The other stuff like “you can’t remove Linux without damaging the hard drive” and that you have to send it back to the manufacturer to be replaced just seems so cheeky...
Doesn’t seem likely. His parent would either fall because the treadmill slowed down, running into him and injuring them both or they would have told them to stop it because it’s clearly dangerous