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Japan is extra special in this regard. My brother who is japanese, married a japanese national, speaks japanese and lives in japan is not "Japanese". That's what the article is referring to.

Where is over here?

The US leads the world in volunteering. https://www.oecd.org/els/family/CO4.1-Participation-voluntar...

You can also look at BLS info: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/volun.pdf

Most cities have programs with volunteering with the homeless, just visit a nearby church and ask. Clothes, food and resumes are pretty popular things to help with.

> It's not about one being better than the other, they both have very useful things to teach.

Did you do a humanities degree and a cs degree? I did a psychology degree then went back to school later to get my cs degree.

The intellectual rigor just isn't there in any humanities classes because most of the students shouldn't be in college at all. Yes, there was a small handful of really smart people in psychology but most of the students were there to party for 4-5 years while their parents paid for it.

Be the average american male who is too fat and medicated to serve, or be in a skilled job that is important to the war effort.

Do keep in mind that 90% of the jobs in the military aren't fighting on the front lines so chances are, you would be some support clerk.

I work under 40 hours a week with no pressure to work more, I get along with my coworkers and look forward to going to work in the morning. I have worked a crunch time that was pretty terrible, but that was a once off. It's been almost 2 years since my last crunch time.

The comp is decent. It doesn't match google/fb but it's better than a non tech company. I have a target of ~170 total comp as an SDE II with just under 4 years of experience out of college. This is my last year of my initial stock grant so my take home is quite a bit over 170.

I've never seen anyone cry at work. Closest was a guy that got pip'd, but he was genuinely struggling. I can/could see glimmers of truth in the NYT article but I've never seen it that bad. That said, I am aware that tech (SDEs in particular) tend to be treated a bit better than everyone else.

I've been to a VA hospital. My brother/dad/uncle have been to the same VA hospital. Our experiences have all been poor.

If you were told that you'd get an appointment some time in the future and they sent you a notice randomly in the mail a few months later, you probably wouldn't be happy with the service. If your doctor was over an hour late, you wouldn't be happy. If you had a friend that was paralyzed after a spinal tap (my dad's buddy) then you probably wouldn't hold the VA in high regard.

You are the first veteran I've ever met who had good experiences at the VA and who doesn't know anyone that has been crippled by the VA.

> But some of them truly do offer superior care to a typical private hospital

Which ones? Because that has not been my experience at the hawaii facility. From my appointment time being written down on a piece of paper then they send me my actual appointment date a few months later to the doctor being an hour+ late, my personal experiences have been subpar.

Add in how doctors/nurses at multiple hospitals do comically incompetent things like reusing insulin pens/colonoscopy bags/not washing equipment, the general sense of incompetence when they lose my records every few years, or talking to my buddies who got out and ended up working at the VA and have told me that they'll never get treated there, and I do not have the same sense of "superior care" that you're talking about.

If I want hep C, I'll go to the VA. If I want medical care, I'll go anywhere else or just not go to a doctor.

The thing with the VA isn't that it's all bad. It's that the percentage of completely inept people seems higher than in a normal hospital.

Normal hospitals don't have multiple scandals of reusing insulin pens on different people, reusing colonoscopy bags, killing people, paralyzing people and periodically losing all of our records.

A lot of veterans who are covered by the VA are like me. Technically covered because of service connected disabilities, but I will never use it.

The secret isn't fewer friends, it's only having actual friends on social media and not following/friending random people.

My facebook feed is usually things I care about as a result. Except for 1 guy, who is a great guy but I don't need to see another sad dog who needs a home or missing child article.

It upsets pele. I'm totally serious. Google for why do native hawaiians oppose geothermal.

We make enough money to live in the suburbs instead of the city and can afford a house where we can store food, water, books (the dead tree kind), tools and firearms.

If you put a machine/wood working shop in your garage + you do your own home repairs you can learn all kinds of useful skills.

Filling the tub provides you with drinking water and water to flush the toilet. It's standard practice in hawaii when a hurricane/tsunami is inbound.

I'm not sure if it's just the people I work with, or if chase has a problem because credit card ownership has changed. I don't use credit cards in the same way as parents where I'd have 1 card then make all of my charges on it.

For example: instead of making the csr my only card, I have the amazon card for 5% back on a.com. I have the csr for 3% on restaurants/travel which covers lunch/dinner + traveling and the 2.5% usaa card for everything else. Online bill payment and auto debit has really made it less annoying to have multiple cards.

The bad part right now for these cards is that if they slash their rewards, they'll just lose all of their customers because we have no real loyalty to them.

Restaurants/travel are 3x points and transfer easily to airline partners. The travel bonus is $300 dollars and incredibly easy to get (uber/toll/planes/whatever all count) making the card effectively 150 dollars a month if you do any sort of travel. Add in free priority pass and it's easily the best restaurant/travel card around. With a few thousand in spend for restaurants/travel, it's trivial to exceed the 150 annual fee.

It's because normal people see the money that we make as ours, then the government takes their cut. "Benefits" are our money redistributed to people who don't work. At no point do the people receiving benefits actually contribute to the system.

Interesting article. I didn't know the Ainu still existed as a group.

If you're interested in this sort of thing, there has been more written on the okinowan experience which is similar.

Does anyone know when we decreased the age for recommended mammograms to 40? My assumption is that it's in the time range of the article.

I can only find references to us raising the recommended age to 45 in 2015, controversy over raising it to 50 in 2009 and how there are diverging opinions on when they should be done.

> while flash hiders just make it difficult for authorities to spot the location of a shooter.

Flash hiders vent gas to the sides/down instead of straight out so that the shooter isn't blinded as much while firing at night. It does virtually nothing to hide a flash from the person you're shooting at. I get that the articles you've googled say that it hides the flash, but that doesn't make sense logically. It should make the flash a similar size except down/to the sides instead of a cone centered on the muzzle. The gases/gunpowder have to go somewhere.

Flash hiders make shooting at night less terrible.

> Muzzle breaks actually increase the noise level of a firearm, making more detectable than a stock barrel.

Muzzle breaks increase perceived noise for the shooter because the gas is vented towards the shooter and towards the sides. It is not a sound amplifier. It likely slightly decreases the noise in the direction of the muzzle because some of the pressure waves will go sideways/backwards instead of forward.

Muzzle breaks make shooting more pleasant with high powered rifles.

Most interesting thing about SC is Amazon has a game publishing arm and star citizen is using lumberyard. I hope that AGS has an interest in keeping it's most high profile client alive. Some of my most nostalgic childhood memories are playing privateer with my brother.

Having someone who could say no to chris would probably be an overall win for everyone.

Wouldn't a 51% attack means I could lose my house?

I seem to be missing how this would work or why this would be desirable.

This is not a valid comparison because there is literally a federal law protecting gun manufacturers. There is not a similar law protecting twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...

Once an officer hits their unit, they have someone with 5-10x more experience to supervise them for their first 5-10 years. It would be like a new manager getting a senior engineer to work with 7 days a week to help guide their bad ideas.

Additionally, your software engineers aren't indentured servants. In the military, you often can't go home until a problem is fixed and if you quit, you go to jail.

The military burns through a lot of good people, most get out after their initial term.

Find out how many senior engineers are on that team and are participating in the oncall rotation that you will be a part of. Or, find out how many SDE IIs with 3+ years are on that team. If you don't have either, then you should be concerned.

Ask how long the various managers have been in that org/under the same senior manager/director. A manager who you like that gets along with senior leadership is super important.

Ask questions during your interview. If you interview for an org, you'll be working with most of those people. Most of them won't lie to you because you'll just leave asap or be pissed off that they were full of crap.

This is all much more difficult to do if you're external, once you're in, it becomes easier to figure out if you want to work somewhere. I'm not willing to even consider an internal transfer unless someone I know will vouch for it. Too many horrible teams and a bad manager can mean you need to find a new company.

At worst the officers will get a paid vacation then will be back to work after the police investigate if the police did anything wrong.

> You're 20 times more likely to get killed by a gun in the US

This is very misleading because this audience is primarily middle class/rich white/asians employed in the tech industry.

There are 2 primary factors in homicide rates. Be poor or be a certain race. If you are not either of those things, your chances of being murdered in the US is very low.

*edit 3 factors -- men. Women don't get murdered often.

> Managing people is difficult and if there's an organization who has had more experience organizing people to execute objectives than most anyone else, it's the military. They are damned good at it and there exists a lot of manuals and writings to this end.

I was enlisted. The military is a mismanaged, incompetent bureaucracy. You will never see a privately owned business as terrible at everything as the military because private businesses can't manage through fear the way the military can. The military is the last bastion of contractual servitude for a reason. Bad leaders would have literally no one left working for them if we were given a choice.

This is going to sound like an advertisement but I don't know a better way to state it.

Chase reserve is 300 back in "travel" expenses which include parking/tolls/flights/uber. Assuming you have any of those expenses, it's a 150 card. Redeeming points is 1.5x more value if done through the reserve, travel/restaurants give 3x points. If you spend 4k a year on restaurants/travel, you'll break even.

So why get it if I have to spend >4k to break even? Because there is (was?) a 100,000 point signup bonus worth 1000 dollars cash or 1500 dollars in flights/more if transferred for a ticket. I'll break even on the yearly fee just from flights that I'm taking so it's 1000 dollars for "free".

If you're a chase ultimate rewards user, you should have the csr for the 1.5x redemption. If you like free money, you should have the csr and meet the spending requirement for the bonus.

By fiddling with credit cards, I'll save over 3k this year while traveling. There are people who do far, far more.

The amazon way is not always friendly to normal humans. That's just the truth of it. My team has taken pains to not be that way.

The company is trying to change the culture and frankly, have done some mind blowing things. No one would have ever though paternity leave would be a thing 5 years ago. Or that part time work would ever be discussed. But there is a long, long way to go and a lot of senior peoples attitudes need to be changed before I'd call the culture here awesome.

I have no insight into their world so I cannot speak in any way to the truth of their working conditions.

I only know that for most of the devs, it is fine. It's not perfect, I'm not even sure I'd tell people that it's great. But for people that have a good team? It's fine and the quality of people makes up for it. If I didn't like my team I would have left a long time ago.

I've been reorged quite a few times. More than most people who have spent 5 years here.

> You may find that you got extremely lucky in where you first landed.

I have 3 other teams with previous coworkers who are currently having good experiences that I can go to if this one goes south.

Yes there are a lot of teams that burn people out. I'm not blind. But there are also a number of us that have resisted the amazon way and try to actually be human.