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i originally used it in 2017 for cryptokitties, now im using it again for degenerate

i'd put the age closer to 7 or 8 for a "quasi-adult conversation" instead of 15, but yeah

What's the worst case?

I've received roughly $3000 in rewards from my credit card usage over the past six years. Not a life-changing amount, but not completely insignificant, either. I think the biggest thing that I've lost is data privacy, but I would think that debit cards incur the same cost. I've never used any of the benefits like extra insurance/warranty, but it's nice to know they exist.

Chargebacks on debit cards are also much more painful than on credit.

I'm not sure what the point of your comment is. People would rather rent in NYC/SF than live in a city where buying a home is affordable.

What exactly are you trying to say with your comment? "People who don't want to live in my city should move here, purchase a home, and increase property values" ?

It paid significantly less than other engineering fields, and much, much less than specializations in finance, medicine and law (which artificially constrain supply through various gatekeeping mechanisms) up until recently, when the wage-fixing and anti-poaching policies were quashed.

There were also two periods in the past 25 years where it was very difficult to find work, especially for entry-level, without there being an especially large glut of engineers. Dot-com bust and the 2007 recession.

A ~$40,000 car is absolutely something that the 2021 American Middle Class can reasonably afford, thanks to the combination of 6+ year financing, and no reasonable hope of ever being able to afford home ownership, which means having more money to put towards something like an expensive car that you would otherwise not buy.

>Similarly, I can't libel people as free speech, nor use a megaphone outside your house at 3am in most places. I can't demand a strip club accommodate a requirement I wear modest clothing as a dancer. etc. etc. etc.

You can do any of these things as long as you can afford to deal with the consequences.

>there are Muslims of various different races

I've noticed that most people have trouble understanding this, regardless of political affiliation. Islamophobia is a thing. "Racism against Muslims" is not.

All of those are predatory. So is academia.

>Stallman and open source helped drive a lot of paid software out of the market because they could not compete with free versions.

>they “gave away” free software funded by ads

Proprietary software isn't free software. Free doesn't just mean free as in no cost to use.

One of the most valuable things you get from a degree in the US is access to internships.

>I guess they are paying $300k for the connections and access to the elites who go to these universities

Can you expand on what you mean by "access to elites"

imo: yes, absolutely

what do you mean "especially FAANG"?

software engineering is the most forgiving middle-class industry when it comes to education credentials and pedigree, and FAANG is even more forgiving than the industry norm.

it's actually kind of amusing that the most desirable SWE jobs are the most lax when it comes to considering your background, while the least desirable SWE jobs are the most strict about requiring specific degrees

you can leetcode your way into most of the major tech companies that people actually want to work for without a degree.

is it unlikely? sure, but the important thing is that it's possible.

think of any other comfortable middle-class career, and how much gatekeeping there is. you can't do some equivalent of leetcode to become a doctor, or a lawyer, or a financial professional. you have to pay up and go to school, and it better be a good one. then maybe you'll get a job, but there's no guarantee

My own father was a software engineer and he gave me and my siblings the same (bad) advice!

He easily makes way more than that. E5s can hit 500k with refreshers and stock appreciation. I would be shocked if he's making less than 2 million. Not that he even needs it.

eBay has miraculously become more trustworthy than Amazon for certain products

I'm going to respond to this question with one of my own: how much time have you spent on Blind in the past few weeks?

I'm definitely using FANG as FAANG without Amazon. So does everyone else that I've seen use it on HN, Reddit, and Blind.

Amazon is still a top 1% SWE employer.

Note: I do not work for Amazon, and never plan to. I was considering it prior to making it into FANG.

Unless they offered me a bunch of money, I guess. Like a million dollars year.

Pension funds tied to universities are also buying up homes in major cities throughout the country (often near universities), further harming the young people they were originally meant to serve.

you can make 300k at facebook or google without a degree at all

right now, I can reasonably afford a $1.3 million mortgage. i could do more if i was willing to lose the ability to save/invest, and also rent out multiple rooms to strangers

there is nothing at that price point (or below) that i would consider worth the current cost, in any of the cities that I actually want to live in. and even if I found something, it's so unfair that my property tax rate would be so much higher compared to others (california)

i'm just going to save money, invest in things that arent real estate, and emigrate at some point. i think the only exception is if I married someone who was given a house by their family. not too unlikely in the bay area or in southern california, but it's still not something i can bank on. i wouldn't even want to if it was.

I don't know the term for this, but in-person contact is important for metagroups/in-groups at work. People who are coworkers, but also friends as well, to an extent. People that you trust more than others not part of the group, and who you might even become friends with outside of work. I've found developing relationships like this impossible while fully remote.

Does your interpretation of the golden rule involve browbeating with unfounded legal threats that wouldn't stand up in court?

>As a thought experiment, if you ran a business, and all your ex-employees released a free version of the same product, would you be cool with this? Could you hang out with them, smile and say everything is totally cool?

I've actually seen this exact situation play out twice (except the new products were not free), though I wasn't directly involved. Both times, it only happened because the business owner was, to put it bluntly, a bad person who had no business (heh) running a company, and the result was a mass exodus that birthed a direct competitor.

To answer your thought experiment:

I am looking at this as an employee, as a controlled person. You are looking at it as a founder, owner, or some other type of position that holds power. A controller.

Those with power would view it as immoral. An action like this threatens their power. Those who have enough power to exert a controlling influence, want, above all else, to maintain that power, while also increasing it. Anything that impedes that is unfair, and thus immoral.

Those without power, or with less power, do not see it as immoral, because it is a redistribution of power to those who deserve it just as much, if not more. It is fair. It is just. It is moral.

You see this as immoral because your sympathies lie with those who have power. Might makes right. The states that enforce non-competes have the same view as you, but California does not, and that is one of the many reasons that it remains the global center of technological innovation.

> But it's still arguably "morally wrong".

According to who? You? Hundreds of people in this thread disagree with you. As does the law.

What is the ethical line that was crossed? There is no basis for this unless you think that Radon intends to monetize, and then become a direct competitor.

Why do you keep posting about non-competes when they are not a factor in California, which is where this occurred?