JavaBatman

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by JavaBatman 5y ago
> First is that "Reality has a well-known liberal bias". Uh...what? Where is the proof of this?
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
There should be a legal requirement for companies to publicly post the salary band for every role. Otherwise, how do employees know where to start negotiations? This opaqueness only helps the employer, who already has much more leverage. Pr
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
I learned that working on a project you care about is the best tutorial you can do in order to learn a particular technology or framework.
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
> "Automotive semiconductors will continue to be a limiting constraint on the automotive market through the first half of 2022, but barring any unforeseen shutdowns or semiconductor manufacturing issues, supply should gradually impr
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
Polarization is due to cultural issues, not economic ones. And no, those cultural issues don't stem from economic issues either. That's a Marxian base/superstructure analysis of the situation, which isn't accurate. Furth
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
Even if we transition to a multipolar world order and renewed great power competition, America will still be the strongest and most secure global power. It has hegemony in the western hemisphere through its enforcement of the Monroe Doctrin
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
> All the MAANG companies use algorithmic and system design style questions as their main metric for hiring candidates. The internal justification for doing so is likely a combination of “this is what everyone else does” and “it’s a quic
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
Businesses that are highly leveraged with debt would either go bankrupt or raise prices to account for higher debt costs, which wouldn't address the problem.
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
A lot of this is due to fuel prices. The price of fuel affects the price of everything else. It's a benchmark since everything requires fuel. Manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, etc. It all requires fuel. It doesn't help t
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
You are smart enough to know that intentionally coughing on someone is not what I meant.
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
That also doesn't work because that same precedent can be used for other preventative health issues such as obesity. "Well, you shouldn't have been eating all those cheeseburgers, sorry"
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
There is no right to not receive another's germs. If we take your argument to its logical conclusion, then the flu vaccine would be mandated. But it's not. So if you say that Covid is different, then what is your threshold or cut-
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
The problem with "Don't Be Evil" is that it assumes everyone agrees on what the definition of "evil" is. But that is absolutely not the case. We live in a post-Christian/post-religious society where - aside fro
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
Makes sense at face value. Generally speaking, religious minorities tend to perform better economically than the majority religious group(s) since they have to work harder to overcome institutional and historical hurdles placed in their way
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
> Apparently, there are many other major religious persecutions that are not well-known today. Yup, like the Coptic Christians of Egypt. Or Christians in the Middle East/Near East more generally.
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
Is there a good book on object oriented programming for beginners? By beginners I mean people who code regularly but aren't software engineers.
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. Looks like they are in fact diversifying their economy. Good on them.
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
Lower taxes, great food, more open space, less expensive property, more freedom to do what you want as long as you don't hurt others. The only problem with Texas is that the economy is too dependent on fossil fuel. It's basically
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
I did my undergrad in Economics but I want to transition to software engineering. But idk what stack to choose or what projects to work on. I also can't afford to leave my job to do a bootcamp either. So I'm stuck and it sucks.
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
I am still amazed by the shortsightedness of how these critical and strategic goods are off-shore. No wonder why the supply chains are fragile and not robust. It should be illegal for strategic goods and components such as chips and semicon
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
There's an old adage but I'm not sure of the source: "There are four types of economies: developed, undeveloped, Argentina, and Japan."
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by JavaBatman 5y ago
> In other words, governments with fiat currencies — including the United States — have the power to expand the quantity of those currencies. If they choose to do so, they risk inflating the prices of necessities like food, gas, and hous
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by JavaBatman 6y ago
That's what the rich countries did to get rich. Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and the US. The US was the most protectionist country in the world from 1814 - 1914. Alexander Hamilton's "American System" (tariffs,
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by JavaBatman 6y ago
Hyperinflation usually occurs for one of two reasons: 1. Supply-side shocks such as disruptions in oil production, food production, etc. that cause shortages, leading to massive spikes in price. This happened in the 1970s during the oil cri