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by SamAtt 16y ago
The people over $100,000 a year seem to be making a lot in the other category. But the base pay seems around $85,000 to $100,000 for most... http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/?agency=CALIFORNIA+HIGHWAY+PA...
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I wouldn't trade jobs with a CHP officer either but I do have to wonder about the skill level. I'm sure it's harder than I think but the job still boils down to parking on the side of the freeway, spotting violators, chasing them for about
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I don’t think it’s a concern of most startups but it’s definitely one of most VCs. I think most VCs were either active as VCs or working in the industry back in the late 90s when Microsoft entering a market meant the death knell for any ot
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by SamAtt 16y ago
It's pretty far ahead right now but I think this trend is going to start to reverse pretty soon. The combination of Apple loosening their restrictions, technology like Appcelerator getting better and Android's success will make it hard for
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I'm not sure that's entirely true. If you think the Simpsons has become formulaic (which it had in some of those middle seasons) this might be enough to convince you they're taking risks again. Which MIGHT get you to tune in. I'm not sayi
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by SamAtt 16y ago
The episode in question finished 3rd (of 4) in the 18-49 demo and 4th (of 4) in Total Viewers so I'd say they could use some attention. I think a lot of people gave up on the Simpsons around Season 10 and have never bothered to look back. S
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I honestly think that should be the headline of the post since I find that a lot more interesting. I've had the feeling for some time that the early adopter market is shifting from Firefox to Chrome and this provides some anecdotal evidenc
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I don't think it's hidden at all. He says in the Drugs section... "The problem is that our drugs, on the whole, cost about 50% more. For name brand pharmaceuticals, we pay about 77% more. Why? Some will say that it’s because we’re wealt
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by SamAtt 16y ago
It's an interesting read and worth bookmarking if you can't get through right now (the page was going in and out as I read it). It's kind of depressing though in that his point boils down to neither side's solution being all that effective
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by SamAtt 16y ago
The great thing about blogging is anyone can write and even if they don't write well they can probably convey the idea they're trying to get across. So it's a lowest common denominator communication media. Video is a skill in itself. Put
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by SamAtt 16y ago
This is a little off topic but I was a little taken aback at the elitist attitude regarding University graduates. Look at these quotes: "Rather shocked that someone who had, in fact, gone to university and was working for a major corporati
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by SamAtt 16y ago
It's beyond thin. Every VC environment has loud personalities and personal conflict between various groups. Whether it's the Valley or Chicago you're going to have these types of stories. So to condemn the valley based on those stories ge
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I don't think this makes the point that 500k/yr isn't rich but it does make the point that people's expenses will grow to fit their income. I've known several people in this pay bracket and I've often found their standard of living isn't a
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by SamAtt 16y ago
The irony is this author never once questions why American degrees aren’t paying off. If I was a professor at a University and I acknowledged the fact that degrees aren’t paying off I’d be looking for a solution. Not shrugging my shoulder
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Because they share a currency with most of the rest of Europe and defaulting on their debt would cause the value of that currency to tank. Which could very well tear apart the European Union entirely. That's the big reason why the IMF was
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I disagree. Nothing was going to create immediate improvement in Greece so they were going to be in this mess no matter what they did. No one is going to invest in Greece right now regardless of how much the Government spends. So I don't
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I'm sorry but this is shoddy journalism. The article leads with "unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places" but waits 16 more paragraphs before saying the nation wide number is expected to be 12.1% by the end of the ye
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by SamAtt 16y ago
The Court that gave us Wickard v. Filburn was also the court that provided a precedent for Guantanamo Bay ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Quirin ). Stone (the Chief Justice for both cases) had the shortest run of any Chief Justice
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I'd emphasize the brevity point. I find messages from my phone are more like text messages than full-on e-mails and some could interpret that brevity for rudeness. Plus a brief message with a typo or two says "I don't care about you" if se
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by SamAtt 16y ago
The graph is skewed but to be fair Peer-to-Peer saw an upswing from 1999-2001 when the original Napster introduced the technology to the masses. Then declined for a while between Napster being shutdown and more decentralized systems taking
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by SamAtt 16y ago
This article basically uses the graph as a jumping off point to make the same old 'apps will take over the world' argument we've been hearing since the iPhone opened its SDK (it seems like people have completely forgotten the evolution of t
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I also don't agree with the Tea Party sentiment but felt this article reflected badly on the author and not the Tea Partiers (I think that's the plural?). The argument itself is a valid one. If you give government the power to regulate wh
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I don't see how you can draw this conclusion. He basically says there's nothing Government can do no matter who you elect. That makes him an alarmist (and maybe a little crazy) but not overtly political.
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by SamAtt 16y ago
This is very educational: http://www.jobsfed.com/bene2.htm So to take an example look at vacation time. If the average person is making $39 an hour (based on the USA Today numbers) and they accrue 8 hours per pay period + 4 hours sick le
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Actually as of right now it is easier for governments to get out of their obligations in that they can legally void union contracts (private companies can't do that according to federal law). http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=120242913
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I think he has some flawed assumptions. IBM is still in business today because there are a lot of lazy IT managers who DO want a one stop shop. So that gives the current HP an advantage. He also misses the point of Hurd's financial dealin
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by SamAtt 16y ago
The logic is that taxes and other fees are pushing the cost of hiring people over what he's willing to pay. To use your example imagine you only have $1 to your name and you can get by without the Apple. At which point you don't buy the A
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I've always lived by the rule "if you think someone's wrong based on who they are and not what they said than your argument is too weak to present to others".
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I don't think it is what he's saying. He specifically says "give up on F@#$ You Money." Not "Go for a billion dollars because a million isn't enough F@#$ You Money" What he's saying is influence is a better strategy than money and I'm di
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Just FYI: It's actually very hard to get a McDonalds Franchise these days. McDonalds controls where their restaurants can be built and how far they have to be from other restaurants. Plus McDonalds Corp. makes most of its money of real es

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