algaeselect

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by algaeselect 2y ago
The top 1% is very different from the top 0.1%. You are still likely a W2 earner earning < 1M and paying 40%-50% tax rates if you are in this range; lawyers, doctors, well paid engineers, etc. I don't know why the article mentions &
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by algaeselect 2y ago
Having control of your own destiny (whether in a 401k or an equivalent handled by the government on your behalf) is much better. With a pension, you may have to stick with the same company, or the company could mismanage the pension and go
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by algaeselect 2y ago
Yeah this person is just making things up, the majority are not H1Bs. Also, there's this popular idea (usually on places like reddit) that H1Bs at big tech are paid "slave labor wages" because "They can't leave&quot
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by algaeselect 2y ago
Everyone in the industry knows Amazon has very poor work life balance (and a brutal on call load). It's even in that letter you get from Jeff Bezos when you apply: "You can work smart, hard, or long. At Amazon you don't get t
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by algaeselect 2y ago
Given these were from 1996 and 2002, I think this is the tip of the iceberg and we're going to start to see AI/LLMs discover a lot more plagiarism. Back in the day people could get away with plagiarism by obscurity. Not any more.
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by algaeselect 2y ago
It's amazing to me that a website that publishes articles (real articles, not AI slop) about games can't even support the livelihood of 3 people, and yet mobile game companies shovel out godawful games and continue to exist. It bl
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by algaeselect 2y ago
It does poison the article, when someone is talking about subject X, and then they feel the need to insert their political opinion about person Y and that dont' like that Z is left-wing/right-wing. It makes them seem not at all ob
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by algaeselect 2y ago
What did you expect, the only thing missing are "EXTREME far right" (as opposed to far right, and right, because EXTREME). Also conspicuously missing from this one is a taking a problem that everyone experiences (inflation, health
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by algaeselect 2y ago
Same, bought 2 Hyper X Cloud Orbit-S Gaming (one for me and my partner), and they both broke within 2 years. If you look on the Amazon reviews and sort by date you will see everyone is having this problem, they break in the exact same pla
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by algaeselect 2y ago
On the internal memegen site, where people post and vote on memes, the AWU folks (they have a red logo around their profile picture, so easy to identify) are basically Debbie Downers. Constantly posting comments or memes shitting on the com