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by charlesu 4y ago
In your case, it won't. You would be better off renting and investing the extra $2k in assets that are productive rather than speculative. This should be obvious, but the West as a whole has bought into the housing as a form of wealth
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by charlesu 5y ago
You’re not underpaid but you could make more by switching companies. Some companies simply pay more than others for the same role, level, and responsibilities because they’re engineering driven or better funded or more successful or operate
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by charlesu 5y ago
Who said these people aren’t working? I see a lot of people retraining, pivoting, and taking care of others. That’s work. Just because it doesn’t pay doesn’t mean it isn’t work or valuable. Being a stay at home parent doesn’t pay, but it’s
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by charlesu 5y ago
Why would you need to label someone by their ethnicity in daily life? This stuff really only comes up in two situations: 1. Forms where the person in question just fills it in themselves (generally the option is Black/African anyway) 2
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by charlesu 5y ago
I’m not reducing anyone’s ethnicity because Black one ethnicity and Igbo is another.
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by charlesu 5y ago
So Blacks aren’t a “real people”? Is your actual argument that African-Americans don’t exist as a distinct ethnic group? If that’s your argument you should say so.
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by charlesu 5y ago
Let’s bring in an academic to this discussion. Someone already linked the AP guidelines, but I’ll quote an actual professor with a background in this kind of stuff. Here’s quote from an article written by John McWhorter, a prominent Black c
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by charlesu 5y ago
Black when capitalized doesn’t refer to a race. It refers to an ethnicity. It’s not a retcon to capitalize ethnicities. We’ve been capitalizing ethnicities for a while now.
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by charlesu 5y ago
Black is an overloaded term. It’s a race and an ethnicity. If you were to write about black people in Africa, it would be nonsensical to capitalize it because black doesn’t communicate any shared identity in that context. The right granular
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by charlesu 5y ago
It’s common to capitalize ethnicities and Black is an ethnicity in the United States. White is considered a race. Is your issue that Black is capitalized or that white is not capitalized?
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by charlesu 5y ago
I’ll go back to the office when they give me my own four walls and a door.
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by charlesu 6y ago
Because the alternative is to starve? You can take advantage of people when they’re in dire straits. That’s not indicative of some greater truth about the price of labor but a fact of exploitation.
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by charlesu 6y ago
What jobs have natural job security? Either you’re protected by a union, a professional association, or having a rare and valuable skill set. The unions have been busted, professional associations are exclusive by their nature and most peop
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by charlesu 6y ago
Speak for yourself. I’m in no way concerned about remote work depressing wages. Competition has always been global.
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by charlesu 6y ago
> The government can not and should not lift people out of poverty if those people refuse to work to better themselves. At some point automation will leave us in a place where many, if not most, people’s labor is literally worthless beca
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by charlesu 6y ago
Exactly. Not only should we "Give the parents choice of schools" we should make every school a good choice.
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by charlesu 6y ago
I actually discussed this very topic elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296242 I won't repeat my claims here, but I'll add that at this point, at least part of that overrepresentation
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by charlesu 6y ago
Add ending the drug war and socialized medicine that provides for mental health services to the list. Having two parents at home is important, but having a social worker and psychologist can do wonders too. We can't fix everything but
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by charlesu 6y ago
Getting rid of advanced classes does nothing to solve the real problem: different kids have wildly different resources/home lives and those differences often cut across racial lines. Want to fix large difference in racial makeup betwee
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by charlesu 6y ago
>People are different and they have different aptitudes. There is some thinking that if we don't have ALL categories/jobs/promotions with the same population proportion it is because "systemic racism". >I am s
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by charlesu 6y ago
Does it say she kept her old salary? The going rate for a design director is probably a lot higher than that of an entry-level software engineer.
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by charlesu 6y ago
> but it leaves out a fundamental truth about programming (and technically complex disciplines in general): most people that attempt programming will never be a good programmer - indeed most never even cross through the gate of mediocrit
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by charlesu 6y ago
> While this is entirely anecdotal I have observed a LOT of time theft by employees. Are these employees paid hourly? If not, it’s not really time theft if the work gets done on time.
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by charlesu 6y ago
That was 1997 at a conference. There was no social media or cancel culture. My point is that you can be fired for insulting the wrong rich or the wrong anybody if it’s caught on camera and gets enough views and it brings shame to your lord.
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by charlesu 6y ago
> Outside of work I certainly live in a free society. I can walk up to a rich person ("a lord") and insult him to his face and nothing will happen. If you really think that’s true, do it on camera. Upload it to YouTube. Let it
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by charlesu 6y ago
> The way to combat mistaken beliefs is to allow them to voice their views, then refute their arguments, not to call them liars and suppress their views. And even if they do not accept the refutation, the arguments should be left up for
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by charlesu 6y ago
You’d think that’d be the case, but many of the post-mortems are pretty high level too. Most SEs don’t know HTTP from top to bottom. And they’re mostly fine.
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by charlesu 6y ago
Is that the case? I don’t remember Roosevelt ushering us into full blown anti-utopian autocracy with his Square Deal.
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by charlesu 6y ago
No, we can just give people used phones. We have such a surplus of some things that we can actually redistribute them in a non-zero sum way.
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by charlesu 6y ago
$1500 a month for an apartment is a ton. In most places, you’d need to make $60,000 to meet the minimum income requirement. That’s a lot of many for many people.

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