dukeluke

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by dukeluke 9y ago
This post did nothing to advance the conversation. There's nothing thought invoking, no statistics, and no argument. Please provide substance to your posts in the future.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
It sounds like you are looking for a unicorn that is already familiar with your stack. Just pick someone who has the desire to work hard and learn new things. The rest comes with time.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
I feel for the immigrants who won't be able to come, but this kind of abuse is hurting the career outlook for Americans. Our government needs to put the citizens ahead of the corporate interests.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
Companies pull this kind of stuff, then wonder why there is a push back against globalization. Americans need to benefit from globalization, too! If most American work is displaced by foreigners, it really screws our society and economy, am
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by dukeluke 9y ago
Our "entitlement" doesn't come from nothing. Wages have been dropping significantly since the recession. The loyalty that corporations show is lower than ever. All the jobs are either being outsourced or concentrated to a han
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by dukeluke 9y ago
This is true, but when an entire society does this, then all it does is exploit cheap labor and leads to a race to the bottom to see who can charge the least, all while the capital owners reap the rewards.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
Why do you want to control what other people do to their houses? Is maintaining some sense of opulence so important to you that you would be willing to remove peoples' freedoms? Edit: to those downvoting me, could you please explain? I
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by dukeluke 9y ago
What keeps other countries like India from developing PhD's like that? It seems like they would have a strong incentive to do so.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
Maybe not now, but I assure you there many smart people trying to build the infrastructure and plenty of smart talent that could be utilized.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
Those jobs would have been shipped to India eventually anyway. Global corporations don't care about silly things like stable economies. They care about the bottom line. Edit: to those downvoting me, can you please explain why? Am I wro
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by dukeluke 9y ago
Why would it make any sense for them to do that when they can just open up offices in different cities?
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by dukeluke 9y ago
Don't group everyone together like that. I used to frequent 4chan, and eventually joined in the trolly lulz threads. It was all just for fun. What made the site fun for me was the recognition of a foreign culture, the assimilation peri
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by dukeluke 9y ago
The problem is that the value of the degree is dropping significantly. I'm unemployed right now because all the tech support positions require a bachelor's degree. I already have a year and a half experience. Why should I have to
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by dukeluke 9y ago
If he was doing the job and doing it well, I don't see why it's a big deal. Universities used to be where you had to go to learn something new, but with the internet, anyone can learn anything they choose to.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
The point isn't the specifics of that one article. The point is that because most news organizations have soiled their reputation by misconstruing statistics to generate outrage, many people don't trust legitimate outrage-worthy a
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by dukeluke 9y ago
Pretty much. There are things you can do, but the majority of people won't do them. Our political system is showing its age, being completely gerrymandered, bought by major corporations, and is incapable of changing unless it benefits
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by dukeluke 9y ago
An issue with the current system is that while the people wanted a change candidate, our two-party political system almost successfully suppressed a change candidate from emerging from both sides, and _did_ successfully suppress one of them
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by dukeluke 9y ago
I agree this post is prone to a flame war, but it's also a really important conversation for people to have. Many people don't understand why the election went the way that it did. How can we discuss this important topic correctly
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by dukeluke 9y ago
We haven't just lost status. We've lost leverage and loyalty too. Globalization has made the demand for lower class labor in the US drop to the point where the uneducated cannot do well anymore. In a balanced economy, there's
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by dukeluke 9y ago
In a global economy, workers have no leverage. If a group tries to form a union, the work goes elsewhere. Globalism exploits the fact that there are people willing to work for $1/hr, and leads to many of the problems of capitalism pred
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by dukeluke 9y ago
IT workers are losing leverage in the US. Many have been offshored, and most remaining positions are being centralized to a handful of tech hubs in the country. It's good to not lose hope, but don't think as an IT worker, your hav
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by dukeluke 9y ago
You can have it both ways. They can support the old version by providing security and stability patches without adding the new, computationally expensive features to the old phone.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
That's true, developers can focus on the new platforms, but that doesn't mean new iOS versions should make older phones become much slower.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
That's not unintentional, though. It's just a form of planned obsolescence, which can be avoided by getting an Android phone that can have CyanogenMod installed on it. Alternatively, you can get a Nexus phone, which recieves OS up
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by dukeluke 9y ago
The barrier to entry may be lower for some parts of the market, but I don't know if the barrier to entrepreneurship is lower overall. Growing inequality and lack of growth potential for the uneducated means only those who have already
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by dukeluke 9y ago
This post is actually an example of a conflict between multiculturalism and equality. In many cultures, this bar is acceptable, and in others it is seen as demeaning. When there is a conflict between the two, how do they choose what is righ
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by dukeluke 9y ago
This is right. Sorry about that. In the future, I'll try to avoid editing a comment after someone else has commented on it.
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by dukeluke 9y ago
What's interesting to me is the differences in cultures within the US. I live in Missouri, and I actually thought the "OMFG" post above was a joke because what the CEO did was so tame. It's tacky, sure, but not rage-indu
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by dukeluke 9y ago
In my opinion, the Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, focusing on divisive social issues and not on actually helping the country. What I would truly like is voter reform allowing for more than a two-party system. I fe
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by dukeluke 9y ago
I'm sad to say that your experience with PTO is not the norm in the US. The lower and most of the middle classes have it much worse: http://theweek.com/articles/463897/americas-war-vacation-by-...

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