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This is much like unit-testing: it can prove the presence of bugs but not the absence. Still, it's necessary, despite its shortcomings.

Someone please explain to me how gag orders surrounding trials came to be considered legally and morally acceptable. I don't understand the justification at all. Doesn't free speec…

You know nothing about the upper class. They don't need to hire PR firms (which is very expensive and unaffordable to a bootstrapped startup). They have their well-connected daddie…

Startup founders do not go into poverty. To do a startup, you have to be middle-class, at least, from the start, because otherwise you have no hope of getting the funding or buildi…

Answer: ideas aren't worthless. An idea has no value to you if you can't execute, but it has long-term value if you might be able to do so in the future, and it definitely has valu…

A good barometer for whether a decent college grad should take a job is how elite business schools will perceive the work experience-- they generally require four years of real-wor…

I don't know, but I think both are bad. If I were him, I'd probably bump the college degree by a couple years.

This has more to do with higher parental expectations, coming out of the general climate of economic insecurity in the United States. Upper-middle-class parents can hire maids to d…

He's working odd jobs and as a volunteer firefighter, so he is doing useful work. He's also sending out five resumes per week, which is a lot if he's actually researching the jobs …

This is an entirely different country from what it was in the 19th century. Although early industrial America was brutal in a lot of ways that our society isn't, it was possible to…

Also, though a lot of people won't admit to it, he's putting himself in danger by taking a mediocre job. He can very easily be typecast into that sort of role for a long time.

Of course, this should not be a surprise. If you are no longer fretting about spending too little time with your children after they’re born (because you have a year of paid matern…