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omgwtfbbq

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    I suppose they also learned arithmetic.

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    Comment #29331925

    Even as someone very anti-business school, this is a very poor take. It has much more to do with the short term incentive structures in corporate USA.

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    Comment #29331894

    Does no one understand the situation with nukes? All out war with China isn't even possible. Any major war between nuclear powers would inevitably lead to nuclear war. It will neve…

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    Comment #28158914

    Because that's literally how you get promoted. Reimplement something in a new sexier language and add that to your promo packet

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    Comment #28146305

    >a 25 year-old developer is the same as a 50 year-old developer, but at half the cost and without the hassles of things like kids to take care of Bunt functionally this is correct.…

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    Comment #28131128

    If you're making 200K plus and spend 80% of your take home you've got serious issues.

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    Comment #28131115

    >But if you frame it as a 10% pay decrease in exchange for a 20% reduction in how much of your life is devoted to work, it suddenly becomes a lot less palatable. If some avg Google…

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    Comment #28076230

    For Apple, who has been trying to highlight their pro-privacy stances, to go through with this is pretty astonishing.

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    Comment #28076198

    Except the boss has no incentive to pay you more when he could just give minimum raises. In fact he probably has an anti-incentive when he can point to more revenue generated for l…

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    Comment #28053070

    This is a braindead opinion. Why would anyone work as hard as possible when there are 0 incentives to do so? When at any moment you could be fired without warning in a mass layoff …

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    >Makes a lot of sense, you could solve all these questions without knowing specific algorithms as long as you are good at problem solving - which is, I assume, the intent of the pr…

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    Comment #28009473

    2nd place is just 1st loser

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    Comment #28000909

    >While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X. That…

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    Comment #27988575

    You are mentally ill, get help: https://www.zocdoc.com/psychiatrists

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    Comment #27988560

    C. and D. are both false, you are free to take the Moderna, Astra-Zeneca or J&J Vaccines, particularly J&J if you have insane worries about safety since it is an old fashioned vira…

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    Comment #27974522

    Suppose it's like saying a painting should really be credited to the paint and brushes since they did all the work of creating the piece.

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    Comment #27974500

    Already happening. Recently was used to recreate Anthony Bourdain's voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner:_A_Film_About_Antho...

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    Comment #27960478

    Biased reporting != misinformation. By conflating the two I think you tip your hand and reveal yourself to be interested in propagating the latter.

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    Comment #27921170

    It's the same for any chemical. For the vast majority of people penicillin is a life saving antibiotic and for a small percentage it is quite deadly.

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    Comment #27913132

    You can nearly triple your pay by contracting?

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    Comment #27907944

    I believe it's already straightforward for a decent bio lab at a large University to synthesize dangerous viruses. So it would only be a matter of time until they could selectively…

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    >I wouldn't have even cared about Hong Kong. Then you are fool