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Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by SilasX »

HWR_14 wrote: post #363
SilasX wrote: post #352

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No, they're hugely different. One of them accepts that the state should still be paying for education of children regardless of whether your personally have children -- just with better options than failed public schools. Which is why lectures about how "we should all be paying for kids' education" is very unresponsive. Which is why I said so. And have not yet gotten a substantive reply that addresses the criticism.

The majority of private schools are religious. We don't usually let tax money go to religions.

Like Notre Dame and Brigham Young?

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Post by SilasX »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #372
SilasX wrote: post #261

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Refund or voucher to the parent suffering it. Still not seeing how you went from that to “don’t you understand that non-parents should fund public schools?” The premise is that those hurt by it, parents, recover money to otherwise educate their kids. Nowhere in that was a claim that the childless should get money back for being childless, so I don’t see how addressing that is responsive.

But I don’t care if their kids use it. They are not funding their child, they are funding the system of public education.

Which vouchers are. Why is this so hard to understand?

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Post by Firmwarrior »

orev wrote: post #375
eutropia wrote: post #360

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Either you have a winning poker hand or you don't - oh wait: bluffing is a thing that people sometimes have to do - even in salary negotiations.

It doesn’t even have to be bluffing. Salary for a new position should be decided based on how much value you can bring to the position, and how much each party is willing to accept. Previous history is the most irrelevant part of the process.

I wish more engineers understood this

If I started hunting for a new job now, I wouldn't take $current*1.05f, I'd go for $MARKET_RATE

That's the only number that really matters here when push comes to shove. It doesn't matter how good you are, no local companies are going to pay you $500k/year to act as an individual contributor in Idaho or Tokyo, because the market rate is ~$90k. On the plus side, if you get an offer for a principal FAANG engineer position in the SF Bay, you can negotiate up to $500ish even if your last job was paying $90k.

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Post by M5x7wI3CmbEem10 »

gsk22 wrote: post #172
yellow_lead wrote: post #127

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Technically yes, but depending on your location your public school system may be chronically under-funded, to the point where sending your kid to a public school would put them at a big disadvantage in high school or college (and so then for the rest of their life). Yes, you could move, but as it turns out properties are more expensive in good school districts.

I'm a product of one of the shittiest public schools in my state. While I attended, they were forced by the state to convert to an "international baccalaureate" school because the alternative was closing. I say that because yet, among my peers from that school, I count engineers, astrophysicists, doctors, IT workers, psychologists, pilots, and more. So I would vigorously argue against the idea that students who atten…

public schooling and low-tier education were undoubtably the worst experiences of my life. the criminal behavior (hard drugs, regular violence) and resentment of the teachers are the closest thing to hell I have experienced. you got out lucky.

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Post by Nullabillity »

988747 wrote: post #357
Nullabillity wrote: post #256

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You're still an employee, the only difference is whether you're "employed" by yourself or your.. actual employer.

Even if that was true... why should I care?

Backtaxes aren't fun, especially when they're caused by deliberate fraud.

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Post by smsm42 »

Pro tip: if you try to work in two places, and hide it from your employer(s), make sure neither of them is a company that actually collects personal information, including hiring information, from the whole nation you live in. If you do this, you are likely to have a bad time eventually.

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Post by ummonk »

ipython wrote: post #259
ummonk wrote: post #107

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Do you have a spouse? You might be worried about public school quality, but at some point it would be cheaper to just have the spouse stay at home and home school.

Not to pick on you but that attitude infuriates me and belittles teachers. You seem to imply that “anyone” can be an effective teacher. That’s simply not true. Plus many children react much better to people outside the house. I was definitely that way. And my wife has many amazing qualities but she would make a horrendous teacher.

I mean, the teacher quality varies a lot, and the average teacher is unlikely to be smart enough to teach the child of a HN commenter optimally, so it's not hard to match their effectiveness.

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Post by thwayunion »

prvit wrote: post #359
thwayunion wrote: post #329

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> Compsci is not an infosec-related degree. The vast majority of the people who invented, built, and maintain all the systems infosec people are deploying had CS or CE degrees. A good CS degree provides an excellent foundation for infosec careers. In fact, at many institutions, the infosec major is very similar to the CS major. It's not everything you need, which is why a CISO should minimally also spend some time as…

>In fact, at many institutions, the infosec major is very similar to the CS major. Sure, but the best security programs don't even exist in the same department as CS. At CMU Information Security is run by the College of Engineering, not by the CS department. At NYU Cybersecurity is run by Tandon school of Engineering, not by the CS department. At RIT Computing Security is run by ... the Department of Computing Securi…

Um... I can tell you've never spent time in academia ;-)

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Post by thwayunion »

Kon-Peki wrote: post #353
thwayunion wrote: post #329

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> Compsci is not an infosec-related degree. The vast majority of the people who invented, built, and maintain all the systems infosec people are deploying had CS or CE degrees. A good CS degree provides an excellent foundation for infosec careers. In fact, at many institutions, the infosec major is very similar to the CS major. It's not everything you need, which is why a CISO should minimally also spend some time as…

25 years ago I asked Gene Spafford why the advanced degree program was being run out of the philosophy department instead of the computer science department, and he replied that it made no sense to be part of the CS department. That's not to say that a CS graduate is or isn't the ideal candidate for the program (I think he felt that they were). But securing systems and organizations is primarily not a technical probl…

I'm going to go out on a limb and assert that there are no Information Security departments run by Music departments.

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Post by P5fRxh5kUvp2th »

ROTMetro wrote: post #129
saxonww wrote: post #95

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As someone who went to public school and is doing just fine, I am wondering why that's not the solution.

My kids school called us in for a meeting. My son froze up on tests. They had a standardized test coming up, and they wanted to label my son as illiterate so that he could have someone with him while he took the test, they thought that would help him do better. To be clear my son could read just fine and he just froze up on tests. Both of my children were placed in private school that week. The sad thing is we were t…

test taking is a skill you should be working with him on.

Does he have some sort of generalized anxiety? Like it or not, an inability to take tests is going to negatively affect his life.

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