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Re: This is a teenager

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Post by brailsafe »

noisy_boy wrote: post #659
brailsafe wrote: post #636

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Well, I have and can do those things, and agree that those are very valuable skills to be proud of. I've just been kind of frontend only in team settings in a professional capacity lately, so it's something I'll be continuing to improve on. Most of my work has been jumping into some crazy existing codebase and figuring out how to understand and contribute to it, so greenfield buildouts are just not something I've rep…

> Most of my work has been jumping into some crazy existing codebase and figuring out how to understand and contribute to it, so greenfield buildouts are just not something I've repped out, and think that's a bit of a weakness. Without any context of the details of the work, one thing that has helped me is to lookout for scope of improvements beyond on the codebase itself. E.g. is there opportunity to provide a UI to…

Really good suggestions, thanks. I suppose since I'm looking for work, it might not be a bad idea to do this externally as well, if any prospective companies' APIs are available, and use them as portfolio items.

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by lazyasciiart »

anon291 wrote: post #627
lazyasciiart wrote: post #445

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> At the end of the day, look... my mother taught in inner-city public schools. I know the problems these kids have. > I feel these policies end up failing because the policy makers are from whole families (And are likely extremely socially conservative in their own life) and can't imagine anything so debased. I feel like you don't know any better than these policy makers you are dismissing.

I'm not a policy maker nor claim to be one.

No. And you’re apparently not someone who knows about this topic, but you are claiming to be.

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by ozim »

I think in Europe no one holds back in the grades, school will push a kid forward.

When I was a kid they did hold kids and they were usually worst bullies and bad influences.

Wonder if it still the case in US or “Alex” would be born somewhere 1990ish or earlier?

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by verall »

petesergeant wrote: post #650
usefulcat wrote: post #640

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> 90% of Americans are insured I'm one of those 90%. My health insurance (family of 4) costs more than my house payment, and the annual deductible is over $6000 (for one person). Either the premiums or my deductible goes up every year. In terms of total cost (monthly premiums plus annual deductible) it's also pretty much the least expensive plan that I can get. It's not that health care here is bad, it's that it's ri…

> It's not that health care here is bad, it's that it's ridiculously expensive compared to most other places in the world. Sure, but the average American also gets paid $20k more than the average Brit, on average.

The medium income is about $48k vs £38k which is much more realistic than averages when a select few make millions per year. Healthcare costs can easily exceed this difference.

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by chefandy »

chefandy wrote: post #643
Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #595

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Real data on holding kids back is actively harmful. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03055698.2014.93... The same holds for suspensions. https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Noltemeyer_W...

As someone subjected to both of these actions, plus expulsion, in lieu of anybody bothering to try and figure out what was wrong, that certainly rings true. However, people just really really love a) nostalgia, b) validating their compulsion to inflict the same pain they experienced as children on young people, and c) watching people in out-groups get punished. It's a lovely thought, but I'll believe that there have…

Happy to address any counterarguments from the multiple downvoters.

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by jajko »

ascorbic wrote: post #649
l0c0b0x wrote: post #519

I was Alex (my name is not Alex). Graduated high school in 97, but with a 2.1 GPA (yeah, pretty bad). Went to community college while working part time, living in a 'separated' household (mom/dad did the splits), supported both my parents both emotionally and financially (as much as I could) through their transition and new living arrangements. We were all immigrants, and still learning the ropes in this wonderful co…

That's great, and I'm genuinely glad to hear you've done well, but your story in no way negates the data in the article. It's not claiming that nobody coming from an adverse childhood succeeeds - just that it's a lot harder. Your post is a great example of survivorship bias. I doubt that there are many people in poverty who post to HN.

Well of course no, there us simply no logical way how that could work, and claim what you (not you personally) can, reality and society are at base level quite logical, even if obscure way.

If you start life race very far behind athletes who had best training and nutrition, how easily you can even catch them, not even going into overcoming.

But adversity is a great, massive stimuli for those few with right mindset on their own, even if it stuns most. They would wither and get comfortable in comfort and security, instead they gather drive and focus that very few can match eventually. Often great men and women, albeit broken deep inside.

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Post by [deleted] »

ska wrote: post #410
richardlblair wrote: post #313

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My context is Canada where getting killed at work wouldn't been an issue. In the context I'm speaking about it would likely drive opportunity in low income neighborhoods. Canada also have horrific city planning, so when I say people need to travel far I mean they need to spend up to 3 hours in some major (major for us) cities just to get groceries. The US is a whole other can of worms, I don't know how to solve those…

> 3 hours in some major That doesn't sound plausible. Got some examples?

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Re: This is a teenager

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Post by henrikschroder »

petesergeant wrote: post #650
usefulcat wrote: post #640

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> 90% of Americans are insured I'm one of those 90%. My health insurance (family of 4) costs more than my house payment, and the annual deductible is over $6000 (for one person). Either the premiums or my deductible goes up every year. In terms of total cost (monthly premiums plus annual deductible) it's also pretty much the least expensive plan that I can get. It's not that health care here is bad, it's that it's ri…

> It's not that health care here is bad, it's that it's ridiculously expensive compared to most other places in the world. Sure, but the average American also gets paid $20k more than the average Brit, on average.

That doesn't matter for this discussion, because the average American spends way more on healthcare as a percentage of their income than the average European.

~25% of the federal budget goes to medicare and medicaid, i.e. healthcare for other people. On top of that, you're paying for your own medical insurance as an implicit deduction on your salary for your employer-sponsored healthcare plan, or you just pay for your plan directly if you're self-employed.

Those percentages add up.

Whereas in the UK, or in Sweden where I'm from, you only pay once through your taxes for healthcare for everyone, including yourself.

On top of that, copays are higher in the US, annual deductibles are much higher, procedures are much more expensive, medication is much more expensive. Healthcare in the US is simply disproportionally more expensive than in the rest of the world, as a percentage of people's income, and as a percentage of GDP. It's got nothing to do with salary levels.

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by brabel »

constantcrying wrote: post #323
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #254

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The future is still a function of the past, even if we lack that function's complete specification.

>The future is still a function of the past If you don't believe in conscious choice the whole debate is moot anyway.

That's not the claim. The claim is that if you're born poor, your chances of being poor when you become an adult are much higher. Perhaps you know that and still think that because the kid who is born poor "chose" to stay poor, but I hope no one capable of having a discussion about this topic thinks like that.

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Post by int_19h »

parentheses wrote: post #609
sangnoir wrote: post #591

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> I have found the US to be the easiest place to make it (and by far) of any other that I have been to, but they rather remove any ounce of responsibility from their own citizens I'm willing to bet - dollars to donuts - that there were (and are) American investors in your country of origin, and every other one you've been to. Sometimes being an outsider confers clarity / skills / experience necessary to exploit oppor…

While you may be right, I feel the dynamic is more about the fact that most expats tend to be more educated than the average. If someone willingly moved to a country where limited opportunity exists, that may not apply to them since they're better equipped for it. This is especially true if you consider Indians or Chinese in America. Those populations have an even more acute education lead. So many people want to com…

Many of them wish it were as short as 15 years! Here are the numbers.

US has a limit of 140k employment-based green cards issued per year, set by law.

Then per-country quotas (no more than 7% of the total number per country) are applied, meaning that the number of green cards issued to Indians per single year can be no more than ~15k/year for employment-based category. This is further broken down by meritocratically-worded categories such that the quota actually available to someone who doesn't fit the EB-1 "Einstein visa" category - i.e. someone with "merely" a master's, say - is ~8k/year.

And the backlog for this category for India is over 1 million. So, given an Indian applying today, and assuming everyone in front of them in the line will remain there, you get something on the order of 125 years wait. Of course, in practice this means that many people in the line will either abandon the wait or literally die of old age before their turn comes up, which moves it that much faster for those behind them. At current rates, this translates to the actual wait of ~50 years.

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