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She did pretty well kicking the shit out of that fox

Gawd damnit I'm trying to get out some money here

Oh this would be hillarious, I might jump on this bandwagon. The system is corrupt! We need Instant Runoff Voting to fix it!

A terrible year to sell equities, though I’m sure @OILERMAN has been happy to keep buying.

it sure has been a terrible year

Pardon me, I’ll go count money elsewhere. THANKS JOE!

I am talking about companies like Google. Global tech companies, focused on large markets, who view engineering spend as a profit driver rather than as a cost. Such companies use a variety of techniques to identify the “best” engineers including alma mater. With perhaps similar results as NFL scouts seeking the “best” players. Regarding the link, it is deceptive to focus on “average” salary. No one makes that. The median salary is lower, and the top brackets are much, much higher. This conversation started with the observation that school choice does not impact tech compensation. That statement is misleading. School choice doesn’t affect one’s ability to make an honest living. It can impact the ability of a privileged subset of engineers to make a ludicrous living.

Also check out https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Bloomberg,Amazon,Google&track=Software Engineer

There is an uneven distribution of engineering salaries based on the type of company. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-salaries-in-the-netherlands-and-europe/ The highest paying companies have used a variety of exclusionary practices in search of the “best” candidates, including but not limited to alma mater. Whether such practices continue in a tight investment market is another matter. My point here is that, for better or for worse, there are companies that pay a premium for talent from Stanford.

Starting salary for junior engineers after internship is twice that ($120k) at my employer, and we are on the cheap end. Big tech soaks up all the obvious candidates, and pays a lot of money to do so. As a result, local hiring is open minded because they have to be.

This is pathetic. Where the culprits observed in black trench coats and Dr. Martens?

Good god it matters in tech. Over the last few years there’s been push back but there’s still plenty of dingleberry managers who only hire from certain schools, and plenty of hiring loops heavily focused on meaningless algorithmic problems that test all the stuff in CS that no one ever uses on the job. It’s only starting to change and now tech is headed for layoffs.

Alright! Looks like the Whitehouse came to PLAY!

@tgo taking a heel turn is not what I expected on this news

I read there’s an overlap between people who invest in crypto currency and people who engage in unsafe submissive sexual activities.

I will say, losing 50% of my crypto investment stings compared to my equities that are 5% down, but both pale in comparison to losing 100% of my RSUs that I'd chosen to receive as options. Still, hope springs eternal and I continue to bet on my career.

I might add that GOP judges overturning popular policies might not have the desired electoral effect.

It’s so unfair! Biden should instead focus on cutting the capital gains tax and reinforcing the carried interest loophole!

This is Russia threatening NATO with nuclear fallout.

Trump forced this exact change in newsrooms, but the tendency still exists on every other topic.

The way it works is, one side in power says "exterminate the brutes". Then the other side in power says "let's hear both sides, and met them halfway". The result is a conservative bias, because the "liberal media" uses their platform to show "both sides" of an argument, rather than taking a side on truth and decency.

@NashvilleNinja when you type in “TitansReport.com”, you trust that you are going to the same site today as yesterday. That minimal level of trust is all that is needed to collapse the cost of building a distributed system to a nearly free level. BitCoin is designed to operate without that trust. It takes an absurd amount of resources to process a transaction. It is only good for applications which must not be traced. Bitcoin is a money laundering platform.

I’m pretty convinced that there is no application for crypto that cannot be implemented more efficiently in a distributed system with a few trusted market makers.