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It’s strange. This has been an idea for a long time. 30 years ago we did this in elementary school for reading contests. So, yeah it is weird to call it the “Seinfeld Strategy”.

Post WWII, the United States has seen massive economic growth. Tuition was not free. It’s tough to connect the two.

I find this one hard to get on board with…

I took out students loans and struggled financially with very little help from my parents. I graduated with about $25k in debt.

Ten years later, I’m finally about to pay it off completely. I’ve been very fortunate to get jobs with salaries that allowed me to do this.

I realize not everyone is fortunate in this way. But, at least in America, college is a financial decision. The argument about whether or not it should be is meaningless here. People knew going in what the cost would be, and how much in loans they’d need to take out.

Someone taking out $100k for an art degree made a decision that likely wasn’t very wise. Why should someone that made more responsible decisions and made sure they’d be able to pay their debts now foot the bill for those that didn’t? This isn’t like other welfare — food stamps, for example. This is someone taking out a loan for something and not being able to pay it back.

It might not directly benefit me because I worked to make sure my student loan could be settled. It’s a really tough sell to anyone that has done that. Had I felt confident we would be forgiving student debt, I would have simply reconfigured my pay off so that it was over the longest possible term with the lowest possible monthly payment and just wait.

If our government decides to forgive student loan debt, I’d fully expect a check in the mail for what I paid. That only seems fair.

It is impressive. Don’t let articles like this make you think it isn’t. Many people start it and can’t finish. Graduating is an accomplishment that should be celebrated.

It’s amusing to me how this article ended. It really discredits much of the author’s opinion.

I’m a self taught software developer that went back to school to learn the engineering aspects of what I’m doing. Boot camps and online tutorials like what the author appears to be selling teach you how to do a task. Higher education teaches you how to think, learn, and communicate at a higher level.

Do you learn how to build a React app? No. But anyone can go learn that on any of the thousands of websites that promise to turn you into a computer scientist in 6 weeks.

I fully enjoyed my experience in grad school, and wouldn’t trade it for anything. It might not have been the deciding factor in getting a job, but it sure as hell made me more confident.

I graduated last year. If you enjoy academics, do it. Don’t expect you’re gonna be building React apps or something. If you want that, do a bootcamp I guess. It’s a traditional program where you’ll use C, Java, and Python to learn how computers work.

Except the hit to your credit score.

Are you mixing up bear and bull markets?

> In addition, many employers will pass over the employee who left their last workplace because of politics, no matter how it is framed

How and why would a potential employee know this? The market in crypto is in turmoil. Just say you didn’t feel that the company provided stability.

Four months to do whatever you want while getting paid to do that activity sounds great. Take 3 and live, then go back and find a new job in a month.

Similar to Tesla’s “come back to work or be fired” comments. They’re bound to be headed for layoffs if their recent economic news is any indication.

Would you say the same thing if they had stopped spending during the overnight shutdown of our economy and we plunged into a recession?

Governments are there to provide services. The last two years have been abnormal, this is when we expect our government to spend. When we’re back to normal and the economy is strong, you pull back.

I graduated in December with my masters from Georgia Tech and I highly recommend it. Great program.

To the commenter who said that a masters won’t help you and is only for entry level positions… that’s simply not true. Many positions have a masters degree as a prerequisite. Having an education is never not a good idea.

I can see this argument. You’d also hope that graduation from one of our high schools and the motivation to apply was enough to demonstrate preparedness for college. While private run tests have their drawbacks, a publicly run exam has its own, and we have examples of that too. It isn’t easy to fix unfortunately.

High level public institutions get tens of thousands of applicants. I can almost assure you that what you’re describing is a wonderland that doesn’t exist in all but the smallest schools that can take time to review applicants on the whole. Most schools can barely weed through the applicants based on standardized measures (GPA, SAT/ACT, coursework). The feel good stuff likely only shines in essays, but very little prestige is going to be given to someone that wrote about working a summer job to pay for school, even if that’s unfortunate for the student.

You were just talking to one that said they want to fight DC? I’m pretty sure they have more to worry about.

That’s a weird sentiment. Are you an American? Imagine if Ukrainians said that right now.

The numerous errors in the writing don’t help things much, either.

"We recently began emailing customers with Echo devices registered in the US to give them more information about Amazon Sidewalk," an Amazon spokeswoman said. "This service will only be available in the US when it launches. "We apologise for any confusion."

Not sure if you’re saying they didn’t issue an apology... but they did?

Are you suggesting it's not possible to build IoT devices with security in mind?

Wasn't AWS the only profitable part of Amazon, and was propping up their retail section so they could spend money on customer acquisition? Pretty sure I remember reading about this strategy -- they basically used it as a way to make it possible to undercut competitors and do things like taking a loss on shipping without basically going broke.

I don't like Teams, but am forced to use it for work because they don't support Slack. They don't support it for a pretty practical reason: they've spent a lot of time vetting Microsoft's security, SLAs, etc. So have our customers. Slack is a new variable that introduces more work and cost.

Leadership basically sees Teams as a version of Slack that is already integrated into Outlook and Office. Slack doesn't offer enough for them to switch to it. That would also require clearing it with all of our customers, too, for communicating about customer projects.

Microsoft has something Slack doesn't have: a built-in customer base that is already fully committed to their products.

Or they just raise prices like they have done multiple times now.

Ageism is still ageism, even if the other people you are comparing are of advanced age, too...The literal definition of ageism is thinking someone can't do something due to age.

Luckily, there are projects that will do it for you. But it seems like your motivation isn't to actually drive traffic to your site, but instead just to do work for the sake of doing it? I'm not sure. Avoiding "optimization whenever practical" is a very strange concept.

Not having dates is a bad idea... Even if it's just for context.

If this article was posted in 2018, things have changed a little bit since 2020...

That's not what SEO does.

SEO is providing the ability for your webpage to be crawled easier so it can appear in Google's searches.

If you don't want people coming to your site, then yeah, don't do it?

It's fairly easy to imagine the attacks that Trump will land against Sanders, which would work to discredit him through fear.

I don't think you'll see that with Biden. Sanders' campaign would quickly fall apart under the weight of those attacks.

Also, I'm tired of hearing this senile line. It's a form of ageism. He's never been a talented public speaker, specifically when he's not feeding off the energy of a crowd. Just go back and look at his old speeches.

If you are looking for a young, vibrant candidate, neither Sanders or Biden is your ticket, anyway. Sanders is older than Biden.

I feel this is off-topic to HackerNews, even if it's important to the people the view this site.

Care to explain why? You have no evidence as to why that would be, I assume.

The viability of Sanders' campaign is a serious question and is why he wasn't nominated. If there had been resounding support for him as a candidate, he would have been nominated...

I understand that his campaign and supporters will make some argument about how it's the DNC holding him down, or some conspiracy, or whatever, but the reality is that he isn't/wasn't/won't be viable in a general election against Trump.

Socialism, or whatever Bernie wants to sell himself as does not sell to the broader electorate that is going to have to be captured in November.

You are aware of the typo in the URL, right? Otherwise, interesting stuff!