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Lately it almost seems like there's a competition to see who cares the least about children. As though giving any thought to their well being is some kind of unwarranted "won't anyone think of the chidren?!" hysteria.

Toddlers are being arbitrarily kidnapped and kept in cages, and 40% of this country just shrugs it off. Your comment is being downvoted without rebuttal. Etc. Etc.

Can one just go out and get a job as a trader, with no related (formal) education, experience, contacts, etc?

I try not to use any jargon at all when communicating to non-dev stakeholders, and they still complain about jargon.

Words like "server" or "database" are not jargon. There are literally no other words to use for those things. And if you don't want to hear any technical-sounding words at all, then don't ask technical questions. Or better yet, don't work at a tech company.

With that schedule, were you able to do much in the way of networking? That's part of the 'college experience', and is often cited as one of the greatest benefits of going to college.

Asians are overrepresented among high achievers. That does not mean that the reason for this is because they are Asian. Anyone who has taken Stats 101 can tell you that.

Replace 'genetics' with 'astrological sign' and you see how absurd this argument is.

I don't see droning ISIS terrorists as immoral, sorry.

I know what going to college is. Save your platitudes.

I'm glad it worked out for you. Didn't for me. Going to college is probably the worst decision I ever made.

And my point is that it doesn't matter. Companies censor stuff all the time. Reddit can censor whatever they want.

That's their prerogative though. They can be capricious if they want, and you're free to not use the service if you don't like it.

Reddit is beholden to their shareholders, not their users.

>why are you paying him to do it?

Because I want to demonstrate "growth" to investors by hiring as many employees as I can afford, whether or not I actually have something for them to do.

Music at the gym should be opt-in, not opt-out.

In the past, people getting really mad at ISPs has not changed anything. I don't see any reason to believe that people getting really really REALLY mad is going to change anything either. There's no mechanism for it to.

I didn't say the free market is a problem. I'm not a communist; I like the free market and I agree with your comment.

However, like you said, it's not a free market and it won't be for the foreseeable future. Fantasizing about that changing isn't a solution either. At the moment, government regulations are the best tools we have to protect consumers.

>there will similarly be a revolt by customers.

ISPs already do incredibly unpopular things, but it doesn't hurt their bottom line because their customers don't have other provider options. What are they going to do, go without internet?

Comcast is one of the most hated companies in the US, but you wouldn't know it by looking at their stock price. The free market is not a solution here.

Short answer: it's a Reddit community full of idiots.

More relevant answer in this case: it's a term frequently used as a cudgel to shut down conversation. It's a fallacy of association, and thus can be safely ignored.

"I like dogs."

"Oh yeah? So did Hitler!"

That sort of thing.

>>In online games like League of Legends, we do not say that whales are the customers and the players are the product

We don't? Seems accurate to me.

100% agree. I hated it. It was expensive, stressful, and unrewarding.

My loans won't be paid off until I'm in my mid 40s. I feel like a sucker who fell for a scam. It's objectively the biggest mistake I ever made.

I'm sure my perspective will be soundly dismissed on HN. I'm sure I must have done college "wrong" or something. Whatever. I'm not trying to blame anyone else. My choices seemed like good ones at the time; these things are only clear in retrospect.

I started learning to code in 2011 when I was 28. I've been steadily employed in this industry for over 5 years now. I have a music degree.

If BTC has a good chance of doubling in value over the next few months, then how is it remotely rational to spend it?

No it wasn't. Please stop.

I guess I've avoided crippling disillusionment because I never expected a job to be fulfilling or whatever. It's a means of providing for myself and my family, that's it. The idea that it's supposed to be more than that is really strange to me.

When I was in my 20s the only jobs I could get was stuff like waiting tables and working in outbound call centers. Whenever I'm down I remind myself that at least I don't have to do that bullshit anymore. Now I sit in an air conditioned office with a nice view, and can work from home on a regular basis. I know what my availability will be in a month. I can take vacations. That's pretty cool!

I literally can't imagine "loving" a job. No matter what it is, the fact that I have to do it every day, year after year, just to have health insurance and avoid homelessness, ruins it for me. That's not a complaint, that's an assertion that I'm about as happy doing this as I would be doing anything else.

I don't have much to add to this discussion, except that this is why I never respond to workplace surveys unless I'm required to, and even then, I say what I think upper management wants to hear.

If I'm unhappy or unsatisfied with something that I'm not in an immediate position to change, I'll get a job elsewhere. I want to control if and when that happens, which means no whining or complaining, even if I'm asked to. It's not worth the risk.

Unless you're a billionaire there are always going to be things you can't afford to do. For many if not most people, having enough passive income to live without having to work would be a dream come true.

I have a southern accent, have visited NYC, currently live in Chicago. People in both cities are just as friendly as people anywhere else. What you're saying simply isn't true.

People in rural areas seem to think of "city people" as brash, always in a hurry, always on their cell phones, etc. whereas they themselves are courteous, friendly, would give you the shirt off their back, etc. I grew up in a small town in the south and heard this sort of thing a lot, but it's bullshit. It's just one parochial stereotype among many.

It may, it may not. If not lowering prices benefits shareholders more, then that is what they have to do.

>There is absolutely nothing forcing them to pick any particular use for the money.

Except this legal precedent right here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

As a publicly traded company, yes they do. Customer satisfaction only matters to the extent that it increases shareholder value.

Nope.

1) Walmart doesn't pass savings to consumers, it passes them to shareholders, as they have a fiduciary obligation to do. The "lower prices" thing is just marketing; WM's prices aren't particularly low once they've driven away their competition.

2) If drug companies want to charge a R&D premium for bleeding-edge innovative products, that's fine. What's not fine is price gouging consumers for drugs they depend on to live, that are not innovative in 2017, and that are cheaply available in other countries, like the EpiPen.

You don't need a RTOS for music performance in 2017. All 3 of those platforms are fine, musicians use them all the time.

That's what you get if you want a cheap ticket. Comfort and style are still available if you pony up some $$$ and fly on a charter jet.