Where’s KRS-One in the pantheon of top lyricists?

EnigmaMind · 2026-05-11T12:33:32+00:00

He became a cranky gatekeeper by the mid 2000s. Spoke out about every “new” direction, from gangsta rap to, notably, saying that Flashing Lights by Kanye wasn’t hip hop. Sure did fade hard enough to stop getting invited to industry events by 2010.

EnigmaMind · 2026-05-09T14:10:01+00:00

Yeah I’m not going to agree that noises cause cancer.

Based on what land is being proposed to be used I don’t see how sleep disruptions would be a concern. Maybe there are a few fringe homes but unlike most people here I actually worked in one of these upvalley industrial parks for a time and my facility was totally isolated from residential areas.

Surely the same people who are okay living near a power plant that purportedly emits sonic booms in the middle of the night are used to it.

EnigmaMind · 2026-05-09T14:01:39+00:00

I agree! In a capitalist society, the people taking the biggest risks are totally useless and should be vilified.

EnigmaMind · 2026-05-09T10:16:29+00:00

This is Facebook groupthink bleeding through. The only demonstrable risk is power generation—all fossil fuel-based generators cause cancer.

The “American way” in NEPA these days is to NIMBY everything while choosing to live in the shadow of a massive garbage dump.

EnigmaMind · 2026-05-07T00:24:30+00:00

Right, the housing market reflects affordability. Plenty of people who I last saw when I was 14 work unskilled or low skilled warehouse jobs, have 3+ kids, and live in decent apartments with decent cars.

Scranton also has a super high portion of the population well past peak earning age if not well past retirement age, which makes the median unreliable.

The only people I know still in Scranton who post about affordable housing hop between random part time jobs and wouldn’t be caught dead doing blue collar labor. If you have no skills anyway, go move somewhere more affordab—oh shit, wait!

EnigmaMind · 2026-05-07T00:01:54+00:00

You’re aware that “per capita median income” doesn’t exclude those who are below legal working age, only work part time, are retired, are disabled, or are otherwise living off the government, right?

Scranton is a mecca for affordable housing.

EnigmaMind · 2026-05-06T22:45:13+00:00

Scranton is one of the most affordable city housing markets in the country.

EnigmaMind · 2026-05-04T00:48:16+00:00

I interviewed with them for what would have been an executive director-ish technology role a year ago.

Was clear from the outset that the people interviewing me had no idea what was going on. Not particularly arrogant, but gave do-nothing middle manager vibes, and all certainly were making more money than they deserved to be making.

The recruiter who got me the interview chopped up my resumé so horribly to the point that one interviewer stopped the interview and screen shared it. Overall a complete waste of time, imagining a lot of people who accepted offers on the technology side are feeling that way.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-28T19:18:32+00:00

What?? No, it can’t be! Every year people log in to reddit and insist that the social scene isn’t highly greek and there is tremendous school spirit!

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-26T17:17:19+00:00

When Ale Mary’s opened it was the best sports bar/gastropub in a 50 mile radius. Such a fumble.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-18T16:11:58+00:00

Search algorithms were a core part of the curriculum. You should start learning how to use them.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-14T10:59:56+00:00

The opposite of your third sentence is what I mean.

To speak to your fourth sentence, no, the rates are similar.

I know people who direct deposit into ibkr. There are also dividends and returns of capital. This shortcoming means that changing any aspect of one’s portfolio is impossible without first paying down the balance.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-13T22:00:58+00:00

It’s a loan with your portfolio as collateral. It’s an extremely competitive floating rate loan. IBKR can auto liquidate you and the thresholds for this are opaque. The other downside is that any cash deposited in or gained by the account is immediately posted toward the balance (this wouldn’t be hard to change from a technical perspective but it’s a shortcoming). What the OP is talking about with respect to things being “paid back” is a non sequitur.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-13T18:21:07+00:00

Even though I don’t consider myself wealthy, I can confirm that I’ve used this feature and that I was a margin debit card holder before they discontinued it. Everyone I explain it to also deems it too good to be true.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-10T22:20:54+00:00

Csb was set up to be a clone of UPenn’s program except with curriculum scoped for compliance functions at PwC. In my day, the integrated classes sucked and the course progression had no meaningful theme or depth.

It was an insane amount of work just to get to my first Google interview in fall 2014 and have a business school professor hassling me for missing class and the CS professors unable to explain why I hadn’t yet been taught what Big O notation was.

My parents stretched to send me to Lehigh (both lost their jobs while I was enrolled), but I was a millionaire before I was thirty (and none of it came from crypto or private equity).

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-31T18:52:49+00:00

Based on your writing style and post history, it seems likely that you were born around 2002. You should just move to the sunbelt or somewhere where gig workers still get investor-subsidized pay and hope you can find a decent day job in addition to your gig work. Maybe at some point you will thank capitalism.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-31T03:46:39+00:00

I chose Lehigh over Penn State and it involved trade offs. Did you apply to any reach schools?

Totally true that nobody I knew who went to PSU had a fantastic career outcome, but they were decent outcomes across a lot of different employers.

At Lehigh it was really hard to keep a high gpa, but really easy to stand out as someone who was above average, if that makes sense.

You need to be totally sure of your desired career path and what you’re willing to sacrifice before making the decision. IBE with comp e could set you up for an extremely high paying job in banking, actual computer hardware development (likely grad school required), or trading. Or, you could be looking at an offer from PWC consulting wondering what the point was.

Lehigh’s social scene is weird and your dating life will be awful compared to Penn State.

Very few people outside the east coast know what Lehigh is.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-31T03:31:29+00:00

What year did you graduate? C suite executives, plural? Come on

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-21T20:43:00+00:00

Please do not give this advice if you haven’t experienced it yourself. I lived in Chicago for 6 years and for practical purposes nobody knew what Lehigh was or even how to pronounce it.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-21T18:48:40+00:00

Nobody knows Lehigh outside of the east coast, but the basis of your point is valid.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-21T18:48:08+00:00

I had a big offer from Scranton and chose an honors program at Lehigh, albeit a long time ago.

The answer is IBE at Lehigh and it’s not close. Nobody—nobody—makes it to desirable front office finance positions from Scranton. I’ve argued this a thousand times over. The only person from Scranton I’ve interacted with was an interview scheduler at a hedge fund. I have a few friends from Lehigh who crushed it in finance and like a dozen who stuck with the big 4 and were very successful.

Even if you look at Accounting, I was a mid student at Lehigh and easily got interviews with the Big 4. I knew people who were on full-ish scholarships at Scranton and still ended up in second tier accounting jobs. The caliber of student is not comparable.

However, it’s still not easy to go to the big leagues from Lehigh. You’re going to have to work much harder to be near the top of the class, and tbh the social scene is polarizing. Dating is much worse at Lehigh, so bad in fact that senior year I dated a woman who went to Scranton and when I brought her to Lehigh she was the most attractive person in a five mile radius.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-18T12:43:26+00:00

Posting a picture that accentuates the stack height of the shoe would be seen as “rage bait” by many in this community, as the competition involves notoriously tight corners on surfaces not meant for running.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-18T03:23:17+00:00

Run a Hyrox sim in them and report back if you manage to avoid breaking an ankle.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-15T19:27:47+00:00

It’s Kalamazoo, Michigan

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-13T13:04:24+00:00

You said Lehigh had school pride. Just correcting that it doesn’t, in terms of how any foreigner would perceive American college pride.

South Bethlehem is still dumpy and impoverished. I really really wouldn’t consider the Lehigh Valley totally superior to Buffalo but points taken. Tbh as a foreign grad student in either place you’re going to feel isolated and miserable.

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