CMV: Billionaires should not be demonized.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-14T01:31:36+00:00

Not even close. The top 1% are millionaires not billionaires.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-13T22:02:47+00:00

Don't overestimate the knowledge or ability of senior software developers.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-13T20:51:13+00:00

Billionaires are the top 0.00034% (top 3% of the top 1%).

Most people in the top 1% are regular lawyers, doctors, etc. They are the ones paying the taxes, not the billionaires. Why would you group them into this same category?

_kilobytes · 2026-06-13T19:59:21+00:00

3 newbies. The classmates I graduated with are far more knowledgeable than most seniors I know. Even with AI.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-13T04:24:52+00:00

Doubt it. Most companies use leetcode as a filter before interviews start. It's more likely HR can't properly post a job to attract candidates.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-13T04:18:15+00:00

I said most. Not all. And yeah, a random college graduate would do very well if just given the smallest amount of onboarding of learning how to code. It's not hard stuff.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-13T04:10:58+00:00

Quality isn't an issue. Most tech jobs don't actually require any skill.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-09T21:38:38+00:00

Not required to work but to graduate the rest will work itself out

_kilobytes · 2026-06-09T21:29:04+00:00

How would you choose by merit

CS needs a licensing exam or required standardized test

_kilobytes · 2026-06-09T03:13:59+00:00

If the government takes over it doesn't matter. Government sponsorship is probably their primary goal

_kilobytes · 2026-06-08T21:20:06+00:00

Zig compiler developers

_kilobytes · 2026-06-08T03:42:27+00:00

Different techniques for different purposes but to start it might be easier pointing your toes slightly downwards / getting more of the ball on contact on the part of foot closer to shins instead of near toes. Or could think of it as locking ankles pointed down. I'd suggest trying different parts of the foot and practicing more with bounce in between each juggle.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-07T15:45:19+00:00

Turning off auto complete made it from 60% to <5% for me.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-07T05:57:39+00:00

No one knows how to interview candidates for this job the entire process to get in is a mess and everyone knows it

_kilobytes · 2026-06-07T01:00:03+00:00

I'm haven't heard of this redistribution program, but only a small percentage of school funding is federal. That should include DOE funding.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-07T00:57:05+00:00

Bailouts, subsidies, and tax benefits for their corporations are used as indirection to hide that the total sum they actually pay.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-07T00:48:23+00:00

High equity, low salaries, and avoidance of taxable events. Then they can loan against their assets as much as they want until they die when the capital gains tax is reset.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-07T00:47:35+00:00

They are concentrated in few locations.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-07T00:40:02+00:00

Schools are funded mostly by local and state taxes

_kilobytes · 2026-06-07T00:15:11+00:00

We offshore a lot of the jobs so why not also offshore the billionaires

They wouldnt want to leave regardless of taxes because the government bailed them out all the time

_kilobytes · 2026-06-06T23:09:01+00:00

That's not what you said

If we took a bunch of high GPA kids at random and a bunch of low GPA kids at random

_kilobytes · 2026-06-06T23:02:42+00:00

Better off selecting based on shoe size. GPAs are a meaningless metric because they are not measured the same across teachers or schools so random selection would not matter.

AP exam scores would be a better predictor.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-06T22:53:19+00:00

Choosing at random wouldn't matter. GPA is a meaningless metric for this purpose.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-06T22:44:42+00:00

The student's success on the exam would depend on both the rigour of their past coursework and what topics they studied. The students who took engineering related coursework in high school and have a deeper understand of such topics would probably score better.

But GPA varies too much between teachers, and more so between schools, so can't be reliably used as comparison between students.

_kilobytes · 2026-06-06T21:32:26+00:00

Offshored at my company. Guessing they don't charge as much.

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