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SlightlyLeftPad commented on Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills   news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/paulpauper
nradov · 14 days ago
Bullshit. FAFSA covers assets as well as income so wealthy families with zero taxable income aren't getting need-based financial aid. Unless they lie on the application, which is criminal fraud.
SlightlyLeftPad · 13 days ago
Not bullshit at all, there are loopholes riddled throughout the FAFSA system that allows assets to be tucked away out of scope. It’s not fraud, all completely legal and purpose-built to support the types of families who can afford a financial advisor on retainer.
SlightlyLeftPad commented on Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills   news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Alive-in-2025 · 14 days ago
We've got a lot of governance problems. Our system allows college prices to get really high, mostly because 18 year kids can sign up for these guaranteed loans. They don't know what they are signing up for, and colleges just want students in seats. People don't know if their major has good employment prospects, avg salary and how that will affect their loan repayment.

America chose to do this, banks make big money from the loans. Colleges make big money from students.

We have a similar system with medical care. We have regulatory capture of our medical system by the drug sellers, medical groups, etc. We pay way way way more than other countries with worse outcomes. And the reaction of half the country, the republicans, it is we'll fix this by eliminating a lot of coverage for poor people. Democrats try to control costs, cover more poor people, get on a better trajectory and it's demonzied as destroying democracy. Meanwhile, our recently passed BBB bill takes billions out of medicare, ie coverage for poor people, many of whom voted for Trump. This whole thing is disgusting. I'm angry because of the loss of potential here, just like for student debt.

My dad says colleges are corrupt because they "waste money on dei things" and that's why they have high costs (sadly not making this up). I try to explain college is not subsidized like it used to be when you went to college in the 60s. Similar thing with young people not affording housing, not having kids as much.

SlightlyLeftPad · 14 days ago
Oh boy it actually gets so much worse than you mention. If you have W2 income the cost of college is uniquely high to _you_. Very wealthy people who claim a business loss on their tax returns (through the massive spiderweb of itemized deductions) college, even ivy leagues, are free or almost free.
SlightlyLeftPad commented on Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills   news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/paulpauper
toomuchtodo · 14 days ago
If people leave your country because it sucks, that’s a governance problem, not a citizen problem. People are mobile, if they have options and can do better, they should take them. Life is short and you only live once. Debt is just accounting, it is a shared delusion like a currency.

We set these citizens up to fail, and they’re the bad guys? Hardly. If you can escape the torment nexus, go, don’t look back. The torment nexus does not care about you. “The purpose of the system is what it does.”

SlightlyLeftPad · 14 days ago
I mean yeah, nothing about my statement disagrees with your point.
SlightlyLeftPad commented on Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills   news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/paulpauper
toomuchtodo · 14 days ago
The U.S. Department of Education can garnish up to 15% of your disposable pay (your net wages after legally required deductions like taxes). However, they must leave you with at least 30 times the federal minimum wage, which is currently $7.25 per hour, or $217.50 per week.

So, 15% for the rest of your life or until you can leave the country and are beyond their reach (if an option) if you cannot afford to pay them off. The reality for many is they will never have enough income potential to pay off this debt, so the best course of action is to bail on it to optimize for quality of life if you’ll never be able to pay it back. The developed world is hungry for young, educated talent.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/they-fled-the-country-to-esc...

SlightlyLeftPad · 14 days ago
Other country’s citizens leave to avoid military service, Americans leave to…avoid student loan repayments. That’s sad.
SlightlyLeftPad commented on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?    · Posted by u/cpt100
hn_throw2025 · 20 days ago
> Of course there’s a push for it with the intent to replace us. Why else would it be forced down our throats?

I still don’t see this, if only for the Managerial instinct for ass-covering.

If something really matters and a prod showstopper emerges, can those non-technical supervisory managers be completely, absolutely, 100% sure the AI can fix the code and bring everything back up? If not, the buck would surely stop with them and they would be utterly helpless in that situation. The Board waiting on conference call while they stare at a pageful of code that may as well be written in ancient Sumerian.

I can see developers taking a higher level role and using these tools, but I can’t really see managers interfacing directly with AI code generation. Unless they are completely risk tolerant, and you don’t get far up the greasy pole with those tendencies.

SlightlyLeftPad · 20 days ago
Directors at my company (large mid-tier tech) are being _asked_ to write AI code. Below that level, it’s a mandate and anyone who doesn’t ship regularly using AI will be pipped and fired. Don’t make me explain how it makes sense but that what we’re dealing with.
SlightlyLeftPad commented on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?    · Posted by u/cpt100
SlightlyLeftPad · 21 days ago
Pretty pessimistic frankly. Management at all levels pushing for nearshoring SWE labor, meanwhile we’re training AI as a long term solution to fill the skill gap in the same nearshore labor. We were hired to be smart people and it’s frankly an insult to gaslight us into believing that it’s simply because it makes us more productive. Of course there’s a push for it with the intent to replace us. Why else would it be forced down our throats?

I’m looking for a way out of tech because of it.

SlightlyLeftPad commented on PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again   servethehome.com/pcie-8-0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
SlightlyLeftPad · 22 days ago
Any EEs that can comment on at what point do we just flip the architecture over so the GPU pcb is the motherboard and the cpu/memory lives on a PCIe slot? It seems like that would also have some power delivery advantages.
SlightlyLeftPad commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?    · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
xhrpost · a month ago
Looked into HSA recently at work but legally you need a high deductible health care plan to be eligible. Looking at the options, just nothing looked good compared to my current $0 deductible/$0 co-pay plan. Hard to know for sure but just seemed like I would be paying a lot more out of pocket every year.
SlightlyLeftPad · a month ago
You have the unicorn health plan it appears
SlightlyLeftPad commented on Sign in with Google in Chrome   underpassapp.com/news/202... · Posted by u/frizlab
breadwinner · a month ago
Edge has its own shenanigans. Solution: When signing into Gmail use Edge. When signing int Outlook use Chrome. That way Google/Microsoft can't use your credentials to sign into the browser itself.
SlightlyLeftPad · a month ago
Better: Use browsers not owned by search companies
SlightlyLeftPad commented on 'Japanese First': The deep roots of the rising far right   france24.com/en/asia-paci... · Posted by u/rntn
bn-l · a month ago
Isn’t it ok for the Japanese to be Japanese first?
SlightlyLeftPad · a month ago
Yeah it is interesting though from a sociological perspective that there seems to be a worldwide pullback from globalism. Did Brexit or Trump kick this off?

u/SlightlyLeftPad

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