Readit Newslordkirchner commented on Managing difficult software engineers vadimkravcenko.com/shorts... · Posted by u/redbell
> financial struggles
Talking about the general population, sure. But we're talking about software engineers, the most highly paid while at the same time the most accessible profession of all time.
There are high school dropouts making 5 times the national average wage in SWE, and that's not unusual at all - you have the ones making 10 times for the "unusual" category. A person that knows nothing can get a job that pays the national average wage in this industry.
I personally helped 7 people get from 0 to a job within a year. All of them are now (after 1-3 years of experience) making at least 5 times more than they did before they switched careers.
There's lots of people out there who are at higher than national average in places that have a cost of living 3x+ the national average, who have exceptional expenses like caring for a special needs child or a sick relative, and/or have childcare costs that folks in lower COLA places often have covered by parents or by a stay-at-home parent.
Collectively we can stop acting like every SSE in America is sipping champagne and eating caviar every day, because they really aren't.
lordkirchner commented on How many people have ever lived on Earth? prb.org/articles/how-many... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Why do I keep (mis)remembering a fact that most members of the human race are alive right now?
It’s a catchy structure/fact that people use for many true things that reenforce misremembering false things. For example there have been many articles recently that more scientists are alive now than in all of history, which is probably true.
lordkirchner commented on Against Alcohol (2022) thefitzwilliam.com/p/agai... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
Yes, it is bad...but, what are the alternatives? Where I'm from, smoking weed is equated with being a junkie, and just getting caught with a positive urine test can ruin your life and career (no joke).
Non-alcoholic drinks are really good and have lots of options now. Athleta Brewing Company and Phony Negroni, for example.
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We're in a housing bubble, at the peak of a multi-century economic mega-cycle, we're overdue for earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroids, the caldera under Yellowstone, flu pandemics, etc etc. It's super easy to say all that and demand people should listen, what's hard is committing to any actionable prediction.