One of my salespeep buddies always says “Hard work beats talent every time talent doesn’t work hard”. I know it’s a cliche to say somebody always says this, but I’ve had literally zero conversations where he hasn’t said that to me.

It works the same way with everything here. You get what you pay for. As Ladyology pointed out, what most of America pays for is a system of high-incentive, high-competition, high-service care. It costs money to access it, and the system wouldn’t work if it didn’t cost anything to access it.

Lol, short people...

It’s more like “Should” pay taxes on that. This is why money laundering rules are becoming so strict.

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The last five years experienced an unusual, but well precedented, run-up in the US stock market. The figures in this chart are based on buying the S&P 500, which is all US stocks. Your financial advisor probably has you diversifying about 30-40% into foreign stocks and 10-30% into bonds, which have grown at a slower…

That’s fucking Delta for you. That’s why I only fly American and JetBrue, unless I have to go to Atlanta or something.

I’ve been on American and Jet Blue flights at least half the weeks we’ve had so far this year. Flight Attendants ALWAYS tell people the huge bags have to be gate checked, at least while I’m watching. The one or two times some asshole has snuck past with a giant hardshell to the back row of the plane, the whole plane…

Here are the relevant government guidelines: http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/ha…

#thoughtcrime

Because Google lives in a world where this law exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_A…

You should absolutely not have a CS degree if you want to work an infrastructure job like “IT Architect”. Total waste of skills. “Software Architect” is the job you’re thinking of.

Only if I want to disagree with you!

Big macs are a product, like electricity, that has a price consumers pay per unit and a host of production considerations nobody but the company making them cares about. Basically a widget. The article argues that the price of a particular widget would not go up if a very large part of the cost of production, wages in…

You do the work, tell HR your job title is changing to reflect your duties whether they agree to it or not and update your resume. Six months later, if there’s no corresponding monetary bump, start looking to do the same job somewhere else.

If electricity was rationally priced, people would pay for the product at supply/demand equilibrium and ignore the production infrastructure. Like, you know, we do now.

Answering a question is not the same thing as settling an argument.

This is awesome. If it’s making it hard for the rest of us, it’s probably making it difficult for these things too: http://thenextweb.com/us/2011/04/20/…

E-Trade has a really good native advertising campaign going on, apparently.

Who, outside of the financial industry, is even allowed to run your credit when you apply for a job? Genuinely curious.