Helps if you keep in mind that Jeff Bezos could accidentally tip you enough money to live the rest of your life without a job.

I feel like the hardest part of Assembly is all of the hex math required...

I don't think you have to be in THAT kind of relationship with coworkers.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5882

I hate this issue, and see it occur in so many companies. Why are we so opposed to simply paying more/increasing benefits of people at the same level? Why can't an "regular" Engineer just get a large raise for being an amazing Engineer, because that's what you need! Instead, they need to be come a "Senior" Engineer who also has some kind of other management-type job that they suck at.

Wages aren't going up because there is nothing forcing them to go up. The upper class just takes their rents and insists paying more wages would tank the economy.

Participation is going down because there's little reason to seek employment if you know the employer is just attempting to shaft you. You produce $40/hr, but they'll pay you $8/hr. You can't negotiate, they'll just find someone who is desperate.

Do you really doubt that this is constantly happening and people are paying? Just look at the people who get DMCA'd for content they made themselves. Same system, just instead of paying a fee they lose their youtube/Twitch.

I think a lot of the increased difficulty is the skill of developers. At one point, knowing how to edit HTML would get you an interview. Now, I feel like I might need a successful Python library so I can get an interview...

Not sure if it's a bad thing or not, since the art is just becoming better.

I'm sure countless people pay these kinds of fines, just assuming that the company threatening to sue them is legitimate.

What's to stop me from just making a cool company name and sending cease and desist letters asking for fines for all kinds of "IP"?

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/foreign.php

So far everything that has come out has disproved all of the claims in the memo, including the memo itself!

And of course your comment won't get anywhere, you just made up a bunch of nonsense. For example, I read the text messages. I didn't know that a calendar of Putin is now Obama's conspiracy to destroy Trump. Those scoundrels!

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/843865267008655360?ref_src=...

As far as the Clinton/DNC leaks go, there was actually nothing damaging in them. Yet somehow it got spun up into a giant conspiracy that they had evidence didn't exist, thanks to the leak!