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> Student debt is a personal responsibility. It is a personal choice.

While I agree with you, to an extent, you cannot ignore than many young people were pressured into going to college, and going to a 'good school' by the authority figures in their life at the time (be it parents or school counselors).

they were sold the lie that college would pay for itself, and for many it has not.

I got lucky, personally, and don't have much in the way of college debt due to scholarships and such, but my degree is still just a very expensive piece of paper since I have done absolutely nothing with it.


> many young people were pressured into going to college

When I was young, drunk, and impressionable, a pit boss pressured me to apply for casino credit and get hosted in Vegas.

Of course, I took out my entire line in markers and lost it all.

If being young is a valid excuse to discharge the consequences of stupid choices, this is great news. I'll be awaiting my check.

Any of you who signed up for those $1000 unsecured "student credit card" offers should be lining up for the gravy train, as well.

Looking forward to teaching my kids that financial responsibility is only for old people, to rack up as much unserviceable debt as humanly possible while they're in whatever government standard age bracket is defined as "young", get it all forgiven, and then start acting like a responsible human being. There's no moral hazard in this line of reasoning whatsoever.


false equivalency.


Yeah and now they have a good degree from a good school which is advantageous over someone who was more frugal.


I went to get my CompSci master in a public college somewhere in NYC, total cost $20k.

Now I earn more than $250k/yr.

You can get into college without spending insane amount of money. You can also choose a more marketable major.


then you also have to realize that you are in the minority, even within your field. the vast majority of software engineers dont make nearly that much.


But going to my college with just $20k is not a privilege that only a minority can do. Its public college, anyone can get in.

I show my income only to state that people should major in a more marketable major.


What year was this?


4 years ago. 2018 graduation.


Interesting. I'm glad to see there are still programs that aren't obscenely expensive. I went to Ohio State in Computer Science in 1984 and full time tuition was $600 per quarter or $1800 per year or $7200 for a 4-year degree.


I have never trusted Oracle with anything important.


might as well drop apple laptops, as well, since Pluton is pretty much Secure Enclave for PC.


ohwait, that means no more computers at all.

well shit, time to switch careers.


I lived in low-sec for the majority of my time playing EVE. Was a Gal-mil rat that took any fight I could find. Still have good memories of some pretty crazy fights, and some pretty fun engagements. One of my favorites was making a mining barge into a trap for pirates and killing them when they tried to engage me.

The solo pvp life worked until off-grid boosting became so prevalent that most fights were no longer 1v1 even if there were only two ships actively shooting each other. When one ship is boosted to the gills because of a squadron mate somewhere in a safe-spot providing fleet boosts, things got less fun, and I ended up quitting.


edit: Shout out to anyone that flew with the "Monkeys with Guns" Alliance or "Mostly Sober" Corporation back in the day.


as much as i get annoyed by the azure cli, after using both aws and azure, I think azure has a better developer experience, imo.

which is saying something, because my developer experience using azure was pretty bad. lol


I'm genuinely curious about this. I skimmed the article and didn't see mention of this, but does the statute of limitations apply here?


From the article:

>Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly wouldn’t pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the University of Mississippi.

>But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important stepping stone toward establishing probable cause for a new prosecution, he said.


yes, this needs to be done. I don't understand what the new evidence is though, I skimmed the further linked article


Generally there's no statute of limitations on murder.


This isn’t murder though. It would be perjury or something along those lines.


According to the article, the warrant says kidnapping, a crime for which there is no statute of limitations. However, the district attorney for the case would have to show probable cause to enforce the arrest warrant. There's little chance of establishing that absent rediscovery of evidence or the existence of new witnesses from a crime that occurred nearly 70 years ago. There's also the issue of their being only one living witness relevant to the ordeal. And she is unlikely to say anything even if she were to possess a steel trap of a memory.


Emmett Till was murdered.


Yes I understand, but the perpetrators were acquitted. So how could the woman be found guilty?


if you can't afford the bureaucracy of employees, then maybe you shouldn't be hiring.


> The job of the CEO is to keep the firm going, not to make employees happy

lol. keep pissing off employees and see how long you can 'keep the firm going'.

that mindset makes no damn sense.


Who said anything about keeping on doing that? It is not the right thing most of the time.


I like to think it is more just a very vocal minority that are psychos.


> It's great if you don't want to work and instead slack off at home

what? do you think those of us in remote roles just....dont work?


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