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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by eli_gottlieb on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:25AM (#15330222)
> What's more valuable than building a top notch system for delivering news (and everything that tends to go with that) to a billion people?

Making it remotely accurate? Wiping out infectious diseases? Providing a billion people access to a healthy, nutritious diet? Saving the planet from ecological devastation?

I can think of a lot of very hard problems that have far more value than delivering advertisements packed into clickbait and fake news.

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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by pc86 on Monday September 25, 2017 @12:35PM (#15331838)
Software developers are not wiping out infectious disease.
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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by hasenj on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:53PM (#15335352)
There's room for software to help alot in these efforts.
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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by eli_gottlieb on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:32PM (#15332808)
Then maybe we should stop being software developers!
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