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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Why are we thanking Reagan (sarcastically)? The mandatory retirement age for air traffic controllers is 56 and he fired them all 42 years ago. Presumably none of them were prepubescent, so they wouldn't be working today.
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Dallas / Fort Worth, TX Pros: More tech jobs at a higher average salary and much lower cost of living than Austin (but see cons). No state income tax. 2000 sqft. house in a premium school district for $500k. Plenty of art, culture, and
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Depends on your definition of "mid six figures" and your source, but it at least doesn't appear very misleading. At $450k it looks like the federal effective tax burden is 35% and the New York tax burden is at least ~16% (t
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
It pretty much is the approach the FAA takes. It's extremely difficult to get a private pilot's license if you have a history of ADHD, never mind more severe mental illness, never mind again a commercial license.
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Pretty sure every Splunk customer has that split brain. This thing's great, what can we quit sending to it?
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
There will be more such events because temperatures that used to top out at 103 now top out at 110 F. There is some silliness with the state government around renewable power, but it isn't like they've banned it. And if they did i
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Because there aren't any of those. New York utilities have multiple similar events per summer, for example, as does California. https://www.caiso.com/Documents/intensifying-heat-leads-to-a...
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
A better measure than revenue would be public ownership of property, but this produces some surprising results. I am not sure whether the fact that Singapore is the second most socialist country on the planet would likely be more distressin
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I never had too much trouble with this because money has high overhead. If you only have a small number of items that are scarce enough to be rival goods (planets, starships, artisinal labor, concert tickets, whatever) then you will probabl
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I nearly got nailed by an e-bike the last time I was in Manhattan, going against traffic in a pedestrian lane. They seem to have proliferated in the last year or so. The trouble seems to be that people are trying to maintain a biker's
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I don't like it. Texas's leadership when not corrupt is cruel, and when not cruel manages to give the appearance of cruelty. It's also increasingly dumb, doing things like trying to strangle the incredible renewable energy ge
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
To answer your question, the Texas Rangers have a Public Corruption Unit. The unit is relatively new (replacing a unit that used to be run out of the Travis County D.A.'s office, which Republicans objected to, because Travis County is
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
The FBI is investigating him but no federal charges have ever been filed. The state situation is also a bit more complicated than the grandparent suggests. There have been both jurisdictional struggles and a county government refusing to pa
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Parent got downvoted but speaking as an Aggie it's not totally wrong. This is hardly the university's first free speech controversy and doesn't seem likely to be the last. It's a bipartisan mess too - Chancellor John Sha
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
The "death of democracy" criticism is strange because the functions of judicial review, enshrined civil rights, and (where applicable) a written constitution exist for the purpose of making a country less democratic. In an absolut
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Slightly. 8,000 bills and 11,700 resolutions (things like naming January 23 as the Texas State Lawyer Appreciation Day or something). Of these 1,222 bills and 4,028 resolutions passed. That's for two years though - the Texas Legislatur
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
"The thing that's possible in America and arguably not possible in Europe is to just show someone the door on the spot." It's only sort of possible in America. If you are laying people off (for economic reasons, not caus
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I agree this isn't really it, but I'm finding it a bit hard to square 25 days off a year with the fact that every European I've ever worked with has been on vacation the entire month of August, except the British, and they do
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Government absolutely does pull those levers. I think people underestimate how closely utilities are regulated. It's a monopoly after all. The government tells them annually what their profit for the coming year will be. The state publ
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
You're looking at revenue numbers, not profits. Profit in the utility industry is 0 on operations and maintenance expenses and 0-9% (depending on whether you are a public utility or co-op, of which there are many, and whether your regu
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
25 years in IT, 8 of those in security, mostly as a Red Teamer and Red Team manager, mostly internal to very large orgs. It's identifying owners, both for infrastructure and apps. When you're rampaging through a network and you fi
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
It's probably worth noting in this context that while I believe Allstate is publicly traded and for-profit, State Farm is neither. It's a mutual - it's owned by its customers and its excess rates go back to them as dividends.
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
That appears to be the effective rate for income tax, but there are also sales taxes, "stamp" tax on things like houses and cars, excise taxes (especially on fuel), property tax, and inflation. I'm pretty confident you can ge
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Reading (daily): Google News, HN, the Ground News blindspot feed. WSJ, NYT, various RSS on Feedly. Reading (occasional): Techmeme, Techdirt, Metafilter, Memeorandum. More RSS on Feedly. Podcasts (Daily or as often as they come out, while ex
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
You could do a study with a lot more data points than that to see if there's a correlation. Which someone has, and there is: "Overall the results of the paper suggest that policies that enhance labor market flexibility should redu
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
As a practical matter I doubt UT and A&M will be affected at all. They're two of the richest universities in the United States thanks in large part to the Permanent University Fund (i.e., oil money). They'll 1) raise pay subst
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
"What does that even mean?" It means you get 15 paid days a year to be sick. Beyond that, you have a certain number by law (I think 60) which you can take unpaid without risk of being fired. After that, sickness is theoretically g
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"which to me shows that he was very good man (and his actions in the civil war, and after, back this up)." With at least one striking exception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._11_(1862)
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Not OP, but I would have said misleading instead of lying. To get the correct figure, you need to add together not just federal money for NPR but also state government money, and federal and state money for its affiliates and the Corporatio

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