AYBABTME

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by AYBABTME 4y ago
We'll see, I wouldn't personally be against doing a stint of my career in China if the conditions are decent. Right now however, I feel like I'd be at the mercy of some geopolitical game, being Canadian living in the US. The
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
I don't doubt what you're saying, although I'm not sure about the validity of the data derived on count of publications, since that's easily gamed. But what I'm saying is about immigration. I really doubt that the P
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
> People will never stop coming to the US for opportunity. Is true _as long as the US continues to understand this_ and doesn't change its stance on immigration and business and open markets. The US will win as long as it's the
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
I think it's a pendulum. Wait some decades and centuries and that stuff too will get "offshored" elsewhere. And then move between areas, and so on. It used to be that the Arab world was where all the science and math was done
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
Personally I think it's entirely fair if someone in another country is allowed to compete on the world market and provide a service for cheaper. It makes economical sense for them as they'll improve their living standards by quite
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
It does, but then China can't use their debt holding as a weapon. China is incentivized to keep the dollar stable relative to the yuan, because crashing the dollar would hurt China a lot, and propping up the dollar also would. The whol
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
A lot more adult of a superpower than say, China's petulant behavior. The US is a mostly benign superpower in comparison. People like to say the US is violent and imperialist and what not, but it's a lot less so and a lot more ben
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
Well, not exactly allied, but China is a much more real and immediate threat to Viet Nam than the US are. Viet Nam isn't going to be a strategic threat to the US any day, and they have aligned interests in the South China Sea (East Sea
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
I don't really see what the problem is with offshoring. If other people elsewhere want to work for cheaper, then it's fair competition. It's not like protectionism would work long term anyways. And in this particular case, Vi
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
I have biases of course, but I don’t see what my agenda would be here? What is it that I’m plotting or trying to influence? Tell me what my agenda appears to be?
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
Are they also built and developed as a group, or is it via a main developer who buys land, builds the building and then sells the individual units? If that's so, the same sometimes exists here, but because regulations, zoning and permi
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
I don't disagree (favoring personal ownership over multiple ownership), but then I'm not sure how this works out. Single-family homes everywhere? It's causing housing problems due to sky rocketing prices due to low density. S
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
You're funny, I have no agenda. I'm a new owner of a triplex, always been a renter before, and we occupy one of the units. I'm just learning this as I go, but the economical dynamics are playing out in front of my eyes and I&
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
This falls flat on its head when you consider that this would force a bunch of people in becoming small time landlords, with the inability to invest in their skills and competency by scaling up to multiple properties. Barely anyone would be
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
This reads to me like the (more complicated but ultimately) equivalent of "a user reverse engineers the website's javascript!". As in, this allows the user to mod their client but it doesn't change anything for anyone el
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
Perhaps it's slavery, perhaps it's not. I think you're jumping the gun in calling it a done, unambiguous fact. I think I'm a sensible person, and I'm willing to entertain the idea that it might be slavery. But if I
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
There's a lot of components to what's being bundled here together, and not much space afforded emotionally to allow for a philosophical discussion about the individual merits of an approach versus another, given each component tak
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
So to express your perceived degrading of the struggle of poorer people, you figured the best approach was to take exception of their attempts at having children. You could also have taken a pass. You weren't forced to comment, you mad
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
We do that at home - automatically wire a fixed amount, weekly, off of the margin account. All incomes get deposited in the margin account and invested. During the first half of the year, I max out most contributions that I can at work and
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
It seems like people want to see Musk suffer and so exaggerate the real "burden" put on him with this. 500e6/(24 * 60 * 60)~= 6k tweets per seconds. It's not nothing, but not that hard to handle either. > it will take
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
We have plans for an ADU build coming up with a contractor quote made around March. In such situation, does it makes sense to request a new quote?
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
It depends. I don't think bad of any of my coworker who went on PTO and gave their notice on the Friday before coming back. What I remember of them is how great they were. This little snag at the end is just people being human, having
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
You edited your (now mild) comment after I wrote this.
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
Please abstain from ad-hominem.
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
Nobody wants to hear it because it's a knee-jerk, throw-your-hand-in-the-air reaction. Taking this stance boils down to questions like "what's the point of life", whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, and wheth
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
Not having kid is a pretty non starter idea. It's akind to asking a species "why don't you just commit suicide"? So called entitlement to breed is how life started in the first place.
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
You don't need a work visa to drive an Uber.
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
If you can centralized the cooling in a few higher efficiency locations, and minimize heat transportation related power usage, you'll save on power.
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
Just make that a General Processing Unit.
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by AYBABTME 4y ago
To be honest I don't walk nearby campus often, so I'm not sure how the cheap food joints are around it. Perhaps its cheaper due to higher volume, or lower quality? But where we go to have lunch, it's a rare day when it costs

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