Consultant32452

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by Consultant32452 3y ago
We bought $30 Million worth of camouflage for military contractors in Afghanistan because some Afghan defense minister thought the pattern looked cool, despite providing no camouflage capabilities in that environment. https://www
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
>Your automobile trip to the grocery store is far riskier. I feel it's important to provide complete information. Flying is safer per mile traveled than driving. Driving is safer on a per-trip basis. So if you compare your trip to
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Per mile traveled but not per trip.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
I only work in the states, but I've had customers who were owned abroad. Basically the same behavior. I'll add one note I forgot in my OP. The bigger, richer customers are more notorious for paying late. I wouldn't say I avoi
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
My anecdata is that I'm a contractor and customers regularly pay late, except in December. I have one customer who was 3 months late on payments at one point this year. Then in December they paid up for what they would normally have ow
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
The WARN act (US federal law) requires that any company with over 100 employees gives 60 days notice. If they don't provide 60 days notice, they are required to give 60 days pay. Obviously, local laws will vary greatly.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Basically a ton of arrows point towards EOY as a good time to do this. January has the most layoffs, December second most. In industries with seasonal hires, you get rid of them after the rush. Additionally, company budgets tend to be yearl
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
I'm telling you explicitly that the idea that you need a policy is the whole problem with how you are thinking about this. "We" will do literally nothing. I might do something. You might do something. But no centrally planned
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
TLC told me to keep doing more of what is failing in Portland and San Francisco.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Privatize all property. Eliminate zoning, licensing, labor laws including minimum wage, price controls, and building codes. Eliminate inflationary monetary policy. Dismantle the military industrial complex which creates the veteran->stre
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
You will never eliminate severe mental illness. You can, however, create systems that understand human incentives. If you can't even imagine options that don't involve systemic centralized planning, we are so far from moving towar
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
> give people housing for free (or throw them in jail.) This is a false choice. >Would you rather be right, or live in a city without homelessness? I can be right and also live in a city without homelessness. I'll just ship them
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
>It’s just hard to enforce that when people don’t have a private place to use in. The problem is feeling like you owe it to addicts to provide them with a place to use. Privatize all the public spaces: parks, sidewalks, etc. Grant strong
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
There's two problems with these programs. The first problem is that the people we're really talking about, the ones living/defecating/etc on the street do not want help. The second problem is that in order to want to get
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Now that you have written it, this models my experience too. Thanks for sharing.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
I spent a number of years working at a pizza place in high school/college and on busy nights they had a dedicated "router", a human who was sometimes also a driver, who grouped orders together so they got where they needed to
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Has the local restaurant scene recovered from the lockdowns? I live in a smaller city and we have recovered some but it's nothing like it was. I heard it was particularly rough in NYC.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
A similar thing happens with immigration. The public discourse is about "jobs Americans won't accept", labor shortages, bringing in the best and brightest, etc. The closed door discussions are all about wage suppression of th
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
We literally nuked Japan and intentionally carpet bombed civilian infrastructure in Germany.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Korea, Japan, and Germany were violently subjugated by the US. We didn't just "free trade" our way into making them nice.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
>To be fair, the thinking at the time was that trade relationships would foster better relations overall. The people in power never believed that. That's just how it was marketed to the people whose lives they were destroying.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
I think you're right here. To give a hypothetical from current events, the US/NATO forces may not have direct access to information from Russian cellular networks, but a bunch of cell signals in an unusual place could indicate a t
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Would increasing global ocean and air temperatures lead to more water evaporating and a net increase in total rainfall of fresh water across the globe, even if it might also result in changes to where the rain falls?
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
My fellow autists in the IT industry have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that the answer to the question "how much will this cost me" in other departments is mostly made up bullshit, so you have to learn to say made up
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Your question implies a central planning of allocation of resources which we know from history results in exactly the hellish abject poverty you were so concerned about. Market economies full of rationally self interested people create the
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
The only reason I acquire wealth is to improve the lives of my children and grandchildren relative to their peers. If that option was taken away, I would have no reason to do anything but the bare minimum.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
I'm a mostly fake contractor. I miss the good old days when I could fake contractor directly to companies. Now I have to go through a middle-man that takes a cut. I still make triple what I was making before, but it bothers me that the
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
I was a Roku fanboy until they started installing new apps/channels or whatever on the device without prompting me. Now I simp for Apple TV.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
I am similarly shocked. I don't remember the last time I saw a job posting that had the salary range listed.

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