CydeWeys

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721.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
You have to realize that, based on that description, you're a tiny rounding error on the total US domestic market.
722.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Right, well in the US, where Amazon has the plurality of its global workforce (and quite possibly majority of its highly compensated work force), severance is not required.
723.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Human minds being corruptible, applied to management and shareholders, does a good job of explaining why unions are necessary in the first place.
724.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Even if it is constructive dismissal, so what? Amazon won't owe you severance or anything like that. So you'd get some money from your state's unemployment office and that's about it.
725.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Though non of this applies to Virgin Orbit, which is a US-based company.
726.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's been used in the US much longer than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furlough
727.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
That's more of a CUV than a hatchback, no? It certainly looks bigger and taller.
728.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
I think most people who say they "need" AWD really just want AWD. Similarly for all the people who say they "need" trucks.
729.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Yeah I think it looks great too. I don't own a car, but back when I did, I had a Ford Fiesta that I loved. It wasn't unnecessarily large and could fit into smaller on-street parking spots that others simply couldn't. This EV
730.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
One simple answer to this is they could disable all new purchases without disabling the entire account. If you can no longer spend money there's nothing to charge back.
731.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's not more leverage after the additional money loaned is plowed back into the home's equity by way of the renovations, however. The bank simply needs some way to enforce that the additional money loaned is actually being used
732.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Jacobin at least is honest and unapologetic: https://jacobin.com/about
733.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Oh c'mon, there's no way this is it. If they hadn't been laid off there wouldn't be an external announcement. You don't post something like this merely to announce that you're retraining some employees.
734.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
The US government already sells billions of dollars worth of various types of bonds to consumers every year. How is what you're proposing any different, and how would you entice more people to buy them than are currently buying T-bill
735.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Depressing home purchases might well be a good idea. Right now people treat them as investments rather than mere housing, and as a result that market is thrown entirely out of whack.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It all 100% depends. I live in lower Manhattan and it's hard to justify buying in almost all situations. It only pays off much further down the line, but it might not ever pay off at all if you consider the opportunity cost for your
737.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
This is not what happened to plane/automobile manufacturers. The banks, you could argue yes. But these were collateral damage.
738.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
> If it was about taxes people would just hold something else Not following this at all. You having to pay tax in USD means you're going to prefer holding USD and being paid in USD as well. Anything else would be strictly inferior
739.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Bank accounts are very sticky and most people don't move them in search of better rates. In particular, people are not thinking of cash sitting in a checking account as anything other than short term cash they don't expect to ear
740.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
This is a really bad misunderstanding of how governmental monopoly on violence affects the acceptance of its currency. The USD has value because you need to pay your taxes in USD, and if you don't pay your taxes, the government will
741.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
The assets they were holding do regularly trade and could easily be valued. They knew that the value was down. The problem was they didn't actually have to do anything about it.
742.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
No it wouldn't have. The company would still be solvent and have a large number of total deposits, just less in total than they could've had otherwise. What they did literally destroyed the entire company; not doing so would not
743.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Apparently your average person is much more likely to move homes than move banks. Bank accounts are incredibly sticky, and even though it's not really that hard to open up a new account (and maybe switch over some recurring transacti
744.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Yup. FDIC insurance exists for this reason -- you can let a bank that made bad decisions fail without causing a chain reaction through the economy.
745.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
I don't particularly live near any of my relatives though (the closest ones I could rely on are four hours away). Many people are in my situation of having moved for a better job, which necessarily leaves those other people behind.
746.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Right, but now the older children are being parentized and have to do some of the child-rearing instead of just being care-free kids themselves. Not everyone wants that for their children.
747.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
This is a very easy thing to say . However, I suspect it often does not pass the 'when the rubber meets the road' test.
748.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
I've been pursued 10X more by recruiters ever since I've had Google on my resume. That they can tell, and I'll say that Google did a pretty good job of interviewing back in 2014.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's way too big of a task for any one person to do individually (like trying to block ads online), and then you have the problem that people collaboratively moderating a stream together wouldn't have the same opinions on what con
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
ICANN has EBERO with a standardized escrow format to deal with this exact issue for gTLDs but ccTLDs are pretty much a wild west. I wouldn't use these.

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