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by JAlexoid 4y ago
It's pretty simple. PR isn't a major market, that means that delivering goods from US to PR isn't valuable enough to have economies of scale to kick in. Add to that that most freight in The Lower 48 is ground(rail and road) -
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
PR voted for statehood THREE TIMES already... THREE!!! (2012, 2017, 2020) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_political_status_p...
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US doesn't build non-military ships in any sizeable quantities, to maintain any of those anymore. Jone's Act doesn't protect any shipbuilding facility, beyond the existing government contracts forwarded to them.
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Why does US "need" a 100% internally built, owned and operated merchant marine fleet? Most of US is accessible via freight rail or road freight transport. Ships transport almost exclusively foreign made products, today. That'
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Neo-liberalism that literally pulled half of the planet out of permanent poverty? >goals of the act can be met in other ways American merchant fleet is all but gone by now. Yet you're suggesting that we keep this act, pretending tha
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Pointlessly protectionist law. What's worse - it hurts primarily other americans... like most protectionist laws.
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> First thing productivity users do to a Win or Mac laptop is install a windows manager so they don't drag windows around. Well... OK. I'm clearly not a "productivity user". I'll prefer better optimized workflows
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That's complete BS. If TSMC is removed - we don't loose ALL of it. Taiwan and China account for 70% of contract chip manufacturing. It's absolutely the dominant share... but not remotely to being "all".
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This is very typical of HN - complete ignorance of anything other than tech, and even within the tech sector. Loss of TSMC would result in chips shortage, but not when it comes to critical and military infrastructure. There's a lot of
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
You're overestimating the value of semiconductor industry in this hypothetical. TSMC chips aren't critical, considering that ASML can also deliver the same equipment to US... and cut off China from their equipment. (or sabotage in
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
What you described isn't "because of semiconductor industry". That's a wild oversimplification. Taiwan is an American ally for reasons other than the semiconductor industry.
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Semiconductors alone aren't even remotely enough. We have enough supply to wait out and build out other semiconductor fabs, to go to WW3 just over TSMC.
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Em... I doubt that semiconductor industry is the thing to lead us to WW3.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
The biggest drawback of iPad OS is lack of windows, to drag around.If you don't need to multitask - iPad is OK. I tried going all iPad and my husband opted for iPad Pro as personal computer - it is woefully underutilized. "And tha
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Except for some reason once people become employees, that "broom-clean workspace" turns into "spotless deep house clean" expectation. Hence why you get "quitely quitting" as just doing the job you were hired to
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If the value of living in Bay Area was that low, you'd have a drastic decrease of rental prices. The same is with NYC - rents are considerably higher than pre-pandemic. Calling California a "cesspool" is at best personal opin
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That's not a full time job, you know that.... right?
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In creative fields - it's hard to define, but engineering is not exactly an open ended profession. We as programmers have a clear objective to get to. The ways of getting there are different, but it's akin to asking a portrait pai
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
What the... No. If your company has to rely on people working extra hours and doing extra work, to actually function... then screw that company. Imagine if you demanded your carpenter do your plumbing as well, because "as house can&#x2
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Wait! You signed a contract saying A and you do A, meanwhile there's an "expectation" that you actually do A+B... That is not a healthy expectation. Imagine if you were a contractor tasked with painting a room. Mid painting t
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Big +1! This is like an employer failing to gauge the number of people needed to do a job, just tell you to do a little extra... Never ever will you get the benefit of a cut from the cost of the missing people, but your employer WILL get th
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
It was never about "doing the smallest", it's a result of corporate culture demanding that you work extra as part of your job. Which results in people saying that "quietly quitting" is "doing the smallest"
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Up until a few years ago IC was a rare thing to effectively advance your income. ICs were seen ad just ants that are useless without a manager. As for "cesspool that is California" - SV provides the highest income opportunities, e
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Unlimited PTO is never unlimited... It's always tracked and limited. As for sick days, a sane company should have insurance for those cases (to cover for people being sick).
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Why shouldn't you take advantage of the system? It's not like you're scamming the system...
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Having neurosyphilis will affect "others". The bar for "affects others" is extremely low in society. Unless there's a very clear study, that a certain substance will cause an average human being to be aggressive, be
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Yes, you're incapable... because THC is a sedative. You're more likely to eat and fall asleep, than to have reduced inhibitions.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
THC is a sedative, which you feel very well. High doses can cause underlying conditions to surface, but it's not nearly as destructive as alcohol. People who get paranoid on THC, are way more belligerent on alcohol.
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Em... People tend to forget about good actions. I'm sorry, but most people have short memories and short sight.
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Yes, it's a political move. Yes, it's good. There's no chance a republican politician would do the same.

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