JBlue42

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by JBlue42 9y ago
Another issue with 401ks is if you're like a lot of folks that have had the wonderful luck to work at smaller companies that don't have 401ks or hand out benefits of any sort. An individual IRA maxes out at $5,500/yr so if en
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by JBlue42 9y ago
- "So, it's like Fifa and you have a team and play against people?" - "No, I don't control the players. I try and examine the other team and make sure mine has trained well in their tactics. It's fun though - I
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Not I but only because I don't have one that fits right now. I definitely take a breather, make sure to have hydration around, and will hold off on playing a final if I've been drinking.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Upvote since I was never suspecting to see this mentioned on HN. It's not even a game I can describe to my gamer friends irl and have them understand the appeal.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I wonder if that correlates with my theory on companies that buy cheap/thin toilet paper and their treatment of employees.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
What if Walmart paid more than $11/hr to decrease the immediate incentive?
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>Hell, they couldn't even be bothered to play a pickup game with them. That would've been the emotionally intelligent thing to do.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
The violence seems avoidable but is bad Internet? I've heard its not so great down there.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Have also had issues for a month or so now. Weird stuff like trying to do a search in incognito mode, which should do a Google search, and it spinning forever.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
That's Hollywood in a nutshell. If you don't want to do something, there's someone else that will sacrifice to do it. Works for companies too. VFX companies will take on a project they'll lose money on just to have a foo
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by JBlue42 9y ago
They do that though. The past two years I've filed online with their free forms. I knew that I was taking more allowances and would owe. They said "hey, you actually owe us this". And then I sent them a check.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Honestly, I think all the "anti-government" people I've come across (normal ones, not moneyed SV people) would be ok if they could legitimately see and hear about how their local, state, and federal tax dollars are at work in
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I agree somewhat but I doubt in today's political climate (esp. this administration) you would get anyone advocated for local or federal level control since the People seem to distrust any gov't and its ability to do a job (despit
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I wasn't aware of that. I know that a lot of folks around here aren't fans of the government, but isn't this what a stronger FCC would be good for? I guess as long as the right person was appointed to the chair.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Thanks, that was educational. I had no idea about those fees and the like. Since he came from a construction background, maybe he's more familiar with all that.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Good point. Everything is interdependent and a system within a system.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Not a whiner at all. It sucks. I'm on the job market now and the most feedback I get are from jobs that would be 45 min - 1 hr minimum (in the same city). I've done it before, it's terrible for my health and mental state. Mov
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Yeah, commute times are lost productivity. The stress factor can lead to health problems. Society will always pay a cost.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
My colleague argues that it's ok for Time Warner Spectrum/Comcast to control specific areas and districts because they laid the pipe and own the last mile (when they've decided to). I try and argue that it's anti-competi
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. As cool as my friends' new car's features are, I still love my Acura RSX. I can reach from the steering wheel to adjust anything on the console without taking my eyes off the road. No fuss, made for h
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by JBlue42 9y ago
And all the movies about those folks show the same right? We, the norms, get to live vicariously through their partying, dishonesty, stupidity, etc then the fall comes and we get to laugh at them too. But secretly, we all think we can beat
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Interesting. Company I used to work for reduced their LA office to a handful of people after laying off 2/3 of its workers to move operations to Vancouver. Everyone was considered 'contract' despite being on W2s so not sure.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Three months seems like way too long to know you're being laid off but I guess maybe the purpose is that it gives you time to find new work? In the US, it's just assumed that the ex-employee will be as malicious as possible and so
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by JBlue42 9y ago
It's possible but honestly I don't think that's a factor only that commercial real estate in downtown SF is going to get them more bang for their buck right now. Their timeline is looking 5-10 years out so they have their shi
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by JBlue42 9y ago
This only gets enforced if there's some sort of lawsuit (which happened recently in LA against a film company). What out of college kids are going to go up against a company or even know? It's all about desirability to get a name
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by JBlue42 9y ago
You have a lot of people fleeing expensive places like SF, LA, and NYC to Portland and Austin. Those rents are still cheaper and you get the same city amenities and some good places to work. So there's demand and until people see that
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by JBlue42 9y ago
A form of scope creep then, it seems?
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Pretty much what I saw my short time in VFX. Met one or two people that had come in through games that said that, despite the long hours, vfx life was better. Most people at the companies were in their 20s. After a while, you normalize it:
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Same in Scandinavia
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Rural Americans don't tend to think that the government is a functional entity and that going through that chain will net anything. They may have a valid point since only money talks in government these days.

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