JPKab

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by JPKab 5y ago
Indeed. It blows my mind how many intelligent, articulate, and privileged people in our modern society fail to realize how much their privilege insulates them from understanding the basics of supply and demand. Anyone who has ever worked
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by JPKab 5y ago
There's an entire book (I've read it) about this called "The Machine That Changed The World" published in the early 90's. It goes into great depth as to the issues that were plaguing GM/Ford etc. The excess i
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by JPKab 5y ago
The obsession with RoE is really just a major form of efficiency. Having things sitting around unused is a huge reason that US car companies got their asses handed to them by Toyota and their TQM/LEAN system they developed. People wri
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by JPKab 5y ago
You nailed it. Twitter is filled with a lot of interesting content, but the dominant "trending" topics are basically navel-gazing activists masquerading as journalists obsessing about their own identity (if they are in a favored
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by JPKab 5y ago
Great question. Isn't the reason the delta variant is so effective at infecting (mildly) already vaccinated people due to the fact that the immune system (unexpectedly) doesn't produce antibodies for the broad structures in the s
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by JPKab 5y ago
I didn't see any information about this variant's ability to infect those with immunity from previous infection. Did I miss it, or was this rather important question completely out of the scope of this study?
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by JPKab 5y ago
I sped through the video, looking for details on who does building maintenance and construction, who grows the food and does the actual labor. Not seeing any of that gave me bad vibes. It makes me think that this is more of a stylish resi
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by JPKab 5y ago
"Why on earth would you be allowed to live in a place where nobody wants to live with you?" I have no doubt this exact phrase was uttered hundreds of times in the 1950s by redlining commissions justifying the exclusion of minoriti
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by JPKab 5y ago
Good observations here. And if we're honest about this, the Amish in Pennsylvania (and a few other states) have had this nailed a lot longer than these folks.
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by JPKab 5y ago
I spent time in an ecovillage in western North Carolina almost 20 years ago. Question: Who does the agricultural labor here? I watched the first 15 minutes of the video, and was very curious about this. The ecovillage I lived in was primar
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by JPKab 5y ago
The assumption that material like this is the reason people don't believe the government is just that: an assumption. What evidence do you have that this is what drives people to not believe the things the public health establishment w
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by JPKab 5y ago
I can probably get on Google and find a few dozen hip hop songs where the artists claim that the US government invented the AIDS virus to kill Black people. Let's not pretend that this is about lyrics that promote misinformation and in
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by JPKab 5y ago
Fully vaccinated people are less likely to contract or spread the virus. There's no question about this currently with the present strains. However they do not at all halt the spread of the virus. Israel is a good example of this. As
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by JPKab 5y ago
It is utterly nonsensical and foolish but I don't like the fact that it was banned. When US media reports on activities like this in countries like China and Russia they call it censorship. When they report on the same activities in t
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by JPKab 5y ago
Fox News was a pioneer in this technique and unfortunately CNN and MSNBC have followed suit. In the early 2000s I was always astonished by how utterly misinformed Fox News viewers were. In 2021 I am always astonished by how utterly misinfo
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you on your comment at all, but the "much demonized H1 process" was legitimately abused by a lot of bad actors who violated the spirit of the visa (talent you can't find in US) in pursuit of simp
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by JPKab 5y ago
The entire USA logistics industry is filled with toxic, below average IQ, bro-to-the-max managers. It's like Wall Street, but dumber and no math requirements. See my other comment in this thread for details on that.
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by JPKab 5y ago
You forgot the part where people under 21 years of age aren't allowed to drive big rigs across state lines. Electronic logbooks are the main reason drivers lost wages recently. Turns out that the market had adjusted to an equilibrium
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by JPKab 5y ago
Yep, and they know it, and are clearly trying to use it as leverage.
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by JPKab 5y ago
"Ansar-Allah (colloquially known as the Houthis), a political and armed movement in control of North Yemen, currently has access to the Safer. As of writing, negotiations between the United Nations and the Houthis to inspect and repair
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by JPKab 5y ago
Based on my experience dealing with offices of software engineers versus actual corporate HQs for companies that aren't purely software, it really won't matter. Employees at corporate HQ's tend to want to have houses in the b
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm not trying to say that Austin isn't expensive because of course it is. I'll simply state that I would never consider working for Tesla before, but now I would be open to it. Travis County is pricey but it isn't too l
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by JPKab 5y ago
The author goes to far too many meetings. A manager with multiple teams should and will likely have team leads for each team. This should be a person who mostly codes, does some leadership for team as well. Manager shouldn't be micro
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by JPKab 5y ago
This is very interesting and I would love to test out the theory. I have access to both LSD and psilocybin mushrooms and I'd be curious to see if I could alleviate my anosmia. At this point it's been 7 months and although I have
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by JPKab 5y ago
I appreciate your comment and support. Thank you.
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm going to take a wild guess that when you first heard Trump call it the "China virus" you were as utterly horrified and revolted as I was. You had every right to be. Like me, you probably viewed it as a deliberate attempt
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by JPKab 5y ago
"And then what's more, they sat on the fact that they had requested funding for this research for the last 18 months, when the world has been desperately trying to find any relevant information on the virus' origins. The fact
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by JPKab 5y ago
There is a long chain of improbable coincidences required to believe that the virus came directly to humans from animal reservoirs in nature. Coincidence 1.) Wuhan is roughly 1800 KM away from the caves in Yunnan province where previous bat
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by JPKab 5y ago
The fact checking services are wrong, a LOT. They are not ideologically neutral, particularly the ones used by Facebook. For a specific example of the abusive and censorious nature of this business model, see Glenn Greenwald's recent
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Natural Immunity to Covid is powerful. Policymakers seem afraid to say so(washingtonpost.com)
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