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by achenatx 6y ago
The #1 thing we do to get business during a slowdown is start contacting old clients. You can also ask if they would recommend anyone else "that it might make sense to talk to".
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by achenatx 6y ago
I have microbiology and electrical engineering degrees. Started a PhD (microbiology and immunology) and washed out with a masters to go into the dot com boom. There is so much potential for biology to be engineering, but the reality is you
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by achenatx 6y ago
thy are calculating turnout improperly. Historical data uses votes/voting eligible population The 90% number comes from votes/registered voters. If you calculate turnout the way wisconsin has historically done it, turnout is in li
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by achenatx 6y ago
Some universities are preventing this by saying that your spot the next year is not guaranteed. So you would have to reapply. You will be competing with all incoming freshman and everyone that deferred. We have friends paying 60K for onlin
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by achenatx 6y ago
Im red green colorblind and have enchroma glasses. They work by reducing the other colors to balance with the reduced colors. There are lots of reddish brown things that are actually red. I wear mine daily, but if I didnt, I wouldnt miss th
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by achenatx 6y ago
People vilified texas as well. We were sideways for 2 months then we definitely opened too quickly. It seemed that bars were the culprit so bars closed and restaurants went to 25% and masks became mandatory in businesses. As far as I know a
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by achenatx 6y ago
I just wanted to corroborate this. Im originally from up north and have lived in texas for over 30 years and my brain still interprets a southern accent as ignorant/lack of education. I still have cognitive dissonance when I hear rocke
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all viruses are susceptible to UV light. Ultimately it spread in bats so it is pretty obviously able to spread in caves. It also spread in people indoors. There is virtually no way for scientists to look at DNA and say "oh yeah this wa
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by achenatx 6y ago
well they are basing it on the constitution, which lists no specific power for the federal govt to be involved in education.
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by achenatx 6y ago
One of the services my company provides is marketing automation for B2B ecommerce companies. the core of modern digital marketing is content. As an example, I was involved in an adverse possession lawsuit. I started searching for articles a
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by achenatx 6y ago
The total spent on all welfare programs is about 1T. If all adults got UBI, assume around 256 million people above 18 1) 256 million @ 12K each is 3T, the current budget is 4.7T, current revenue is 3.5T. Good luck raising taxes by almost d
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by achenatx 6y ago
dems want to shut things down because trump wants to keep them open. One of the most common arguments for schools staying closed is "so you are ok with kids dying". We have reached a point where as the OP implied, we have become h
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by achenatx 6y ago
there is also the probability of transmission. People living together in the same home is about a 20% chance of transmission. Casual contact( sitting nearby) is estimated to be about .7% The total probability of hospitalization per contact
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by achenatx 6y ago
The SARS vaccine was likely successful. SARS died out and so the vaccine was never fully challenged in a pandemic. But as far as I know antibodies lasted a long time.
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Drugs should be legal and people should be allowed to buy and sell them. I would rather have the sackler family than the drug cartels. You believe the point of govt is to provide for its citizens, that doesnt make it a fact. Others believe
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by achenatx 6y ago
oh the naïveté of youth... The easiest way to reduce meat/fish consumption is to make the cost reflect all the externalities.
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by achenatx 6y ago
private kindergarten - 3 weeks virtual only, then 100% in school (10 kids) private 2nd, 7th - 3 weeks virtual only, then hybrid model. One week on, one week off, 10 kids in class. I ran calculations for the probability of a serious infectio
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by achenatx 6y ago
Personally I would hold the cash until there is blood in the streets. That is the time that fortunes are made. We arent quite there yet, possibly next year. In 2000 investors were screaming at buffet because he was sitting on billions in ca
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by achenatx 6y ago
all budgets are passed by congress.. the best is when congress is opposed to the president. It would be interesting to look at that as a metric.
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nah what would happen is payday lending style companies would give a one time cash payout in return for permanent collection of the UBI income stream. the real problem is that 50% of the population has a below average IQ. No matter what you
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by achenatx 6y ago
every single person weighs economic benefit against risk to life constantly, in civilized society. We abort 600K fetuses in the US every year. By our behavior, life is cheap. You are just making up some arbitrary standard of "civilized
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by achenatx 6y ago
there is a lot of social nastiness in school. Kids may be prodigies academically, but likely they are simply not equipped to handle older kids emotionally or even physically. The truly gifted are rare enough that the system probably would b
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by achenatx 6y ago
home schooling comes in many forms. Some are groups of people that get together and rotate duties. Some are groups that hire specialist teachers. There are charter schools, magnet schools, and academically focused private schools. Ultimatel
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by achenatx 6y ago
It is sad to hear of the isolation of gifted kids. It seems to be the rule, not the exception. I was fortunate, my elementary was a magnet that did all kinds of experimental learning. I had to bus all the way across town (small town) to go
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by achenatx 6y ago
yes some people dont have to close their eyes.
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by achenatx 6y ago
Just wanted to add that the abolish the police sentiment isnt as inane as it sounds on the surface. Abolish the police is about taking away responsibilities that police have today and giving them to people more suitable. Police - people tra
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by achenatx 6y ago
This people keep pointing to black incarceration rates as a symptom of a racist judicial system. When debating I focus on murder victims as that has nothing to do with the racist judicial system. Still there is a problem with government tyr
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by achenatx 6y ago
neonate I agree with you. "I need a haircut" is a proxy for economic freedom of choice and freedom of movement, regardless the purpose. Freedom of movement only for the causes you believe in is not freedom at all. They want to be
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by achenatx 6y ago
there are no calculations being done. They believe in the cause therefore it is justified. They dont believe in the cause of the other side (freedom of movement/commerce) and therefore dont believe they are justified. They are pretendi
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by achenatx 6y ago
I was in the gmail beta so have a great first.last@gmail.com email address. The name is an extremely common asian name (there are like 5 people with my name in my town). I have gotten divorce papers to sign, okcupid account signup, jims wor

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