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by alaxhn 10mo ago
I think you are right that you could face some challenges during the screening process but if you get to the interview this should be easy to explain with a face saving excuse. "The tech industry was doing poorly and I was faced with a
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by alaxhn 11mo ago
Well if the poster is not doing drugs and is taking care of their health the odds are overwhelmingly against this scenario even if it would satisfy your schadenfreude.
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by alaxhn 11mo ago
The article directly mentions that the author has done complete engine rebuilds. Mechanics who can do things like engine rebuilds (efficiently) can crack six figures in a MCOL area although this industry does tend to expect quite a bit of w
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by alaxhn 1y ago
> Why is anyone forced to reverse engineer the pricing scheme? Because you can save money by getting a cheaper flight by understanding how pricing works and adapting your purchasing strategy. Many consumer are willing to spend time and e
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by alaxhn 1y ago
I really think you should take a step back and think about where this sort of ideology will take us in the long run. If you want to send the supporters of the other party to hell because they have differences of opinion than you, this is a
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by alaxhn 1y ago
Oh I see - did you reply to the correct comment initially? So far Trump's administration has seemed to address perceived grievances that they have with the university administration. In the comment you replied to I outlined some positi
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by alaxhn 1y ago
I think we could nitpick each other's position but at the end of the day we just have philosophical differences so I won't dive into every detail before making my broader point. > I'm taking an apolitical position We'
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by alaxhn 1y ago
I also don't think I claimed that "Trump has done or indicated to do advance the state of education". His administration has addressed grievances that I agree with but they have not introduced the positive reforms that I woul
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by alaxhn 1y ago
US College enrollment peaked in 2012 and has been declining every since. It is projected based on demographics to continue declining. I'm not buying that a shortage of slots is responsible for the increased cost. This could be true at
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by alaxhn 1y ago
> It's mostly ideological posturing about something that sounds scary to them. I think it's fair to be frustrated that a lot of political discourse is driven by appealing to fear rather than discussing facts in goodwill but I&#
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by alaxhn 1y ago
To a gun advocate the point of a concealed carry would be self defense which is a reality of living in certain areas rather than a political or ideological matter. Nevertheless it is ok for a political parties to have opinions about whether
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by alaxhn 1y ago
I am one of "them" and I care deeply about higher education which is why I am very sad that we could not achieve reform without resorting to measures such as threatening the international student admission process. I don't kn
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by alaxhn 1y ago
I don't have first hand experience with your situation and I would imagine that you believe you are doing a great thing for society and I don't want to disparage thats so I don't intend my comments to speak to your specific i
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by alaxhn 1y ago
In the hiring process for these institutions, until recently you had to write a "Diversity Statement" which was evaluated as part of the hiring process. This was an attempt to keep people with the "wrong ideas" out of th
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by alaxhn 1y ago
What is the better path forward? Republican voters led by their representative Trump were unhappy about certain policies and events at Ivy league institutions. Voters have the right to feel this way and elect representatives to carry out th
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by alaxhn 1y ago
The author's online identify seems to revolve around being critical of tech and Silicon Valley. I guess employees of Silicon Valley companies should be relieved that not even life long critics of our companies seem to be able to escape
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by alaxhn 1y ago
It's hard to say exactly as the possibilities are endless and as I said originally I am not exactly proud of my vote to begin with. Some things that come to mind: - Clear outperformance (in my judgment) by Canada / Europe as compa
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by alaxhn 1y ago
I'll continue playing devils advocate here. > To improve rust belt manufacturing, you would target competitors of industries in that area, not the whole global economy. If you accept as a premise that the goal is to prevent offshori
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by alaxhn 1y ago
I broadly agree that free trade increases the pie and is beneficial. I would still like to point out that I can think of two examples where the pie might actually decrease even while conceding in the vast majority of cases the pie does incr
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by alaxhn 1y ago
To lay out my own biases - I voted for Trump but do not consider myself a strong supporter (I saw it much more of a vote for who you dislike less sort of situation) - I don't understand and am not supportive of the approach on Ta
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by alaxhn 1y ago
European stocks where down even more than US stocks today (although not down nearly as much yesterday)
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by alaxhn 2y ago
Can you please help us to understand why you believe the military has had *no* issues using existing comms? At face value this is an extraordinary claim and it flies in the face of examples of friendly fire such as https://www.bb
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by alaxhn 2y ago
Does this sentiment extend more broadly than a single administration? Can we broadly expect many potentially problematic behaviors to continue until an effective negative stimulus is given? It's interesting to me why this perspective i
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by alaxhn 2y ago
"Companies will choose to settle if they think there is a good possibility to lose if it goes to trial" Companies will settle if the costs of going to trail outweigh the benefits like I said in my original comment. To clarify, the
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by alaxhn 2y ago
"If Meta disagrees with O'Carroll's claims then why settle" Meta and most companies will settle lawsuits when they believe the rewards of continuing the lawsuit outweigh the cost of settling the lawsuit. There is no conn
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by alaxhn 2y ago
The US is not defaulting on bond payments and thus bond interest rates have not increased and the creditworthiness of bonds has not changed. As I think you are hinting at, the US is in the process of cancelling many contracts deemed no long
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by alaxhn 2y ago
All debt is functionally similar in that it represents an obligation from the borrower to the creditor generally with interest which must be paid off in full or consequences will follow. Analogies can recognize similarities in a situation w
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by alaxhn 2y ago
"Are we going to ignore the fact that part of that government spending funded private companies owned by Musk?" Elon musk has received ~$18 billion over a decade. In exchange he gave us the first broad market electric cars and reu
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by alaxhn 2y ago
Like you say inflation erodes public debt and so the consequences of taking on a lot of public debt is that the government is also tempted to increase inflation. If you print money you will increase the rate of inflation. The question is ho
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by alaxhn 2y ago
Generally sovereign debt is not a problem until creditors become worries that the debt will not be paid back. The exact threshold is subject to the regular market fear/greed manias and is not an exact figure. Once this happens the coun

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