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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> And we thought things were bad in the US. That inflation is mostly driven by energy costs, which are a direct result of European policy failures on nuclear and fossil fuels. The US is mostly a net neutral producer/consumer of foss
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> When are people going to stop blaming stimulus and unemployment that stopped happening years ago at this point Because even though it stopped happening a year and a half ago, a lot of stuff was closed down still so people weren't
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> The inflation we're seeing currently isn't being driven by the general population having too much money Actually, it partially is. One third of the current inflation is demand driven according to the Fed (i.e. stimulus checks
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Could also be AB5 restricting how independent operators are allowed to contract out their services. It's been a big fuss in the trucking industry.
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The only better benefit is a guaranteed pension after you work 20+ years in government. But since pensions nowadays are chronically underfunded and you make literally 3x (!) more at the equivalent level at Stripe/Paypal/etc. a 401
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
No, the current situation if you get scammed via a credit card or PayPal is that you file a chargeback, and PP/card company reverses the transaction, because withdrawing money takes time. And if the transaction is not reversible, then
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Is grinding thru med school somewhat sacred? should they earn more than EEs? civil engineers? architects? Everyone you mentioned should (and does in the US) earn more than 90k GBP. Nurses in the US (at least in California where they ma
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> doctors dont automatically become millionaires collecting vintage cars or buying private planes Yes, instead they make less than new grads working in literally any white collar field in the US, less than nurses in the US, and less than
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Bike theft happens with bad locking practices: a bad lock (cable or small sized chains) and not properly locking your frame through the back triangle to a thick pipe/metal column Clearly you don't live in the SF Bay Area. Thi
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Oh, those US nurses living the high life. More like oh, those UK nurses in the poorhouse. They deserve to make what their US counterparts are making. > It's more like "keeping the US defense industry afloat by buying expen
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
They also use weird tricks like underpaying health staff (doctors and nurses make 40% of what they do in the US, look at NHS salary tables), relying on US defense subsidies, and taxing everyone making over 100k at insane rates. We already h
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Traffic will expand like a gas to meet the available capacity Yes, but now the roads carry more people. You can't fix congestion, but you can make it so the roads can sustain the local population, even if they're traveling at
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In my experience... public transit in areas with poor transit options is overwhelmingly used by "bad elements" (homeless and petty criminals). People who aren't "bad" (i.e. they are of the same economic class as the
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> exactly where he was at Enron I'd hardly compare being CEO of a crappy startup with 2 news articles about it to one of the largest multinational corporations in the world. You can probably find some shit fund to work for with an i
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Ok, if I steal a $300 TV, and get caught do I have the option to simply pay a $900 fine? In California, you don't need to do anything because it won't get prosecuted. In places with saner approaches to property crime, the sto
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Most people in Europe don’t want to leave Sure, but most people aren't skilled white collar tech workers with in demand skills who could be earning 3x post-tax salary in the US. Health insurance is essentially free or cheap at any
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> This is also a very negative thing for Putin and Russia This is to prepare for Russia cutting off gas entirely to the EU, which would cause harm to Russia's O&G revenue as a result of Russia's strategic choice, not due to
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Dunno about that, everyone is trying to sell profitability and positive FCF nowadays.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I think that comes down to having strong leadership (which you would want to minimize churn in, because the timescales of executing projects as an IC are an order magnitude different from executing on strategic goals). E.g. Amazon, Costco,
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
It's less about bad/good and more about whether the work is fulfilling I think. Gaming is a lootbox gambling hellhole now, yet people love working on games, so they keep flocking to it, despite the objectively negative impact of m
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Churn makes for more efficient companies and stronger employees. When you have 20 year veterans who stayed in a single place for 20 years, you have no exposure as a company to new practices developed in other companies. You have no exposure
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
And that's fine, because we need more mixing of ideas between government and the private sector, rather than government operating with no idea of how to operate a business [1] and businesses operating with no regard for downstream impa
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
You'll just have to purchase the Autodesk™℠ for Government TS Plus Premium package! At the low, low cost of $1 million per Core Processor Licensing Unit [1]. [1] https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts&#
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
The article claims > Staff said they were expected to frequently work more than 12 hours a day, starting early to accommodate calls with China and ending late According to what I see on Blind, this is still the case, so clearly the repor
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
That's how you lose to hungrier competitors. TikTok engineers don't work 4 hours a day. Back in the day when Google Plus was coming out, FB engineers didn't work 4 hours a day either [1]. That's how they killed it in the
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
No way 30-50% is enough. You need 2x at least, if not more. There is a deep rooted ecosystem of CUDA apps. You would need to have at least 2-3 generations of 2x lead to get people to switch.
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There were talks. It would've never passed the Senate.
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If you want to talk benchmarks, you need to exclude all the ones where there is a clear software optimization problem.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
From your link: "Even under demanding multi-threaded workloads, the M2 MacBook Air was not nearly as warm as the other laptops tested" Keep in mind the 6850U you're comparing against has a fan too. Notebookcheck says it has a
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> steeper EV subsidies It will be at least a decade before used EVs with >200mi range trickle down to the $10-15k used market. Saying we should tax gas when poor people can't even afford it as is is a gross misunderstanding of th

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