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by dwater 5y ago
AKA dispersing concentrated poverty so that no one part of the system is overwhelmed.
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by dwater 5y ago
The metal market I go to generally uses prices per pound for the basic shapes of different metal types, and the system lists pounds per piece. But this information isn’t readily available, it’s only after your purchase when you get an invoi
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by dwater 6y ago
They have higher standards for decorum and appearance, but not higher academic standards. One of the advantages of private schools is that they are essentially exempt from standards. Their students are generally not required to take standar
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by dwater 6y ago
I was a public teacher for 9 years, 2 years in a union and 7 years in a right to work state. The union experience was better as an employee. I find it hard to believe great teachers would go to private schools in large numbers as a result o
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by dwater 6y ago
I don't use their cloud. I have a router, 2 switches, and 2 APs from the Unifi line. I run the controller software on one of my servers and nothing phones home out of my LAN. The APs have good coverage, everything is very reliable (as
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by dwater 6y ago
I'm hoping this spurs the board to oust the CEO who seems to be the one getting the blame for Ubiquiti's shift in recent years away from making highly reliable prosumer focused products to pushing half-baked cash grabs out the doo
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by dwater 6y ago
I've noticed credit unions in the US are like this. They are generally locally operated, but they have formed networks so that you can e.g. go into a branch in Maryland and perform transactions on your account held in Georgia. They hav
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by dwater 6y ago
Evergreen is a huge shipping company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Marine
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by dwater 6y ago
The 3rd party sellers in your region may not have fully realized all the arbitrage opportunities that the sellers in the US market have. Give them time, they won't leave that money on the table forever. It might just not be enough for
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by dwater 6y ago
Indeed, my admittedly simplistic argument is: If your faith is the true one out of all others, why does it demand its adherents give it money and power? If it was the true faith wouldn't that be enough to drown out the rest? Doesn&#x27
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by dwater 6y ago
Sure, and in order to determine if a prediction is correct or incorrect, you have to wait for the event to occur. To make the above statement true you would have to either remove the word "accurately" or wait until the end of 2022
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by dwater 6y ago
That is not true, it hasn't accurately predicted anything. 96% of 2021 and 2022 haven't happened yet.
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by dwater 6y ago
It reminds me of Reminisces of a Stock Operator (1923) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Opera... Wall Street does not exist so that an individual can invest $100 and make a profit. It exists so th
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by dwater 6y ago
I didn't intend for this to become an outlet for me to complain about the organizational problems at my employer. They were having leadership difficulties before the pandemic, which halted all growth and even shrinking of existing busi
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by dwater 6y ago
No, the upper level person in question is overbooked with being in charge of 1/3 or 1/2 of the company's employees. My personal opinion is that person was given too much responsibility too quickly and is in over their head. W
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by dwater 6y ago
I would love to have a skip level meeting going 2 levels up. My one on ones with my manager have become repetitive because he asks me what my problems/concerns are, I tell him variations the same 3 or 4 things every time, and has asks
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by dwater 6y ago
If you visit the worlds link, be sure to select "Show Options" and adjust the time of day. I'm assuming there are a lot of programmatic elements that create these effects.
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by dwater 6y ago
We have a similar system for electing the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia. It's biggest drawback is that the 2nd election is needlessly expensive, and since it's out-of-cycle and there are no other elections occurring at the same time
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by dwater 6y ago
The general expectation is that blue collar jobs pay more at the beginning, and white collar jobs pay more at the end. So at 20, the white-collar college student is eating ramen and wearing thrift store clothes and the blue collar worker is
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by dwater 6y ago
Indeed, he's references the 3DO console, and a similar statement could be made about SegaCD. The prevailing type of game enabled by that hardware was the Full Motion Video (FMV) genre with titles like Sewer Shark and Night Trap. They
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by dwater 6y ago
I don't know what generation you are, but for my generation it started with Newt Gingrich and the "Moral Majority"'s intentional stonewalling and dismantling of government.
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by dwater 6y ago
The BLM protests are all outdoors and have not been shown to be superspreader events. Church services held indoors have been shown many times to be superspreader events. Your argument that any government anywhere in the US tried to use the
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by dwater 6y ago
Why should there be only one? I get financial advisor emails every week that pretty much always tell me to diversify where I put my money. If I were an independent nation that needed reserve currency, I wouldn't want to bet it all on t
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by dwater 6y ago
You may do so on your own private property. If you wish to use public roadways, you must abide by the laws set by your state, which must balance the costs to society of your choices against your ability to make them.
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by dwater 6y ago
Interesting the article didn't mention the one thing I remember vividly about RIP graphics, which is the rendering process. I always assumed it was vector based because of the way the image would get rendered segment by segment as it w
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by dwater 6y ago
I live in a small city, pop. 250k metro area 1M, and there is a local business news site that reports on openings, closings, and other local business news. It's more or less standard that when they announce a new restaurant, bar, or br
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by dwater 6y ago
AirBNB are hoping for quick reopening and a "V-shaped recovery". They want things to get back to normal as quickly as possible, because the longer the current situation drags on for, the more their business and billions of investe
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by dwater 6y ago
No they aren't. They are not mercenaries. They are supposed to arrest every suspected criminal and prevent those suspects from committing acts of violence. They are allowed to use violence to prevent loss of life, but they are not supp
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by dwater 6y ago
The quoted scenario is about a second home purchased as an investment property. They likely have a great deal of equity in that home as well as their primary residence. If they do not have much equity in their investment property, they have
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by dwater 6y ago
Parts of the US government also know not to share certain information with law enforcement. "[FBI] policies have been crafted to take into account the active presence of domestic extremists in U.S. police departments." "White

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