ejb999

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by ejb999 3y ago
what kind of calculators support 2FA?
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by ejb999 3y ago
Not sure you will ever be able to ban investors from owning properties that are rented out long-term - a fair amount of the population wants to, or can only afford to, rent - and someone needs to be the landlord. On the otherhand, it seems
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by ejb999 3y ago
Since ~55K is the median income in the USA, its seems like a reasonable place to draw the line. https://www.firstrepublic.com/insights-education/how-much-do...
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by ejb999 3y ago
That would be a decent analogy, if only it wasn't said by someone who managed to do almost exactly that a hundred times over. Who is more believable, a person who has built/built-up and runs several multi-billion dollar companies
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by ejb999 3y ago
can't? or doesn't as part of a negotiation tactic? - do you really think the richest person in the country couldn't pay his rent if he wanted to?
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by ejb999 3y ago
I haven't seen an open truck weighing station in many, many years - lots of them are built - they are almost never used.
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by ejb999 3y ago
"They should pay the most tax" ...and by 'they', what you really are saying is the end consumer will pay 100% of the tax, which has been passed on to them from the trucking company.
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by ejb999 3y ago
Inflation has a lot to do with it - wasn't long ago huge tracks of houses in Florida could be had for $250K - now a lot of those places are selling for close to $1M - if a company has a lot of those, their risk has quadrupled.
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by ejb999 3y ago
the government doesn't mandate home insurance - the mortgage companies do - if you can pay cash for your house, the govt is not going to mandate you to insure it. If someone (a bank) owns 80% of the equity in your house, better believe
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by ejb999 3y ago
There are some kind of risks everywhere, but denying the fact the some places are dramatically more risky kind of misses the point. Where I live, hardly any disasters - tornado about every 100 years, last time there was huge wildfires was j
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by ejb999 3y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/15/europe/germany-nuclear-phase-...
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by ejb999 3y ago
as a society we have moved on from whistleblowers - now we lock them up or call them conspiracy theorists - all enabled by the corporate media who does nothing but the bidding of the three letter agencies who tells them what to say, when to
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by ejb999 3y ago
non-coastal new england - especially VT, Maine and Western Mass are some of the safest areas based on articles I have read.
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>Biden should just print a $999T coin and make it a non-issue forever. Get ready for your $250 cup of coffee, and 20%+ interest rates forever if they do that.
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by ejb999 3y ago
It won't be good for 50% of the people/countries that are already above average - it will only be good for the 50% below average.
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by ejb999 3y ago
>> your best bet is to advocate that it be illegal, How does one make reading publicly posted tweets illegal?
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by ejb999 3y ago
you really think a tech worker with any skills at all is going to starve? If their skills are so bad they can't get another job, then they don't deserve to be protected in the job they are currently in - However, would I give some
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by ejb999 3y ago
Would you take a pay cut to save someone else's from being laid off in your company? It's a serious question, just curious, there is no right answer - I wouldn't, nor would I accept even a $1 cut in my pay - the day that happ
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by ejb999 3y ago
https://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/liias/2023/05/09/legislation-... Is this news source lying to me?
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by ejb999 3y ago
but is it much different that descendants living off the interest and dividends of some large sum of money that their great-great grandparents accumulated a few hundred years ago? To me it is pretty much the same thing - not a fan of nepo-k
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by ejb999 3y ago
When someone disagree's with your point of view, you are thus a victim? I think I see the problem here.
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by ejb999 3y ago
>> if I can't make friends with people who hold beliefs different from my own, then maybe I'm the asshole. Well said...and true.
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by ejb999 3y ago
You keep telling yourself that, maybe if you pretend its not happening you will sleep better.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I worked in heavy construction and roofing from 14 until I went to college - helped paid for quite a bit of it - I don't see a problem here. Nobody is forced to work, and you need to parents permission. Washington post thinks it is OK
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by ejb999 3y ago
what an ignorant comment.
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by ejb999 3y ago
arsenic and mercury are also ancient medicines...you want to start ingesting them daily?
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by ejb999 3y ago
Could work the other way to for some people, imo - some folks I know won't even consider interviewing ex-google, ex-meta, ex-amazon folks, thinking they have been overpaid and/or pampered for years, and even if they are temporaril
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by ejb999 3y ago
We posted a job back in oct/nov for a senior tech position at a very large, but non-tech company - we got 3 applicants/resumes, 2 of which were out of the country and not considered. The one got hired (and was a good hire). In Jan
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by ejb999 3y ago
We should have the same requirement for people voting in elections.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I think the new rule is you need to pass it first, and then find out what is in it.

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