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by ejb999 4y ago
of course it will, but spending 500K in remodeling, doesn't mean the house is necessarily going to be worth 500K more - it might, it might not.
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by ejb999 4y ago
when I had my last kitchen remodel done (a modest one,but very nice), the builder that did it said with all his clients there is an inverse relationship between how much people spend on their kitchen and appliances, and how much cooking the
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Why are you still burning fossil fuel to heat houses? If you had stable electricity you could use heat pumps instead. You do realize that in many countries - including the US - a very large portion of electricity is still generate
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by ejb999 4y ago
I have 5 external SSD's that I use for backups (crucial brand), none more than 8 years old and 3 of the 5 have failed completely - luckily I keep multiple backups in multiple places, but no one should be lulled into a false sense of se
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Yeah I don't really get the point of this article, To get clicks?
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by ejb999 4y ago
Not the OP, but here is one: https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/mayor-wants-... $655,000 to replace a 5 to 6 foot culvert
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by ejb999 4y ago
I don't know where you live, but I have never lived any place (all in the USA) that doesn't tax land already. I for one enjoy having open spaces that are not developed - raising taxes on vacant land so high, and thus, force the ow
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>why aren’t nurses quitting en masse to become traveling nurses? because by definition, traveling nurse...travel. Yes you might get a gig for a while in your local hospital, but what happens when that ends? If you are young and/
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by ejb999 4y ago
Traveling nurses are definitely part of the problem, (why wouldn't someone go for the much higher salary) - but more nurses causes that problem to go away - simple supply and demand. From the The American Association of Colleges of Nur
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by ejb999 4y ago
Yes the US does - it varies by state and even by town/city. Many of the towns near me you need to actually be a paramedic to become a firefighter and vice-versa - can't be one without the other in some areas. Not sure I necessaril
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by ejb999 4y ago
Yes they can unionize, and no it won't solve anything - most hospitals near me are unionized and they are still running critically short on nurses - you can't hire (or schedule) people that don't exist or don't work for
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by ejb999 4y ago
That is why they give you the SDK - if you choose to not use it, and unnecessarily make your work more difficult - thats on you. Most people don't build their signatures by themselves - they use the SDK provided.
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by ejb999 4y ago
..that and 'it looks like a war zone' analogy after every storm. Unless you have actually been in an active war zone, you probably shouldn't use that particular analogy either.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Don't make it harder for people to steal, just blame the victim for not watching his or her stuff more closely? Sounds a lot like victim blaming to me.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>How does a "a very good programmer".. "spent over five years looking for a job after graduation" happen? One of those two things is necessarily not true, not in this market (i.e. for the past 5 years).
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by ejb999 4y ago
Do your own research - start with all the predictions from scientists in the 70's that were claiming that we were entering the next ice age. Like this one: >>>> “The world has been chilling sharply for about 20 years,” ecol
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by ejb999 4y ago
Do you think Warren Buffet and Bill Gates can only make a 'small contribution' and it won't do much? I call BS. You know why they don't voluntarily pay higher taxes, and yet advocate for it? because they know if the tax
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Scientists have been warning about the potential climate impacts since more than a century ago: Cry wolf enough times and people stop listening altogether. The history of 'scientists' making outlandish claims about what wi
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>There's actually a number of "one percenters" (i.e. multi-billionaires) who lobby for raising their own taxes. Complete BS virtue signaling - everyone of those supposed 'multi-billionaires who lobby for raising t
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by ejb999 4y ago
that also happens in the USA already. There are tax auctions all the time.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Do you have empirical evidence for this claim ? Do you have empirical evidence that this is not true?
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by ejb999 4y ago
I find my employer quite generous when times are good, even when they don't need to be, less so when things are tight. Maybe you should work for better companies?
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>That’s not true. Unions negotiate minimums, using collective power to balance the employer’s power over employees. It is absolutely true in every union contract I have negotiated.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>All I want to do is look at my phone and consume more content. I think I see the problem here .... (and I am not being flippant - I gave up 99% of social media almost a year ago: no twitter, no facebook, no instagram, no tiktok etc
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>The only part of it that actually matters is clicking the button stating that you have read and acknowledged your manager and peer feedback. That way if you sue the company later they have a paper trail defending themselves. I think
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by ejb999 4y ago
Not sure where you live, but in my state (and states around me) EMT/Paramedics know to check the fridge door for a MOLST form that is usually brightly colored (easy to see) and contains your wishes - i.e. no CPR or no intubation etc; u
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Hire good people and get out of the way. If you hire good people, it won't matter what framework they use, is my position. Give me a good team and I will deliver a good product agile/scrum/kanban/SAFe/waterf
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by ejb999 4y ago
HOA don't take away any freedoms - you give them away when you sign the contract.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Stupid people who don't read the HOA agreement they signed, and then whine after the fact that some things aren't allowed - I have no sympathy for them (and for the record, would never live anyplace that had an HOA). That said, if
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by ejb999 4y ago
maybe they meant it would take 3-4 hours to dry? thats how I read it anyway.

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