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by ejb999 4y ago
right, because the millions of computers in corporate America running windows are all just going to be thrown out and converted to m1/m2 macs. I prefer mac, and use them everyday, but the prediction of the death of intel are premature.
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by ejb999 4y ago
then again, not everyone runs on a mac, and won't be anytime soon.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I have been an independent consultant for almost my entire career - working with clients large and small, mostly on solo projects. Took a FT job at a megacorp a few years ago and assigned a new project - I read the specs/requirements a
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Seeing how "Agile" is being implemented in corporate Dictionary definition of agile: "able to move quickly and easily." There is nothing 'agile' about how 'Agile' is being done in most/ma
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Even if you get the mortgage, it's the same as cash to the seller. Not really, pay in 'cash' and you can close in days, pay with a mortgage and it might take weeks to months. Sellers always prefer cash buyers if they
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>What are you doing to prepare? My advice: - hoard cash, i.e. don't spend it on things you don't need right now, you might need it a lot more in 6-12 months just to pay the mortgage -do anything and everything you can to ha
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>is killing the thrift store as an source for people in need to find inexpensive goods. thrift stores don't exist to help people find cheap stuff - they exist to raise or earn money, and many org's then use that money to fu
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by ejb999 4y ago
germans were invading and pillaging a long time before Nazi's came to power and that is not unique to Germany - think Napoleon, so it is more likely than not that it was simply stolen, perhaps repeatedly over a couple thousand years.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>try reselling your degree. Why would you sell your degree? >>The data says otherwise No it doesn't - stop making stuff up but it sounds like in your case, you are not well suited for college - you should buy a car instead
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Not when you're not even sure of being able to pay back those $31K+interests afterwards. If you went to college for 4 years, and didn't improve you situation enough to afford a few hundred dollars a month in debt, then you
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>a mountain of debt right after graduation Average debt upon graduation is approx. $31K, less than the cost of a mid-grade car. I would not call that 'a mountain', and unlike a car which will rapidly depreciate in a very sh
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by ejb999 4y ago
yes, and back then you could fully retire at a much younger age - in the US at least, the full retirement age keeps increasing, and neither party is going to vote for any policy that allows SS to collapse; just not going to happen. The fear
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by ejb999 4y ago
I was told that as well 40-45 years ago, and yet, here we are 40+ years later and lo-and-behold it is still paying benefits.
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by ejb999 5y ago
curious - where is that?
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>We’re “fixing” this by flooding the market with less trained nurse practitioners and PE. In reality though, the overwhelming majority of cases that walk into a doctors office on any given day do not require an actual MD - NP and PA&
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by ejb999 5y ago
nurses are 91% female and doctors are about 37% female - are they also 'criminally under-diagnosing'? Seems there are quite a few more women in healthcare than men these days.
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by ejb999 5y ago
2 years of school to be an RN, 4 for BSN - it's not a lot of school, it's an average amount of school at most.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Not even close if you are talking about the USA (and actual nurses, not CNA's or MAs) - starting pay for 2 year RN degrees near me are about 55-65K, and you easily go over 100K in
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by ejb999 5y ago
right, and while nurses do have to do some things I would consider gross, more often than not, it is the lower paid medical assistants and CNA's that get the real awful jobs that does not require a nursing degree - i.e. changing diaper
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by ejb999 5y ago
Yes, but that is what they signed up for - i.e. they knew it going in, and that has not all of a sudden changed. I couldn't do it, and god bless them, but that is unlikely a cause of people leaving the profession - that would be like a
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by ejb999 5y ago
Yes unfortunately. The unfortunate part is we don't educate enough of our own citizens for these well paid jobs.
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by ejb999 5y ago
better is still better.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Urban spending is disproportionately police. I don't think that is even close to true, NYC latest budget for example is $92.3B (2022), Police got $5.42B, about accounts for ~6% of the total. Education, social services and &#x2
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by ejb999 5y ago
I am in new england, electric rates are a lot less here (for now anyway) than CA (if that is where you are), and thus the calculations for you may be better than they are for me. Its been a few years since I did the math, but last time I wa
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by ejb999 5y ago
Every time I do the math, any money I would spend on a solar system, would be better invested in an energy utility and just collect the dividend to pay my electric bill. If you want to do solar for the environment, fine - I won't fault
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by ejb999 5y ago
the content really has gotten pitiful; I use netflix, hulu, hbomax and amazon prime (and honestly mostly watch free content on youtube) - netflix is my last choice when trying to find something to watch - and yes, I share the account with m
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by ejb999 5y ago
why? only helping a few people is not good enough? I can't help everyone, so I will just help myself? I bet lots of multi-billionaires use the same twisted logic to justify their selfish behaviors.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>I don't see it as virtue signaling. Of course you don't.
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by ejb999 5y ago
not even close to the same thing. Playing a game a football requires many players - helping out someone less fortunate than yourself requires zero involvement of others. Claiming "if only other people would join in I would do the right
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Suggesting a change that you think is positive but not acting on it in the meantime is not virtue signaling. Actually, it is the very definition of virtue signaling.

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