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by ejb999 3y ago
Written by someone that doesn't have much of a grasp on tech or programming - and no, being a reporter covering tech doesn't mean you know anything about programming...sounds more like someone shilling for a consulting company lic
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by ejb999 3y ago
worse yet, there is a very vocal set of people (many on HN) that want to force you to develop your land in order to build more housing by imposing unaffordable land taxes on undeveloped land - very short sighted. for example: https:/&
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by ejb999 3y ago
Have a set of outside porch furniture as well - that my wife had at her parent's house even before she was born - so the set is at least 58 years old, and besides having weathered a bit in color - are as good as new.
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by ejb999 3y ago
yes, but you don't need 'billions' to have a safe car, or not working in a factory with dangerous equipment and/or environmental hazards.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I think personally, at ~$2.5-$3M and at least 1 paid off house, the diminishing returns really start to kick in. At $5M level you are pretty much all set, and at $10M and up - unless you are a consumption freak, you are really talking about
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by ejb999 3y ago
the vast majority of people don't, but I would say close to 100% of parents wish they could. What parent doesn't want their kids to be at least equal to, if not better off then they were?
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by ejb999 3y ago
this just made it harder for them to hide it.
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by ejb999 3y ago
and yet strangely, there are no proposals to ban private jets or yachts - but there are proposals in at least a few places to ban gas stoves and even gas lawn mowers (and to implement congestion pricing which will disproportionately affect
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by ejb999 3y ago
The best way to get people to use public transport, is to improve public transport - cleaning it up, getting rid of the stabbings, assaults, murders, homeless people sleeping in the subway would be a good start, not to mention the stink of
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by ejb999 3y ago
same here when I first got Starlink - I was paying more for a 3MB DSL line from Verizon, and for less money I got roughly 100X the speed from Starlink - I would have paid 10X as much for this if I needed to - a real game changer for folks t
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by ejb999 3y ago
NYC has got to find someway to force the poor and middle class from taking up space on city roads that the rich want to use to get places quicker. This is probably the most regressive form of taxation there is.
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by ejb999 3y ago
This article is hard to understand, and is all over the place - starts out talking about the inheritance that Millennials may someday get, and ends like this: "Property, financial investments and cars were among the most significant so
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by ejb999 3y ago
Guess it must be an election year - politicians promising things they know have zero chance of ever becoming law.
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by ejb999 3y ago
They did manage to create a bunch of $200K jobs for the well connected activists.
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by ejb999 3y ago
It will be 10+ years of seeing a variation of the exact same type of scenarios that they have seen before - which is very different then getting education and training across all disciplines - which is my entire point. Primary care NPs are
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>Be healthy. This - obviously a lot of things are out of our control, but it is also absolutely true that the vast, vast majority of health problems Americans have are all self-inflicted by decades of poor diet and lifestyle - as an
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by ejb999 3y ago
Just to provide a counter point to all the anti-UHC complaints here - some of which may be legit - my last job had UHC insurance, without question the absolutely best insurance I have ever had in my life - literally everything was covered,
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by ejb999 3y ago
The problem I see with that is, a typical medical student is going to have to do study and clinical rotations across all disciplines - even ones they don't end up practicing - i.e. pysch, derm, emergency medicine, surgery, ortho etc -
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by ejb999 3y ago
I for one am glad we don't just let foreign doctors transfer their credentials - the education and standards are not always the same, and not really sure I want to go see a doctor that moved here after taking a accelerated/minimal
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by ejb999 3y ago
Not always - 3 of my kids got awards that paid for their entire 'tuition' at a good state school in New England (USA). The 'tuition' was $1800/year - the fees added on another $14K, and then the housing and food add
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by ejb999 3y ago
Not exactly - they Can do that, but they don't need to match - using cloudfront in front of your s3 website and then the site can be served from any bucket or folder within a bucket. I have dozens of s3 static websites served from a si
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by ejb999 3y ago
No, carbon credits are like beating your wife and then donating money each month to a battered women's shelter - virtue signaling at its worst. No matter how many credits they buy, they are still disproportionately polluting the enviro
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by ejb999 3y ago
I don't personally care about wealth inequality (or more specifically, I don't care that Jeff Bezos has more money than me - if he suddenly became poor, my standard of living wouldn't change). For me the bigger issue is not t
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by ejb999 3y ago
yea, because destroying famous works of art and blocking traffic, really helps bring people over to your side....
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by ejb999 3y ago
Big pharma company by any chance?
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by ejb999 3y ago
I fear that someday I will die and my wife will sell off all my stuff for what I said I paid for it. (not really, but it is a joke I read someplace and I think it applies to a lot of couples).
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by ejb999 3y ago
Wow. I guess if you always lived there, you accept it as normal, but being from USA that is hard to relate to.
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by ejb999 3y ago
which part can't you do? Just the fence? or did you mean something else? Is it really true that nobody in Germany is allowed to fence their property?
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by ejb999 3y ago
I still can't believe a scrum master is an actual FT job - last company I worked for had one FT scrum master for each project - so they ran the meetings and as far as I can tell, did nothing else - what the heck do they pretend to do f
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by ejb999 3y ago
As someone who has never even tried to monetize youtube, I am shocked that having that sized audience still can't make a go at it as a FT job. Guess I will stick to programming.

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