ejb999

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by ejb999 3y ago
With the benefit of hindsight lots of things could have been done differently/better in many areas of life, especially war (and especially ww2). I personally give a lot of latitude to the people who had to make those difficult decision
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by ejb999 3y ago
why?
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>Perhaps if someone has cancer, nobody should profit? Does that mean the doctors and nurses and others should all work for free to? If individual people can 'profit' by providing care, i.e. a doctor, why can't a collec
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by ejb999 3y ago
maybe if someone is hungry, farmers and supermarkets shouldn't profit? maybe if someone needs a place to live, builders and realtors shouldn't profit? maybe if my gas tank is empty, oil companies shouldn't profit. Where do yo
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by ejb999 3y ago
define 'hugely profitable' - PFE is one of the biggest, their stock is at about the same price it was 25 years ago, so inflation already made you lose 50% of your money - with dividends maybe you broke even for a 25 year investmen
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by ejb999 3y ago
with dividends, you might just about broke even on your 25 year investment. If the goal is to go after 'extremely profitable' companies, maybe we should be looking at tech companies, that are in fact, 'extremely profitable&
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by ejb999 3y ago
Just as a point of reference, if you bought 100K in Pfizer stock 25 years ago, it would now be worth about 100K. Adjusted for inflation, you would have lost about 50% of it’s value. Not what I would call ‘incredibly profitable’. And they ar
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by ejb999 3y ago
> In my first meeting with DesignAgency’s team, I asked how long they expected my project to take. “How long is a piece of string?” their lead designer asked. ...and that would have concluded my last meeting with this agency.
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by ejb999 3y ago
do you have evidence that I am wrong? ... I thought so.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I got it - was making a sort-of joke - scams don't need to be that sophisticated or work on everyone, because exactly half the population has a below average IQ.
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by ejb999 3y ago
In fact, 50% of people have a below average IQ, even when not under stress.
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>This type of scam is very effective and can catch anyone. I disagree - most people would never fall for this obvious scam.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I agree, seems short-sighted - they could have even just started charging a bit for it to keep it alive if necessary. No surprise though, after a fantastic start, twilio has turned into a sh*t company, unfortunately - I was a very early ada
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by ejb999 3y ago
lots of software developers never deal with clients (clients as in the people who will actually use the software) - most of them in fact, in any of the big companies I have worked for anyway...and that is probably not a good thing. I myself
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by ejb999 3y ago
same here - it is especially bad in huge companies, the inefficiencies and waste are legendary.
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by ejb999 3y ago
you are somehow making the incorrect assumption that everyone older than you is an 'executive' that nobody should feel sorry for? Thats some stretch.
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by ejb999 3y ago
Doesn't seem odd to me - if all someone (an elected person) does is get in front of the camera and make speeches about something a corporation is doing wrong - but never writes/sponsors a bill (and more importantly gets the votes
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by ejb999 3y ago
Yep - companies will continue to use these bizarre hiring criteria/tests unless or until enough people refuse to participate; but as long as their is a line of people behind you willing to do 'whatever' for the chance at the
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by ejb999 3y ago
last time I interviewed for a job (and I am a sr developer with lengthy resume and all the 'right' skills for the job I was applying), after initial interview with recruiter and then hiring manager the recruiter said I had to take
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by ejb999 3y ago
one of the many reasons I have chosen to never be a residential landlord - some people make it work, and grow their wealth (good for them) - I don't need or want the hassles of dealing with bad tenants that (at least in my state) hav
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by ejb999 3y ago
How about insurance, electricity, labor, property taxes and maintenance ... they are not going up in your area?
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by ejb999 3y ago
Exactly - a apartment I know of had 7 units with long-term low to moderate income tenants - one by one each unit was evicted (or non renewed), a quick sprucing up and now 6 of the 7 are only available on AirBNB - and the landlord gets as mu
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by ejb999 3y ago
some states (like Mass) do allow a renters deduction on your state taxes
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by ejb999 3y ago
I get what you are saying, but lots of people can only rent - or only want to rent - so somebody needs to own those houses. I do agree, there is really something weird about owning 'extra' houses that you may only use a few weeks
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by ejb999 3y ago
The gas grid is much less likely to go down than the electric grid - and btw, many run on propane - not natural gas - and that is stored locally (i.e. in a tank at the house) - I use propane gas, stored in my own tank - natural gas is not a
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by ejb999 3y ago
with a very small generator or battery - but you can't run a heat pump on a generator without going with a much bigger one, (and much more expensive one).
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by ejb999 3y ago
Counterpoint to consider. According to the CDC the USA death rate is 1.04% - i.e. for every 100K people, 1043 will die in any given year. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm The LA jails (referenced in thi
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by ejb999 3y ago
This site is pretty good for checking out the various risks by county or census tract for about 15 different climate risks. https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/map
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by ejb999 3y ago
You should get a private jet too, that is how all the truly committed environmentalists travel these days. </sarc>
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by ejb999 3y ago
not a popular opinion, but I agree completely - if you are trying to sell a message of sacrifice to the common person, being preached to, by people who own and travel in private jets , while they return to one of their many 20 bedroom mansi

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