fennecfoxen

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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> Again things vary from state to state, but in CA, I couldn't give my foster children Tylenol without a doctor's orders, and all psychotropic medication was due to referrals by county appointed psychologists. I understand Cali
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> Not to pick on the person quoted in this article, but this attitude exists all around the system; there is an implicit assumption that foster parents care less about the foster children than a neighborhood teenage baby-sitter hired for
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> I'll say though that buying a home may turn out to be a wise move if you can keep making the payments and things recover. Oh yes. I could lose my job and get a new one with zero equity compensation and a 33% cut to base, and I’d s
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
I just bought a house! Like, literally yesterday. And I was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal regarding my home buying process: https://www.wsj.com/articles/home-buyers-are-finding-creativ... Someone in the co
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
You’re restating the case for “leveling up”.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
This repost bot is annoying
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
25? No one does 25. You’re locked in for 30.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Yeah, the standard ESPP I’ve seen (twice now) is essentially a series of call options (at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months in the future). If the option is not 15% in the money at vesting, the plan resets and it is replaced by one that is in the mon
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Here’s one thing that could happen next: suits filed to seize the nation’s assets abroad, while the business and others like it leave the nation in question to its own devices. The consequences for the nation are unfortunate as the economy
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
This post amuses me because of the classic Katz Deli slogan of WWII: “Send a salami to your boy in the army!”
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
No one is shipping water to California. The water for California agriculture is diverted from its natural flow, yes, but it comes from mountains located on the east side of California. On the far side of these mountains you will find the hu
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Real interest rates are still negative. A mere half-point rate hike doesn't "fix" that. Two rate hikes are likewise insufficient. The Fed's target is at 0.75-1.00% and inflation's still over 8%.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> it doesn't mean the money will go to 1000 experiments. It's more likely that nothing will be funded Perhaps it is reasonable to allow the money to remain unspent on topics related to physics! Spending has opportunity costs, a
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
well, in the US, the First Amendment would start come into play in interesting ways, depending on whether the content itself is considered an expression of the government itself or just general.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
The private nature of the company is the specific thing that matters here. It is right to emphasize that through use of the adjective. You’d better ask “why use the word ‘company’ at all” and the answer is that it’s a useful noun upon which
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
It might be nice for Parliament to own their own building but England more generally has a real problem where normal humans have a hard time owning the property their homes are built on, with all sorts of fun fun fun fun fun ground-rent ren
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
AfterPay
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
It’s like one cast, yo
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Sure. Multiplying a float by an int that leads to AN ERROR because you mixed up your types and you are now losing precision somewhere or other. Avoiding that sort of an error at compile-time is right there at the heart of the core premise
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Don't forget that life insurance used to come in a different form, "whole" life insurance (instead of term life insurance) which doubles as a savings/investment vehicle. This has changed a lot : people have other altern
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Leaving the house mortgaged is a reasonable and prudent decision, particularly at the rock-bottom interest rates of the past N years. The size of the house may be excessive, on the other hand -- most of the returns on a large home are not i
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> The next thought should be: why doesn't neo-liberal capitalism fix this problem? You are the vehicle by which neo-liberal capitalism fixes the problem. By leaving academia to work for a firm directly, you are responding to a pri
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
If you want high wages and human well-being, your decisions about how to allocate society's limited resources need to be made in a way that respects the consequences of those decisions. When you don't, the results are ugly. Becaus
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
A cursory inspection suggests an entirely different board. Heck of a name to pick, though.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Because in this job market, I have power, and I can use it elsewhere.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Because interest rates are rising and you don't understand the concept of the discount rate.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Beware. Your speculation #7 notwithstanding, this kind of scheme is being targeted at retail investors [1] (instead of just accredited investors, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and the like) because it is more of a feel-good investm
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Inflation is not generally not necessary to encourage capital to be invested. Real returns , discounted for risk, encourage capital to be invested. Monetary stability makes many forms of investment less risky! Low real interest rates (whic
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
The BLS's records of the labor force participation rate alone are pretty intense. https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Oh! Welcome to the American private university. (Don't worry, the American public university and the international university are not too far behind.)

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