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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
There's always going to be discontent no matter what. If someone thinks they're worth more, you can either agree and pay them more or disagree and they can leave. That's how a market works. Your employees almost certainly
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
First of all, you should always value equity at zero. Neither your landlord nor the guys at the farmers' market want your stock certificates, which are overwhelmingly likely to end up worthless (if they aren't already). Second, m
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
If you have a corporate lawyer and/or experienced HR director, you do the same thing everyone does: inform the questioner of the individual's dates of employment and nothing else.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Legalisation (we'll leave the exact definition unspecified here, because it doesn't matter) neither asks nor requires anyone to change their opinions of recreational drug use. Regulating and taxing an activity do not constitute a
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
It's not crazy cheap at all. The incumbent technology here is flooded lead-acid, a proven solution used everywhere from telco COs to forklifts to off-grid cabins for over a century. Industrial FLA batteries (the top grade, longest-la
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
One would reasonably expect that the price of a university education and the opportunity cost of not having one will converge. If the discounted present marginal value of an education at X University is $Y, X University ought to charge at
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
> It's more common in America only because university costs have skyrocketed in the United States to astronomical proportions. True in general, but not in the specific. The "big name" universities, mainly private, and the
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
Anyone who's ever worked with you can be a reference. It's normal to choose someone other than your immediate superior as a reference, especially if you're interviewing elsewhere while still employed there. Anyone who insis
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
> devaluing the currency, by printing more money What does this actually mean? "Printing money" in modern central banking doesn't really exist; all "money" has to be created by someone borrowing it. Reducing le
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
The theory is that negative (real or nominal) interest rates serve as a continuation of the general purpose of lowering interest rates. That is, they encourage borrowing and spending, both increasing the size of the money supply and especi
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
The only way to "fix" this problem is to completely abolish the institution. The great majority of cops, including all upper ranks, would have to be permanently removed. A new heavily emasculated entity could be created, strippe
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
As long as there are police, they'll be saying things like this to justify their demands for ever more power. It's in their nature. If you don't want to hear it, you'll have to get rid of them. Otherwise there's
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
The author's snipe at the United States (relative to Russia and China) is both jarring, for being woefully out of place in an essay on a WWI engagement, and unwarranted. None of these three major powers has fought another major state
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
Don't confuse price with value. A corporation is worth the discounted present value of all the dividends it will ever pay. That figure may not be knowable, but it does exist and in this fevered dream world can safely be assumed to be
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
Much like Greyhound drivers, Amtrak conductors don't always ask to see ID, regardless of where or how the ticket was purchased. It's hit-or-miss in coach, depending (at least) on the conductor, the train, and your boarding statio
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
The first step is to recognize that this is not a technical issue but a political/diplomatic/military one. The second requirement for anything useful to happen is for Western governments to find some balls and start standing up t
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
"Demand destruction" is nonsense. There will always be demand for hydrocarbons. Oil and its distillates remain the only viable means of fueling most motor vehicles, Tesla's hype machine notwithstanding. Even if you could s
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
It depends. The advice you're getting, to say basically nothing, is sound under all circumstances. However... If you don't need to work again { at this company, in your industry, in your city, at all }, you should feel free to sa
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
Domestic (municipal) water in California is already quite expensive. While adopting steeply graduated pricing would indeed be a market-friendly way to end most irrigation of lawns and ornamentals, that's literally a drop in the bucket
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by fredkbloggs 12y ago
There are standards, many of them, just as there are many different standards for AC power worldwide. Your DC system design will be governed by practical technical considerations in concert with economics. The physics of low-voltage syste