hotpotamus

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by hotpotamus 3y ago
What data do you have that shows that painters are currently highly paid? It's entry-level construction work; AKA a shit job (maybe just a bit better than roofing), so I'm skeptical.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
A) COBRA doesn't apply if the company is out of business and is often prohibitively expensive anyway. B) Try living in a state that's hostile to "Obamacare" C) Not everyone is married.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
My cousin's baby-daddy was a painter, but he couldn't make enough money to pay child support doing that so he does some sort of overhead-door service thing now. He was pretty thrilled to get health insurance as well since he'
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I always assumed that if I moved to a different country and took a job there, I'd need to learn the language. It's part of what makes emigrating seem difficult actually.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I was watching a documentary about Steinway pianos awhile back, and there are several parts where the piano comes off the line and then has to be extensively hand-fitted for some part or other; that is to say that each one takes a lot of in
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I'd say it's a really bad time to be graduating as a computer science major. As far as a few years from now, I always think of the words of Yogi Berra - "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future".
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Housing isn't mandatory - the government doesn't put you in jail if you don't pay it; you just get evicted. Disposable income is basically just income minus required taxes.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
> Disability, illness, a layoff I've faced all these (disability from a young age even) and as a result, I don't think there's any way I could raise children. Both because of my own issues make it seem challenging beyond p
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I would think charging infra would tend towards being cheaper as it's built out, if only because you don't need enormous tanker trucks trundling around cities distributing the fuel - running electric lines is almost one-and-done i
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
As someone who needs housing and medicine, that's minuscule comfort.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I don't think they're that large, but Consumer Cellular talked my mom through migrating her phone from Android to Apple over 2 hours which really impressed me. My calls with them have been really good too, but nothing on that leve
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
It's a strange issue to me. People all over the world, but particularly south of the US border feel compelled to come to the US for opportunity, and I suppose they are finding employment at least. How do you fix that?
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Hasselblad liked to advertise that there were a couple free ones on the moon, you just had to pick them up. To save weight for more sample returns, the Apollo astronauts did the logical thing and kept the film, but chucked the cameras out o
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Funny - I heard about the finale before I saw it, so I figured there would be a lot of ambiguity, but it was quite obvious to me that it was “lights out” for Tony so to speak. I suppose that speaks well for it that we are able to take our o
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
> Long-term, inpatient mental healthcare is an impossibility for most folks who need it. It's like free housing and free healthcare combined; neither of which are possible in the US.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I suppose I could be called DevOps, and I've always seen that as part of the job - making the infrastructure as easy for the devs to work with as possible. They've got their own specialities to worry about; infrastructure shouldn&
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
It doesn’t sound like they’re particularly willing to make sacrifices then.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
If they care more about their daughter finding a house, and they have 3, then why don't they give her one?
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I don't think I follow - which club are you not getting into, retirement or home ownership? Because if you don't have a home, then you aren't the one paying if the value decreases.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Perhaps it is simply that our government is too small or incompetent to stop them?
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
One of the reasons I never felt I had a place in academia was because of the publish or perish type culture; how can one ensure that their work will find novel discoveries worth publishing? It's hard to imagine staking my career on tha
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I suppose it speaks well for the skills (and perhaps poorly for the morals) of our best minds that they've now developed the tech to be so addictive that they can override peoples' innate desire to be useful. If I didn't have
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
This is what I was wondering. I don’t understand these VPNs too deeply (though I do occasionally administer an OpenVPN setup), but I was under the impression that they’re sending encrypted packets over UDP on arbitrary ports. That seems qui
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
You know, I spent some time in college learning economics, and lots of time after that listening to podcasts about economics ("Planet Money" has long been great), but like almost every other belief I had when I was younger, I seem
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
You don't need state intervention to get monopolies; actually it's quite the opposite - economies of scale push for consolidation, and you eventually need government to intervene. Whatever it was known for, the Gilded Era doesn&#x
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I was under the impression that the German economy was vastly improved under Hitler, so I think that point at least is valid.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
They do throw a couple bucks to the poor and middle class so they can say that, you've got me there, but you should be able to see in your explorations of the historical tax tables who is getting the biggest benefit. This has been the
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
> The first major party nominee for President who embraces it is going to get elected. And Republicans will use every ability in their power to prevent it from happening, through the filibuster and Supreme Court most likely. Fighting tha
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
All of us will be forgotten sooner or later, and sooner for the vast majority. While it wouldn't be for me, I can see a lifetime spent studying music would be more meaningful to some than building an app toolkit. I'm not naive eno
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
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