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by ishjoh 5y ago
I'm not against pork spending, especially in cases like this where we know how strategically important it is to be a world leader in semiconductors. Critics will point out correctly though, that the government isn't historically
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I'm happy you included that, my alma matter has also turned to this, the percentage of out of country compared to in state has changed drastically since I went there. I feel bad for the kids applying who in years passed would have bee
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by ishjoh 5y ago
It's not just MBAs it's M*, I have a close friend who works in the administration for a well known university, her department administration will not hire any junior person that doesn't have a masters degree, it doesn't
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by ishjoh 5y ago
Thanks for this well cited information. Here in the US we also have a strange habit of describing housing as national instead of local. Even during the housing bubble pop in 08/09, there were some markets that were hit extremely hard
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by ishjoh 5y ago
In particular it's good to remember that for every dollar you spend on your credit card, the credit card company is charging the merchant a percentage fee, so even folks who never miss a payment and max their rewards can still be very
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by ishjoh 5y ago
It's because there are white label credit cards that are extremely easy to setup if you're a business and they're so profitable. Not only does the store get a sale upfront which a customer might not have been able to afford
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by ishjoh 5y ago
sure, and that would be great, but unfortunately it's more likely this is going to be sold to Invitation Homes Inc or a similar company that will just turn them into rentals and they'll never enter the housing market for sale. Inv
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by ishjoh 5y ago
My father in law has been a trucker in the US for a long time, and really enjoys it, or rather used too. Video cameras being installed in the truck cab are the reason he's changed his opinion. In every way he is an upstanding citizen
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by ishjoh 5y ago
It always depends on your scale. I was at a company that had a month spend in the 6 figures and they wanted to constantly talk. A different company I was at the spend was 3 figures a month, and we couldn't get any help at all, even k
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by ishjoh 5y ago
What would you propose we do with people who commit violent crimes and who are likely to commit them again?
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by ishjoh 5y ago
Also worth noting that meat processing plants in the US were temporarily shutting [1] down as well due to Covid, which was causing famers to start euthanizing live stock [2]. The Trump administration took action [3] to compel those plants
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by ishjoh 5y ago
From my original comment. "For better or worse I've started to think of 'elites' more as people that have differential outcomes in regards to the law" So it's not that elites don't go to prison, in this ca
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by ishjoh 5y ago
For better or worse I've started to think of 'elites' more as people that have differential outcomes in regards to the law. So in this case these people are 'elites' because they managed to stay out of prison for h
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by ishjoh 5y ago
I lived in NYC for about a decade, I did not work in Finance, instead I was a consultant at one of the big consulting companies that has > 200k employees worldwide. I hated it, I would physically dread going to work some days, compounde
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by ishjoh 5y ago
It can be a hard habit to break that association. I work with different ecommerce clients and many folks refer to their stores payment systems as POS - point of sale, took a while to unlearn what I had always known POS to mean.
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by ishjoh 5y ago
Many wood working masks are n95, as you can imagine fine particles from wood working can do serious damage to your lungs. Before covid I was doing some home projects and picked up a package of 20 for < $5 US. As you can guess I wasn&#x
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by ishjoh 5y ago
I don't think even the great Yogi Berra could have said it better.
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I hear this a lot about social security in the US as well, that it will fail. I would characterize it as degrading instead of failing. If the workforce declines there will be fewer payers into social security or pensions, then folks payin
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by ishjoh 5y ago
Then he doesn't walk the walk. He has ample opportunity to write a check to the government and rally for tax schemes that directly and only effect billionaires.
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I'm not aware of any communist country that didn't turn into an authoritarian state where the government imposed strict censorship and controls on the population. When you look at why, it starts to make sense. Without strict econ
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by ishjoh 5y ago
without wanting to start a flame war this is how I've often felt about the MS Office suite. Each product on it's own is Ok, but there was always at least one that I've needed and always ended up with the entire suite in the
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by ishjoh 5y ago
This is what I've been turning over my head for the last few months. This is an incredible opportunity for younger generations to build wealth and live the American dream. If software folks aren't forced to live in the 5 America
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by ishjoh 5y ago
IMHO containers are great for a lot of reasons, and still have benefits without kubernetes. For example even when you have monolithic apps, if the setup is complicated and requires a lot of time to setup, containers can be an excellent opt
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by ishjoh 5y ago
I'm a loud snorer, I see the marketing for Sleepbuds says they help sleepers from being disturbed by snoring. Do you know if it effective for snoring?
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Thanks meiraleal, I've responded from a different email address as I use the vinny address publicly just to cut down on spam.
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by ishjoh 5y ago
Facebook is likely handing all that biometric data over to the US Government, but at least American's have some say in what the US government does. We don't have to speculate that TikTok is handing all data over to the CCP, it&#x2
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by ishjoh 5y ago
hi meiraleal. I've started to learn the ropes on smart contract programming. I'd love to pick your brain over email and understand what's been working for you and how to make contracts that are useful for the wider crypto l
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Maybe this is why the job of YouTube influencer is so popular among younger generations, they see where automation will take us.
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by ishjoh 5y ago
In September of 2020, around me all of the private schools were open for in person learning 5 days a week, all of the public schools were online only. Later in the school year, public schools moved to a modal of 1/2 the class being in
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by ishjoh 5y ago
Not only did we lose the ability to manufacture things locally which has impeded our ability to innovate in certain fields, many companies were wiped out by new overseas low cost competitors who took the expertise they learned from our trai

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