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by ishjoh 5y ago
I found this as a source: https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Ireland/Home-Pric... Adjusted for inflation it does look like it was down a bit during last year, but Q1 there seems to be a rise again. What&#
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by ishjoh 5y ago
There are Indian universities that specialize in US law and train their students in US law. Law firms that have those lawyers work overnight on items that in the past were given to new grads. Experienced lawyers then review those document
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by ishjoh 5y ago
I am always in favor of raising the child tax credit, which benefits higher earners and has a mechanism for folks who don't pay net taxes to receive a check. For tax year 2021 the credit will be $3,600 for children under 6. Someone m
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by ishjoh 5y ago
> Having a child is extremely expensive if you are an urban professional, because prices of real estate have skyrocketed to insane, unprecedented heights. This has also happened in the US, even in what would be considered secondary citie
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by ishjoh 5y ago
I tried 8185E2 and liked it. I used a color palette generator with the black text and orange logo and it spit out: CFDBD5, which gives the site a bit of a high desert brush look.
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I'm strongly against governments controlling population growth. OP I was responding to stated: "Microbes don’t coordinate their growth, and therefore fall into boom-bust cycles that dominate and exhaust their local environment. Hu
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by ishjoh 6y ago
Are you suggesting government mandated population control?
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I would also be curious if exercise type needs to be included in this. For example calf raises vs squats. I find that for calf raises since they are so targeted I'm able to recover very quickly, but for squats I typically need to wai
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by ishjoh 6y ago
When I was in my 20's and lived in NYC, a lot of my social life was organized around work even though I had friends and was in a committed relationship. Networking events, tech talks, company outings, there was lots of things to fill u
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by ishjoh 6y ago
> One of the other "green" aspects of the complex was that it only had compact car parking. I think this is one of the things that as I get older gets more and more grating. This 'nudge' is supposed to encourage you
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I am curious, you bought 3 new computers. What was the use case for the mac mini and macbook pro?
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I've worked with journalists and like anything there were different types of approaches to journalism like there are different approaches to any human endeavor. The ones with the most integrity started with an idea for a story but did
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I had never considered software(s) as a potential root, and had always assumed it was related to the idiom or a vendor selling their wares, just goes to show how tricky English can be: https://www.merriam-webster.com/diction
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by ishjoh 6y ago
> Companies spend millions of dollars on these platforms I agree with your point on the large companies that can spend millions of dollars. The folks that really get hurt by this stuff are the smaller businesses. It can be an expensive
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by ishjoh 6y ago
If Europe were willing to pay higher prices it's possible that suppliers would have built more factories. In fact given the size of the EU and it's negotiating power that could have been a requirement of the deal, especially if t
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I would really caution against thinking this way. Parent discusses changing contexts which is exactly right. Things said in polite society 30 years ago are no longer acceptable, there is no reason to think that what we say today in polite
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by ishjoh 6y ago
Congrats on year 15! I'm on year 5 of working remotely. Working in software I definitely think most companies are fine with remote individual contributors, and that it has been shown to work effectively. If the company is setup for maj
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I could also see it flattening due to people having more options again. The majority of the companies that are listed in the public markets are businesses that didn't have to close. Nation wide retailers, tech companies, oil and gas,
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I've been WFH for about 5 years now and also have two young ones so I know the feeling :) I've found that any chore time is now also podcast time. So things like cleaning, laundry, or mowing the lawn I've always got one head
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I also had a small Google ad spend ($350 over 3 weeks), that I setup to run exclusively in the USA, and had the same experience where IP addresses recorded by hotjar were all from India, all new signups from the ad spend were '.gmail&#
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by ishjoh 6y ago
Happy New Year! And for all of you that are already in the future like my colleagues in Aus, hopefully the 2021 is already looking brighter.
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by ishjoh 6y ago
do you have some articles or books that I could read to better understand this phenomenon of charter schools behaving this way. Of the few charter schools locally that I have experience with, none of them work this way.
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I'm a millennial, I have never been drafted to fight in any war, I did not spend my childhood or early teens working on a farm, I was educated by a public school system, I have enough disposable income to have a computer, iPhone, and i
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by ishjoh 6y ago
What's interesting and something I've witnessed first hand in NYC, that the tenants of rent controlled apartments will setup a black market for their rent controlled apartment in collusion with their landlord. So if they do move
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by ishjoh 6y ago
An alternative to the current system which would be very disruptive and allow for a lot of experimentation and alternatives would be to have state level or national level certification exams that would need to be passed to obtain a degree.
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no need to apologize :)
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Can you send me that study/article, would love to read it. What I did come across a while back was a study done by the NY FED. On the effect of the amount of available credit and tuition rates, they found that increased loan availabili
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by ishjoh 6y ago
VCs prefer investing in companies in NYC and the Valley. So Paypal would have probably had to be built in one of those two markets. Once he had a successful company, I suspect he could have gone elsewhere and still received investment and
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by ishjoh 6y ago
Small nit-pic. select * from employees sort by total_compensation desc; Otherwise C Level folks who take a $1 salary but receive tons of options would be put at the bottom.
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I've hired lots of software devs over my career at startups and mega corps. 1) At startups and some larger companies only experience and competency matter, the interviews are used as the filter. 2) At many large companies HR goes throu

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