j_walter

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by j_walter 5y ago
How is it not currently a fair agreement? They knew the pay going into the job...that's not fair?
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by j_walter 5y ago
This was my first thought also. How is this not just a few people doing this as a hobby or second job. How much really goes into daily operations? I would think they are big enough to be known by most internet savvy people that they don&
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by j_walter 5y ago
ETH will be POS soon, and like any invention in the beginning there are issues that need to be worked out to prevent more harm than good.
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by j_walter 5y ago
You say paid poorly, but exactly how poorly? Usually the upfront pay was offset by a good pension, medical benefits and having the summer months off was a huge benefit. Teachers around here now make the average staring salary for a Bachelo
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by j_walter 5y ago
100% renewable...but not 100% green by the new standards. Hydro is only renewable for "low impact small sources". Considering a majority of their electricity is coming from hydro I would say it's not from "low impact s
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by j_walter 5y ago
To what end though...I'm sure 1:1 ratio would be a huge improvement, but at what cost. You always get diminishing returns in these cases which seems heartless...but like with anything there is only so many resources to go around.
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by j_walter 5y ago
Here is another data point... https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/illinois/... 99.9% minority students, 94% economically disadvantaged. Testing scores are horrible...across the board. 2.8% pe
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by j_walter 5y ago
Sure, a class size of 35 is a problem. So are a lot of factors that can lead to kids not learning. However the city I currently live in has a 20:1 ratio...and there are plenty of kids not succeeding (better than average though). Another
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by j_walter 5y ago
Can you really blame them? Why wouldn't you want to pull the good kids out so they can succeed? Seems like having tryouts for basketball...you take the best of the best to make the team strong.
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by j_walter 5y ago
Yes it is. Kids in poor areas don't see education as they way out of being poor...how could they. They see drugs and gangs as a way to do that though. I went to a shitty school and did well and went to college (thanks to my parents
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by j_walter 5y ago
Agreed...but at the school level what can they do? If the parents aren't engaged in their kids getting an education and behaving (for whatever reason)...it's not really the school's job to fill that gap.
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by j_walter 5y ago
If parents value education they don't need to pay for tutors or summer school. I grew up in district with shitty schools, but I saw some kids succeed only because they learned stuff on their own. Those schools aren't necessarily
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by j_walter 5y ago
It's not necessarily that the educators aren't high quality, but that the majority of students are there as a babysitting service and take up more time being disciplined than actually getting taught. We always say inner city scho
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by j_walter 5y ago
Teachers weren't front line workers...they didn't go back to in person learning after being vaccinated. I can understand different considerations, but vaccinating those that were going out, ignoring mandates and spreading the vir
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by j_walter 5y ago
This is not much different than what happened in many states in the US. Oregon for instance prioritized teachers over the elderly even though there was no immediate payoff for doing so. After teachers, BIPOC were prioritized due to their
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by j_walter 5y ago
Actually the hackers tried very hard to hide their tracks by going through a mixer at least once (from what I've read). With enough effort and tracing you can still determine with pretty good accuracy where those bitcoins ended up tho
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by j_walter 5y ago
"That’s lower than the rate a single worker making $45,000 a year might pay if you include Medicare and Social Security taxes." Not quite saying the same thing. Comparing capital gains taxes to regular incoming taxes plus medicar
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by j_walter 5y ago
This is not always a surprise...since we tax based on income and not net worth. Most billionaires are wealthy because they own significant amounts of stock...so unless someone like Bezos sells a significant amount of stock and it's th
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by j_walter 5y ago
Do you have anything to back up these claims? Easy to claim that they have "horrible safety practices" and "are an injury factory". Also, you can't really say they push order workers...they simply push all workers t
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by j_walter 5y ago
This doesn't necessarily mean that it's really 80% higher, just that the reports show it's 80% higher. When a company has a really strong safety attitude it leads to more reporting of minor issues which can look worse, but a
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by j_walter 5y ago
No they didn't...they got to put off mortgage payments for a few months, and all of those became due immediately. Expensing upkeep...writing off rent...you act like thats free money that doesn't come out of their pocket. If you d
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by j_walter 5y ago
Outsized returns...any idea what returns are for landlords? It only takes a single bad tenant to wipe out years of profit (speaking from experience). There is a difference between having tenants not pay and evicting them in 90 days (actua
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by j_walter 5y ago
Seriously? Not everyone is meant to be home owners.
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by j_walter 5y ago
They end up with a 30 year old house that has been rented. There is a lot of cost in the upkeep of a rented house. When purchasing a house with the intent of renting it there are rules in place to play by when calculating the risk and ret
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by j_walter 5y ago
There are many large cities that are blocking or restricting credit checks of renters now...so in some cases landlords will be helpless. https://portlandrentalhomes.com/portlands-rental-screening-c...
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by j_walter 5y ago
How small? With the federal benefits above and beyond unemployment...there was no reason that such a large portion of people should have been not paying rent. A friend who runs a property management company laid off 60% of his workforce (
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by j_walter 5y ago
This is exactly right. Pretty much anytime the government takes anything over or has a new program...it's a shit show from the beginning. See "Cover Oregon" for a waste of a few hundred million dollars...see "Pandemic
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by j_walter 5y ago
You aren't...by a long shot. When everything around you is significantly more expensive than just a month ago (houses, gas, etc)...then you are seeing and feeling inflation. When the government is pumping "stimulus" of tril
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by j_walter 6y ago
He certainly does mention that and it doesn't seem clear why, but either way how does something as basic as a restroom cost that much to build? You think there isn't a lot of waste involved and at the tax payers expense?
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by j_walter 6y ago
Half of the journalism that is still out and about will know and will shove it in your face. Even the local TV news talks about twitter and shows tweets during the broadcasts. Even if you avoided the internet entirely...if there is enough

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