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by jb775 6y ago
There's people scattered all over the country making 2x-3x rates that could have been earning 6x, but moving to San Fran or NYC was never a feasible option. The 6x companies will offer them 4x, settle on 4.5x, and both parties are ha
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Obviously anecdotal, but my wife is a nurse and she's been hearing some frightening things about the vaccine. Young people getting it are basically bed-ridden for days and are calling out of work...one lady couldn't lift her arm a
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Serious question: How do we know any of this reporting is true? There's no data sources provided, no way to check follow up health (i'e. what if these people all dropped dead a week later), no way to prove the data isn't a co
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> The lower bound is your breakeven point - where you're not sure if its worth going in to work or not. This is conflating an irrelevant piece of data that has nothing to do with the business outside of them using it against you to
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Great point about the logical fallacy. The whole reason an "employee" exists is because they create more value than they cost. The only relevant factor is how much value they create (either in the form of eventual increased prof
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Have reminder set, will be making popcorn
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Well if people can't prove that Covid came from China, shouldn't they simply forget it and accept that it came from somewhere else? "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." And ho
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If you find yourself in this scenario, you're likely already stuck in a Kafkatrap situation[1]. [1] https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/editorials/wendy-m...
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Not food, but the plastic containers food comes in. Big-plastic essentially created the recycling industry purely as a smokescreen, and everyone is still believing it. Barely any plastics actually get recycled, and it creates tons of pollut
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> have a long and well-documented history of abusing the general public at every opportunity The macro level statistics do not back this up. I agree with holding people accountable, but this issue has been over-sensationalized strategica
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Why are these people even filming cops in the first place?
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Employees can't control their own wage increases though..but it explains why job hopping is prevalent and understandable nowadays as the only realistic way to keep up. Increasing minimum wage would definitely increase money spent throu
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I mean as a personal investment hedge to protect against the artificial inflation
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What's a good hedge against the Cantillon Effect?
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Rather than hacking Signal itself, maybe they were able to access the iOS app preview files from the iOS app-switcher? I'd imagine the app-switcher (the feature when you swipe up to switch between recently used apps) works by overwriti
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by jb775 6y ago
The shift in social discourse over the past few years helped me understand how the Salem Witch Trials came to be.
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> protecting more vulnerable family and community members So in other words, brainwash kids by only showing them one side of political arguments their entire life. Then when little Jimmy starts hearing whispers about the evil Republicans
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I swear I've read some version of this headline yearly for at least the past 5 years. They are clearly winning this fight.
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> One employee pointed out that fascists are often quite public about their activities, as the recent insurrection in broad daylight at the Capitol showed https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging.
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Galvi n is the guy who rushed to shut down trading of $GME when the hedge funds were initially cornered. Seems like a shill owned by hedge funds and big business. Not exactly surprised to see him accused of other unethical behavior.
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by jb775 6y ago
Ironic how people want to help de-censor what's considered to be an enemy nation (by the media), but are ok with censoring half their next-door neighbors based on politics.
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This is what's actually happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI&feature=youtu.be
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Hindsight is 20/20. Being the guy on the sidelines saying "I knew this was gonna happen" after the fact never adds any value. It's you trying to make yourself feel special. If you were so confident in your predictions, s
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This explains what's actually happening right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI&feature=youtu.be
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I think colleges do it for cachet, but finance companies do it for ROI. Think about the business models...The college business model depends on maintaining prestige to continuously attract applicants willing to pay high admission rates. The
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Have you never watched a drug smuggler movie? Half the headaches are trying to launder the money. Speeches are the best way to bribe someone. Once they give the speech, it's "services rendered". There's no shady money tr
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It's nothing to do with "prestige", it's about return on investment. It's usually a payment for friendly behavior in the past, or to increase the likelihood of friendly behavior in the future (or to essentially tap
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One benefit of all this is people coming together on a non-partisan basis. I hope this makes people realize that political ideologies (left or right) don't make a significant impact in our day-to-day lives, but that the tension is weap
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It's how bribes are paid nowadays. Monetary payments leave paper trails. What's an easy way around that? Come give a 30 minute speech!
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"Speaking Fee" is the modern day term for bribe.

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