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by jewayne 3y ago
I hadn't heard this, but I'm not surprised. The right wing has essentially declared culture war on EVs. They will tax them out of existence, if they can.
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by jewayne 3y ago
I drive a crossover myself, but if you do the math, driving a cheap sedan and renting a truck when you need it is often WAY cheaper. I remember when a neighbor bought a new washer/dryer and gave their old set away to whoever would haul
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by jewayne 3y ago
Be more specific. What heroic successful/efficient player is being stifled from fixing health care costs because they can't expand to neighboring states?
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by jewayne 3y ago
Not every first world country has a true single-payer healthcare system. There are many variations that work better than what we have. The difference is that in the US we have accepted profit maximization as the legitimate primary goal in t
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by jewayne 3y ago
You're picking and choosing in either circumstance, and attempting to mold them in either circumstance.
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by jewayne 3y ago
But what if those prices weren't deflated at all by the low wages? What if instead of passing their low costs onto the consumer, businesses were just pocketing the difference instead, because prices weren't really based upon the
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by jewayne 3y ago
It depends on what you mean by mass layoffs. In post-Jack Welch America, there is ALWAYS some company doing massive RIFs. Often when they're already profitable. I think your hat and your stomach are safe.
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by jewayne 3y ago
You have to admit, Missing White Woman is a pretty classic storyline. Especially when the husband is the villain!
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by jewayne 3y ago
Considering how gun ownership makes you more likely to be killed by a firearm, I'd say yes, it's very rational to not own one.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Actually, most of the time it's the parents running over their own children, in their own driveway.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Yes, what happens when the senior engineer leaves the company, having never shared his or her knowledge? It sounds like you are trying to address issues during mentoring that should have been addressed during the hiring process. In my exper
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by jewayne 3y ago
I don't think you get it. Letting a junior engineer bang their heads for a few days on something you could show them in ten minutes is just a waste of time and money. In my experience there are PLENTY of real problems for them to solve
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by jewayne 3y ago
Allowing a noob to spin their wheels for too long isn't just wasteful, it sets the exact wrong tone. The goal is not to "figure everything out for yourself". It's to GET THINGS DONE.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Bottom line: This article is disinformation.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Yeah, I have no idea where they are getting their numbers. I haven't run the real-world numbers recently, but my Model Y is rated at 4.0 miles/kwh. I pay about $0.16 per kwh to home charge. That's 25 miles/dollar (USD).
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by jewayne 3y ago
> I don't believe in forced labor, but there's regularly labor shortages, depending on where you are. FTFY
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by jewayne 3y ago
I love the bizarre class biases you get on forums like these. I hate to break it to you, but the majority of jobs still require physical presence -- over 70%, in fact. And business travel is already way down -- it now represents only 12%
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by jewayne 3y ago
Exactly. You know Bill Burr's joke about how every racist conversation begins with "I'm not racist, but..."? I feel like these "labor shortage" statements should preface themselves with "I don't belie
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by jewayne 3y ago
> California's high speed rail may never be completed. It will be, but only because it's not really optional in the long term. It's super-expensive, but the alternatives are even more expensive in the very long term.
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by jewayne 3y ago
I think what you will find is that a stunning amount of that "charity" falls within the giver's social circle. My understanding is it includes donations to the giver's own religious organization. Or even donating to a ca
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by jewayne 3y ago
> we have a staggering amount of wealth to share with the less fortunate Many Americans will stop you at that first word. Who is this we you speak of? If the pandemic taught me anything, it's that to all too many Americans the mos
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by jewayne 3y ago
If you're trying to be MIT or CalTech, that's absolutely true. If you're trying to be the Ivy League...maybe not. I recently heard an explanation saying that legacies/"special admissions" are not the customer i
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by jewayne 3y ago
I think you're totally missing the point. The point is that most of your actual lived life is simply stimulus and response. We actually have an extremely limited capacity for making reasoned choices - we just don't have the mental
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by jewayne 3y ago
Yep. In the early 90s the Big Box store reigned unchallenged. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/26/business/sears-eliminatin...
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by jewayne 3y ago
Answers like this worry me, because it implies you believe that general principles can be taught without teaching basic facts or learning specific examples. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's generally agreed upon that it&#
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by jewayne 3y ago
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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by jewayne 3y ago
That seems to be a round-about criticism of the design of the individual tests. Ideally, the tests should be comprehensive enough that "gaming" the tests still requires mastering the material.
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by jewayne 3y ago
This. If you're not "teaching to the test", what are you teaching, exactly?
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by jewayne 3y ago
If there's one thing I've learned from urbanist YouTube videos, it's that drivers don't base their speed based upon posted speed limits, they base their speed on how comfortable they feel on a given roadway. You can&#x27
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by jewayne 3y ago
I hope you realize that you just screamed for some form of government intervention. If the only solution to personal safety is to redirect the danger at your fellow citizens (actually, intensify and redirect that danger), there needs to s

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