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by jl2718 5y ago
Is college still a thing? I sort of thought that it would at least start to die in the permanent-pandemic era. Right now even the elites look a lot like University of Phoenix Online, and I don’t think they’re ever going back to any meaningf
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by jl2718 5y ago
On deployment to the Middle East, I achieved lucidity almost every time I fell asleep in a closed vehicle in extreme heat. That was an incredible superpower. (FYI: engine off, vents cracked, 15 minute alarm)
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by jl2718 5y ago
I don’t care about that. All I care about is that people realize that taking from others is only achievable through violence and/or deception.
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by jl2718 5y ago
> It speculates ... I can’t tell which ‘side’ you are referring to.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Well it’s already illegal to keep more than about half of your own work, so this is the logical next step.
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by jl2718 5y ago
> Job that pays less than unemployment benefits.... Yeah that’s pretty much exactly why they reduced unemployment benefits. You seriously think it’s a good idea to pay people more to do nothing than they would get for their best option f
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by jl2718 5y ago
“and disproportionately harms ...” Okay, let’s hear the proportions then. We’re talking about unemployment in Montana.
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by jl2718 5y ago
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart... What about the 20 million working age on social security? Not counted. 21% of Americans are on means-tested public assistance, which, by definition, requi
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by jl2718 5y ago
No. Because nobody would work, and corporations would invest all revenues offshore. The country would be destroyed, and you’d get nothing. Income taxation is one of the most economically destructive and violent ways to generate revenues. Do
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by jl2718 5y ago
I think the bigger problem is that the work environment has turned into political hell.
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by jl2718 5y ago
It’s both. “The government” is not one entity. Even a commander himself may be baffled by sightings of an advanced technology that he is paying for but isn’t privileged to know about.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I don’t think so. Altcoiners in 2013 and 2017 mostly got wrecked. Bitcoin was not a foregone conclusion. And Bitcoin wasn’t the first either. Ask E-gold buyers how well they did.
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by jl2718 5y ago
DIY gene therapy.
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by jl2718 5y ago
It’s priced in.
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by jl2718 5y ago
If you learn why the tulip bubble happened, you may understand what is happening today.
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by jl2718 5y ago
No. You will expect them to maximize the metrics, but they will do the minimum, and think you’re an idiot, and the quality of their work will be terrible, and they won’t say a word. Every new hire is an opportunity to let that person do the
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by jl2718 5y ago
Irrelevant. They have are two policy points. Firstly, they oppose tax exemptions for native mothers. Secondly, they support immigration. Let's think critically here. Please tell me exactly what immigration has to do with children. Immi
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by jl2718 6y ago
A soldier is closer to a morally-neutral endpoint of your money, than a decision-maker that chooses to use violence or the threat of violence to achieve their objectives.
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by jl2718 6y ago
The value of your employees voluntary contributions are capped at the least valuable thing you put on their list of things to do. If your employee’s best chance at success are in the success of your business, they’ll do great things without
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by jl2718 6y ago
>> Imagine if Tony decided to assign her more work to ensure she spends a full eight hours a day busy. Tony invents “agile/scrum”.
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by jl2718 6y ago
The Army is supposed to represent and protect Americans and more broadly individual freedom and safety around the world. There shouldn’t be any problem with helping them. If there is, you need to take that up directly with the people that t
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by jl2718 6y ago
Ahh... using God’s name to guilt people into paying for their own self-destruction. Nothing new. The Bible says a lot about this type of people.
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by jl2718 6y ago
Propaganda. Psychological warfare. Look at the rest of the anonymous articles by “the editors”. You should know exactly what they’ll suggest to ‘fix’ the problem.
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by jl2718 6y ago
The article was about supply inflation, not price. The Doge CPI is -99%.
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by jl2718 6y ago
I like to think of passwords as proof that you’ve exposed your secret.
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by jl2718 6y ago
Yes. It’s poor practice. The FIPS 140 standard has been chip and pin for 30 years now. Maybe ‘somebody’ doesn’t want this to be in common use. It’s absolutely standard in any serious security environment, fully compatible with active direct
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by jl2718 6y ago
Unnecessary and awkward unless you really need a functional default. Use dict.setdefault for static defaults.
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by jl2718 6y ago
Stop calling phone apps and video games and web sites “tech”.
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by jl2718 6y ago
“Do you want natural diamonds or man-made diamonds?” The correct answer is: no.
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by jl2718 6y ago
That is definitely not the monetary inflation history of USD. This is: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE/

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