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by jmoak3 3y ago
Expect to see attempts to reverse this in the affected countries thru measures such as this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770 However as Romania found, it does not work.
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by jmoak3 3y ago
PE can be replaced with "Some guys". PE bought your hospital? More like, "some guys" bought your hospital. Ask why "some guys" bought it instead of using their money in the market, or why your hospital sold in
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by jmoak3 3y ago
I totally agree, something has to budge. That's one of the reasons I bought a house in a cheaper area close to family and am trying to save money, but really what can one even do to prepare for this? Mass monetary creation and a higher
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by jmoak3 3y ago
Also true. Most of our largest expenses - Medicare, Social Sec, Medicaid, Mil - are a mix of soft/hard pegging to inflation I believe.
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by jmoak3 3y ago
Or we let inflation eat away the debt, turkey style. But for real I agree in general - where is the money going to come from? The interest on the debt and the federal receipts don’t work! I see the ratio (linked below) hitting 0.5 this deca
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by jmoak3 3y ago
You're too right. We need to move away from prompt-engineering - it's AI-Management. You pretend you're speaking to another (albeit confusing/confused) person when extracting work from a model. You're coaxing things
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by jmoak3 3y ago
> freezing the pay sends the message of: "we don't really care about the workers and we will extract as much value as it's possible for the lowest possible fee". It’s not a charity. Neither are we as engineers - the j
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by jmoak3 3y ago
Don’t forget aging demographics increasing demand while reducing supply of able bodies, with the added bonus of driving unemployment down It really is a Rorschach isn’t it? :)
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by jmoak3 3y ago
That's so alien to me - when I read at a coffee shop or a bar I'm there to interact and have the book as something to do in the interim. Reading and drinking at home is free, and quiet.
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by jmoak3 3y ago
China is about as diabetic as the United States, with a 10.6% incidence rate vs 10.7% incidence rate. China’s scale however means that it has over 100 million diabetics compared to America’s 30 million or so. Handy map: https://w
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The Doomsday Argument(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jmoak3 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmoak3 3y ago
I don’t think the flat’ers are happy about it all either, but what would you do if your future was either a hopeless grind or some degree of comfort? Booms are followed by busts, in the mightiest booms the future gets bought and sold as far
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by jmoak3 3y ago
I would sob if keep is gone. It’s my second brain.
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by jmoak3 3y ago
>Remote work affects all of this but even then it's a dangerous proposition - if the winds change you're done for, and your network is still going to be shot. I also moved out of the major metros - some things are worth the ris
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by jmoak3 3y ago
To add to your comment - no man is an island and we live in a world of scarcity. Living on twenty acres sounds great until you realize you'd like TVs, internet, toilet paper, a car, and education for your kids. Turns out those things c
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by jmoak3 3y ago
Yup! It’s not enough to do something that’s hard to obtain a good life - there needs to be more open roles than people able to fill them in your line of work.
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Rhinoceros Party(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jmoak3 3y ago|1 comments
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by jmoak3 3y ago
"Operating within the tradition of political satire, the Rhinoceros Party's basic credo, their so-called primal promise, was "a promise to keep none of our promises".[9] They then promised outlandishly impossible schemes
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by jmoak3 3y ago
Sounds like if you’re in a boring nice place you need to keep those pesky artists away :P
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by jmoak3 3y ago
>Turnitin advertises the feature as "98% accurate". That's a pretty terrible accuracy rate for potentially destroying someone's life. Assuming the 98% applies to both false negatives and positives: For a given 20k per
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Greying Economies Innovate Less(economist.com)
1 points by jmoak3 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmoak3 3y ago
I think you're close: There are relatively fewer employers seeking hardware skillsets compared to employers seeking software skillsets. People may say, "there are way more software engineers though! hardware is SO hard!!" as
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by jmoak3 3y ago
The US is freakishly large. I've lived all over it and driven across it from west to east several times. I grew up 2 hours outside of Appalachia, and couple that with the other places I've seen I feel safe in my belief that the US
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by jmoak3 3y ago
Just plugged this comment in, also claims to have written your comment!
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by jmoak3 3y ago
Imagine paying 60k a year (out of state) for this. Huge black mark on the reputation of Texas A&M.
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by jmoak3 3y ago
This is true - even if we remove the cap on what people pay into it, it won’t resolve the fundamental issue. It’ll just keep the door open for the last of the currently retiring generation to enjoy it. I have no expectation of receiving any
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by jmoak3 3y ago
The worse a company is doing the more they have to pay the CEO to stick around. It’s a little strange but that’s where we end up. For the benefit of all companies, we need to find a way to produce more people qualified to lead large organiz
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by jmoak3 3y ago
(American here) I knew a girl in college who was very sheltered: she was homeschooled in a rural setting by wealthy ultra-religious parents up until college. Her only outlet was british television. She's spoken with a badly formed bri
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by jmoak3 3y ago
Correction: >We moved to Noe Valley and then a random dude broke into our house by smashing glass and opening the door. This happened 2 months into COVID, and then I moved away soon after
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by jmoak3 3y ago
30% of iOS users in the US also have an Apple Watch. This is a huge part of the deal, your phone syncs with your high quality watch, your high quality Mac, your high quality tv, etc. They cannot do much of anything with an android. iPhones

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