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by jogjayr 8y ago
Colleges and universities might start charging something more reasonable once they see that their students can't take out such large loans. Why exactly does it cost tens of thousands of dollars to deliver a liberal arts education anywa
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I agree, but I don't think it should be retroactive i.e. only new loans are covered. Banks will start pricing them like personal loans if they're dischargeable in bankruptcy, so it would not be fair that people with more favorable
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I rather like the idea of making student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy (not retroactively obviously). Why should borrowers alone face the consequences of their bad decisions? Aren't lenders equally complicit? I understand that educa
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The SAG's own history page is pretty vague about why big stars signed on: "Protests against provisions in FDR’s National Recovery Administration's proposed Motion Picture Code of Fair Competition result in mass exodus of star
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Not necessarily. Every production will need mostly non-star workers. If they're all unionized, the stars have little choice but to sign up or work in the few productions that re non-union. Additionally, the Hollywood model is to sign u
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> why employer would employ "commodity devs" who are part of the union, and why devs, who standout and have a leverage would option to join union? The parent poster answered that question for Hollywood. Union members (and here
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Well, definitely not with that attitude. That just sounds like an excuse to not do anything now and let the next generation handle things. You should know however, that people who are 20-40 now will just about be hitting their senior years
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> Laughing at someone's name because it sounds weird is the same as laughing at jokes that poke fun at the stereotype that British people are very polite No if you don't know the person very well I think both things are rude. W
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> healthcare becomes the most expensive or second most expensive thing on the government budget. Has that happened in other advanced economies? Genuinely curious - I don't know what share of the UK national budget the NHS consumes,
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> should I expect them to not make fun of my name Absolutely yes. Anything else would be rude. > or pronounce my name perfectly? Basic courtesy demands that they make their best effort. > a net negative in time for a whole populati
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Add an extra 5 minutes for every official form in the future where you have to answer "Did you previously use a different name?" and provide documentation for it. Add more time if your name change happened in a different country a
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> I've heard of people at big companies who conduct thousands of interviews a year I don't disagree with the rest of your thesis, but this seems off by an order of magnitude. They would have to conduct 4 interviews every workin
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by jogjayr 8y ago
It's 100% true that all the benefits of self-driving cars will be for naught if there's no congestion pricing implemented for driving alone. This will be either in the form of a toll or tax, or by making all but one of the freeway
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I've not really understood the point of grocery delivery other than in cities where car ownership is uncommon. And even there, you can rent a Zipcar once a quarter to stock up on bulky or heavy items (toiler paper, bags of rice or flou
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> Are you willing to never tip again in your entire life? I would happily do that if I knew the server would earn a living wage even without my tip. No one is talking about making tipping illegal. Killing tipping culture means not making
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I'm no expert on any of this stuff. From what I can tell from searching online, the USPS is required to fund their own pensions[1] > "for the most part." This was explained. The government pays to mail voting materials to
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It's part of the US government but does not receive taxpayer funding. "Zero tax dollars used. The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its o
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Which way, specifically? Do you have details? Have you ever sent someone a package and then they had to pay to get the package as well?
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4K content is better than HD content - to someone, on some axis of "better". How is that an "artificial increase" then? The customer is receiving a higher quality product for a higher price but isn't forced into the
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> Imagine if USPS couldn't charge Amazon for delivery. Imagine if USPS charged both Amazon and its customers for delivering the same package.
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The issue is that ISPs want to double-dip. The cost of delivery is already paid for by customers, there's no reason to charge the company a separate fee. Why should it matter where a bit originates from as long as it's going to a
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> I would argue that pair programming Google allows you to write code on a Chromebook instead of a whiteboard (don't know if it's for everyone or some people). Is that pair programming? Or do you mean actually working with your
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My dad worked for an IT consulting firm in that era - so Y2K literally put a roof over my head and clothes on my back. I didn't see it as insulting. It was important work, everyone understood the urgency, worked diligently on fixing it
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> The big problem in my eyes are trash bags. Don't know how to replace those. Composting, and recycling glass, metal, and paper greatly reduces the need for plastic trash bags. Most of my regular trash these days is plastic that can
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Jack Welch was a massive GE Capital fan - he praised it to the skies in his books and it really came into its own under him. He said (and I'm paraphrasing) that as a chemical engineer by training, he was blown way that you didn'
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It's much easier to change your search engine than your ISP.
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Nope, that was someone else. I'm just defending MTV being called a "pit" and a suburban dystopia - it's not the most interesting city in the world but it has interesting parts and tons of opportunities not available else
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Upvoted for the city suggestions - that's really helpful. But I'm still going to vigorously disagree that MTV is "bland suburbia" :-), even if it's not better than these cities (and I personally did not enjoy Savann
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That's moving the goalposts though. I was originally disputing the categorization of MTV as a "pit". I'm not at all arguing it's comparable to Berlin - that would be crazy.
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I wasn't implying 0 other cities of similar size have Michelin stars. Heck there's a small town in Napa valley with 5k population, with a 3 star restaurant, so even more stars/capita than Fiumicino :-). But of all the ~70-120

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