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by jurassic 6y ago
Most data on the market rate predates the pandemic. Right now there is basically no childcare available.
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by jurassic 6y ago
My wife, who is out of work, is providing emergency childcare to some friends of ours for $20/hr. People are really desperate for this and I'm sure she could make more if she wasn't just doing it as a favor for our friends.
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by jurassic 6y ago
We need more babies today so that there will be workers to pay taxes when we're of age to draw social security benefits. Millennials are having a huge baby bust right now. You will benefit from that, eventually.
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by jurassic 6y ago
The cultural amenities of cities are in serious jeopardy, generally. Many of the restaurants, clubs, theaters, museums, bars, etc that make the city a desirable place may never reopen.
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by jurassic 7y ago
Premiums on physical silver are always pretty ridiculous, even in non-pandemic times. I've always preferred gold because the margins are a lot more reasonable.
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by jurassic 7y ago
A big chunk of their business is point-of-sale.
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by jurassic 7y ago
People with significant job experience might be okay overall, but if this is anything like 2008-2011 we're going to see a lot of people piling up at the career on-ramp. They call it the '08 global financial crisis, but unemploymen
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by jurassic 7y ago
It was covered in the WSJ earlier this week: https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-with-elderly-population-h...
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by jurassic 7y ago
When the first of the 535 members of Congress succumb to the virus, I think it will be pretty motivational for the survivors to enact policy change. The median age of serving Senators is ~66, so if a non-trivial proportion are infected I th
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by jurassic 7y ago
It's really not up to the Fed; they had an emergency rate cut last week and it was just a minor blip on the overall downward slide. This is a demand-driven crisis, not a liquidity crisis or credit crunch like 2008. Monetary policy isn
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by jurassic 7y ago
Hospitals are not part of the Executive Branch of government which means they're not required to channel comms through the White House. They might be violating patient privacy / HIPAA by speaking out, but that's a different i
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by jurassic 7y ago
> Yours in calendrical heresy, Can anybody explain this signoff?
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by jurassic 7y ago
I'm really enjoying The Hustle https://thehustle.co/ It's a very entertaining take on the business world, but current and historical
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by jurassic 7y ago
The quick early career switch makes perfect sense since market value of a dev rises so quickly after gaining even a little experience.
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by jurassic 7y ago
Came here to say this. Even better if OP can find/afford a gym with a strong social component; I know people who only marginally care about fitness but really really care about seeing their friends at the gym and that is enough get the
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by jurassic 7y ago
> If you buy a house today for $500k on a 30-year you'll spend close to a million dollars before you own it if you ride the loan out, and adjusted for inflation, you will probably take a loss on it. Possibly a large loss. Unless we
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by jurassic 7y ago
I'm not sure how you get from those stats cited to a first home demand peak in 2035-2040. Class of 2007 grads are ~31 now. They want to buy now, not in 2035. Did you mean to type 2025?
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by jurassic 7y ago
I’m also cutting way back on my amazon spend. I still buy when the reviews don’t indicate counterfeit red flags, but it’s fewer and fewer product categories each year. Amazon is no longer the first place I look for many items; with things l
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by jurassic 7y ago
I don’t doubt the bird population has declined. But the stat cited above doesn’t convey any information about the decline. If you have 30 wild birds in your property and you setup a barn with 70 industrial meat birds inside, you did not nec
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by jurassic 7y ago
> Of all the birds left in the world, 70% are poultry chickens and other farmed birds While the overall thesis of this article may be correct, the writer undermines themself with the inclusion of misleading statistics like this one. It m
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by jurassic 7y ago
I've been trying to sort out all these recent posts today and I think your summary is a pretty good one. At the risk of being downvoted, as a cisgender same-sex attracted member of the "LGBTQ+ community", I suspect only a rel
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by jurassic 7y ago
If you convert to monthly at that daily rate, parking costs $1550/month. If you figure your car’s share of the space in the garage is on the order of ~250 sq ft (the space itself plus a portion of the lanes in the garage), that seems a
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by jurassic 7y ago
I have significantly reduced but not eliminated my purchases. When I buy, it’s usually due to convenience and habit built up over nearly 20 years of being an Amazon customer. Also, in my latest job they sometimes give out spot bonuses in th
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by jurassic 7y ago
I think reviews have lost most value, but mainly due to Amazon’s co-mingling of inventory, merging similar product listings, and overall massive counterfeit problems. Even if you have a high quality review from a trusted source (Wirecutter?
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by jurassic 7y ago
I believe part of the explanation for this is that big landlords have more ways to make money off property than just collecting rent over long periods of time due to the way buildings are valued in the commercial real estate market. Buildin
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by jurassic 7y ago
I'm right there with you. I rode out the recession in graduate school and I've been waiting for the sky to fall pretty much since the time I got my first good tech job in 2014.
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by jurassic 7y ago
These "contractor" drivers are misclassified employees who are not trained to the safety standard of logistics providers like FedEx and UPS.
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by jurassic 7y ago
Few landlords are paying full marginal income tax on their rental income because of the numerous tax advantages of property ownership (mortgage interest, depreciation, etc) that reduce their tax liability. Variation in the tax situation of
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by jurassic 7y ago
The state of Illinois is not financially sound. The state's bond rating, a measure of its credit worthiness, is hovering at the border of junk-bond territory. Pension liabilities and ineffective government are persistent dark clouds. Y
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by jurassic 7y ago
Interesting. Where did you come across that stat?

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