kesselvon

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by kesselvon 5y ago
It's the lack of unions and cheap wages. Southern states are famously lax on workers rights and business regulations.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Thinking salaries are governed by market forces is a fundamental attribution error
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Yeah, most hedge fund managers are also absolute trash though.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
It's gonna lead to bad times when men start seeing education as effeminate.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Those kids have social security numbers that the IRS definitely has, and social programs are based on income, which is reported to the IRS. If it wasn't possible, Intuit wouldn't bother lobbying.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Nuclear weapons are a technology that is almost 100 years old, and is old enough for a country like North Korea to pull off. It has a space program with rockets, a nuclear power sector, etc. It's the thing you do when you want all the
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by kesselvon 5y ago
H1B labor isn't mobile, so you can underpay and treat them how you like. It's like when manufacturing complains about labor and skill shortages but the wages are terrible. When you need labor and can't find it, lots of times
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by kesselvon 5y ago
What is now Iraq was largely almost always under Sassanid/Persian rule. The old Persian capital of Ctesiphon was basically next door to modern Baghdad. The old fault line was really in eastern Anatolia. Rome held Mesopotamia for a very
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by kesselvon 5y ago
They weren't accessible because of the ongoing Taliban insurgency, which is now the sole existing government.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Not really, because City of London is a borough of London proper and is really just the business district.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Serving B2B clients requires more time than you'd have as a solopreneur because they require a lot of handholding through the entire lifecycle. Even a small SaaS company can have 5-10 people touching a deal in some form (marketing, sal
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Last I checked, the Germans crushed the Russians in WW1 while treating that front as a defensive action while the real war was fought on the Western front. The Polish invasion in 1920 was pretty effective too until it wasn't, same for
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by kesselvon 5y ago
My point was that universities aren't some kind of left-wing propaganda factory, and that they see universities as hostile to right-wing opinions because they deride the product of a university education. The right-wing opinion on univ
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by kesselvon 5y ago
What you get out of college is entirely up to you.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Current vaccines aren't as effective against catching Delta, they are very effective against symptoms, hospitalization, and death, so everyone must get vaccinated. Being vaccinated to the point where you don't become part of a flo
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by kesselvon 5y ago
A free market is not a market free of regulation. Adam Smith was pretty explicit that markets can't exist without regulation as without uniform rules of engagement and the trust that creates in the system, there is no free market.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Shocks to the labour market without an adequate safety net to cushion folks from the personal fallout of labour market shocks is a good recipe for resentment
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by kesselvon 5y ago
It's not surprising that universities are more left-leaning when the right has taken a stance against higher education and pushes anti-intellectualism for political gain. The right likes to push this idea of universities as brainwashin
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Pripyat Marshes are not a big stretch of the North European Plain. You can move massive armies through the northern route along the Baltic coast, or the southern route through Ukraine. They're not really a big obstacle, given the two l
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by kesselvon 5y ago
His point is they can't afford the AGTMs, not the cell phones. AGTMs are expensive, and the Taliban can't afford it.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
It wasn't really peaceful or prosperous. The Austrians had to cut the Hungarians in on the empire, as otherwise it would have collapsed, and even then it was pretty unpopular and ineffectual. It was a pretty stodgy, autocratic relic of
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Right wing media stopped talking about it immediately after it had no value to swing the election, which is telling as to how credible the accusations were.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Which leadership principles are about having their warehouse employees urinate in bottles?
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Leadership principles aren't worth anything; it's just nice PR. It's like a shark telling you it's gone vegan.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
This happens all the time at non-FAANG companies.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Lots of companies overhire for empire building purposes and for tasks that offer marginal or zero value to the company. I'm sure plenty of people here can attest to the cascade of overhiring that happens to startups all the time.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
In undergrad I'd listen to lectures while doing chores all the time, especially when the concepts are theoretical and it's more about just listening to the information. It won't work for a calculus lecture, but for a lot of t
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by kesselvon 5y ago
The conditions might be different than 20th century factory work, but the dynamic between wage labor and capital isn't much different.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
The "random encounters" thing is always funny to hear from executives, because they are rarely anywhere but in back-to-back meetings.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
It might be the narrative but it's not incorrect. It's just another front in the continual war between labor and management

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