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by learc83 5y ago
> sun exposure, particularly among white people in the United States (which is much sunnier than Europe), was rarely avoided or mitigated, particularly among the working class Sure farmers in the 1930s had more sun exposure than your av
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by learc83 5y ago
Exactly. The way I think about it is that anything is interesting if studied in enough detail. A single square inch of lawn could provide material for multiple PhDs.
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by learc83 5y ago
Not if the investigation includes a warrant to seize your crypto assets. Which a money laundering investigation certainly could.
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by learc83 5y ago
In the US at least, the method for seizing crypto is the same as for seizing money in a bank account. The only difference is that the warrant is served on the person who owns the crypto wallet instead of a bank. That’s what I meant when I s
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by learc83 5y ago
Your first example was caught up in a government mandated anti money laundering investigation. If the government is after you, crypto isn’t going to protect you. It might make the cost to go after your money a little higher if you’re willin
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by learc83 5y ago
That speciality actually sounds extremely interesting. Is this the kind of thing that companies bring in a consultant for, or are these full time positions? I’d be very interested to hear more. Do you have a blog, or can you point me to any
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by learc83 5y ago
In the short term, paying more will pull doctors out of retirement/semi-retirement, and delay retirement for existing doctors. In the medium term, you'll start attracting doctors from related fields who are willing to retrain. And
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by learc83 5y ago
What are these software engineering skillsets that are paying over $1,000,000? There are people who are technically ICs making that, but at that salary its mostly down to politics not technical skill, and they are ICs in name only. >That
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by learc83 5y ago
Everyone who uses JavaScript reads most of JavaScript left to right.
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by learc83 5y ago
My wife is an ER physician. It’s a demanding job that requires a ton of focus, so most of her colleagues only work about 30 hours a week. She’s also worked as a general pediatrician seeing lower acuity patients/well visits. From talkin
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by learc83 5y ago
Don’t try to please everyone. If someone is a FOSS purist, they aren’t going to accept a license with any of the restrictions that prevent companies from offering a hosted service.
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by learc83 5y ago
That comment paper isn't actually debunking that specific survey. It's just essentially saying that proving that voter ID laws suppress minority votes is hard. The phone survey of less than a 1,000 people is still a perfectly vali
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by learc83 5y ago
You can select people to display in your man on the street interview segment to make it look like the average American doesn’t know who the President is. Regardless of what some people in Harlem think, data shows that minorities are in fact
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by learc83 5y ago
Enforcement is relatively easy. Many US states regularly pursue enforcement action for misclassification of employees. Companies already report how much they pay contractors to the IRS and state tax agencies, so spot checking companies payi
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by learc83 5y ago
Butter or jam/jelly.
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by learc83 5y ago
They can do those things. But that’s not what most employers want in my experience. And it’s not how most of these relationships operate. For an example see the response by the OP below. The remote worker is treated like an employee excep
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by learc83 5y ago
That’s exactly what I’m talking about. You are essentially a full time employee in all but name. Here’s one of the tests. Notice vacation is explicitly called out. > Are there written contracts or employee type benefits (i.e. pension pla
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by learc83 5y ago
The more common this becomes the more likely people in the US (where most people are trying to work) take notice and enforce existing labor laws, and push for more regulation. I’ve worked with people doing this in the past and they almost c
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by learc83 5y ago
The problem is that once you segment your customers into paying and non paying. The non paying customers become much less valuable to advertisers and the paying customers become much more valuable. So the service needs to charge even more,
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by learc83 5y ago
Does Tesla’s autopilot normally stop at red lights? My Subaru’s equivalent doesn’t (Unless there’s a car in front of me that also stops at the light).
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by learc83 5y ago
>Unless you do get a job in your field, with enough income that you're supposed to pay it back, but can't. This probably will be less common with the current rates, but as recently as 2012 the interest rates were at 6.8% . Ther
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by learc83 5y ago
Here's what happened. Federal loans have existed for a long time. The Federal government would guarantee loans made by private organizations. However, these were always "Federal loans", the Federal government controlled the i
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by learc83 5y ago
>I've done enough work in data collection and stats to know that generalized statistics are almost always associated with false conclusions that avoid context of their data. There's no context that changes this. Private loans m
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by learc83 5y ago
I have many family members in the trades. "The trades" is not a homogenous group of jobs. Some of them got lucky and got good union jobs. Most of them work hard jobs that are hard on their bodies. They have an income that's e
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by learc83 5y ago
>Yes, but they are told their whole life "after college, you'll make enough to pay it off easy, no problem!" If anything, the predominant messaging today is the exact opposite of that. It also doesn't matter because p
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by learc83 5y ago
>The predatory part is the pushing kids who don't understand finances into taking massive loans with high interest rates. There's literally lectures and a quiz you have to pass before you can take the loans that explains how re
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by learc83 5y ago
The fact that you are forced to take out private loans isn't evidence that the vast majority of students are. College tuitions and housing prices vary wildly, many students live with family, many students have merit based scholarships.
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by learc83 5y ago
Start with something easy like cookies.
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by learc83 5y ago
When I was in 10th grade, in the late 90s, our history teacher gave us a an assignment to “make a website.” It turned out that by make a website she meant create a power point presentation that she could upload to the internet.
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by learc83 5y ago
The point isn’t that depression has no biological cause. The point is that there are probably numerous biological causes. To strain the analogy, there are probably dozens of different depression gremlins. Maybe even a depression goblin, and

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