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by lgleason 3y ago
They may need to stop to refuel. That said Durban had the bigger port these days. The bigger issue would be if Transnet has enough capacity to be able to handle the extra demand since it has had trouble with it's day to day operations
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by lgleason 3y ago
Yet many still deny there is an issue with jobs and keep asking for more lenient immigration policies. There is no shortage of IT workers. There is/was a shortage of workers who were willing to work for peanuts.
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by lgleason 3y ago
I have seen a few on the road in Costa Rica as well. There are not a lot of electric cars on the roads down there despite the tax incentives because they are too expensive for the average Tico. You also seen a decent number of Cherry, Geely
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by lgleason 3y ago
Tesla oversells and under delivers on many things. Range is one and the other big one is the autosteer, FSD etc. which has gotten worse not better with subsequent releases. Then there was the crazy claim from Musk that the cars would be app
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by lgleason 3y ago
Someone mentioned Lockheed, at GE they had a program that was pushed really hard on software engineers/EE's etc. with a carrot of a bonus for patents accepted and approved.
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by lgleason 3y ago
You are forgetting the law of supply and demand. More supply and the same demand leads to lower prices.
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by lgleason 3y ago
Exactly! The companies often prefer the people on H1B visas because the workers have to be much more subservient or risk being deported and they have leverage to pay them at the lower end of the salary range for the position/level.
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by lgleason 3y ago
They just created a giant loophole that will be easy to game. Patents are easy to get and someone will come up with a startup mill that will be nothing but a visa factory.
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by lgleason 3y ago
Expect further downward pressure on US tech salaries.
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by lgleason 3y ago
I wonder if part of it is that under performing companies feel that they need to RTO to try to fix things...which of course does not work but...
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by lgleason 3y ago
Anecdotally with my family and some family friends the men have outlived the women in more recent years. My sister was dead at 50, my mother died 10 years before my father, four close family friends outlived their wives, my wifes father out
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by lgleason 3y ago
You would think that after what happened in Atlanta with 85 a few years ago, which was ironically storage owned by the state where a homeless person set some stuff on fire, they would have known better than to allow any storage under a brid
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by lgleason 3y ago
Or consider a different type of investment if they don't want the risk. The low interest rates drove a lot of people into the stock market that would have otherwise chosen more conservative investments. It also drove high valuations fo
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by lgleason 3y ago
The losing money pre-Covid was very typical in a low inflation, low interest rate environment where growth is prioritized over profit for newer companies that recently went through the startup IPO cycle. With high interest rates profitabili
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by lgleason 3y ago
It will have the same effect as a raindrop does to a flood. One of many contributing events that continue to create downward pressure on prices and rent.
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by lgleason 3y ago
All part to the casino which is the stock market. Buyer beware.
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by lgleason 3y ago
I don't own any of their stock, so I don't have a dog in this fight.
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by lgleason 3y ago
Some are speculating that it is a way for them to re-negotiate leases, given what is currently happening with office space rents it could come out stronger. edit: Also, given that startup investments are way down right now, tech is in a rec
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by lgleason 3y ago
Anecdotally, I've seen more fast and loose things happen at crypto conferences than others I have attended. Some were pretty big safety concerns, things that legally could cause massive headaches etc. so this does not surprise me.
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by lgleason 3y ago
I don't think that is true. From what I'm reading there is no acceleration.
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by lgleason 3y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Granted if interest rates were low they could just take on more debt or almost no cost, but with hight interest rates it makes our industry even more rate sensitive.
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by lgleason 3y ago
For people doing contract software development in a work for hire type of fashion, at this point it looks like this will not directly affect you or a business that does that. But your your client is going to have a bigger tax bill which may
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by lgleason 3y ago
Cross posting this from another thread....I can see both sides to this argument (saying this as someone who owns property in multiple countries and has an electric (Tesla Model 3LR), Plug in Hybrid(Chevy Volt 2nd gen) and ICE cars (A 20 yea
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by lgleason 3y ago
I can see both sides to this argument (saying this as someone who owns property in multiple countries and has an electric (Tesla Model 3LR), Plug in Hybrid(Chevy Volt 2nd gen) and ICE cars (A 20 year old Volvo S60 and 22 year old Audi TT)).
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by lgleason 3y ago
The lack of quality with public schools has degraded to the point of you facing the choice of either spending a boat load of money on private, and even some of those have gone downhill, or homeschooling. I also know a lot of people who were
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by lgleason 3y ago
When you can't make a product that works well, throw a bunch of marketing at it to add some lipstick :)
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by lgleason 3y ago
Go to some developing countries and that is the norm. The cars look like crap but.... Personally I prefer a pristine car and spend hours polishing mine, but to each their own.
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by lgleason 3y ago
It's tough to say what the effect is. The science has been corrupted by political interests instead of an actual scientific discovery. The overblown histrionic predictions of doom from the activists/climate change believers does n
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by lgleason 3y ago
Skeptic here. I don't deny that the climate is changing. It always has been. However the notion that all of this is based on human activity is not something I subscribe to. Climate change and the green initiatives have become a sort of
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by lgleason 3y ago
If remote LATAM is that much of a game changer then we should see US software salaries continue to go down and a salary equalization that ends up being much lower than the current US market rates.

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