lgleason

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by lgleason 3y ago
All of these immigration programs are labor arbitrage designed to reduce wages for US citizens...supply and demand. If you are a US citizen software developer and ever wondered why you are not able to earn more money you can thank the speci
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by lgleason 3y ago
The kid that does really well in school, makes it big is going to have an opportunity for a lot more play later in life. The kid who does nothing but play will probably end up having very little opportunity and have to work long hours later
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by lgleason 3y ago
Yup, I've seen the effects of this first hand.
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by lgleason 3y ago
I had to work in an environment like that. It sucked. Then there were the corporate internets the blocked certain sites to prevent employees from surfing the internet too much. Those were annoying as well. Did they really add any security,
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by lgleason 3y ago
Here's a thought. Allow kids, but require that they have manners and are well behaved. I love kids and have no problems with them, but hate kids that have no manners and are not well behaved because the parents are not doing their job.
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by lgleason 3y ago
It's definitely more common today, but it did happen even back then. I think part of the issue was that back then more of the population was in the north where the cars would rust before they hit that mileage. Ironically the private ca
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by lgleason 3y ago
I remember the story of my dad buying a brand new 1982 Buick Century in 1982 with the iron duke 4 cylinder Tech IV engine. This was the 1st year that engine came with electronic fuel injection. Since they bought the car new they had issues
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by lgleason 3y ago
South Africa has a lot of other valuable resources beyond gold. For example, coal, iron etc..
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by lgleason 3y ago
The previous president, Zuma, constructed a lavish swimming pool at his private residence with public funds. When pressed on it he said it was a fire pool and went so far as to bring in a group with pumps to demonstrate pumping the water ou
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by lgleason 3y ago
Exactly, I'll also add failed social policies to this list. The economy of Johannesburg goes well beyond gold. The country has amazing natural resources and some very smart people, but sadly the smart ones are in the minority. My broth
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by lgleason 3y ago
Next we will go from reducing carbon to reducing water usage based on another popular junk science theory.
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by lgleason 3y ago
The market was frothy and some bad ideas that should have failed earlier didn't because of cheap money that has dried up. Startups that can make it right now are more likely to succeed long term. This is the natural cycle that weeds ou
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by lgleason 3y ago
Given how many people drive cars every year in the US, 360 lives saved is a rounding error. Would like to see the data on the accidents it actually prevents. I have cars with and without this. Honestly I haven't noticed a difference on
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by lgleason 3y ago
....and which cars actually support this vaporware?
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by lgleason 4y ago
Cool! I took down my initial ageist comment right after I posted it because I didn't want to be too harsh and get into an un-intended flame war over something that you may not have meant. More people are going into tech as technology e
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by lgleason 4y ago
My natural reaction to that statement is that this is a subjective statement to say that one generation is more knowledgable than another. Those who are younger may tend to be more gung-ho, but given the lack of experience those who are you
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by lgleason 4y ago
Unless the majority of academy is female, I would guess that you probably have a lower number of women running and a lot of pressure to get more women into these positions. This is what happens when you favor equality of outcome vs equality
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by lgleason 4y ago
This ^^^
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by lgleason 4y ago
I love it!
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by lgleason 4y ago
That is not how ADHD works. A person with untreated ADHD will not improve much even with incentives like this without treatment. The problem is that when it is untreated the executive part of the brain is not firing correctly because of a c
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by lgleason 4y ago
Most that I know are making a lot more than that in ZA.
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by lgleason 4y ago
People who came to the US knew that when they came. That is part of the conditions of coming to the country. If someone doesn't want to have to worry about that they can choose not to come in the first place. Other countries do that sa
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by lgleason 4y ago
To make a name for themselves and to drum up further business.
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by lgleason 4y ago
Except this company is trying to make it easier to keep these people here to depress wages during a downturn.
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by lgleason 4y ago
From what I've been seeing it seems like a trade off between a more functional government and better views in some places by the ocean vs less functional government, warmer weather, more crime and a bigger, nicer house.
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by lgleason 4y ago
The average domestic worker in South Africa makes $16 a day and a little bit more for gardening. The domestic will come and clean the house, wash your clothes, iron etc. and put in a full days worth of work. The gardener will spend a full d
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by lgleason 4y ago
I'm not criticizing you. It's just part of the difference in standard of living. In the US, only the rich can afford a domestic worker, because it would cost up-words of $200 a day. In South Africa it is a fraction of that cost ev
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by lgleason 4y ago
The flight out of the country has been happening for a long time.
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by lgleason 4y ago
It's what us American's call a hot water tank. Basically the same thing.
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by lgleason 4y ago
I'm currently looking a houses in South Africa (Pretoria East and the Cape Town Area) and can provide a couple of data points. In Pretoria I would only consider living in a security estate, Oscar lived in Silver Lakes which is one on t

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