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by lisbbb 11mo ago
It already is. The US is currently missing an entire generation of journeyman tech workers because they never got hired in the first place. It's like when Cash for Clunkers got rid of so many used vehicles that it caused market disto
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
We have already eaten a ton of inflation, particularly in the first year or so when Biden was President. Trump printed trillions to forestall a collapse during covid. The wisdom of that move is lost on me. I would have preferred the coll
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Jeez--I was making $50/hr in 2004 in one of my first jobs after I finished my PhD and opted out of academia. That pay didn't go that far back then! This is what upsets me about my career--that logistic pay curve. You initially g
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
The ramifications of losing all or nearly all of the tech jobs in the US is that the last "good" place to find better paying work that had a fairly low barrier to entry is now gone. I think that has major consequences for the US
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Companies don't even care, honestly. Some have uptime requirements that they get fined over if things go sideways, but besides that, they don't even care.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
It was going to happen anyways. I was working remote 2-3 days a week before 2020 hit and that was mainly due to how bad my commute was time-wise. It was exhausting. But it's because the team I was working with was all in other citie
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
My dad would disagree--he's 84, was on statins for years and they did terrible things to his body. I'm sure the drugs kept him alive, but the side effects, as he describes them, particularly to his legs and kidneys, were pretty s
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
A colleague of mine was a vegan, took care of himself, still died of pancreatic cancer. It is what it is.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Love the chart at the bottom--it really puts on display media bias and lack of integrity and using fear to push idiotic policies which area really just a way to put everyone in the pocket of government and keep them there permanently with
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Unless he's a vampire. Those bastards are very cunning at hiding how long they live for.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
There's probably one for witches that's still all the rage on the east coast.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I know it has a tradition behind it, but you can't just make shit up and just expect people in this technical age to be okay with it. I used to peruse my Grandmother's Reader's Digest as a kid and never really understood tha
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I'm sorry, but I couldn't really follow what the hell that guy was writing. So some huge number of emails and passwords got exposed somehow?
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I feel this way whenever anyone on here downvotes me when I rail against socialism and communism. Like, hey, maybe some people have some lived experiences that are counterexamples, just maybe?
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Sounds familiar. I did fine in my career, but it never felt like enough and I missed a couple of major opportunities, so I'm not even sure how smart I was. Just high IQ, high test scores, yadda, yadda, yadda. Just wanted to really &
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Based on my downvotes here, I'd say the reddit crowd and the HN crowd Venn diagrams overlap 99%.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
My father is 84 and is among the most cantakerous people ever born. It's a sample size of 1, but he is a counter example since he's never had a single moment of optimism is his entire life!
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I don't know why people reflexively vote down comments like this one since it is completely reasonable in every way. Just, I guess, leftists who can't accept viewpoints they don't agree with? Like really--read some history
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Why is that? I think many of us who are educated in history understand the risks of collectivism. It has never worked out anywhere. I see it as basically a marketing cover for oligarchy. The Western world should aspire to better than Ch
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I'm against any and all political dynasties. They fly in the face of what representative government should be about. We have many people qualified to become political leaders but they never get the chance due to how the system operat
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
We do have tow trucks for a reason. Nuclear submarines are only limited by how much food they can carry and the overall endurance of the crew. Theoretically...
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Water + batteries, lol. What could go wrong?
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Yes--the only thing ACA did right was force insurers to take on people with pre-existing conditions. All the other crap could be done away with and we would all be better off. I think we should do away with publicly traded healthcare comp
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I tend to question that--I don't see how long wait times for serious conditions leads to better health outcomes. It would logically seem like it would lead to more and earlier deaths if truly spending less per patient. I suspect ther
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
This happened because of inflation. Costs rose so much that people had to make claims.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I have buried many pets, but last year my wife got cancer and while insurance was a huge headache, it came through in terms of protecting our wealth. She's currently in remission a year later after a very, very difficult fight that sh
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
We need to figure out how to make 8 billion humans act as carbon sinks!
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
You're not going to do better than the NSA.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Honestly, it read more like attention seeking. He "live coded" his work, by which I believe he means he streamed everything he was doing while working. It just seems so much more like a performance and building a brand than anyt
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I'm willing to give ICE a little extra leeway right now because of the dire situation we face in terms of losing our nation by being swamped with uncontrolled immigration. The previous Administration sure had a big plan that they were

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