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by mfer 4y ago
Homes are incredibly complicated... - I know people who rent who have had their period end by the owner. The owner plans to "update" the place and rent it for a lot more. Renting prices do go up over time. This sucks if one wants
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by mfer 4y ago
Make everything a SaaS then the majority own little to nothing and are dependent on the providers. Reminds me of the land barons.
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by mfer 4y ago
The way people handle money is a cultural problem. Not only is it a lack of savings, many people have a lot of debt that's growing. The way many view money is to spend more than they take in. Driven by consumerism. Consider how often p
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by mfer 4y ago
One of the problems is that many people have a lot of debt when they go to retirement age as well as a lack of savings. For decades, people spend more than they earn and it's a habit. UBI in this environment means the gov keeps feeding
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by mfer 4y ago
Most college educated people do not make the salaries that software people do. So, we shouldn't expect that. Making better than the mean or median within the US should be noted. High schoolers don't make decisions on economic real
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by mfer 4y ago
Most doctors (in the US anyway) don't cover things until there is a problem. For example, someone can eat a diet that will lead to heart disease. But, doctors won't tell them to make changes until problems are already showing up.
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by mfer 4y ago
This is not likely. Life expectancy is going down while chronic disease is going up. Most of it has to do with lifestyle in ways the average person isn't aware of. The health care system is more capable than ever before. But, lifestyle
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by mfer 4y ago
This misses out on the culture problem. A lot of high schools teach kids they must go to college. Kids feel like failures to consider the route of skilled trades. Many schools have removed the hands on classes that prep people to be comfort
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by mfer 4y ago
The US is huge and the stat I shared was US wide. Pay is going to be a big regional. There's a ton of data at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472111.htm There are lots of companies out there that pay low w
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by mfer 4y ago
There has been a culture in the US, for some time, that everyone needs to go to college. Many high schools have removed classes that guide/prepare people into skilled trades and guidance counselors almost always push everyone to colleg
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by mfer 4y ago
Electricians are a skilled trade. Not only are there not enough, many of them are older. As they retire there aren't as many becoming electricians as there are leaving. If we want more electricians we need to embrace skilled trades as
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by mfer 4y ago
Homebrew uses it to store bottles (the built assets).
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by mfer 4y ago
You don't have an ad blocker?
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by mfer 4y ago
Is the situation where stay at home parents, in a two parent household, being unfeasible a majority of the time a market failure?
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by mfer 4y ago
I don't really like the idea of TOTP and passwords in the same place. If it gets compromised someone has both your password and TOTP code.
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by mfer 4y ago
That depends on the reason. For example, did someone cripple a system on their way out the door to cause the outage? Is this some retaliation? If so it doesn't speak to the quality of what was built. I only use this example to speak to
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by mfer 4y ago
What alternative are you using?
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by mfer 4y ago
On a regular basis I use Teams, Zoom, and Jitsi for video conferencing. Teams isn't the most troublesome of the set. > I'm sure this is just Microsoft unifying everyone on the same comms platform, but seriously, I don't kn
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by mfer 4y ago
There are many reasons companies do it: - They are on venture capital, not profitable, and the process around IPO, being purchased, or getting more rounds of funding has been complicated by the downturn. So, they need to change their rate o
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by mfer 4y ago
Sounds like a family business. I remember the first large company I worked for. There were married couples there, parents and their kids there, an aunt with her nephew there. There are a lot of ways to have family at a company.
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by mfer 4y ago
I've been using Repair Clinic [1] to get parts to repair my major appliances. It's been great. They often have material to help me get started, too. [1] https://www.repairclinic.com/
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by mfer 4y ago
I think this already makes too many assumptions. Teachers are responsible for teaching kids how to read, write, do math, learn the basic geography of the world, to learn sports, possibly learn music, maybe learn how to manage money, learn t
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by mfer 4y ago
To try and be more clear, I'm not attempting to give my own opinion on what should happen with regard to these topics. I'm attempting to highlight the disconnect. To get closer to a root of what's happening. This is from dire
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by mfer 4y ago
> There are really only two possible answers in the current public school systenlm: There is one more option. Have a small group of people push their agenda while the masses are mostly unaware.
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by mfer 4y ago
First, let me say that I'm not attempting to give my own opinion on the direction that folks should go in. I'm most interested in bringing awareness as to what's going on so we can have deeper understanding and discussion. Wi
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by mfer 4y ago
> widespread agreement There isn't widespread agreement. That's how we got here. Parents are disagreeing with teachers as to what material they want in front of their kids. The book I referred to earlier described using sex toy
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by mfer 4y ago
> So, the question becomes should we keep schools neutral or not? What is the role of school? Is the role to prep kids to go to college? Is it to drive social change? Is it to teach what kids need to perform common jobs? Is it to teach k
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by mfer 4y ago
Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the book. It was one I was not familiar with. The discussion noted that the book discussed using "toys". They also noted that there was an add for buying sex toys as part of the boo
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by mfer 4y ago
Context as to what's happening in US schools... This highlights part of the growing movement and disagreement around culture shaping through kids. To highlight this, if you take a look at school of educations mission statement[1] >
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by mfer 4y ago
To fill in some context... This isn't about Governor approval. This was approved by the legislature and signed into law by the governor. Not a mandate by them. The context of all of this is teachers putting books in front of kids that

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