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by nickff 2y ago
Many peoples’ wages went from 0-150k in that period. There were many layoffs during the Great Recession, and comparing asset values from then to now (a point at which there has been ~15 years of secular growth) is absurd.
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by nickff 2y ago
I think the difference between the US lunar exploration program and the Soviet one qualifies as more than mere nitpicking.
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by nickff 2y ago
I think this is admirable, but probably hopeless. Permitting and regulations draw out timelines (and increase uncertainty/risk), reducing returns on investment, while tax policy makes capital investment very expensive. The global Nort
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by nickff 2y ago
The USA also fielded liquid-fueled ICBMs, but I believe they have all been decommissioned in favor of solid-fueled missiles, which are more reliable and easier to store.
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by nickff 2y ago
I was replying to a comment that said: > ”They don't want to destroy [NASA], just make it so useless they have pretext to privatize it.” I just think they were wrong. I agree that the current administration does want to prevent the
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by nickff 2y ago
SLS has been around the moon and back; that mission was equivalent to an unmanned Apollo VIII. Going around the moon is much easier than landing on it and coming back.
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by nickff 2y ago
I don’t think anyone wants to privatize any of the space telescopes or NASA as a whole. Do you have any evidence that there is someone who does?
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by nickff 2y ago
I think the primary stimulus which creating the “job hopping culture” was actually the hot labor market for software developers. Other fields experienced real ‘cost-cutting’, without resulting in a lot of ‘job-hopping’. I agree that this si
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by nickff 2y ago
> "And most refused to look at anybody deviating from their ideal background in my experience." This is often because the culture of job-hopping for better pay every 18 months has eroded the willingness to pay for training or
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by nickff 2y ago
The problem is that many smaller companies have hired people from FAANG, and had them quite after a short tenure, so they're unwilling to try their luck again, as it's just not worth it. You may be different, but they've hear
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by nickff 2y ago
> ”There seems to be a weird selection bias that if you're FAANG or FAANG adjacent these small companies aren't interested.” Many smaller companies have noticed that former and wannabe FAANGers are looking for FAANG-type jobs,
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by nickff 2y ago
From what I understand (and I’d appreciate any corrections) FAIR was supposed to pay for itself, not be a subsidized insurer. It seems like FAIR was underpricing the risk, and the private insurers were right to pull out.
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by nickff 2y ago
Anecdotally, it’s very dependent on driving cycle and driving style, but EVs use their brakes much less in general. It would be interesting to measure the total mass of brake pads sold per vehicle mile for different vehicles, though this wo
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by nickff 2y ago
There's an unfortunate history of scientists harming study subjects, which caused most institutions to institute these safeguards, so as to avoid reputational harm which would cause the government to cease funding them. Corporations ar
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by nickff 2y ago
The USA did quite well in applied research before the federal government became the dominant source of funds. That said, it would probably take some time (and some pain) to readjust, and theoretical/arts research would likely be dramat
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by nickff 2y ago
I understand your statement in the de facto sense, but I think the position is still legally authorized by Congress, and thus does exist de jure .
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by nickff 2y ago
Thanks for sharing! It seems that many well-intentioned government policies cause disproportionate harm to smaller businesses and other entities (like charity). Perhaps something should be done to compensate for this (such as making reimbur
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by nickff 2y ago
The jeune ecole thought that torpedoes and small torpedo boats would doom battleships; they were wrong. People thought SAMs would end bombers, and anti-tank missiles would end tanks. There’s always a new weapon, but it doesn’t mean the old
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by nickff 2y ago
The general advice with respect to conflict strategies is to base your plans on what your (current or potential) adversary is capable of, not what you believe their intentions are.
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by nickff 2y ago
Here's the court's decision on the case: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985... The result wasn't what you're describing. The plaintiff was suing in federal court, with a co
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by nickff 2y ago
If you are a very good actor, confident that nobody will call your bluff, and the assailant believes it is likely that the gun is real and loaded, yes.
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by nickff 2y ago
That’s one of the decisions; on the other hand, the director was made removable at will (by the courts, in response to a challenge, and contrary to the original statute), and there have been other proposed challenges. This change has proved
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by nickff 2y ago
There are/were a number of issues with its structure, some of which are described in the lawsuits mentioned on its Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protectio...
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by nickff 2y ago
It should also be noted that uses of guns in self defense (e.g. “pulling a gun”) not involving any injuries or deaths are not well-tracked (though they’re estimated to be much more frequent than instances involving bodily harm).
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by nickff 2y ago
A number of (especially recent) administrations have performed a large number of legally questionable acts which were often structured in such a way as to be difficult to challenge (the CFPB comes to mind). Trump’s innovation seems to be ta
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by nickff 2y ago
Assassination and suicide both seem non-defensive, unless you use a very broad definition of defense.
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by nickff 2y ago
Except when the co-worker you need to collaborate with is doing their laundry, gardening, or picking their kid up from school.
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by nickff 2y ago
The OP is offering terrible advice based on a falsehood they believe about null pointers. In many applications (including the STM32H743 microcontroller that I am currently working on), address zero (which is how "NULL" is defined
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by nickff 2y ago
In order to 'write off' something, you have to take a financial loss; where's the tax fraud?
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by nickff 2y ago
Not all spending is tax-deductible, I believe that only expenses are generally 100% tax deductible on day one.

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