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by nickff 2y ago
I believe that Independent Agencies were created by the Progressives of the early 20th century. They were subsequently found to be constitutional, through somewhat dubious reasoning, and it seems like they’re now too big to fail.
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NSF is an independent agency, and the degree of control over it which a President can legitimately exercise is disputed, but presidents from both parties have treated the independent agencies as being subject to executive orders. https:&#x
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The number of people actually employed at minimum wage is quite small (usually low single digit percentage of total employment), though it does vary by location. If you add in some amount over minimum wage the number goes up (significantly)
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The "Hiring Freeze" seems to clearly and explicitly exclude cases like this. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/hiri...
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Your logic is definitely sound for a hobbyist or prototyped, but the copper dissolved off a board in a commercial setting is recycled. The article misses the real reason why pours were uncommon in the 80s, which is that people had to actual
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Cars that have shorter service lives would probably be best for automotive workers' unions.
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> "So I bought an 80 Series Toyota. It only gets 1mpg less than the Grenadier. 30 years, all that complexity, and we gained 1mpg." The Grenadier complies with many emissions, collision, and other regulatory requirements than t
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This is just an extension of the Mexico City Policy type behavior that has been going on for a long time; there isn’t much new under the Sun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_policy
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Interesting perspective, but it really seems like state capitals just tend to siphon money from far away to invest nearby, and consequently, grow. Selecting a major city as your capital seems to accelerate the process, but even countries wh
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I think the idea is that these low ‘trigger levels’ on these new and mandatory devices will erroneously trip on a semi-regular basis, because EVs are often charged in adverse conditions. The erroneous trips will then be inconvenient enoug
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Authoritarian power transfers usually involve (immediate) executions, or at least the imprisonment/exile of important people from the previous government/administration/regime, to stabilize the new regime: https://
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Many authors of great works were not wonderful people, and there’s no way to verify their ‘correctness’. For a very current example, see Gaiman, who had a sterling reputation which is now in doubt. In any case, you are the one most harmed b
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Insurance companies are not doing well in terms of profits: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights... I understand people's frustration at expensive premiums, but increasing the regulat
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You can also become homeless because the market has decided that rent should cost more than you can afford (in a given area). This involves real estate, equity investing, home insurance, zoning, housing regulation, and banking. Is this equa
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I don’t think health insurance is actually insurance, but I have seen little evidence that it has “insane profit margins”. From what I’ve read, ‘health insurance’ has middling profit margins relative to other insurance specialties; where ar
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Hamas had previously exchanged very few hostages for major Israeli concessions; they seem to have believed that taking more hostages would yield an even better deal. Simultaneously, this goes well with their overall ‘anti-colonial’ philosop
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I absolutely love that beautiful film footage, particularly well-exhibited in one of my favorite documentaries, the spectacular "When We Left Earth" (a lovely and lengthy series). That said... Modern rockets have the ability to st
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It is my understanding from a (no-longer-available) MIT OCW aircraft systems design video that these requirements are based on one engine failure on the aircraft, regardless of the number of engines on the aircraft.
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Increasing corporate taxes wouldn't necessarily shift the burden off the working class (though it might). Individuals react to taxes by reducing consumption of 'luxuries', whereas corporations don't experience luxuries,
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Maybe JPMorgan doesn't want employees like you; maybe they want employees who chit-chat, and become attached to their company, for various (non-kLoC) reasons. Not every workplace is for everyone.
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I am not being sarcastic. The revolution and subsequent wars caused extremely high casualty rates among French men, while the country isolated itself from international trade, and suffered negative economic consequences.
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The French Revolution led to quite poor results for those fortunate enough to survive it. You might prefer the approach, but I doubt you’d enjoy the aftermath.
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AFAIK Hasn’t been legal unless the test is closely related to the job since Griggs v. Duke Power Company, a 1971 SCOTUS case.
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It’s not about testing ability to solve those problems, it’s about testing conformity, determination, and IQ (while being job-specific and thus legal).
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HN exists to advertise yCombinator stuff! You seem to like this forum, yet you wish for it to perish?
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Many of the YCombinator companies advertise jobs on this forum, and some also post ‘demos’, which are often advertising to potential investors, clients, and partners.
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The problem isn’t that governments are beholden to the plastics lobby; this is more of a ‘bootleggers and baptists’ situation where most people like plastics because they’re cost-effective, and ‘recycling’ lowers their perceived environment
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Here's a link to a story where a Canadian woman waited three years: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-3-y... Apparently the average in her province is about 14 months, about sixty
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The problem is that labor laws and practical considerations make it so that most other options are infeasible and/or illegal. Business model innovation in employment is basically illegal. Professional sports take interesting and varied
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That’s definitely a problem right now, but it’s still not worth hiring people just to train them and have them leave. I think this one of the reasons for the popularity of H1B, as this new normal isn’t worldwide yet.

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