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by peezd 8d ago
It's been somewhat established that having a wiped or basic phone is in itself sus and reason for them to investigate you further.
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by peezd 11d ago
I mean the EV is a good choice, but the bigger impact here is that everything gets more expensive due to the increase in costs of shipping, refining, producing, and heating/cooling... Which often aren't as visible as paying $82.00
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by peezd 12d ago
well said, thanks for sharing your perspective.
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by peezd 12d ago
It definitely varies a ton. I've observed more that H1B's keep employee mobility lower, so employees on H1Bs tended to be paid less due to the natural bumps that come out of switching jobs every few years, especially going from an
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by peezd 12d ago
There are already categories like this if you jump away from tech. Our friendly neighborhood Ski resort oligarchies leverage the J-1 Visa program to bring in international students to work at the resorts over paying more to hire local worke
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by peezd 12d ago
Absolutely; I'd check out AI Engineering by Chip Huyen to get a fundamental understanding of the space and do a couple of side projects in the area to get familiar and be able to speak to the nuances of working with LLMs, and that will
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by peezd 23d ago
Yeah I came here to post that, such a nonsensical statement
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by peezd 23d ago
Truth. lol I ran a sizeable team around 2020 and I had to educate a couple of our new hires straight from college that they actually needed to check their work email, after they missed important HR related stuff and they had just completely
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by peezd 26d ago
Exec branch has the authority to direct the U.S. Board on Geographic Names as it's under the US Dept of the Interior. That does mean the U.S. Gov't / federal depts have to use the recommendation from the board I believe as th
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by peezd 26d ago
All the handlers around him that are plundering and stealing and doing all the heinous shit. Trump is insanely easy to manipulate.
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by peezd 26d ago
Yeah, it seems like such an easy value add (especially since they gate it on gemini subs) to make Gemini do a great job in the google productivity apps, but they are generally pretty awful. Claude with MCP access to the google workplace API
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by peezd 26d ago
We have a similar situation here in Colorado, with our single provider continually raising rates (with one of the reasons being better mitigation; from what I can tell that means just running ads constantly talking about how great they are)
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by peezd 1mo ago
They are too big to fail at this point.
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by peezd 1mo ago
Yep, exactly this.
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by peezd 1mo ago
Protecting Workers, I'd add a couple more; it's not smart to be fully dependent on a trading partner or partners for critical and essential products, such as food, tariffs can help ensure you maintain domestic industry. Also help
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by peezd 1mo ago
[...wanted to bring your dad's factory job back, he'd specifically target whatever industry he was working in AND ideally spend the tariff money boosting that industry.] Which was more or less the intent of the CHIPS and Science A
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by peezd 1mo ago
VC funding (much of it from big tech). They have a freemium model and offer some pay for enterprise features, really just private repos, permissioning, etc. but not sure if it is meaningful
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by peezd 1mo ago
there's a difference between allowing exposure to unsafe content, against systematically and deliberately doing everything their psychologist/behavior economists could do to make sure kids were addicted to the product.
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by peezd 1mo ago
the story of how she wrote this is fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTLXYJGvhI4
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by peezd 1mo ago
Yep this was really it. The amount of storage on the ipod was amazing and just opened up the idea that "yes you put your full music collection on it".
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by peezd 1mo ago
I can't imagine it going any other way than what we've seen from every other country in your set of examples, honestly.
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by peezd 1mo ago
You are both sort of right and wrong; based on a quick analysis, knowing this isn't perfect due to how plans have different characteristics, and states had different characteristics.. in the 2000s (pre ACA); * Employer plans averages
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by peezd 1mo ago
I think it's generally gotten better for insurance companies, at the expense of both end customers and providers (with the exception of providers that have vertically integrated into the ecosystem, e.g. Aetna/CVS, etc. to capitali
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by peezd 1mo ago
I got the impression from a previous thread that the continual issues were largely driven by the required move to Azure, and underlying Azure stability
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by peezd 2mo ago
I've had this conversation a lot with my wife, as we have divergent philosophies. I'm an old Peace Corps hippie that then road warriored for a few years where I would do a 4 day work trip and limit myself to a bag I could fit unde
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by peezd 2mo ago
I think they were all in on open until they started falling behind, then decided to go all in on closed source thinking they could build a frontier SOTA model; that didn't pan out so they are whiplashing back.
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by peezd 2mo ago
I saw that and chuckled.
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by peezd 2mo ago
What a world we live in, that someone finding a 35 year old candy bar while cleaning out a hoarder's house gets its own tier 1 news article.
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by peezd 4y ago
Exactly this, a good therapist will focus the first session or two on fit, they want to make sure you both understand each other. I will caveat by not knowing what country you are in and the norms there, so this is coming from a US centric