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by tech_ken 2y ago
Healthcare; as long as there's people there's going to be sickness and injuries. It can be a tough work environment, but it's as recession-proof an industry as your likely to find and you can ply your skills anywhere. Healthc
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Gotcha gotcha, that makes sense thanks for explaining
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I guess my thinking was that this had always been the case somewhat, that there was a natural age split between producers and consumers to some extent. Most retired people have at least 1:1 replaced themselves in the workforce, so on a long
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Well sure but is the conclusion then that the effect is an artifact of the bad measurment, rather than something “real”?
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Seems like a failure to properly attribute productivity back up the labor chain though? If 1 of the 4 infants cared for becomes a high-productivity software developer, shouldn't the labor productivity number of the teacher partially re
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> They are, into your Blackrocks and KKRs and other funds to help drive further returns Gotcha, so point is that people just aren't really spending their retirement savings? And simultaneously the population of money-hoarders is gro
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Yeah I saw your other comment and was curious. If it was purely pensioners seeking higher returns wouldn't those be getting circulated back into the economy, driving costs down? It seems counterintuitive to me that there's a big c
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Personally I believe it's a consequence of the increasing financial-ization of society. I know lawyers who've securitized preschool curricula for private equity firms to purchase and trade, which to me just seems bass-akward. When
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Seems lower than CA right now: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices... I believe historically that hasn't always been true, but I'd bet that after all the bad press Texas uti
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Seems more like .26-.46/kWh[0] And at a quick glance that seems more likely (to me) to be a response to capital cost spikes after all the wildfires as well as higher labor costs for the state, rather than because they are shifting to b
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Damn you said exactly what I wanted to say but way more concisely haha. > To me, it raises the question of whether for the goals of any kind of "social science" to come to fruition if it must become an artistic practice. “Artis
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It's definitely hard to change people, but I also think to some extent it's extremely easy if you know what you're doing and you're specific about the context. As the author notes: cults are really good at it. Another ex
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It seems more plausible (to me) that this is the result of the cultural 'quarantine' of smoking and not the efficacy of the "don't smoke" programs in schools per se. The entertainment industry in the US aggressively
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> Anyway, I wanted to learn about this stuff, and I’m a firm believer that you can’t learn anything in physics without getting your hands dirty and solving some integrals. If there's a better reason to remain entirely ignorant of al
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> One could also say that therapists prey on lonely people who pay them to talk to them It is indisputable that one could say this
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Yeah actually I’m with you on this. Not for everything, but there are definitely food items I won’t try to save after ex. putting them out for a party (like if a dairy based dip has been at room temp for more than 1-2 hours it’s not going b
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Yeah sorry should have been clear that I was thinking about a case where like one or two blueberries in the corner of the package have just started to mold, or where it's a non-mold problem (like maybe an apple bruise has made 1/3
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Good point, yeah I should be clear that if like half my loaf of bread is moldy I'm chucking the whole thing; I'm only saving it if it's like a few slices at one end that are moldy. Probably would have been better to say that
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Lmao whups
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Guy who's about to invent wine be like
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The best news is that your hush puppies are ready: youtube.com/watch?v=L7eFdTGC3N4
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Kind of repeating myself from another comment, but the person making this comment is basically standing atop one of the most singular vantage points in all of human history. To say this advice is non-generalizable is an understatement, IM p
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> The pollution lifted every single person’s standard of living across the globe to levels unimaginable 100 years ago. I think it's important to note that you are making this statement with virtually no evidence about the long term
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> Every so often, I go through my refrigerator, check labels on the items, and throw out anything that’s a month, or a week, or maybe a few days past the date on the label Does anyone actually do this for real? In the overwhelming majori
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Yeah sure, as I said it’s basically anecdotal data nothing I would say perfectly proves any particular point. Still it’s more evidence than the original comment provided to support their statement
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> it's that the uselessness is probably concentrated in the person complaining and doing nothing about it So basically this PE guy?
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Sure feel free to swap in whatever job role you like, my main point is that I’d rather hear an analysis from someone embedded in the problem space than from someone whose ‘job’ is to squeeze profit off other people’s work. I’m sure there ar
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Anecdotal-ish evidence but it does not seem like Twitter is functioning nearly as well as it used to: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search/?q=broken&sort=relev...
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Things going well: all these engineers are just wasting salary dollars and not contributing anything, layoffs for everyone! Things going badly: all these engineers are incompetent and just wasting salary dollars, layoffs for everyone! Now w
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> Actually, "Hamas should run the entire Levant" does seem to be the view of a lot of these protesters I suppose we must be talking to entirely different groups of protestors. I've never heard, read, or seen any evidence o

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