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by turk73 7y ago
My dad was a welder. I can speak confidently on the subject. I am a software engineer with a long academic career (PhD). I have lived in both worlds. I even weld as a hobby and used to work in his shop off and on. For the most part, weld
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by turk73 7y ago
Neither is collectivism.
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by turk73 7y ago
There's going on 8 billion people in the world. Whatever little things you do to make yourself feel better and shed the guilt they created in your mind isn't going to fix or slow down anything. This is what they want to do--progr
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by turk73 7y ago
Except it's not that realistic. I have more than that generating passive income and I still can't yet quit my job even though I live in moderate cost of living state. That COL is rising, especially insurance and upcoming educati
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by turk73 7y ago
Smith is not that good a prognosticator. He's better than Howard Kunstler, who, despite having his finger on the pulse of certain recent trends, has completely misunderstood the underlying factors causing those trends. Smith is muc
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by turk73 7y ago
I can tell you all about how the propaganda campaign to justify the Iraq invasion was pulled off. They had agents on message boards and all over the Internet even back then. They even drafted the comedian, Dennis Miller, to go on late nig
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by turk73 7y ago
You should throw out all the games. I'm serious. I never really began to succeed until I stopped playing stupid games and became a man. Now I'm managing younger guys who can't put down the controller. Last fall I had to f
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by turk73 7y ago
This would explain all my home projects that I do just to stay sane.
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by turk73 7y ago
I've been a software engineer for over 15 years. I also got a doctorate and contributed to papers and books about Internet security back in the late '90s. I also manage quite a bit of money. I don't develop financial algori
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by turk73 7y ago
At my current company, there are no white guys in middle management. Zero. Let that sink in.
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by turk73 7y ago
They admit it but don't do anything about it. The very definition of a psychopath. I have no issue with people who are driven, mind you. The issue is that it leads to quality of life suffering for everyone in the company as expectat
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by turk73 7y ago
Despite the citation, I remain skeptical. How is it possible that countries with such high tax rates would have that level of upward mobility? Just when you're getting going, the rug is getting pulled out from under you. Not that it
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by turk73 7y ago
I don't believe for a single second that violent assholes wouldn't give me a hard time if they felt like it. They don't live by some kind thieves' code. It's not a Dickens novel. They're dangerous as shit and
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by turk73 7y ago
Here's a little tip: The wife and the kid are far more enriching than anything else you will do in life. So don't jeopardize them.
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by turk73 7y ago
Honestly, the high gas prices we paid for a few years there took care of most of it and the rest was written off. It's already pretty much done.
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by turk73 7y ago
Don't lose sight of the fact that in the case of 2008, we had absolute fraud taking place in both the mortgage bond market (abetted by the ratings agencies) as well as in the banks through fraudulent loan originations. Not only were t
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by turk73 7y ago
Too bad the future is so unevenly distributed.
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by turk73 7y ago
I am at work right now but I can walk the fuck out anytime I feel like it.
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by turk73 7y ago
I'm not quite where you are wealth-wise but definitely I have had that moment several times recently where I am re-evaluating hiring out work I would have just done myself in the past. I didn't have some big windfall, but pretty
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by turk73 7y ago
Every ageist situation that I have encountered thus far (am age 46) was "not a cultural fit." I look younger than I am, but my patience for over-working too many hours is at an end. Years of stress have led to health issues that
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by turk73 7y ago
I have had the same experience. Also, some relative gave us some kids' VHS tapes and I still had a player so I figured why not? Well, let me tell you why not: Nobody has time for rewinding to take place and the low-quality video and
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by turk73 7y ago
Yes, thanks L3 Systems and asshat Chertoff for creating the "shoe bomber" and getting your shit sold. Enjoy your billions and rot in hell.
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by turk73 7y ago
The pieces of the puzzle that all go together: REAL ID, federalizes drivers licenses for creating a database of photos for facial recognition and metadata. Enhanced Passport--the requirements for getting the photo include not wearing glasse
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by turk73 7y ago
Yup, am mid-40s and already tech employment is a crapshoot in a lot of ways. Not that the jobs are worth working at other than the pay being good. The expectations have gone through the roof. "Oh, we pay you an inflation-adjusted equ
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by turk73 7y ago
If the US goes "single payer" aka "paid through taxes" I'm retiring at whatever age I am when that goes into effect. I would have enough money to retire early except I can't estimate future health care expense
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by turk73 7y ago
Did they hold a trial or are these extra-judicial killings, as usual?
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by turk73 7y ago
"Does anybody believe the CIA has covered secret agents stationed at Swedish feminist literature departments" Sure, why not? It would be an excellent cover persona for that type of spy. From what little I know about how intellig
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by turk73 7y ago
Who says the public has turned? Only the media has turned and they are promoting a particular narrative. It's funny that so many powerful people are quaking in their boots over this guy. Guilty much? Assange is still alive. That te
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by turk73 7y ago
Buy puts? Eh, nevermind, IPOs don't have options chains yet...
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by turk73 7y ago
Jeez. Get a phone or other comms that can't be traced directly back to you. Destroy hard disks and thumb drives completely--invest in a blowtorch. Stay off the Internet and especially no cloud services--they are hoovering up everyth

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