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by yardie 5y ago
$1300 [0] gets you a pretty decent programmer. And for the dishonest they can scan the fob over the air. [0] https://smile.amazon.com/Autel-IM508-Advanced-Programming-To...
842.
by yardie 5y ago
No doubt you're right. I assume larger companies have a HR department that manage these things, have a formal process, and report this to the Number Line and other background services. But there are lots of boutique companies <25 em
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by yardie 5y ago
I ordered a copy of my background record and holy shit was it missing a lot of information. High schools jobs were listed, college work study jobs were listed, 15 years of employment was missing, followed by small patches of employment here
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by yardie 5y ago
They are perpetually 3-5 years away. This is why there is a shortage now. We've told an entire generation not to take those jobs, they're going to be automated anyway. 2021 arrives and still no FSD trucks, no robotized fast food,
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by yardie 5y ago
> SAG-AFTRA forces productions to give speaking roles to union members and also restricts union eligibility SAG does not force productions to do anything. The production can either use union or not use union. What they can't do is u
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by yardie 5y ago
The cheap Chinese stuff has always been there: Banana Pi, Orange Pi, etc. It's an open-source SBC and even with all the other cheaper/higher capacity/faster alternatives available I chose the Raspberry Pi because I believe in
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by yardie 5y ago
Move abroad and get an international health insurance plan. Price of 1 months premium covers the annual premium for an international gold plated plan. If I didn't have a child in school I'd be on a plane to the Caribbean so fast.
848.
by yardie 5y ago
It's the same for most of Europe. The best universities are public. High scores on the placement exams puts you in the best universities. Private unis are seen as second tier, when the student has money but not the academics to get int
849.
by yardie 5y ago
It's not just possible the ubiquitous SAT was literally created by a white supremacist, Carl Brigham [0]. They are having a moment right now and trying to distance themselves from the racist part of their foundation. > It's pos
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by yardie 5y ago
The hospital admins are lying. Doctors will go through a billing agency who can charge whatever they want. The doctor might not know, but would be naive to believe it’s not expensive.
851.
by yardie 5y ago
It was gwei but this site never made it apparent https://crypto.com/defi/dashboard/gas-fees And prices, in USD,were higher when I posted my statement earlier.
852.
by yardie 5y ago
Whatever ills Ethereum was trying to solve these gas fees certainly aren't helping. Even a slow transaction is averaging $120.
853.
by yardie 5y ago
Valuations in my neighborhood have gone up 15%-20% yoy. In my parents neighborhood (older homes on larger parcels) it's almost 30% yoy.
854.
by yardie 5y ago
I made no insinuation that you should buy everyone has to decide for themself. Now, based on current lending standards a $1mm home is not as far off as much as you would like to believe and it doesn't take a CEO salary to "afford&
855.
by yardie 5y ago
And the result of 2009 was a tightening in lending standards. Which helped create a 5 year glut of housing. More housing was built than there were qualified buyers to take possession. Those govt lending standards haven’t abated. If anything
856.
by yardie 5y ago
$1M is a $4000/m mortgage requiring a $12000/m income or $140k salary. That seems doable for some professions. If you are on the fence of buying a home, right now would be a good time to do it. Because they aren't getting che
857.
by yardie 5y ago
If you're going to cherry pick irrelevant metrics you can also say that higher gun deaths are related to lower unemployment. Just shoot your way into a job promotion.
858.
by yardie 5y ago
> I'm not interested in studies that show something. The study doesn't agree with how I believe the world works so therefore they must be wrong.
859.
by yardie 5y ago
> USA hides it when we do it because we're at least embarrassed about it Who's embarrassed by it and who's hiding it? The civilian Afghans killed by ISIS- K are terrified because that is the point. The civilian Afghans kil
860.
by yardie 5y ago
> Solar panels are still way over hyped It literally turns abundantly free solar energy into electricity. Where is the hype?
861.
by yardie 5y ago
There is official data and it's these reunification programs. Plenty of rich cities will give you a bus ticket to live with friends and family. Most of the time it works out. Sometimes it doesn't and that unsheltered person is rig
862.
by yardie 5y ago
When my startup failed I did contracting for a while. And the trauma probably kept me from pursuing startups for almost a decade. Our angel skipped off back to SV and I went back to the European job market with no professional references, n
863.
by yardie 5y ago
That's not what I understood. Once the new government formed there was a quite a bit of economic instability. White South Africans who benefited heavily under the old apartheid regime saw their career and economic prospects shrink and
864.
by yardie 5y ago
In the TAs defense the National Party ran on a platform of apartheid in the 1940s did lose the popular vote but won the parliament through gerrymandering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_South_African_general_ele...
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by yardie 5y ago
This is very good rebuttal. I didn't even consider the gerrymandering that went on in the 40s. You've exposed a blindness I didn't know. > the cartoon good-vs-evil polemic you were no doubt exposed to I was a child before
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by yardie 5y ago
Could this be a generational issue? I've met many pre-Apartheid white, South Africans who immigrated to London. And, wow, the racist shit they would say about black South Africans. Many found their racist attitude simply wouldn't
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by yardie 5y ago
Woz had an aircraft accident after the Apple II and kind of fell off the ball after that. So much so that Jobs had to go to Bill Gates to get some very necessary coding work completed. Woz had a brilliant but relatively short streak at bein
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by yardie 5y ago
> there are scanner apps that will use bluetooth to tell exactly what car has the $2000 laptop in it This might explain why a friend's car was hit and laptop stolen. Rear window tint was illegaly dark and the bag was out of sight un
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by yardie 5y ago
> the "remote first" revolution seems to just encourage more sprawl, since you don't need to live near where you work. It might be my impression, but lots of traditional tech companies have offices out in the suburbs. Beca
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by yardie 5y ago
Engine swaps have been going on for decades. Swapping a GM LS into a compatible frame is quite common. The mount points are standardized on the engine block so you only need to weld the matching mounts to the auto frame. I don't see mu

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