Naritai

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by Naritai 2y ago
Numbers go up and down for rental businesses all the time – up slowly as you collect rent, down quickly as you need to perform maintenance.
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by Naritai 4y ago
More like 'friendly to perceived in-group, not friendly to perceived outsiders'
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by Naritai 8y ago
Before anybody gets drawn in by the clickbait headline, the text of the article is about how China (i.e. large a Chinese vendor) is trying to win Apple's business away from Korean and Japanese vendors. So their sales teams are 't
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by Naritai 8y ago
So why don't they buy wooden ladders?
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by Naritai 8y ago
Economic mobility is definitely a part of social justice. But let's note that those groups that most suffer from a lack of economic mobility are Black and Latinx groups. Even among whites, white men tend have better economic mobility
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by Naritai 8y ago
It doesn't explain why they couldn't just buy wooden or fiberglass ladders though. I'm sure there are many vendors who would be happy to fill such a contract.
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by Naritai 8y ago
Or people who really just prefer horses as a means of transportation. They can have their shows and their rallies, and the rest of us can get to work on the means of transportation that makes sense.
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by Naritai 8y ago
It _is_ categorized under the title 'Pop Phyisics'...
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by Naritai 8y ago
Those are other criticisms of the analysis, not the simple fact that credits are worth 1:1 in real dollars, which is what the original poster was objecting to.
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by Naritai 8y ago
Of all the criticisms one can make of this article, this is one of the weakest. If I agree to a $10k pay cut from my employer, that's functionally equivalent to me giving my employer $10k. (and in the US at least, 'credits'
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by Naritai 8y ago
Yeah, for better or for worse that may be all a given candidate has.
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by Naritai 8y ago
If you've been working at a large company for several years, there may be very few people outside your company who know your work well enough to give a meaningful reference. Then, you can't give a manager's name, since they
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by Naritai 8y ago
Yeah, as much as I like long-form pieces on how a technology was developed, pretty much any company with capital can make an Android tablet nowadays. But "Company develops internal tech solution to reduce BOM costs & reliance on t
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by Naritai 8y ago
It's not discussed in this particular article, but economies of scale certainly favor incumbents in hardware as well. If you need confirmation, go ask Pebble guys how they fared after Apple Watch was launched.
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by Naritai 8y ago
I actually agree with you here, I'm just pointing out that there is no indecision of any sort on the part of homeowners.
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by Naritai 8y ago
Clearly everybody who already owns a home is heavily leaning into the 'make housing as expensive as possible' conclusion. Where these sorts of articles comes from is observers who would like to change that narrative.
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by Naritai 8y ago
Depends on where you live. California state law requires all lenders to except early payments, so a fixed loan holder in California really gets the best of both worlds.
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by Naritai 8y ago
I think you're glossing over the point,] that's been made by others in this thread, that while you're building up that 1500 hrs. of flying time you're getting paid not much more than minimum wage. i.e. the salary at 2 y
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by Naritai 8y ago
Yeah, all hiring managers know roughly how old you are by the time they've scanned your resume.
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by Naritai 8y ago
What you're discovering is why most Americans of other political persuasions take such a dim view of modern American 'libertarians'. Most of them just use libertarianism to mean "I want taxes to pay for the things I per
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by Naritai 8y ago
It's for the pediatrician's services. Remember, Babies generally stay in the hospital for 48-72 hours after birth, and they get visited and tested by doctors and nurses during that time, not to mention vaccines, care in the nurse
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by Naritai 8y ago
I can hardly imagine trying to live in Boise without driving. Not because I love my car (now that I live in Silicon Valley I'm one of the few people who commutes by train), but because Boise is notably unfriendly to non-drivers. I ag
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by Naritai 8y ago
It's too bad, really, because as you say Boise is quite beautiful. But yeah, there was no plan for handling population growth. Too many people wanted to leave out by Eagle / Nampa, but work in downtown or at Micron. And of cours
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by Naritai 8y ago
Thanks. I know it's a tough definition, I just meant that someone making 60k is Boise is going to be at least as satisfied with his/her life as someone making ~100k in Silicon Valley...
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by Naritai 8y ago
The key factor that you seem to be ignoring is ratio of the income to cost of living in that area. For the purposes of this I'll define upper middle class as 'can afford a house, a reasonably nice car, and can afford to go to pre
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by Naritai 8y ago
In my experience 60-70k is considered to be a 'high' salary in Boise. Like, someone outside of tech who is making is 60k considers themselves to be upper middle class. I know people who relocated from Boise to Bay area, and wer
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by Naritai 8y ago
Alright, but that's an entirely different topic. Save that one for the emigration-from-US thread.
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by Naritai 8y ago
The problem is that 'similar space' is too easily misconstrued. What exactly is the 'space' that Google or Amazon operates in?
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by Naritai 8y ago
But that ignores a key underlying tenet of this discussion - that what school you graduate from is a major factor in your employability in the upper echelons of American society. If you want to get a top job in DC or Manhattan, you'd
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by Naritai 8y ago
Yes, it's a little over the top. But as a Canadian, I can say that Canadian publications (especially left-of-center ones like the Star) tend to be a little nationalistic whenever a local does well. It's a natural response to the

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