ejb999

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by ejb999 2y ago
I am really intrigued by using sand for energy storage - what I don't get (not my field) is given a typical 2000sf house, located in the colder part of the country as an example, how much heat could be stored for how long? i.e. is it e
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by ejb999 2y ago
So they should wait until after the food supply becomes contaminated, then study the problem for a few years and only then pass a law to regulate it?
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by ejb999 2y ago
Yea, but at least you get to pay thru the nose for it. </sarc>
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by ejb999 2y ago
thats a good point - if you are over a certain age, getting back to a FT career is going to be hard - ageism is real in this industry.
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by ejb999 2y ago
I am someone who has 'done my own thing' for more than 35 years at this point - i.e. direct contracting with my own clients, occasionally working on some 'side' project I hope I could sell, and even took a FT position he
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by ejb999 2y ago
tariffs and or new taxes on the chips imported from other countries would have served that same purpose - without the need for more billions of corporate welfare.
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by ejb999 2y ago
If the culture is blameless than the CEO's should benefit from that blameless culture as well - (I disagree with this though). Quite a logical leap to say that everyone in a corp deserves to be held 'blameless' except the CEO
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by ejb999 2y ago
I disagree - if 'everything can be a process' we wouldn't need human judgement anywhere - and clearly we clearly still do need humans in the loop - and the reality is the judgement of humans is not all created equal. Some are
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by ejb999 2y ago
Why wouldn't you want to punish people who are at fault, especially if there is a pattern of problems or gross negligence that causes harm?
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by ejb999 2y ago
Same here, never understood the march towards 'blameless' culture - if someone is to blame, they should be blamed; if there is a pattern of mistakes they should be shown the door as quickly as possible.
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by ejb999 2y ago
because under 18 is not an adult legally speaking, and 18+ is?
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by ejb999 2y ago
Not sure I understand - you expect some one/some company to invest billions and billions of dollars to create internet access in places that where it doesn't exist and then give away the service? Who would, or could, do that?
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by ejb999 2y ago
I agree - for a while it was my only option, and I would have paid 10X what they charged to have it. Now I have other options (FTTH), but was quite happy with Starlink while I had it installed.
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by ejb999 2y ago
>>But I bet that housing has comparatively gone down in value in less popular areas. You would lose that bet. Other than a few places where the town/city as literally being abandoned (i.e. towns in the middle of nowhere were the
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by ejb999 2y ago
Did 9-11 happen because of bitcoin? Not sure I understand your point?
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by ejb999 2y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair I have no hope that the people who created the very tools that led to these problems, are in anyway g
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by ejb999 2y ago
>>In the current environment, cost inflation is not a problem anymore. Everyone person who lives paycheck to paycheck, and is barely keeping their head above water as the cost of everything continues to skyrocket disagrees with you. G
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by ejb999 2y ago
If you are rich and own multiple houses or other expensive assets, they appreciate even faster during times of high inflation…compare that to a young working class couple hoping to someday buy their first house which continually gets farthe
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by ejb999 2y ago
That is such a bizarre statement I have a hard time believing you actually mean it. I think you would be hard pressed to find any/many 'working class' people who enjoy watching the cost of goods and services go up faster than
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by ejb999 2y ago
People don't compare how well they were off 40 years ago vs today, they remember how things were in recent history - i.e. 3-4 years ago and then decide if they are better or worse off. Inflation is a killer for the poor and most of the
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by ejb999 2y ago
people will complain about anything - in my very little town, about 25% of the roads are not paved. People would move into town, buy a house on a dirt road and then come to the town council to complain that their road was not paved.
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by ejb999 2y ago
you mean other than the rampant inflation we are seeing now - and will almost certainly get worse - everything is fine?
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by ejb999 2y ago
and yet INTC has been in business for decades, profitable the whole time, producing chips without this grotesque handout of taxpayer monies. They have already used their excess profits - many $10's of billions of dollars in recent year
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by ejb999 2y ago
I guess in your mind it is not possible for both things to be bad? As long as we have the bogeyman of the DOD budget, any money spent that is even a penny less than the DOD budget is OK, is that how you see things?
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by ejb999 2y ago
I don't care if companies buy back stock - but if they can afford to buy back stock, they don't need or deserve my tax money to operate.
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by ejb999 2y ago
I just don't get it - the country has over $34 Trillion in debt already and we are handing out money to mega-rich corporations who don't need the money (among other things we waste money on). This is not going to end well - our ki
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by ejb999 2y ago
So where do the animals pay their taxes so they have some place to live after we make it economically un-feasible to keep land undeveloped by taxing raw land out of existence?
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by ejb999 3y ago
If you haven't already tried, consider getting a steroid injection directly into your affected wrists by an orthopedist. Had CTS many years ago, couldn't even hold a lightweight briefcase in my hand - and the pain was miserable -
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by ejb999 3y ago
weight bearing exercises and a proper diet.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I think its the later - I have always understood grip strength to be an easy to measure proxy for your overall health; no harm in doing only grip strength exercises, but the better way is to lead a healthy and active life where your good gr

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