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by htss2013 1y ago
What is the fundamental reason why MRI machines could not be produced in higher quantities at much cheaper unit costs?
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by htss2013 1y ago
Landlords require a certain multiple of rent in proven income. So the rent is automatically capped by local wages. It's pretty black and white - either the landlord asked a price in line with local wages or they didn't. If they go
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by htss2013 2y ago
Because the definition of vaccine has been muddled with what used to be called gene therapy. In this case, they are tricking the body's immune system to attack specific cancer cells like it would learn to attack a flu virus or any othe
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by htss2013 2y ago
Can we not make a reasonable assumption that whistleblowers against a powerful company have a much higher than average risk of dying? Knowing nothing about them personally we can reasonably conclude: - They get regular death threats. - The
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by htss2013 2y ago
This assumes the risk of getting caught offing whistleblowers is less than the risk of more whistle-blowers coming out. Does it really make sense that you'd risk exposing a whistle blower murder program as opposed to whatever corporate
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by htss2013 2y ago
I'm baffled by how someone can say crypto is a scam in 2024, at least for Bitcoin. But I'm grateful that it is taking many people so long to adjust to the new reality. Their stubborn skepticism is keeping the early(ish) adopter wi
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by htss2013 2y ago
Oh don't worry. When you get an audit notice you get assigned an agent dedicated to your case. You can talk to them easily. They will talk to you all the time. It's amazing. The question and answer flow is just non ending.
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by htss2013 2y ago
I don't think there is long term evidence that ESG adds alpha. Even if it did in the past, there's no reason to believe it will continue once it is being gamed as it is now and the term becomes amorphous. Texas ever investing in E
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by htss2013 3y ago
Toilets haven't been fundamentally changed in 100 years. We flush unfathomable gallons literally down the toilet because we can't think of a better way to move poop around.
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by htss2013 3y ago
You mean they bought a house assuming they could WFH and the RTO mandate forced them to quit since it was too far away? Or they said no to the ultimatum and bought a house elsewhere?
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by htss2013 3y ago
People are so naive to think that the big tech firms don't know exactly what theyre doing. They all more or less operate the same way. If someone is a top performer within a highly valued part of the org, then one way or another they w
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by htss2013 3y ago
>An organization that wants people to come to work at their detriment is one that doesn't value their people, and this is how they are expressing it. Yes this is the entire point. They want to turn up both voluntary attrition or be
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by htss2013 3y ago
Lots of folks are in great health but find themselves voluntarily bed ridden for lack of motivation to do anything else. It can often happen after no longer needing to work. Saying you'll do XYZ once you have the freedom isn't the
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by htss2013 3y ago
Interest rates went up and now profitability matters. Tech companies' biggest expense is employees, so it's the lowest hanging fruit to generate higher profits. It's really that simple.
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by htss2013 3y ago
If this these extremely common viruses were the root cause of obesity, then why does obesity affect different countries so differently? Viruses all passed around globally so you have to assume all developed countries are getting pretty much
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by htss2013 3y ago
It's very convenient being able to fire remote workers for cause if they won't RTO. It's a lot cheaper than actual layoffs.
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by htss2013 3y ago
My furnace broke after 15 years. I called a business to fix it. They replaced the dead pump motor and it worked again. The repair guy was paid well and I was happy to pay. What exactly is inherently unethical about this?
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by htss2013 3y ago
What do you mean by eugenics? That academics studied eugenics? Or that eugenics was widely popular among academics? I guess the pendulum always swings to the extreme other direction. Today, the more disadvantaged your intersectional identit
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by htss2013 3y ago
Why can't you be a millionaire who becomes a billionare through compound interest? If university endowments can do it so can individuals.
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by htss2013 3y ago
Never talk about the psychological toll any job takes on you, because there are people in worse circumstances somewhere, and everyone should always be able to foresee and "navigate" contrived reasons for deficient performance. Tha
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by htss2013 3y ago
Beliefs around WFH didn't change. Economic circumstances did. If it reverts to difficulty hiring and retaining people, WFH will change back. Productivity is an excuse after the fact. >When margins are high the returns to growing rev
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by htss2013 3y ago
>and because return to office in their minds is a good way to make the org more productive over the long term. If WFH destroys long term value creation, then why didn't the stock market punish every tech company when they all announ
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by htss2013 3y ago
People don't appreciate what a total mindfuck it is to go through this. - You aren't told you're being targeted to be managed out when it starts. Managers often do not tell you that you're beginning phase 1 of getting ma
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by htss2013 3y ago
If the people and their bipartisan representatives demand something, and the government ignores them with no accountability, is that not the death of democracy? Or does it only count when it's helpful for partisan ends?
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by htss2013 3y ago
Divorce was a totally different animal before no fault divorce became a thing. The idea of an amicable divorce didn't really exist in the public mind. Divorce itself was also scandalous, if you could even get it done. The rate of cohab
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by htss2013 3y ago
It's just odd from the perspective of a non American, because in much of the rest of the world houses are usually kept in families multi generationally. So your dream of passing on the oven would have worked most other places. It'
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by htss2013 3y ago
Why do you take it that way? I took saying "not American" to mean his perspective is from outside looking in, which is useful context.
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by htss2013 3y ago
What unpopular world view exactly?
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by htss2013 3y ago
She wrote a letter to an EMDR therapist. The point was to criricize the therapist of dropping her as a patient for doing sex work. That aside, she spent a lot of the letter saying the therapist shamed her by suggesting ways to make the most
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by htss2013 3y ago
Ok but did they ever say every American's records were leaked? Or are you assuming that given multiple people's records leaked?

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