steverb

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by steverb 4y ago
So you're saying that 20 years ago you were making what is equivalent to $94,000 today (adjusted for inflation) working in a diner. According to this US News and World Reports site ( https://money.usnews.com/careers&#x2
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by steverb 5y ago
Thank you for this. As an amateur I knew the difference existed, but I was never sure how to tell them apart. And if I had ever actually thought about it I would have googled, but it's one of those things that never occurred to me unti
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by steverb 5y ago
And why so many Christian preachers use a very sing song tone (and even sing in some traditions).
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by steverb 5y ago
To summarize what I understood from the (too long IMO) article... There might be something useful in the blockchain, specifically in how it seems to make a certain class of transaction easier/more reliable and there might be a good use
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by steverb 5y ago
I mean, it probably was a "luxury" car when it was new. They do not hold their value though.
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by steverb 5y ago
Rather than regret minimization, I prefer to focus on try maximization. IE try as many new things as you can. Obviously there are some things that you should never try. Things that you find morally objectionable. Things that have too high a
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by steverb 5y ago
> But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on This assumes the company will be around in 10 years and that I am still working there.
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by steverb 5y ago
Vaccination requirements were also litigated at USSC, over a century ago: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/08/vaccine-ma... I am an independent software developer and like most busines
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by steverb 5y ago
Driver's Licenses and the need to show ID and submit to a search certainly do apply. I and a lot of people do have to save a write a check (I pre-pay estimated actually). You do not want to get on the wrong side of the IRS.
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by steverb 5y ago
The evidence suggest the exact opposite of you are saying. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abi9915
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by steverb 5y ago
Sorry it took so long. Had a work fire to put out. Here you go: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abi9915
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by steverb 5y ago
You're correct that link doesn't. Sorry. Let me go find the other one. I'll be back.
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by steverb 5y ago
At this point, anyone who cares to know the facts already know them. The only arguments that will convince the hold outs are pathos. It's your grandmother. You can choose how to treat her. Also, the immunization provides more robust im
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by steverb 5y ago
If my kids walk around knowingly infecting people with a deadly communicable disease for which there is a free and safe vaccine for... then yes.
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by steverb 5y ago
And as other others have pointed it out, you're much less likely to pass it along, get sick, be hospitalized if you have had the vaccination. And you're comparing a very small risk for the youth (getting a vaccine) versus a very l
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by steverb 5y ago
I would be totally okay with treating it like a driving accident. You're free not to get the shot, but in the case that you contract Covid you then open yourself up to civil liability to everyone you came in contact with.
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by steverb 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...
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by steverb 5y ago
That is evil and brilliant and I love it. We should go into business together. :-)
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by steverb 5y ago
Actually having had to wear a gas mask in the military for hours... I would LOVE to see this. If you think an N-95 grade mask is hard to breathe though, try wearing an NBC mask for 8 hours a day. :-)
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by steverb 5y ago
To trot out an old saw: "Your rights end and the tip of my nose." You do not have a Deity-given right to infect other people with disease.
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by steverb 5y ago
I mean you're correct, in that since > 80% of Americans got all their required vaccines in childhood there was no need to mandate it for adults, but it's a very oblique sort of correctness. And yes, if everyone who was unvaccin
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by steverb 5y ago
Not sure why you think that's a problem. The vaccines offer better protection against variants than having had COVID and recovering. Edit: Apparently this is new information to people: https://www.cdc.gov/media/rel
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by steverb 5y ago
And yet they can have enough of a viral load to pass it along to any non-healthy people they come in contact with. Which is why this NOT a personal health issue, it's a public health issue. As I have explained to several of my children
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by steverb 5y ago
You're forgetting about driver's licenses, pilots licenses, cosmetology licenses, ID requirements and searches to fly on a plane, having to be over 21 to buy alcohol and tobacco, selective service, income taxes, property taxes, tr
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by steverb 5y ago
I predict that by December of 2021 enough people will have gotten the vaccine or have had COVID that the hospitalization numbers will drop precipitously and then we can all go back to a normal life. The OSHA requirement will hang around, bu
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by steverb 5y ago
Am I misunderstanding the article, or is it basically just describing sprint planning? I was set to be annoyed by the article, since it seems to me that a lot of PM practices put way more emphasis on planning to do things, versus actually d
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by steverb 5y ago
Here's my beef with estimates. I can give you a really really accurate estimate, but in order to do so we're going to have to spend a lot of time going through the request, building and verifying actual requirements, designing the
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by steverb 5y ago
Yes, I've found that a useful way around this is to go back to the non-technical user and ask them why. Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to do this in this manner? That usually either gives the implementor enough information
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by steverb 5y ago
I had to open it incognito to see the story.
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by steverb 5y ago
Your labor and skills are not owed because they got lucky, they are owed because that is what you are exchanging with the owner for money. They may tolerate (and even enjoy) your personal quirks and causes, but they are paying you to get th

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