A single person doesn't even hit the 40% bracket until $400k in salary. For someone making just at $400k, they're paying $120k in taxes, which is 30%, assuming they have no deductions at all, which is unlikely. 25% is a better number.
Also, sales tax, while it does have an effect, doesn't get applied until after take-home, which is what most of the upstream conversation has been about. So a take-home percentage ought to be much closer to 65% than the 40% you quote.
Of course there are counter-balances, including deductions like retirement contributions, insurance, and possible child-care costs that many of the other people are glossing over in the list of likely expenses.
My recent experience was close. Lost a package. Tried to report it on the web site. Took me forever to create an account and log in, and probably half an hour trying to figure out how to fill out a report.
In the meantime, the recipient realized he'd send me the wrong address, went over to the place where it had been, and found the package.
A month later the USPS emailed me saying, "We're still looking for that package." I felt bad and tried to cancel, but that option doesn't exist on the web site. I was unwilling to call, though it sounds like that wouldn't have worked anyway. I continued to feel bad as they emailed me about once a month for three months that they were still looking, and felt relief when they eventually gave up.
Twister... questionable. It had meteorological science as part of the story, but the plot didn't depend on the science at all.
"We have a new type of sensor that, if we get it inside the tornado in just the right way, will advance the science a thousandfold and save future people from tornadoes." That part seemed like science fiction to me.
Not sure about other nations. But the main reason higher education costs so much in the US is because the number of administrative staff at a given university has grown at an astonishing rate. Apparently they "need" a higher admin-to-student ratio now than they ever did back when paper filing cabinets and paper forms were the way things got done.
This comes up a lot, and oddly the analysis always stops here. Why are there more administrators? What kind of administrators? How did they get by without them in the past? Looking over the past 30-odd years, and basing it in part on your quote, my theory is almost all of that growth is in technology. Computer labs, computer systems, people to support those systems, etc. There's just a lot more infrastructure now, and more administrative types to support it. I could be wrong because I've never seen a college line-item budget, but I'd be shocked if this isn't a big part of it.
I've lost the link, but someone recently mentioned an intentionally humorous duo who: 1) write a skit, perform it, and upload to Google 2) let captioning take its best stab 3) use the captioning as a new script, and re-record the scene 4) upload and re-caption 5) record a third time, with even weirder dialogue
Then they splice it all together, and you get to watch the degeneration of language as iterative captioning makes everything nonsensical.
My wife and I also tend to watch a lot of TV when the other wants quiet, so closed captioning is almost always on for all shows. The quality and consistency can vary wildly, and sometimes the mistakes are hilariously bad. (One particularly bad one I recall is "Atlas Shrugged" coming out as "At Last Shrub" and some other cases where a British show has about half of the dialogue listed as [indecipherable] even if it seemed clear enough to us). Occasionally, though, we'll get captioning that either relays something we thought was indecipherable, or even calls out something ("distant cry for help" or "creepy creak") that we couldn't hear/notice on our own.
Sorry, but I've never heard of the Curie point or Curie temperature. Maybe I learned once, but I've forgotten. I'd be happy to learn if it's included in the article with an explanation, but I wouldn't have automatically known what that was.
I've got all kinds of things I'd be doing/attempting if I didn't have to "work". Other than a few unfortunate windows I've had a day job for most of my adult life, and in those 20 years I've started 3 or 4 side businesses, created a computer game that I eventually had to sell due to lack of time, and wrote a couple of novels. If I had those 40,000 hours of day job back, I can't even imagine what I might have accomplished.
I think you exaggerate the cost of moving. I suppose if you're assuming you're going to hire movers to do it all for you, that is indeed expensive. That's also why most employers aren't offering it.
It's much more affordable if you go for one of the options where you pack and they ship in a semi trailer (ABF U-pack is just one example; Pods may be another if they're still around) I think you could move the whole family's house full of stuff for a grand. As a single guy I moved my stuff cross-country for $400, and when married without kids we shipped a household of stuff for $600.
That doesn't help with the interviewing side, but if you tell the company you're trying to move to their area anyway, they're usually not scared off by the prospect of flying you out for an interview.
Yeah, looking at the headline, "nobody is moving" if 20% move yearly, compared to historical rates around 26%, where, presumably, "everybody is moving?" That doesn't look like all that much of a difference.
The major distinction between ale and lager is the yeast, and then, due to the conditions the yeast requires, the temperature at what it was fermented. Other things, like the type of grains, other additives, amount of hops, are unrelated to whether it's an ale or lager.
Is intolerance of intolerance (meta-intolerance) really the same thing as intolerance? Some are quick to call that hypocrisy, but others would say you need to be firm about allowing a tolerant atmosphere. There are similar arguments about violence: some say it's never acceptable, but others say it's acceptable when used defensively to stop the violence of others.
Most people wouldn't agree with this sentiment. Multiple branches, checks and balances, the right to vote. Those things do not exist with a warlord. It can be a burden living under a government, sure, but they're not equivalent.
I like Video Games Hot Dog. They play and then talk about computer games, new and old. Humor, nostalgia, news, and of course video games. No actual hot dogs.
Well, I think most people should know that even if there's a tiny village in their area named Paris, if they're older than about age 8, they should know there's a world-renowned Paris out there that it's named after. I personally grew up within a short drive of the cities of Versailles and Milan (pronounced ver-SALES and MY-lun, by the way), and if there was a time when I might have confused them against the European cities, it's so long ago I can't remember it. Also, if you're talking in the context of the capital of a country, you're even less likely to mix that up with your local crossroads.
Also, if they're frequently in a dream state, it may be relatively pleasant. I know that there have been lots of mornings where, when the alarm clock goes off, I find myself wishing I could go back to the dream I was having, even though I'm awake enough to know it wasn't real.
Except it's not just about one-time interactions. These bullets come back. A close miss today might alert us to an impending hit later on, and give us time to prepare. It's not always just about "incoming now."
You know, a scale than runs from -5 to 5, with 0 being neutral, actually makes a lot more sense than the 0 to 10 scale. Shame people don't understand negative numbers, because I'd like that one to catch on.
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Raising minimum wage may affect the mean, but it's unlikely to affect the median.
A single person doesn't even hit the 40% bracket until $400k in salary. For someone making just at $400k, they're paying $120k in taxes, which is 30%, assuming they have no deductions at all, which is unlikely. 25% is a better number.
Also, sales tax, while it does have an effect, doesn't get applied until after take-home, which is what most of the upstream conversation has been about. So a take-home percentage ought to be much closer to 65% than the 40% you quote.
Of course there are counter-balances, including deductions like retirement contributions, insurance, and possible child-care costs that many of the other people are glossing over in the list of likely expenses.
My recent experience was close. Lost a package. Tried to report it on the web site. Took me forever to create an account and log in, and probably half an hour trying to figure out how to fill out a report.
In the meantime, the recipient realized he'd send me the wrong address, went over to the place where it had been, and found the package.
A month later the USPS emailed me saying, "We're still looking for that package." I felt bad and tried to cancel, but that option doesn't exist on the web site. I was unwilling to call, though it sounds like that wouldn't have worked anyway. I continued to feel bad as they emailed me about once a month for three months that they were still looking, and felt relief when they eventually gave up.
Twister... questionable. It had meteorological science as part of the story, but the plot didn't depend on the science at all.
"We have a new type of sensor that, if we get it inside the tornado in just the right way, will advance the science a thousandfold and save future people from tornadoes." That part seemed like science fiction to me.
Not sure about other nations. But the main reason higher education costs so much in the US is because the number of administrative staff at a given university has grown at an astonishing rate. Apparently they "need" a higher admin-to-student ratio now than they ever did back when paper filing cabinets and paper forms were the way things got done.
This comes up a lot, and oddly the analysis always stops here. Why are there more administrators? What kind of administrators? How did they get by without them in the past? Looking over the past 30-odd years, and basing it in part on your quote, my theory is almost all of that growth is in technology. Computer labs, computer systems, people to support those systems, etc. There's just a lot more infrastructure now, and more administrative types to support it. I could be wrong because I've never seen a college line-item budget, but I'd be shocked if this isn't a big part of it.
I find that title hilarious.
Can I get a New North New South Wales?
Almost as bad as the ads I get from Charter Cable: "Get phone, TV, and internet for $30 each!"
So I call and say I don't want phone. Could I get internet and TV for $60?
Sorry, no, the internet and TV double pack is $80, or $40 apiece.
For that price I don't want the TV, either. How about internet for $40?
Nope, sorry, if you just want internet, that's $60. No matter that's twice the advertised rate.
I get the cost benefits of bundling services, but the pricing scheme is ridiculous.
I've lost the link, but someone recently mentioned an intentionally humorous duo who:
1) write a skit, perform it, and upload to Google
2) let captioning take its best stab
3) use the captioning as a new script, and re-record the scene
4) upload and re-caption
5) record a third time, with even weirder dialogue
Then they splice it all together, and you get to watch the degeneration of language as iterative captioning makes everything nonsensical.
My wife and I also tend to watch a lot of TV when the other wants quiet, so closed captioning is almost always on for all shows. The quality and consistency can vary wildly, and sometimes the mistakes are hilariously bad. (One particularly bad one I recall is "Atlas Shrugged" coming out as "At Last Shrub" and some other cases where a British show has about half of the dialogue listed as [indecipherable] even if it seemed clear enough to us). Occasionally, though, we'll get captioning that either relays something we thought was indecipherable, or even calls out something ("distant cry for help" or "creepy creak") that we couldn't hear/notice on our own.
Sorry, but I've never heard of the Curie point or Curie temperature. Maybe I learned once, but I've forgotten. I'd be happy to learn if it's included in the article with an explanation, but I wouldn't have automatically known what that was.
I've got all kinds of things I'd be doing/attempting if I didn't have to "work". Other than a few unfortunate windows I've had a day job for most of my adult life, and in those 20 years I've started 3 or 4 side businesses, created a computer game that I eventually had to sell due to lack of time, and wrote a couple of novels. If I had those 40,000 hours of day job back, I can't even imagine what I might have accomplished.
I think you exaggerate the cost of moving. I suppose if you're assuming you're going to hire movers to do it all for you, that is indeed expensive. That's also why most employers aren't offering it.
It's much more affordable if you go for one of the options where you pack and they ship in a semi trailer (ABF U-pack is just one example; Pods may be another if they're still around) I think you could move the whole family's house full of stuff for a grand. As a single guy I moved my stuff cross-country for $400, and when married without kids we shipped a household of stuff for $600.
That doesn't help with the interviewing side, but if you tell the company you're trying to move to their area anyway, they're usually not scared off by the prospect of flying you out for an interview.
Yeah, looking at the headline, "nobody is moving" if 20% move yearly, compared to historical rates around 26%, where, presumably, "everybody is moving?" That doesn't look like all that much of a difference.
The major distinction between ale and lager is the yeast, and then, due to the conditions the yeast requires, the temperature at what it was fermented. Other things, like the type of grains, other additives, amount of hops, are unrelated to whether it's an ale or lager.
Is intolerance of intolerance (meta-intolerance) really the same thing as intolerance? Some are quick to call that hypocrisy, but others would say you need to be firm about allowing a tolerant atmosphere. There are similar arguments about violence: some say it's never acceptable, but others say it's acceptable when used defensively to stop the violence of others.
Most people wouldn't agree with this sentiment. Multiple branches, checks and balances, the right to vote. Those things do not exist with a warlord. It can be a burden living under a government, sure, but they're not equivalent.
So I guess 9% is "dressed to the winter"?
Maybe 7% could be a lucky winter?
Posting to undo bad moderation.
I like Video Games Hot Dog. They play and then talk about computer games, new and old. Humor, nostalgia, news, and of course video games. No actual hot dogs.
Well, I think most people should know that even if there's a tiny village in their area named Paris, if they're older than about age 8, they should know there's a world-renowned Paris out there that it's named after. I personally grew up within a short drive of the cities of Versailles and Milan (pronounced ver-SALES and MY-lun, by the way), and if there was a time when I might have confused them against the European cities, it's so long ago I can't remember it. Also, if you're talking in the context of the capital of a country, you're even less likely to mix that up with your local crossroads.
Also, if they're frequently in a dream state, it may be relatively pleasant. I know that there have been lots of mornings where, when the alarm clock goes off, I find myself wishing I could go back to the dream I was having, even though I'm awake enough to know it wasn't real.
Except it's not just about one-time interactions. These bullets come back. A close miss today might alert us to an impending hit later on, and give us time to prepare. It's not always just about "incoming now."
You know, a scale than runs from -5 to 5, with 0 being neutral, actually makes a lot more sense than the 0 to 10 scale. Shame people don't understand negative numbers, because I'd like that one to catch on.
In a land where tornadoes are wormholes to alternate dimensions, you've got to have all kinds of weird physics going on.
You forgot, 8) don't play sound, ever, without the viewer's explicit okay.