5. State Governments no longer funding Universities. This is a HUGE one. During the recession of the early 2000s states no longer subsidize the universities due to the free money from the federal student loan program.
At every state school I've been able to find detailed budgets, the per capita cost of education has more-or-less matched inflation back to at least 1980. The major difference is that in the 70s and 80s, 70-ish% of the cost was paid by state allocations, while in 2000s-10s, 60-ish% of the cost is paid by tuition. States spending on education has not increased as fast as enrollment, and the difference has to come from somewhere.
Problem is exacerbated by colleges competing for students by offering better campus life. Dormitories today are palatial compared to the 90s. Exercise facilities are luxurious. That's all got to get paid for, and not much of it gets paid by the state.
Knowledge is power, and pay secrecy is a way for the company to increase their power in salary negotiations. The power is already biased in the corp's favor by being the big guy negotiating with a bunch of independent, replaceable little guys. Sharing salary information is just a little step towards allowing the employees to discover the actual value of their work and not lowball themselves. Forces management to articulate reasons for pay discrepancies, which gives the workers objective areas to improve their own performance. It may not stroke everyone's ego, but it should contribute to making them better people.
I don't think people 'strive to create value' at all - we just go to work to get paid, and while we're at work we basically do what we're told.
You wouldn't get paid if no one thought your job created value.
I'd argue that the further your job is from obviously creating value, the less rewarding it will be and the less you will like it. Jobs aren't charity; no executive sits down and says, "The company made too much money last year. Go hire a thousand people to sit around in the big room." Jobs exist because someone wants something done. That's creating value.
I'd imagine that people presenting themselves as "CIA operatives" could confirm that by having the official CIA twitter broadcast some pre-specified message.
The FBI is not the Fourth Branch of Government. They're a function of the Executive branch. Hence why it was stacked with Democrats during the Obama administration.
The director of the FBI is always a Republican. Not by statute, not by tradition, just by simple fact that career FBI is so loaded with Republicans that no one has yet found a Democrat that could get confirmed to run the place.
...the shooting related death toll in the US is rather insignificant compared to any leading cause of death and certainly is nothing compared to the lives saved because an invading power knows how costly a ground invasion of the heavily armed US would be.
Are you seriously suggesting that the reason Mexico hasn't invaded is that they're more afraid of civilians with hunting rifles than the Army's tanks and the Air Force's bombers?
If you ask a mason what he does, he's not going to break into discussion of optimizing portland cement to lime ratios or strategies for accommodating different grades or environmental variations. He's going to tell you he builds walls.
He might tell you about the wall he built in an exceptionally interesting building, or for a particularly controversial company, but he's not going to tell you any of the details of his subjective experience of building walls.
If he chooses to give half of his fortune to charity rather than 40% of it to the government, I'm fine with that. EFF rather than DOD. US government provides so few social services that we depend on NGOs to fill the gaps, charitable giving can be looked at as a strategy to route around the political damage in Washington.
It sounds to me like this guy is arguing that ISPs won't censor or block new content, which I think is accurate. ISPs have an interest in there being as much interesting content as possible to entice customers. They also have a proven interest in rent-seeking, and unlimited access to consumption data. I think we can expect ISPs to default new content services to the "fast" lane and require them to pay higher access fees as their customer bases expand.
For new content businesses, the problem will be less crib death than a big drag on growth and tendency towards balkanization. Something like Uber has to be everywhere to be useful, and it's hard to imagine them growing like that if they face exponential "peering" fees with all of the ISPs.
I think this is another of the great falsehoods foisted off on the world. I mean, sure - if you're talking about the CEO interrupting a business negotiation to go make himself coffee, then yeah, that's wasting value. This guy is talking about putting on the coffee maker while he eats his morning granola. He's not going to use those extra 2 minutes to analyze a new investment or close a buyout, even if you add up the two minutes every day for 20 years. It's the same reason no sane person hires staff to tie their shoes.
Everyone's got an argument where 'plenty of solar power' solves each of the myriad problems of living in a sun-baked desert. The far easier solution is not to live in a sun baked desert.
Location is still the most important consideration in sustainable development, because the annual energy cost of living is proportional to how far the temperature is from 70 oF. Everything after that is just mitigating the cost of the environment you've chosen. We could live in a comfortable area, or we could install a big power plant to make it comfortable. We could live somewhere with reliable access to clean water, or we could install a big power plant to harvest, purify, or import water. We could live somewhere with easy transportation, or we could install a big power plant to knock down mountains and catapult goods from 1000 miles away.
Just because your big power plant is solar, doesn't prevent it being wasteful.
You forgot
Snowflake, slang (1995): an underachieving or misbehaving student with highly engaged parents, as in "Mrs Smith demands that her special snowflake deserves full credit for '2+2=5' because he was using a non-Euclidean basis."
The proper way to address this is to stabilize the situation, then make sure the problem cannot occur again.
You're expecting rational behavior from a business? Good luck./s
I'd add that the size of the business probably matters a lot here. If this happened in a shop of 20 people with 3 computer guys, one of whom is "CTO," it's a very different situation than a billion dollar, multi-site company. It's probably smart to send the new guy home in the immediate aftermath - he's not going to be helpful in the recovery and emotions will be very high. After that, bring him back in, sort out what happened, and how to prevent similar failures of process. Dude has the cost of a fuck-up burned into his brain, and he's going to be a lot more careful and deliberate in the future.
Selling clothes (ie, FUBU) is a day job. The purchasers you need to talk to to get your stuff in store are 9-to-5ers. I'd guess that this guy was running his hustle pretty much that whole time and not quite making the bills. Maybe there's things he can do to stretch the hours - call stores out of timezone, production details, etc - but the short version sounds like his business wasn't really making enough profit to pay him the salary he wanted. Or that he though business profits would return much more than his time.
Food service does let you work evenings. If you get along with other staff, or can bribe them with a hot new shirt, they're often happy to pickup an extra shift. Basically, as your side-hustle grows, there's a point where you should look at your day job as the side-hustle.
"Reduce your expenses" is great advice if you're making $60k and struggling. It's not very helpful if you're making $20k.
I want my country to be a rational, creative, compassionate leader within the community of nations. Failing that, I want my nation's policies to promote our own long-term growth and success without stepping on the rights of other people. Failing that, which is apparently where we are today, I want the community of nations to pressure my nation into pretending to value those principles.
This proposed tax (like all other taxes) is an economic leakage.
Only if the government takes it tax revenue and buries it in the ground. In real governments, tax revenues are rapidly returned to the economy through the purchase of goods and services, such as roads and park cleaning.
In the case of carbon tax revenues, one can imagine spending them on housing subsidies for people who live in factory/plant exhaust plumes, essentially causing the polluter to compensate the people being most directly affected. Or to subsidize particular kinds of medical care. Even the costs of administering such a program turn out to be jobs and salaries.
Not sure where you are, but in Atlanta, it's only press reporting of bank robberies that has become rare. They're too commonplace to be interesting. Something like 60 unsolved over the past 2.5 years ( https://bankrobbers.fbi.gov/ ), not counting the ones who managed to get caught.
Most of people's health is determined by genetics, environment and luck.
Most people's health is determined by genetics, environment, and age. Average healthcare spending by the over-65 crowd is 3x the under-65 crowd, and 20-25% of lifetime medical expenses are, on average, incurred during the last year of life.
If you want to talk about the real healthcare scam, it's that Americans transition from private insurance to Medicare at just about the age where they start actually consuming healthcare services.
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5. State Governments no longer funding Universities. This is a HUGE one. During the recession of the early 2000s states no longer subsidize the universities due to the free money from the federal student loan program.
At every state school I've been able to find detailed budgets, the per capita cost of education has more-or-less matched inflation back to at least 1980. The major difference is that in the 70s and 80s, 70-ish% of the cost was paid by state allocations, while in 2000s-10s, 60-ish% of the cost is paid by tuition. States spending on education has not increased as fast as enrollment, and the difference has to come from somewhere.
Problem is exacerbated by colleges competing for students by offering better campus life. Dormitories today are palatial compared to the 90s. Exercise facilities are luxurious. That's all got to get paid for, and not much of it gets paid by the state.
Knowledge is power, and pay secrecy is a way for the company to increase their power in salary negotiations. The power is already biased in the corp's favor by being the big guy negotiating with a bunch of independent, replaceable little guys. Sharing salary information is just a little step towards allowing the employees to discover the actual value of their work and not lowball themselves. Forces management to articulate reasons for pay discrepancies, which gives the workers objective areas to improve their own performance. It may not stroke everyone's ego, but it should contribute to making them better people.
I don't think people 'strive to create value' at all - we just go to work to get paid, and while we're at work we basically do what we're told.
You wouldn't get paid if no one thought your job created value.
I'd argue that the further your job is from obviously creating value, the less rewarding it will be and the less you will like it. Jobs aren't charity; no executive sits down and says, "The company made too much money last year. Go hire a thousand people to sit around in the big room." Jobs exist because someone wants something done. That's creating value.
I'd imagine that people presenting themselves as "CIA operatives" could confirm that by having the official CIA twitter broadcast some pre-specified message.
The FBI is not the Fourth Branch of Government. They're a function of the Executive branch. Hence why it was stacked with Democrats during the Obama administration.
The director of the FBI is always a Republican. Not by statute, not by tradition, just by simple fact that career FBI is so loaded with Republicans that no one has yet found a Democrat that could get confirmed to run the place.
Cats convert incomplete oxides to more complete, eg carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. They don't do anything for particulates.
There could be aliens out there now, but what interest would they have in us?
I assume, the same interest that we have in them: "Holy shit! Aliens!"
...the shooting related death toll in the US is rather insignificant compared to any leading cause of death and certainly is nothing compared to the lives saved because an invading power knows how costly a ground invasion of the heavily armed US would be.
Are you seriously suggesting that the reason Mexico hasn't invaded is that they're more afraid of civilians with hunting rifles than the Army's tanks and the Air Force's bombers?
This is the right answer.
If you ask a mason what he does, he's not going to break into discussion of optimizing portland cement to lime ratios or strategies for accommodating different grades or environmental variations. He's going to tell you he builds walls.
He might tell you about the wall he built in an exceptionally interesting building, or for a particularly controversial company, but he's not going to tell you any of the details of his subjective experience of building walls.
If he chooses to give half of his fortune to charity rather than 40% of it to the government, I'm fine with that. EFF rather than DOD. US government provides so few social services that we depend on NGOs to fill the gaps, charitable giving can be looked at as a strategy to route around the political damage in Washington.
It sounds to me like this guy is arguing that ISPs won't censor or block new content, which I think is accurate. ISPs have an interest in there being as much interesting content as possible to entice customers. They also have a proven interest in rent-seeking, and unlimited access to consumption data. I think we can expect ISPs to default new content services to the "fast" lane and require them to pay higher access fees as their customer bases expand.
For new content businesses, the problem will be less crib death than a big drag on growth and tendency towards balkanization. Something like Uber has to be everywhere to be useful, and it's hard to imagine them growing like that if they face exponential "peering" fees with all of the ISPs.
I think this is another of the great falsehoods foisted off on the world. I mean, sure - if you're talking about the CEO interrupting a business negotiation to go make himself coffee, then yeah, that's wasting value. This guy is talking about putting on the coffee maker while he eats his morning granola. He's not going to use those extra 2 minutes to analyze a new investment or close a buyout, even if you add up the two minutes every day for 20 years. It's the same reason no sane person hires staff to tie their shoes.
The general result isn't particularly surprising, but the scale is. In some of those tests, the 'conventional' distros are 3x slower.
$89.95/12 = $7.50/month
($89.95+$6.55) / 12 = $8.04/month
I mean, 20% off is a fine deal, but it's no $6.95
Everyone's got an argument where 'plenty of solar power' solves each of the myriad problems of living in a sun-baked desert. The far easier solution is not to live in a sun baked desert.
Location is still the most important consideration in sustainable development, because the annual energy cost of living is proportional to how far the temperature is from 70 oF. Everything after that is just mitigating the cost of the environment you've chosen. We could live in a comfortable area, or we could install a big power plant to make it comfortable. We could live somewhere with reliable access to clean water, or we could install a big power plant to harvest, purify, or import water. We could live somewhere with easy transportation, or we could install a big power plant to knock down mountains and catapult goods from 1000 miles away.
Just because your big power plant is solar, doesn't prevent it being wasteful.
Vertical integration is not monoculture or monopoly. Monoculture would be if Nissan, GM, Ford, etc all started buying Tesla batteries.
You forgot
Snowflake, slang (1995): an underachieving or misbehaving student with highly engaged parents, as in "Mrs Smith demands that her special snowflake deserves full credit for '2+2=5' because he was using a non-Euclidean basis."
Exactly. It's like introducing a bill to repeal the sitting President's signature legislation. These people need to grow up.
The proper way to address this is to stabilize the situation, then make sure the problem cannot occur again.
You're expecting rational behavior from a business? Good luck. /s
I'd add that the size of the business probably matters a lot here. If this happened in a shop of 20 people with 3 computer guys, one of whom is "CTO," it's a very different situation than a billion dollar, multi-site company. It's probably smart to send the new guy home in the immediate aftermath - he's not going to be helpful in the recovery and emotions will be very high. After that, bring him back in, sort out what happened, and how to prevent similar failures of process. Dude has the cost of a fuck-up burned into his brain, and he's going to be a lot more careful and deliberate in the future.
Now, if he does it a second time...
Selling clothes (ie, FUBU) is a day job. The purchasers you need to talk to to get your stuff in store are 9-to-5ers. I'd guess that this guy was running his hustle pretty much that whole time and not quite making the bills. Maybe there's things he can do to stretch the hours - call stores out of timezone, production details, etc - but the short version sounds like his business wasn't really making enough profit to pay him the salary he wanted. Or that he though business profits would return much more than his time.
Food service does let you work evenings. If you get along with other staff, or can bribe them with a hot new shirt, they're often happy to pickup an extra shift. Basically, as your side-hustle grows, there's a point where you should look at your day job as the side-hustle.
"Reduce your expenses" is great advice if you're making $60k and struggling. It's not very helpful if you're making $20k.
I want my country to be a rational, creative, compassionate leader within the community of nations. Failing that, I want my nation's policies to promote our own long-term growth and success without stepping on the rights of other people. Failing that, which is apparently where we are today, I want the community of nations to pressure my nation into pretending to value those principles.
This proposed tax (like all other taxes) is an economic leakage.
Only if the government takes it tax revenue and buries it in the ground. In real governments, tax revenues are rapidly returned to the economy through the purchase of goods and services, such as roads and park cleaning.
In the case of carbon tax revenues, one can imagine spending them on housing subsidies for people who live in factory/plant exhaust plumes, essentially causing the polluter to compensate the people being most directly affected. Or to subsidize particular kinds of medical care. Even the costs of administering such a program turn out to be jobs and salaries.
Not sure where you are, but in Atlanta, it's only press reporting of bank robberies that has become rare. They're too commonplace to be interesting. Something like 60 unsolved over the past 2.5 years ( https://bankrobbers.fbi.gov/ ), not counting the ones who managed to get caught.
FBI director that has publicly said on at least three different occasions that he isn't under investigation for anything at all
Is there a source other than Trump's letter to confirm this? Because if Trump said the sun is shining, I'd still have to check the window.
Most of people's health is determined by genetics, environment and luck.
Most people's health is determined by genetics, environment, and age. Average healthcare spending by the over-65 crowd is 3x the under-65 crowd, and 20-25% of lifetime medical expenses are, on average, incurred during the last year of life.
If you want to talk about the real healthcare scam, it's that Americans transition from private insurance to Medicare at just about the age where they start actually consuming healthcare services.