What data do you have that shows that painters are currently highly paid? It's entry-level construction work; AKA a shit job (maybe just a bit better than roofing), so I'm skeptical.
A) COBRA doesn't apply if the company is out of business and is often prohibitively expensive anyway. B) Try living in a state that's hostile to "Obamacare" C) Not everyone is married.
My cousin's baby-daddy was a painter, but he couldn't make enough money to pay child support doing that so he does some sort of overhead-door service thing now. He was pretty thrilled to get health insurance as well since he'd never had a job that provided that before.
I always assumed that if I moved to a different country and took a job there, I'd need to learn the language. It's part of what makes emigrating seem difficult actually.
I was watching a documentary about Steinway pianos awhile back, and there are several parts where the piano comes off the line and then has to be extensively hand-fitted for some part or other; that is to say that each one takes a lot of individual attention in spite of using some mass production technique (they're about as high-end a piano as there is).
Children are semi-random genetic combinations of their parents and aren't amenable to mass production; I've long suspected that generic advice is close to worthless and once you mix in the replication crisis, all the science seems close to worthless. I think you just have to take the time and figure out what works for each kid.
I'd say it's a really bad time to be graduating as a computer science major. As far as a few years from now, I always think of the words of Yogi Berra - "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future". No one knows really. Honestly, if I had things to do over, I'd look harder at medicine, likely a PA type career track; who knows, maybe I still will.
Housing isn't mandatory - the government doesn't put you in jail if you don't pay it; you just get evicted. Disposable income is basically just income minus required taxes.
I've faced all these (disability from a young age even) and as a result, I don't think there's any way I could raise children. Both because of my own issues make it seem challenging beyond possibility, but also because I wouldn't want to force a child to face the same problems I did. I very much believe to each their own on this particular subject, but if global fertility is "collapsing", then it seems like more people are coming to the same conclusion for one reason or another.
I would think charging infra would tend towards being cheaper as it's built out, if only because you don't need enormous tanker trucks trundling around cities distributing the fuel - running electric lines is almost one-and-done in comparison.
I don't think they're that large, but Consumer Cellular talked my mom through migrating her phone from Android to Apple over 2 hours which really impressed me. My calls with them have been really good too, but nothing on that level.
It's a strange issue to me. People all over the world, but particularly south of the US border feel compelled to come to the US for opportunity, and I suppose they are finding employment at least. How do you fix that?
Hasselblad liked to advertise that there were a couple free ones on the moon, you just had to pick them up. To save weight for more sample returns, the Apollo astronauts did the logical thing and kept the film, but chucked the cameras out on the moon.
Funny - I heard about the finale before I saw it, so I figured there would be a lot of ambiguity, but it was quite obvious to me that it was “lights out” for Tony so to speak. I suppose that speaks well for it that we are able to take our own meaning.
I suppose I could be called DevOps, and I've always seen that as part of the job - making the infrastructure as easy for the devs to work with as possible. They've got their own specialities to worry about; infrastructure shouldn't be one of them. I've heard the role called somewhat derogatorily "helpdesk for devs", but that is part of the job, and I embrace it. I also embrace "yaml wrangler" - it's not my favorite thing to do, but it does sometimes need wrangling. I suppose I've always seen the role as a generalist one who has some understanding of the overall system, and how to glue (or duct tape) it all together.
I don't think I follow - which club are you not getting into, retirement or home ownership? Because if you don't have a home, then you aren't the one paying if the value decreases.
One of the reasons I never felt I had a place in academia was because of the publish or perish type culture; how can one ensure that their work will find novel discoveries worth publishing? It's hard to imagine staking my career on that bet and dealing with that level of pressure. Perhaps it turns out that people who did pursue that path aren't much better suited to it than I.
I suppose it speaks well for the skills (and perhaps poorly for the morals) of our best minds that they've now developed the tech to be so addictive that they can override peoples' innate desire to be useful.
If I didn't have work to go to, things would indeed be pretty dark, but that doesn't mean I'd prefer falling into a hole of substance abuse and tech addiction.
This is what I was wondering. I don’t understand these VPNs too deeply (though I do occasionally administer an OpenVPN setup), but I was under the impression that they’re sending encrypted packets over UDP on arbitrary ports. That seems quite tough to analyze and block.
You know, I spent some time in college learning economics, and lots of time after that listening to podcasts about economics ("Planet Money" has long been great), but like almost every other belief I had when I was younger, I seem to have lost this one as well.
Supposedly we've had decades of productivity growth, so you'd think that it would be possible for a smaller cohort of workers to keep everything going, and yet it is apparently a creeping disaster that there may not be enough of them to maintain modern civilization in the not-so-distant future. Like many aspects of modern life, it just isn't really adding up to me.
You don't need state intervention to get monopolies; actually it's quite the opposite - economies of scale push for consolidation, and you eventually need government to intervene. Whatever it was known for, the Gilded Era doesn't seem to be associated with large-scale government regulation, but you certainly had mega corps. And given enough leeway, the mega corps will start to take on functions you'd normally associate with government - company tows, stores, and scrip as examples.
They do throw a couple bucks to the poor and middle class so they can say that, you've got me there, but you should be able to see in your explorations of the historical tax tables who is getting the biggest benefit.
This has been the dynamic long enough that I can remember an SNL skit from 20 years ago about how bad the Democrat's messaging was on the subject. Something like the Democratic leadership of the time cutting ads about how the rich could use their tax cut for a full-service holiday at a brothel, while all the middle class could get from their cut was a lousy handjob. Obviously it was amusing enough to stick with me.
> The first major party nominee for President who embraces it is going to get elected.
And Republicans will use every ability in their power to prevent it from happening, through the filibuster and Supreme Court most likely. Fighting that sort of socialism is their entire reason for existence. That and upper-income tax cuts obviously.
All of us will be forgotten sooner or later, and sooner for the vast majority. While it wouldn't be for me, I can see a lifetime spent studying music would be more meaningful to some than building an app toolkit. I'm not naive enough to say that money isn't important, but it's not everything either.