It's easy to find decent living on $60k in DAL, HOU, CHI, and MIA if you're willing to go out to the suburbs where, guess what, tons of people live.
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The entire bullshit process begins when you try to get a price that doesn't have thousands of extra dollars in for the dealership.
Barring some calamity, this is pretty much as expected. Tariffs impact a very small percentage of the economy with large size, and the rest of it with a small overhead, much like a fed interest rate hike. Even with this hawkish fed, there hasn't been anything overly harmful to the economy from a policy perspective.
> This is crazy to me given how much we hear about gun homicide being a problem in this country.
Anything that's politicized gets this special treatment. Kid kills brother with car, blurb in local newspaper. Kid kills brother with gun, national news and Tweets from Presidential candidates.
Texting and driving is as bad as drinking and driving when it comes to number of deaths (dwarfing gun deaths as well), yet people do it like it's no big deal. Most cities still only levy small fines (in comparisons to DUIs) for doing it. Not all accidental death is created equal.
>Page 29: Crime rate has declined but "The number of incarcerated persons has increased by 330% since 1980"
Welcome to the US where the war on drugs gives us authoritarian level incarceration rates.
Moon landings became boring during that timeframe!
Is AA still overbooking with regularity?
The latter doesn't need to happen within 24 hours of purchase.
If you don't apply the social safety net to the incoming immigrants, I don't see how you hold any higher moral ground than people who want controlled migration.
Also, keep in mind that the government doesn't actually build roads. They pay other companies to do it.
If that were true, we wouldn't have private airlines because planes would be falling out of the sky every day and nobody would fly.
Increase fines for negligence or make sure they can be sued (IIRC California makes it difficult to sue PGE) if you want to fix the problem. Don't do something as stupid as making it government run so it either becomes extremely expensive, extremely unstable, and/or a tax burden for the state.
>Eliminate the profit motive, and the service will be cheaper, safer, and directly accountable to the people.
Eliminate the profit motive and nobody will be incentivized to improve anything. This will likely make it much more expensive in the long term. The military has no profit motive either and they spend money like it grows on trees.
If you're going to approach upper management with such a hostile attitude, you need to run it by some peers first to have them poke holes in the idea and get onboard.
Why I called your approach hostile: you phrased it as "challenging their intellect". That's not how good engineers pitch changes.
That's shipping code further from the data, unless you store all of your data on your customers' hardware.
There is more to the world than serving HTTP requests.
Your (unspoken) job as a tenure track professor is to raise money via grants and get students excited to do research and apply to join your group. A professor bringing in 4x the NSF grant money of a professor getting published in top journals/conferences is always going to get the higher priority. That's the reality of academia.
I've worked with professors considered to be the top of their departments who were completely incompetent but they were amazing at grant writing and selling their work. They brought in way more money to the school than anyone else so they were rewarded for it. :/
The best trolls tell something almost true to get people involved in a fight about details rather than countering the larger misdirection.
See the sibling comment for how little the total numbers have declined.
Someone is going to get fucked in a tariff change. Tariff changes area always a question of greater good.
It doesn't take bad intentions to end up destroying an open ecosystem, just a lack of effort to create standard solutions while being the majority market share gorilla.
Microsoft employees likely thought they were doing good by adding non-standard features to IE as well given that "standards couldn't keep up" for them either.