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It's the lack of unions and cheap wages. Southern states are famously lax on workers rights and business regulations.

Thinking salaries are governed by market forces is a fundamental attribution error

Yeah, most hedge fund managers are also absolute trash though.

It's gonna lead to bad times when men start seeing education as effeminate.

Those kids have social security numbers that the IRS definitely has, and social programs are based on income, which is reported to the IRS.

If it wasn't possible, Intuit wouldn't bother lobbying.

Nuclear weapons are a technology that is almost 100 years old, and is old enough for a country like North Korea to pull off.

It has a space program with rockets, a nuclear power sector, etc. It's the thing you do when you want all the pieces for a potential nuclear weapons program without signaling that you're looking to develop a nuclear weapons program.

I think the current contemporary estimate is that Japan could assemble a functioning nuke in 6-12 months.

H1B labor isn't mobile, so you can underpay and treat them how you like.

It's like when manufacturing complains about labor and skill shortages but the wages are terrible. When you need labor and can't find it, lots of times its just that employers aren't meeting the market rate for said labor. Hence their desire to get it on the cheap via importation or outsourcing.

What is now Iraq was largely almost always under Sassanid/Persian rule. The old Persian capital of Ctesiphon was basically next door to modern Baghdad. The old fault line was really in eastern Anatolia.

Rome held Mesopotamia for a very brief period of time and didn't have much impact other than the occasional army passing through until the Muslim conquest.

They weren't accessible because of the ongoing Taliban insurgency, which is now the sole existing government.

Not really, because City of London is a borough of London proper and is really just the business district.

Serving B2B clients requires more time than you'd have as a solopreneur because they require a lot of handholding through the entire lifecycle. Even a small SaaS company can have 5-10 people touching a deal in some form (marketing, sales, sales engineer, etc) before its closed.

Last I checked, the Germans crushed the Russians in WW1 while treating that front as a defensive action while the real war was fought on the Western front.

The Polish invasion in 1920 was pretty effective too until it wasn't, same for Napoleon, etc. Point being its a big corridor for large troop movements.

My point was that universities aren't some kind of left-wing propaganda factory, and that they see universities as hostile to right-wing opinions because they deride the product of a university education.

The right-wing opinion on universities and college graduates shifted around the same time that college graduates stopped being a strong GOP constituency.

What you get out of college is entirely up to you.

Current vaccines aren't as effective against catching Delta, they are very effective against symptoms, hospitalization, and death, so everyone must get vaccinated.

Being vaccinated to the point where you don't become part of a flood of patients overwhelming the healthcare system is a good thing. The vaccine making COVID a mild virus to the vaccinated is a huge success given that we don't really have great treatment options for serious cases other than hoping your body fights it off.

A free market is not a market free of regulation. Adam Smith was pretty explicit that markets can't exist without regulation as without uniform rules of engagement and the trust that creates in the system, there is no free market.

Shocks to the labour market without an adequate safety net to cushion folks from the personal fallout of labour market shocks is a good recipe for resentment

It's not surprising that universities are more left-leaning when the right has taken a stance against higher education and pushes anti-intellectualism for political gain.

The right likes to push this idea of universities as brainwashing factories, but there's very little of that going on given that its usually a struggle to get everyone to do the assigned reading, let alone try to brainwash people.

Pripyat Marshes are not a big stretch of the North European Plain. You can move massive armies through the northern route along the Baltic coast, or the southern route through Ukraine.

They're not really a big obstacle, given the two land invasions that came from the West in the 20th century.

His point is they can't afford the AGTMs, not the cell phones. AGTMs are expensive, and the Taliban can't afford it.

It wasn't really peaceful or prosperous. The Austrians had to cut the Hungarians in on the empire, as otherwise it would have collapsed, and even then it was pretty unpopular and ineffectual. It was a pretty stodgy, autocratic relic of the past.

Austria-Hungary limped along because the varying ethnic minorities were used to the regime and were more worried about who came after the Austrians. But the whole enterprise was running on borrowed time as nationalism was going to dismember the empire at some point.

Right wing media stopped talking about it immediately after it had no value to swing the election, which is telling as to how credible the accusations were.

Which leadership principles are about having their warehouse employees urinate in bottles?

Leadership principles aren't worth anything; it's just nice PR.

It's like a shark telling you it's gone vegan.

This happens all the time at non-FAANG companies.

Lots of companies overhire for empire building purposes and for tasks that offer marginal or zero value to the company.

I'm sure plenty of people here can attest to the cascade of overhiring that happens to startups all the time.

In undergrad I'd listen to lectures while doing chores all the time, especially when the concepts are theoretical and it's more about just listening to the information.

It won't work for a calculus lecture, but for a lot of topics it works just fine.

The conditions might be different than 20th century factory work, but the dynamic between wage labor and capital isn't much different.

The "random encounters" thing is always funny to hear from executives, because they are rarely anywhere but in back-to-back meetings.

It might be the narrative but it's not incorrect. It's just another front in the continual war between labor and management