SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
1d ago
I have a 10x coworker, and from what I know of our company's pay scale, he makes around four times what an entry-level engineer makes, and probably twice what an unremarkable mid-career engineer makes.
SerialStateLineXer
2d ago
Things go up and down
Ideally more than 13 times.
SerialStateLineXer
10d ago
You can still get a lower premium with a high deductible, right?
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
Any major Social Security savings are going to have to come from legislation, because the formulas for payouts are dictated by law. Maybe they find some people cashing dead parents' checks, but I don't expect that to be more than a small single-digit percentage, if that. Plus there's no real room for discretion, since payouts are only based on contributions and age of retirement.
There's some room for fraud in disability, but rooting that out without inspecting each individual on a case-by-case basis might be tough. Maybe they can look for doctors with anomalously high rates of diagnosing disability that can't be explained by specialty.
There's a lot more room for fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, because there's much more room for discretion. Again, reviewing individual cases is probably not possible, but maybe they can find providers with anomalous numbers.
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
I'm 100% on team HBD, because that's where the evidence strongly points, and I'm sick of midwits trying to smear those of us who can actually follow the science as racists, but "normalize Indian hate" sounds an awful lot like actual racism to me.
SerialStateLineXer
17d ago
He's an executive branch appointee acting with the permission of the elected President. That's how the executive branch has always worked: The President appoints people to oversee various aspects of the executive branch, because it does way too much for one person to micromanage. The President can fire him at any time if he disapproves.
If there's a problem here, it's that the executive branch is doing things the executive branch has no authority to do, not that an unelected appointee is making decisions.
SerialStateLineXer
19d ago
Anything's possible, because laws aren't real, but the President has a constitutional mandate to "take care that the laws be executed faithfully," which includes making the expenditures specified in law. Anyone who's "harmed" by the reduction in spending (e.g. by getting laid off, or by not getting the benefit of the legally mandated spending) has standing to sue, and contrary to the histrionic claims of the left, I think the conservative majority on the Court actually cares about upholding the law.
SerialStateLineXer
20d ago
Payroll expenses are about 5% of federal spending. Laying off half of the employees would have only a minimal effect on total spending.
SerialStateLineXer
24d ago
I regard it as what happens when libertarians who read Hacker News and Ayn Rand stop believing in liberty.
No, it's more that they stop believing in the ability of democracy to deliver liberty. The whole point of competitive government is that exit is a better guarantee of liberty than voice.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
"Gulf of America" is kind of silly, though. The US borders many bodies of water. The Gulf of Mexico is the one that has Mexico on the other side.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
he is seen as a well-meaning dorky guy who likes jews so cannot be bunched with ss sympathisers
You are greatly underestimating the power of motivated reasoning.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Might have to wait for third-gen. A lot of second-gens seem to spend their whole lives seething with resentment over white kids making fun of their lunches in elementary school.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
For the time being, this can at least somewhat plausibly be explained by cultural fit. Most Jews have been living in the US for generations, while most Asians are first- or second-generation. Asians also skew towards quantitative ability, while Jews skew verbal, which is more important for success in things like politics.
Thirty years down the road, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot more Asian representation outside of STEM. Hopefully they're better than Ro Khanna, Kshama Sawant, and Pramila Jayapal.
I just realized that the closer you get to New England, the more specific a background "Yankee" denotes. Overseas, it means an American. In the US it means someone from the Northeast. In the Northeast it specifically refers to someone from New England. I assume that this regresses further, and that in New England it refers to someone from Massachusetts, where it refers to someone from Boston, that within Boston it refers to a specific neighborhood, and that within that neighborhood resides the One True Yankee.
I'm agnostic as to whether it's a hereditary title or one that comes with the house.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Booze seems just part of the culture here--which is bizarre in a way when you think of how many people just can't drink in Japan without going full ゆでだこ (an oldish term meaning boiled octopus, referring to the redness of face many get after consuming even a little booze).
This is caused by the accumulation of acetaldehyde, a toxic intermediate product of alcohol metabolism, in the blood. They're literally poisoning themselves.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
I quit drinking cold turkey 4 days ago.
I assume you're talking about Wild Turkey on the rocks.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
I don't think I cried at all when my mother died, due to a combination of:
- She had been ill with a terminal neurodegenerative disease for a few years at that point, so we all saw it coming.
- I had moved across the country over a decade earlier, and since then had only seen her for a week or two so every year, so we'd grown apart.
- Honestly, I just didn't enjoy being around her much in the years leading up to her diagnosis. She wasn't mean or anything, but she was much more negative and complained a lot more than she had before. In retrospect, I think it's likely that this was a preclinical effect of the neurodegeneration.
I was sad, but in a sort of abstract, detached way, and not in a way that was deeply painful.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
posted memes about feds on Jan 6 and even questioned the deaths of officers on that day
Precisely zero officers present at the Capitol on January 6th died on that day. Brian Sicknick died the next day. We can't completely rule out that it was caused by the events of the previous day, but the conclusion of the autopsy was that he died of natural causes. The other four deaths were suicides. Possibly one of them, Jeffrey Smith, was caused by a TBI sustained in the attack, but I don't know how strong the evidence is there. Two of the suicides were six months later.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
I just got promoted for the second time in seven years as a software engineer at the same company, and my income has more than doubled over that time period. And this is slow for my company; I had a lot of issues focusing during mandatory WFH during COVID, which was a major speedbump for my career progression. I could easily have been promoted a third time, nearly tripling my income, if not for COVID.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Yeah companies want them because they can't leave.
They can, though. There's some paperwork, but it's absolutely possible to change employers on an H-1B visa. It's not even that rare—in 2023, there were 76k approved change of employer petitions, down from something like 120k in 2022 (due to a slowdown in tech hiring generally).
This week I learned that "female" is a) etymologically related to "fellatio," both deriving from a PIE word meaning to suck, and b) not etymologically related to "male," the similarity arising due to folk etymology.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Black people don't do much, if at all, better on the SAT than on the LSAT. Harvard undergrad made an explicit choice to continue discriminating enough to get a class that's 14% black, but their law school has not. This is an HLS thing, not a general law school thing: Yale Law school is clearly discriminating as hard as ever.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Our current system gives us a lot of students more loyal to Hamas than to the US.
Make more Jews, please. We're running out.
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