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checkcircuits

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    Comment #35235084

    If I didn't need healthcare I wouldn't worry. COBRA will drain my emergency fund twice as fast as if I didn't need it. Moreover, I grew up poor. I will not go back. I've come too f…

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    Comment #35226062

    That's because it is a charade. The fed's entire job is basically a dependency injection in an otherwise free market. Money creation in a modern economy is literal magic and while …

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    Comment #35223805

    The problem is they aren't wiped out enough. Bankers who instigated the GFC got jobs elsewhere. One of them was even the CEO of SVB! Breach of fiduciary duty in any other context i…

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    Comment #35222393

    The better question of course is who pays for this? They're quiet about it because it's not the banks. The banks paying it is only a technicality. This additional premium they will…

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    Comment #35187162

    I dont know if I agree with your assessment. > Equity is getting zeroed out. Management was fired. Depositors were made whole almost immediately. SVB's assets are apparently not im…

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    Comment #35175636

    It's not a theory nor is it a conspiracy insofar as it is lacking evidence. The collapse during the great depression was used to sell the fallibility of the small banks. Senator Al…

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    Comment #35175599

    If you paid attention the last week or so there have been a lot of accounts here promoting the fed bank as a solution. You are correct and I agree with your assessment for what it'…

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    Comment #35159296

    There's not much you can do to "decompress" when you go to work, sentence dogs to death, and then go home to your family pet and look at them thinking they could've been one of tho…

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    Comment #35157767

    The odd, perhaps not entirely coincidental, relationship between ivy league pedigree and job at FAANG. While there's a correlation between talent and ivy league the relationship is…

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    Comment #35154564

    The fact my company turns down over 80 applications a week and only 1/5 of the accepted applicants make it through the first interview tells me you're wrong. It's only an easy meal…

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    Comment #35154535

    This has been my experience as a data engineer. ML guys build the fun stuff, go to conferences, etc. We maintain their stuff and work the 60 hour weeks answering pages. It's mind n…

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    Comment #35152883

    I've lived in a LCOL my entire life and really made actual development money by going remote. I've done it for so long and the wage disparity is so great I will likely have to leav…

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    Comment #35143027

    "Libertarian" is a sliding scale from basically anarcho-capitalism to traditional Republicanism. While it has been humorous to see these faux-libertarians say in one breath they wa…

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    Comment #35131859

    > Keep in mind that bank shareholders and senior management are going to get wiped out and fired. And do the same thing again. Wasn't the CEO ex-Lehman?

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    Comment #35131840

    Not a great analogy IMO. This is akin to seeing a terrible movie, announcing to the markets you're selling every share you own of the company, and then everyone doing the same. Vic…

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    Interestingly the list of some of the richest people capable of destroying such an institution would likely be highly correlated with the banks that can handle it. As it turns out …

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    Comment #35130858

    I don't think any coverage should go over FDIC. We can't let the taxpayer cover such mistakes. Even though they have "explicitly" said that the taxpayer won't you simply have to fo…

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    Comment #35125332

    This is the actual story. Rich VCs want their losses socialized. Vulture capitalists never change.

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    Comment #35123547

    You've missed the point of BMI. It's a population metric. The application of it to the individual really only works in the edges (too skinny, too fat) where it becomes obvious. I'v…

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    Comment #35096530

    Really? That seems bold. They quite literally changed the definition of a recession. Just because it's not a historically accurate recession does not mean we are not in, nor that a…

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    > it was impossible to right-size the stimulus This is wrong. DETR, the Nevada Unemployment Office, gave out 1.4B too much [0]. I am absolutely sure this is not an isolated case. T…

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    Comment #35083286

    Sabbath is more like a special case of this. The purpose of Sabbath was a built-in day of rest for people working essentially. The impetus was of course to use that time for religi…