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frankbreetz

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About frankbreetz

frank(dot)breetz(at)gmail.com

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    Comment #49135417

    https://archive.is/oP4ef

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    Comment #49096675

    the bathroom and kitchen both have faucets! You can potentially trek from the bedroom to the living room

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    Comment #49083745

    Even more companies are just starting AI/ML initiatives. The tokenmaxxing thing only happened at a handful of tech companies, most companies don't have unlimited money to do this k…

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    Comment #49074207

    Has anyone's doctor ever not ask them if they exercise during a checkup? Every checkup for me has started with "what is you diet and exercise like?"

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    Comment #48216406

    More like if you use services that cost money, why would you expect them for free?

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    Comment #48186503

    You would pay little to no taxes if you completely removed yourself from society and lived deep in the wilderness, but I but you aren't going to do that. I wonder why that is?

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    Comment #47563584

    The TSA was created because a plane crashed into a building. Private planes can crash into buildings. Why should they be exempt from TSA checks?

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    Comment #47279646

    Looking at the employment report that came out today, tech seems to be doing better then most sectors... "Other professional, scientific, and technical services" grew month over mo…

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    Comment #45255212

    Pretty much all companies are created in order to make the owner(s) money.

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    Comment #45027640

    The issue with hiring many juniors is, when there is another dev boom, all the juniors that were hired, now mids or seniors, are going to jump ship to whoever is going to pay them …

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    Comment #44902382

    Are you suggesting that this is the fault of the people who said tariff's are a bad idea?

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    Comment #44901501

    yes, but "salaries and compensation" are people doing work, and profit gets paid to shareholders. Most people would agree that the bulk of taxpayer dollars should go to working peo…

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    Comment #44900824

    Profit would fall into an entirely different category then "salaries and compensation"

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    Comment #44064475

    From what I understand this provision is potentially being temporally re-added in the "Big Beautiful Bill" https://www.crowell.com/en/insights/client-alerts/house-comm...

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    Comment #43289868

    I may be missing some of your sarcasm, but "Gila Monster's venom" meets the strictest definition of natural.

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    Comment #43051337

    The total of all federal employees salary is only 4.3% of the budget. If you want to balance the budget using cuts you would have to make significant cuts to all of Social Security…

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    Comment #43051193

    This is less then the number of people who retire from the federal government every year. I would expect a significant number of these people to be people who were going to retire …

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    Comment #41245598

    >>The index for shelter rose 0.4 percent in July, accounting for nearly 90 percent of the monthly increase in the all items index. Shelter seems to be the most tightly coupled item…

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    Comment #41097552

    They are heavily regulated now, but it's inconceivable that these industries become more unregulated, it's not hard to make an argument that companies should be able set there own …

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    Comment #41087426

    Not if there is a monopoly on service and you can't afford. The gas and electric company already know who you are. I wouldn't put it past them to start doing this.

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    Comment #40513413

    I think the outrage stems from wealthy people having their issue fixed by congress in a timely fashion, when regular people feel like they cannot catch a break. Housing, Inflation,…

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    Comment #39932998

    Around 500k in today's dollars. I can not imagine a group of Adults raising this kind of Money with the expectation of no return, let alone a group of college kids. Shows you the p…

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    Comment #39893710

    Terrifying, the Sea temperature especially. I hear a lot of talk of this Year being extra hot due to El Nino. Hopefully that explains the extreme spike we, see last year running in…

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    Comment #39893473

    yeah, obviously they were adults when their biological kids were raised and even if the weren't the primary, they surely would be hands on most of the time.

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    Comment #39778095

    >We don't have to. I don't understand this. Should I carry around a backpack with a music player, several book, video camera, and planner? Would that be a better situation, then pe…