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jonkho

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    Comment #47913300

    The dilemma is that there are some people who are not smart enough to understand this and will press blue.

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    Comment #45732228

    “It’s not what you say, but how you say it” syndrome.

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    Comment #45269906

    Use hiring brokers. The good ones will vet the candidates and verify them. Job seekers should also consider seeking representation from top tier brokers.

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    Comment #43417305

    So you are proposing… social security?

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    Comment #42083544

    It’s not the jumping out of the plane that’s dangerous, it’s the landing!

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    Comment #41998910

    If the problem is the mortgage then rent /s. If the problem is you need money to pay the bills, well I got news for you…

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    Comment #40581490

    Again, my initial purpose of responding to the OP was his perspective is formed by his own ability, a trap you also fall into. Again, Higher mountain climbers and all. Lower climbe…

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    Comment #40579842

    My point is that a claim cannot be made that categorically LC tests are generally a test on memorization. It appears your point does not disprove that. You mention exceptions, that…

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    Comment #40575944

    Thank you. You just proved my point that “categorically LC is not largely memorization” by reinforcing that only in specific cases in some specific levels that you do need some spe…

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    Comment #40571966

    That’s not true. In any discipline when confronted with a test there are two strategies: brute memorization of the question/answers, or developing the skills to tackle the problem …

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    Comment #40409113

    First point: We have a transparent political system…many years ago. The leverage points get co-opt and even separation of powers cannot prevent its eventual gaming and corruption. …

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    Comment #40408965

    Yes, have a market-based legal system (a set of laws that are established via continuous market evaluation) instead of a politics-based legal system (a set of laws established by d…

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    Comment #39240970

    There are things that are justified to exist whose sole purpose is keeping things in-check. If any of your aforementioned tools gets abused by the authorities we can still fall bac…

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    Comment #39202555

    The fact that a red ball was drawn is new information that suggests there is a higher chance (however slight) that there are actually more red balls in the urn than green balls. Th…

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    Comment #39116146

    And 100% of the CO2 found in fossil deposits also originated from the atmosphere, many, many years ago (I.e when the fossils were not in the ground, that quantity of CO2 pre-existe…

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    Comment #38946816

    Money is a social construct. Other social constructs are countries and borders. They only exist due to social consensus and is a pure social construct. Social constructs do have re…

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    Comment #38695890

    Lies, damned lies, and statistics. This is old era data. The era when this data is collected is when marriage is overwhelmingly the norm for those generations (the life-expectancy …

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    Comment #38469534

    ChatGPT will automate what valuable tasks, exactly?

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    Comment #38289878

    Why is government paying subsidies to build charging stations? Must imply they are not a profitable endeavor to begin with. Otherwise entrepreneurs would be all crawling over for t…

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    Comment #38250180

    > (And if you think women have all the leverage in the average relationship, just wait till you get to over 45 and the kids are all old enough). “It’s cheaper to keep her” is also …

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    Comment #38250151

    As an American, it’s pretty much visa-free everywhere - and my comment is directed towards Americans.

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    Comment #38250129

    You have parental rights even without marriage, in America and the western world.

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    Comment #38250119

    50% chance you will divide everything. Risk a dollar to pick up pennies. Risk vs reward.

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    Comment #38250110

    At 50% rate, it’s not a tail risk! Not to mention the men that “stay in it. Cuz cheaper to keep her”!

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    Comment #38247251

    The reality is the person with lower leverage in the relationship does the keeping of the one with higher leverage happy. In marriages men have the lower leverage due to various re…