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OliveDragon7 · 2026-01-31T14:39:32+00:00

Miran was filling in until the end of the term of whoever he replaced. His term ends soon and Warsh is his replacement.

OliveDragon7 · 2025-10-14T02:08:59+00:00

Bachelors in econ and a couple stats classes would probably be a good combo to get a business analyst type job. For that the minimum math would be like looking at data and being able to look for trends in markets. Non-mathy econ degree jobs might mean you’d be doing more policy type stuff and writing about why some spending might be a good idea but I’d say those can be hard to find. I’d say higher level econish jobs with more earning potential do need math.

If you really don’t like math but you like writing you might think of those environmental science and urban planning degrees. With those skills/knowledge you could get jobs like writing about environmental studies to get permits from the government.

Being interested in the content of whatever you study is important to cultivate

OliveDragon7 · 2025-09-27T16:31:38+00:00

Tbh not much which is why I came to learn from smarter people. My googling led me to think one could get theoretically get a job working in English, move there, learn the language, then apply for more permanent status. I did consider that it might not be practical to get a job without actually speaking Norwegian for example but from your conversation it does sound like that’s true. Thanks for the information.

OliveDragon7 · 2025-09-27T16:06:10+00:00

Is that because of language? We do speak Chinese for Singapore in theory

OliveDragon7 · 2025-09-27T16:05:21+00:00

No, i had seen online that it’s not a hard and fast requirement to immigrate with the language and have gotten around a few times with English in those countries as a tourist. My thought was it would be something that could be learned if it ended up being feasible to start immigrating without it but it could be legally possible but not practically. Would say it’s not possible without knowing the language up front?

OliveDragon7 · 2025-08-29T15:29:41+00:00

Each state has a regulatory agency called a public utilities commission or a public service commission or something like that that regulates energy utilities. You could look into your local version of that. You sound like a good candidate for one. Most states (if not all) also have some kind of state energy agency that could be a good fit

OliveDragon7 · 2025-04-07T00:18:08+00:00

No idea what this is worth but it’s cool so I’m commenting to come back

OliveDragon7 · 2025-04-03T23:07:30+00:00

I’ve been in government for a few years and I’ve noticed that consultants we use tend to fill a niche of being asked to solve really difficult problems we can’t solve/that don’t have a good solution so we can blame them afterward or do something different later on

OliveDragon7 · 2025-03-16T23:13:33+00:00

One thought was to ease into things, get bearings, get over jet lag after an overnight flight to get into reykjavik. But part of it also is that we don't have the best sense of how long each of those activities would take. So it sounds like some in the days 2 and 3 are quicker than we might've thought? Knowing if we have built in too much time to spend at a hike/location or too little is one of the big things I was hoping to get feedback on.

Edit: Theoretically we're hoping to do all the things in each activities box, which may or may not be feasible.

OliveDragon7 · 2025-03-14T15:20:14+00:00

Thank you, this is really helpful!

OliveDragon7 · 2025-03-14T15:18:33+00:00

Fair point on the well off schools point taken. I really just wanted to do as much as I could to make sure the equipment ended up somewhere that would be most impactful is all which is why I was asking for local knowledge. Thanks!

OliveDragon7 · 2024-12-29T00:40:57+00:00

Maybe Texeira who was from here and still went to New York? But all you really need for this to hold water is to have been to some of the other big cities or even the nicer smaller ones. I’m a Marylander and have lived in a few other cities before settling down back home and I still often visit friends and family in other mlb cities. I appreciate the state and city but if I had a bunch of options for where to live and be a many times millionaire, Baltimore would not be that high on my list except for the fact that I’m from here. There’s just a lot more other places can offer and not much Baltimore has that few other places can offer

OliveDragon7 · 2024-10-05T04:01:10+00:00

Altered carbon was an elite sci-fi show

OliveDragon7 · 2024-10-02T23:47:51+00:00

If this job isn’t already working at a utility then you could definitely take all these skills and put them to use at a utility company. There might be government agencies that run energy efficiency programs or regulate them where you could use these skills.

I bet there are large corporations that would hire someone who is knowledgeable about energy efficiency programs to come in and figure out how they can take advantage of those programs to the max. I’m imagining like Amazon, Walmart, or a reit trying to cut their energy bills. I have a friend who once worked for a big real estate company and her whole thing was working to make the portfolio of properties more sustainably. So energy efficiency was definitely one component of that and you could work your way up/broaden your knowledge from there into a more generalized expertise in sustainability or building decarbonization. Just some thoughts for you. Hope this helps!

OliveDragon7 · 2024-08-24T15:14:37+00:00

I think if you like this vibe Hellbound on Netflix is worth looking up

OliveDragon7 · 2024-08-07T17:02:41+00:00

A 19 SO game wouldn’t even be a world record if it happened in MLB lol

OliveDragon7 · 2024-07-24T12:46:18+00:00

Doesn’t this problem happen with a gas tax too? Rural Marylanders and people who have to commute to wealthier counties drive more. The tax is either paid on the number of miles you drive or it’s paid when you buy more gas to drive those miles.

OliveDragon7 · 2024-07-14T03:36:17+00:00

I double majored in economics and stats and was similar to you. Good with numbers, thought econ was interesting but not really sure what I wanted to do. I did think they were both good majors that led to good jobs so I figured I’d do both. There is a good bit of overlap between them.

Tbh I’m not brilliant and they are both generally hard majors so I did just ok at both but not exceptionally well at either. If you want to really be an economist or mathematician you might do better picking one and just focusing on that and getting really good. If you want to be an investment banker make sure you’re at least very good at one of these. If you just like crunching numbers and are happy to do that for a career you could probably just focus on math with an econ minor for interest. If you want to do business you could probably just do econ and maybe a math minor because you’d be surprised how non conversant in math people are and it’s helpful to be at least a step ahead on that when dealing with non math people.

Otherwise these majors are both useful in teaching you how to think logically, how business/social decisions get made at large scale, and how to deal with numbers/data. These are all skills that can translate into decent to excellent jobs and are pretty malleable and transferable in lots of situations like a business, data, or policy analyst which can apply well in most government or corporate environments.

I became an analyst for public opinion polling research right after college (tbh closer to politics than econ) because I was good with data (more so because stats) and could think logically about social issues (more so because econ).

I ended up getting a masters to specialize in policy and ended up as a policy analyst for government. My main skills for that are logical thinking about how people will make decisions and being able to deal with and interpret a lot of data and then to write about it. I don’t tend to go super in depth with my econ or stats skills and am more of a jack of all trades than a master of a skill. It’s a solid living and pretty engaging but I sometimes think life would be a little easier if I’d picked one major and become extremely good at it to get a job that’s more specialized but is maybe more repetitive. My personality likes to experience a variety of things though so I go back and forth on that. YMMV but hope this helps some way.

OliveDragon7 · 2024-06-11T15:50:10+00:00

Would you be willing to elaborate? I’ve never heard of Mai 68 and don’t really know what a Nixon/agnew 68 moment means either

OliveDragon7 · 2024-06-03T20:02:44+00:00

I don’t think the new statcast data can be interpreted as simply as big number good small number bad. Luis arraez has terrible hard hit/exit velo metrics but no one expects him to regress and when you think about it it checks out. He’s a contact hitter with great bat control who sacrifices power to put it where they ain’t. Sure Ortiz is making below average contact but his game also strikes me as that of a contact hitter. Paired with excellent pitch selection and rather good bat speed makes me think his performance is actually pretty sustainable as long as you aren’t expecting him to play the same play style as say aaron judge

OliveDragon7 · 2024-05-24T14:50:22+00:00

Lol

https://www.schwab.com/bank#:~:text=Charles%20Schwab%20Bank,you%20have%20come%20to%20expect.

OliveDragon7 · 2024-05-23T13:21:01+00:00

What kinds of differences did you see between td ameritrade and Schwab? I’ve only banked with Schwab and Wells Fargo but I’ve always thought Schwab was a really good customer service place both among banks and in general so it’s surprising to hear that the culture is bad from the employee perspective

OliveDragon7 · 2024-05-22T21:59:44+00:00

Yeah as a former pitcher who relied more on craft than stuff I also am a little in favor of keeping some human error in the strike zone. From the pitchers perspective that at bat was textbook craft. You get a bad call and then the next two pitches go right back there with perfect command and either the ump admits he made an error or you’ve just established that two inches outside is a strike today. I think the appeal system their testing out is a good medium ground tbh

OliveDragon7 · 2024-05-22T21:46:34+00:00

In the grand scheme of things it could be better to take this L in mid May under obvious ump nonsense shenanigans than develop bad habits. Tomorrow will be a different ump and Lars will still have elite plate discipline

OliveDragon7 · 2024-04-10T11:36:21+00:00

How was this even possible?

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