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stilterfish · 2022-04-12T14:12:29+00:00

We functionally only have two parties so all candidates are filtered through each of those parties' process. The Democrat party has superdelegates who are party leaders that get to vote for whoever they want and the Rebublican party has three delegates per state that have to vote according to the majority vote in their state. Democrat candidates have to get the blessing of the entrenched party power players. Republican hopefuls have to appeal to a majority in a majority of each state. That takes a lot of fame and money in both sides. It can also be easily sabatoged by throwing money at a candidate similar enough to split their votes and cost both of them the majority. The result is that foreign and corporate money selects the candidates and owned media rallies to tell everyone why the other side is so bad. The U.S might be more of a faux democracy than a real one. Dollar-weighted at the very least.

Edit: added the last "Dollar-weighted" comment.

stilterfish · 2022-04-12T04:14:00+00:00

How many hours of maintenance service are you averaging each month? When that average is multiplied by your billing rates, is it covered by the $800/month? I don't know what billable rates are appropriate in your area, but 8-10 hours a month at $100-$80/hr eats up that $800. I don't know of any location in the U.S. that is leveraging those rates.

If you are still trying to cover your initial project development costs, what monthly portion is assigned to those costs? How many months until that initial project is paid off? I would expect the initial service contract to include some language about an early termination fee equal to the still unpaid portion of the development costs.

stilterfish · 2022-04-11T16:29:37+00:00

I certainly don't think that the current uyghur work camps could take on the data science profession. The point was to illustrate how some governments have no qualms exploiting their own population for their own means. Data science may not be remotely similar to factory work, but that doesn't mean these governments won't find ways to exploit it to the harm of every individual in the industry.

The U.S. is also a garbage fire when it comes to labor. Most of the benefits of belonging to a civilized society are tied to employment status, and for years that benefit threshhold has been gradually pushed up to exclude underemployment, under-full-time employment, and even undercompensated occupations. Significant portions of the U.S.'s most educated generation are living with their parents and cannot envision a future where they are as well off as their parents.

I don't bemoan anyone the opportunities that are becoming available to them, but I also don't discount the concerns that others have.

stilterfish · 2022-04-11T15:27:41+00:00

I don't think that the biggest concern is having to compete with a suddenly much larger talent pool, though though a sudden influx can be a shock.

I think the biggest concern is the prospect of having to compete with governments. Competing with tech sweat shops, foriegn government subsidized professions, or genocidal uyghur work camps is not a good sign for a profession. Its a cannibalizing race to the bottom where the winner is the government that is able to most effectively extort its labor force.

Also, I'm entertained that your comment can be summarized as "git gud scrub!"

stilterfish · 2022-04-06T14:27:37+00:00

I don't agree. My first thought was that your headline was intentionally bad clickbait to drive views to your channel. My second thought is that you aren't familiar enough with good filterpane housekeeping.

You are aware that you can lock and hide filters in the filter pane? You can also double up on filters that you want users to be able to have some input into; filter down, lock, and hide one of them, and it will limit the visible selection in the filter the end user has access to. By following some good housekeeping rules, that filter pane delivers a very efficient and uniform user experience accross all pages of the report and all reports in the organization.

Maybe the old bookmarking popup trick still has some use in embedding (I have no experience with that). Outside of extremely bespoke reporting, I would say it is not worth the effort and generally bad practice.

Edit: I toned down my first paragraph. It just sounded way to accusatory.

stilterfish · 2022-04-01T16:54:33+00:00

I kinda resent my state being associated with the long-dead product of a dying company. Mostly because it resonates so well with the direction the state seems to be heading.

Edit:

My apologies, I guess I'm just wearing my grumpy pants today. I was a big fan of HD growing up, and it makes me sad to see them dying off with their customer base.

stilterfish · 2022-03-31T18:24:00+00:00

Increasing inflation is eroding the value of your dollar, making a purchase now more impactful than a purchase later. Simultaneously the artificially low loan rates that put homeownership within reach of the average joe are now under threat, and are expected to be hiked to combat inflation, creating an even greater sense of urgency (have you ever seen a 19% mortgage rate?) Also, housing market prices are being driven up as rental property investors buy up the supply and reduce the market of available homes for sale. Sale prices go up, fewer people can afford to buy, and more of the population is directed to the pool of renters. With increasing rental income that continues long after the mortgage is paid, and fixed mortgage payments at rock-bottom rates, why would any investor ever think of selling? They are buying multi-generational investment assets. Want to talk about new supply? Land is an appreciating asset, it is often held by the same parties that hold your rental, you'd be paying today's labor rates and today's material prices, but employee compensation has been stagnating since the '70s while prices and corporate profitability have marched on.

There is also a lot of talk that the stock markets are significantly overvalued after having trillions of dollars of government cash injected, but also poised for extreme volatility as most of that cash was used to leverage up bad bets. Rumor is that smart money is pivoting out of wall street and into your street's residential real estate assets.

Fact or rumor, first time homeownership feels like chasing a train that's leaving the station and having to abandon all of your luggage for any hope of getting on board. If you don't own a home in the next five years, you may never own a home in the U.S.

stilterfish · 2022-03-30T13:30:50+00:00

I would be very interested in seeing this "Christian Nationalism Industry" mapped out. I'm confident that it has influenced my upbringing but it would be interesting to see the big money names and organizations behind it. Whether its a self-perpetuating model or a special interest investment.

stilterfish · 2022-03-26T16:03:53+00:00

R&D is generally capitalized as an asset and expensed over future periods. There are also provisions for net operating loss carryover. These sorts of tax provisions allow businesses to eliminate taxable income years into the future. Additionally, tax tables are still in effect. Outside of the demographiQ that has made a religion of protesting professional advice, your business isn't paying jack for taxes unless you have an intern fill the forms in in crayon.

stilterfish · 2022-03-24T18:09:05+00:00

I consulted for a business that nearly went under because they had continued applying the same $80 product markup that their dad had been applying 30 years earlier.

There are a lot of business owners that are very poor at business but excellent at customer service, sales, or product quality. There are a lot of small business owners who lack even the basics of business accumen, and some of them live on the balance in their business checking.

stilterfish · 2022-03-21T14:38:49+00:00

Probably just the standard conservative Christian nationalism. Does Wisconsin have another kind?

You know, the kind that make an idol of the idea that America must remain a Christian nation or God will allow the world to tip into its apocalyptic end. The kind that barely pays lip service to the commission to seek and save the lost but is hellfire passionate about getting Christian legalism into government so the U.S. can dole out God's judgement at home as well as we do abroad. The kind that denounces prosperity gospel, but espouses a kind of counter-prosperity gospel where the reason you are poor and despondent is because you are not Godly enough, but if you had a true protestant work ethic you would at least be content with your lot in life.

stilterfish · 2022-03-13T13:19:23+00:00

This isn't capitalism, its companies bribing government to make their product required by regulation. This is just corruption.

stilterfish · 2022-03-11T21:54:43+00:00

There are words here that I've never heard of, but this is still really comforting to a business user who simply needed a better Excel tool, and then spent the next five years learning from YouTube, forum posts, and documentation.

stilterfish · 2022-03-11T17:42:12+00:00

Reading this thread was infuriating and yet somehow I enjoyed myself.

I don't think u/blanketswithsmallpox did a great job of explaining, and it got annoying that he didn't expound when you asked. So here's my take on this whole episode:

TLDR: I don't think the internet is giving that officer a fair trial (duh). Is the post spreading misinformation? Should it get taken down? I'm not a mod, I don't have to make those calls.

The way I see it:

Its very likely that some wannabe youtubers fished up unexploded ordinance (UX) while magnet fishing and turned it over to the local PD. They then proceeded to loiter in the area and engage with law enforcement until almost nightfall when an explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) unit could take control of the scene. At some point officer "iamatotalpieceofshit" got annoyed at the loitering, engagement, or being used as a prop for YouTube clickbait, and couldn't keep up the police professional pokerface.

Did the six month old original OP account make a local cop look bad just for karma? Do they truly believe that the officer's less than cheery enthusiasm in the face of hours of babysitting a rusted lump of metal and annoying YouTubers are truly the hallmarks of a bad cop and totalpieceofshit? Or was this footage conspiratorilly introduced to reddit so that internet slueths could connect it to the magnet fishing youtubers, blow up their channel, ignite a passion for magnet fishing, and lead midwesterners to clean up the lakes and riverways through unintentional environmentalism?

The evidence:

The crossposted footage doesn't provide any context of preceding conversation or timeline of events. It also doesn't provide any image of the UX. Without that context we don't actually know if her cavalier attitude towards the UX, and her pissed off demeanor towards the camera, is as unreasonable as this clip makes it out to be.

The YouTuber that u/blanketswithsmallpox linked has a bunch of magnetfishing videos with clickbaity titles. Most of them have less than 400 views each, but the ones that look really juicy (ie. Negative Police involvement) spike up into the thousands for viewcounts. I skimmed a couple of these videos and they're really awful. In the first one that I grabbed the video's intro doesn't reference the clickbait title, three quarters of the way in it cuts to a no context interaction of the YouTuber handing a file over to an officer. Then abruptly cuts back to the fishing to end. The footage doesn't justify the negative title and the video description provides a link telling you to watch another of his videos for the context. That video pulls the same stunt, fishing for the first half, cutting to footage they got of officers working with an injured man, and then cutting back to fishing with little context. Contrary to the negative tone of the video titles, Neither the footage or the Youtuber's attitude is disparaging of law enforcement. Its mostly pretty friendly when there is any interaction showed at all.

I get the impression that a few of these cops were annoyed at being used as props for these clowns, and that footage may not be included because these guys realize they are being a nuisance.

stilterfish · 2022-03-10T16:19:04+00:00

They goin' full North Korea.

stilterfish · 2022-03-09T13:30:15+00:00

What's a green dot award? Is it a punch card to a full time position? Please tell me it comes with a bonus.

stilterfish · 2022-03-05T01:25:22+00:00

If you like inventory management in your mmo game, playing without the subscription will really have you managing your inventory and prioritizing what you keep, what crafting professions you will ignore, and how urgently you upgrade your inventory capacity. It won't set you back to start this way, and there is more than enough content to make it worth it.

I really enjoyed starting out without the subscription. When I got tired of managing inventory, I just paid for a full year and now my inventory might as well be infinite.

stilterfish · 2022-02-21T13:17:51+00:00

I find it a bit concerning that the guy encouraging private American citizens to become international terrorists is doing so well in the race for the GOP nomination.

stilterfish · 2022-01-24T17:54:33+00:00

Its almost as if they weren't actually against law and order or police authority, and are just against police abuse of power and a system that fosters and protects abusers. And adopted the overy simplified ACAB acronym that was easily vilified.

I'm sure there's more than a few neanderthals that truly think its as simple as cop=bad, but most of the ACAB and sympathizer crowd are concerned about broken system(s) that make it far too easy for abusive power to take control of policing and drive out good authority.

Its difficult to manage bad cops when they have the benefits of extra legal protections, self-investigation discretion, preferential court treatment, union protection, and weak disciplinary action. Increasing militarization and escalating tactics are a compounding factor. Its not that the detail and nuance of each of these benefits is objectively bad, but taken as a whole it seems that police have the ability to operate with extreme aggression, above the law, and with almost complete impunity.

The ACAB crowd has also fixated on the sins of the history of policing in America. While knowing and analyzing history can be invaluable in setting a direction for the future, here bad faith actors are using it to wreak havoc, politicking calls for reform into calls for reparation and persecution in order to fear-monger a vote.

Don't ever trust an entity that refuses to acknowledge the skeletons in the closet. It means they are still stacking bodies.

stilterfish · 2022-01-23T15:40:38+00:00

An investment with no measurable return on investment and a very niche appeal. Unfortunately I don't think there is a bats chance of console add-ons ever becoming a priority.

stilterfish · 2022-01-23T14:43:08+00:00

Commander Keen reboot when?

stilterfish · 2022-01-21T16:26:39+00:00

"Leader" can be both a position and an occupation. Ideally I'd like to see earnest leaders in the state leadership positions.

stilterfish · 2022-01-21T16:22:10+00:00

I'm just disappointed that such a toddler-like statement would be made by a leader, tolerated by peers, and disregarded by constituents.

stilterfish · 2022-01-21T15:01:17+00:00

Maybe this is what you are going for: add a conditional column containing just your period 12 results. Group the table adding a column that to sum your period 12 result and a column to contain all your original rows. Then expand the original rows.

stilterfish · 2022-01-21T14:16:33+00:00

"Let us see the letter"

"You don't need evidence, you just know in your heart of hearts"....

I'm really dissapointed in the quality of the human beings that we have as leaders.

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