"Oh yeah, that PPH. They make alright puzzles, but nothing like a Ravensburger".

Some people will happily spend more on products they see as superior due to being hand-made. Mercedes w/AMG engines exist for a reason.

I can't disagree. That's my company's model, where I've been an implementation consultant on/off for ~12 years. In general, we bill for more than Accenture/Wipro/Infosys/etc, but the client has the understanding that we plan to leave within a few years once our fenced-off work is done. Working for a company whose revenue model isn't consulting also ensures I get a better cut, in general more than the average full-time employees of the clients I work for (sometimes by a decent margin).

While I haven't been following this recently, I can attest to the GP's general outline. While visiting my mom upstate NY in the late '90's, her neighbor brought over some VHS's he'd gotten at church, informing us of how the Mark of the Beast will actually be technological (likely a government implant, which will be required to use services), and that taking part in this would somehow corrupt one's soul. The gist was "we have to be ready to stand up for our right to not have the implants because they're part of the antichrist". I could easily see these same people being very afraid of "government radio waves going through your body at all times!" and other such fearmongering, and basically lumping in any transhumanism with "supporters of the antichrist". (BTW, the neighbor was otherwise mostly a nice guy)

I hope you can agree that these points are separate, and partly contradictory. From your second sentence, I can presume that anyone imprisoned for a victimless crime hasn't caused any harm (no victims). Therefore I wonder why their imprisonment is "of their own making", when it seems poorly chosen laws and uneven enforcement are the real reason for incarceration for many Americans, especially the group we're currently discussing. I don't think many people choose to be in a racial group which is overprosecuted compared to baseline for victimless crimes.

I know RingTFA isn't the most popular method around these parts, so here's something from the middle:

...and if you hire me as a salaried employee, then only give me work that takes me 10-20 hours/week....?........

From my experience, having 40h of work to fill a week is a blessing, the hard weeks are the ones where I need to "fill 20 hours" without goofing off. There's only so much "reading documentation" and "learning tangentially related languages" one can justify..

...so as long as I set up a watercooling system just under my roof tiles, I should be fine!

You should inform the authors of this article!

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(Sorry, your unclosed parenthesis was driving me crazy...

...but wouldn't it be better if these neighbor-hating savages (your description, not mine) could generate their power using a technology that both isn't likely to be "the next big US hit" and doesn't spew CO2 waste everywhere? Won't somebody think of the poor downwind Japanese? I don't need to think of the people of China as flag-waving boy-scouts to want them using cleaner power..

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Your point is fair, but just want to point out you've gone from Banker to banker. I doubt the GP of your post was referring to anyone who'd ever remotely interact with a GS client (traditionally GS haven't worked much with us normies at all, until their recent Marcus initiative) , unless that client is itself a large corporation.

Most expensive/high-level "management" / "VP" jobs in a bank will be held by people with 0 interest in the banks branches; rather they're in the back/mid/front-office operations on the _investment_ side of the bank. People who don't care whether the bank has branches, don't care where they are or who goes to them, as long as revenue is coming in to allow them to continue to operate investment operations.

Still, while it may be offtopic a smidge, your point is also correct. Just want to broaden some views on the complexities of a modern bank.

1st sentence, baseless attack based on your lack of understanding of permaculture principles, and the (incredibly) increased density achievable if attention is paid to which plants/animals can increase production _for_ us. Side point, this work is (currently) not hyper-automatable, meaning this is one of those nice inefficient industries like craft brewing where many care to participate and can be rewarded for doing so.

2nd sentence, an attempt to categorize GP into a group based on your evident (see above) lack of understanding of the concepts the GP is discussing.

3rd sentence, assertion based on ...(see above)

4th, correct, but missing an analysis of how farming techniques based on guilds, companion planting, and other (less hyper-automatable farming techniques) would compare to this... there's limited data here to support such an analysis, but it's clear you didn't try.

5th sentence we agree, but you also agree with the GP. I promise.

...I don't have the energy to go on. Please invest a few days/weeks studying the combinatorial effects of plants who provide inputs to each other. Follow please with some analysis.

...as an aside, please stop and think about _when_ you actually have enough information to be a total douche. "you should feel bad" is a great way to make someone feel like shit, and make yourself feel cool, when you're right... but when you're wrong, it shows you to be an arrogant shit. Hence the AC, i'd imagine. You're not even trying to be right, just trying to sound right. We see the difference.

Convenient you stopped quoting (or reading) where you did, I've gone back and added the next sentence of the GPs post for you. Please tell me more about this market-dominating bakery which has a near monopoly on US cake sales?

Or, option 3. Drop the front camera entirely. As an Essential owner, I've considered constantly lately how I haven't used the front camera on any of my last few phones.

I'm guessing there's really no need for a phone company to consider the use case that some people don't ever take selfies.