I left comcast for at&t fiber, paying $60/month for 1year. If I learned anything since then is to make sure you attempt to leave and they will start calling you with better offers..all of a sudden lol
I've noticed that the U.S. government usually only fixes issues in a short term mindset.. Same way they only gave stimulus checks and unemployment for a temporary time. I wish they would start working on long term solutions instead.
Governments and organizarions in general tend to also operate knee-jerk style as well. Its almost like there's a threshold that must be exceeded until a need for change appears necessary. That threshold could be lives lost, money lost, significant opportunities lost etc.
One could argue that there could be a permanent structure (safety net) in place that sufficiently handles incidents, such as temporary mass unemployment, without the need to hastily scramble together and spin up stimulus programs like PPP and direct checks to everyone.
Govt has become increasingly risk adverse. Any proactive misstep is ruthlessly pilliored. So we're left with cycles of neglect, crisis, and oversteer.
Just one example: Michael Lewis' latest book Premonition details how the CDC went from proactive to hyper risk adverse. And we've just seen how that played out.
and/or being able to grow a beard also helps. I recommend strength training or powerlifting. I honestly think you can squeeze out some really good noobie gains from doing a basic strength program or powerlifting program. Then swap out to whatever you want.
I also like to recommend BJJ / MMA to people, I love the sport and its also helpful knowing how to defend yourself.
It's a Shopify site, so I'm just using their integration to print labels from whoever's cheapest - so far it's always been USPS. Honestly the shipping is something I need to figure out... I'm charging flat shipping per product right now until $50 because I don't want shipping costs to be too discouraging, but I am losing money shipping to the East Coast.
For the most part my margins are pretty decent and at this point I'm more interested in proving that there's product-market fit than optimizing for profit, so I don't mind losing some money when my shipping charges don't cover it or people hit the free shipping threshold. Definitely something I'm going to need to get a better handle on long term, though.
Being in a recession is a weird thing to detect. From Wikipedia:
> In the United States, it is defined as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales". In the United Kingdom, it is defined as a negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters.
So it's not a recession unless it lasts for a while. So when the markets suddenly go down, it's not known if a recession is happening, until it's been ongoing. Since we've already been in lockdown for more of Q2 than Q1, its reasonable to expect that we're in a recession. But it's not official yet.
The NBER Business Cycle Dating committee explains their criteria and explains why "the two quarter rule" the financial press always talks about is not what they use.
"The committee's procedure for identifying turning points differs from the two-quarter rule in a number of ways. First, we do not identify economic activity solely with real GDP and real GDI, but use a range of other indicators as well. Second, we place considerable emphasis on monthly indicators in arriving at a monthly chronology. Third, we consider the depth of the decline in economic activity. Recall that our definition includes the phrase, "a significant decline in activity." Fourth, in examining the behavior of domestic production, we consider not only the conventional product-side GDP estimates, but also the conceptually equivalent income-side GDI estimates. The differences between these two sets of estimates were particularly evident in the recessions of 2001 and 2007-2009."
The NBER definition is what gets used in the US by every single government department and academic.
> The Committee does not have a fixed definition of economic activity. It examines and compares the behavior of various measures of broad activity: real GDP measured on the product and income sides, economy-wide employment, and real income. The Committee also may consider indicators that do not cover the entire economy, such as real sales and the Federal Reserve's index of industrial production (IP). The Committee's use of these indicators in conjunction with the broad measures recognizes the issue of double-counting of sectors included in both those indicators and the broad measures. Still, a well-defined peak or trough in real sales or IP might help to determine the overall peak or trough dates, particularly if the economy-wide indicators are in conflict or do not have well-defined peaks or troughs.
The GDP approach is a lot more concrete. The NBER's approach is more nuanced due to evaluating more factors, but is also more hand-wavy.
Probably half of the time (~2-3h per week) is spent answering questions/requests from clients or helping them diagnose downtime. I try to improve the product to make sure my clients don't need me so that when they do I can help them properly.
Having worked for a public school district, it is my experience that things almost never go down as parent said. What actually happens is that they get caught and make an excuse (I was about to report it!) or their "report" of the problem is in the form of some leet-speak shit-talk on a public message board. A common theme you'll notice when people describe these events, even from their own perspective, is how they absolutely did change something, deface the page, etc.
Me too, but unfortunately it's standard idiocy both in schools and in large companies. Whether you're a curious student or a white-hat pentester, it's still the case that if you find something and say something, you're treated as if you were the danger.
I'm seeing comments mainly focusing on "free speech" and that no company or monopoly should control it. I think we are stemming away from the actual GOOD that comes from banning such content. Why are we allowing people who influence others to do harmful things to minorities? Why should we give people with harmful ideas a platform to begin with? If they feel like they need to be heard, sure let them develop their own platform and spread it among themselves. Rather than influence young people who don't know any better. That's just my opinion on the matter.
