jj4211

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You could just upgrade, I assume RAM is cheap, haven't looked in a while, just let me look up memory prices real quick...

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

just tell me what’s wrong so I can improve further applications

Generally, they are terrified of giving more feedback than absolutely necessary. They might incur an accusation of unfair hiring practices. Similar story on 'references', confirm only employment dates, never provide a qualitative assessment, good or bad.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

He is a scam artist, but this specific argument in the broader reality doesn't really stick. The argument is that no one ever sells something that yields value to anyone else, which is obviously off.

It works better if you highlight that Tesla is less like those companies. They are demonstrably big on vertical integration, including the ride shares, so for them, it is out of character, but as a generic business strategy, it's perfectly routine.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Broadly, you have a point. However with Tesla Musk has been pretty consistent that they would be directly doing it and they have the Tesla app managing the rides.

Their strategy has been all in one, they make the cars, they own the chargers, and they don't really partner with anyone in any significant way.

While it does happen that companies end up partnering and competing at the same time, it's relatively less likely. So for Tesla it is extra strange to be pitching being a supplier for other autonomous taxis while simultaneously being in the market.

So yeah, generally it is a poor argument, but in the context of Tesla, it is at least a bit out of character for them.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Correction that they are also farming lumber, but the cycle is just much much longer.

I know a family that does it as one of a few things they do. Their timber land is relatively small so they have it harvested all at once. Every couple of decades a company pays them a healthy sum to get the timber and then nothing is done with the land for the next couple of decades while trees grow. In addition to the cash payment, they get to own the land tax free as it counts for agricultural exemptions.

Others in the thread are deeper into it and speak of staggered logging so there is annual logging off like 1/25th of the trees at a time.

Not to say there isn't cutting of totally natural forest, but there is farming too.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Of course in that scenario it may be private information, but given you are trying to file it, inherently you at least are in the realm of sharing it.

I would imagine things like asking for legal advice on a crime committed, which could hilariously backfire when that chat transcript shows up in court.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Once they have that much care and thought, then they probably would have the thought of asking the art teacher or art students to do something vaguely meaningful.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They would presumably have an art teacher. Or a student that wanted to express their feelings via art.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you just said about 20 years of life is only twice that of the last three years of life for your starting figure. Add in college and it's still not that egregiously more.

You feel the need to add public school costs, but not add in medicare, social security, and other expenses exclusive to old age.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I said unique, old people need a lot of health care, generally way more than a kid. Most kids after birth just have routine checkups and not much else. Infants might get a bit more doctor visits because the parents don't know if they should worry or not because the infant can't speak, but generally even those amount to nothing.

Babies more universally need diapers than old folks, and do eat more than an older person, but health care is absolutely bigger for elderly.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Not really. The unique expense for a kid is education compared to the old, and elder care can easily eclipse that.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Even at constant population or even mildly declining, you would expect the young to outnumber the old by a bit. Given people die on the way to getting old and die whole being old more than the young die.

They may be even fewer than when the currently old folks when they were young but still be expected to outnumber the old

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