Don't get me wrong.
I like Austin a lot.
But if--after her last summer's trip to Austin and dinner at the Salt
Lick--I were to propose to my wife that we move from Berkeley to Austin so
that we could double the size of our house and live fifteen minutes closer
to the center... well, I don't want
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
> they give the average starting salary for an EE in the US as 59,646, but in
> the SF area it is about 74,700. So, that is about a 25% premium. At
> simplyhired.com they state that the average EE salary in the SF area is
> $87k/year. That's
Well, I decided to answer my own question. At
www1.salary.com
they give the average starting salary for an EE in the US as 59,646, but in
the SF area it is about 74,700. So, that is about a 25% premium. At
simplyhired.com they state that the average EE salary in the SF area is
$87k/year. Tha
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Bruce Bostwick
wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, John Williams wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia wrote:
>>>
>>> "The old people" don't equate to "the old culture". There's a fairly
>>> large
>>> intersection of the two, but neither is a sub
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, John Williams
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia wrote:
"The old people" don't equate to "the old culture". There's a
fairly large
intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or
improper) of the
other.
I understand that, but as you s
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Pat Mathews wrote:
> Okay. Have it your way. We/they didn't save enough and consume health care
> with reckless abandon. May you never be in the workplace where the clerk,
> knowing that one must never, ever, consume health care one cannot afford,
> comes to work
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:18 AM, anar...@gmail.com wrote:
There's also people like me who figure I'll not see much, if
anything out of them but don't grouse too much about paying for
those already in their golden years.
For many years, this is how I have understood Social Security: It's
money
I'm not saying that everything coming out of Garrett's interview with Bernanke
is not worth considering only because of his party affiliation. I am saying
that from my perspective his agenda sucks, so I am judging him by his group, as
far as that goes. These are people who know how to twist fa
Okay. Have it your way. We/they didn't save enough and consume health care with
reckless abandon. May you never be in the workplace where the clerk, knowing
that one must never, ever, consume health care one cannot afford, comes to work
with the flu.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
D
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
> I have tended not to answer you John because I have not been able to solve
> the problem of dialog with you. Whenever I use facts or correlations to
> support an argument you point to the causal density of economics (not your
> term but a ne
>There is NO WAY an ordinary wage-earner could have saved enough to cover
the sort of insurance-inflated medical bills >common today.
>If true, then by what magic of aggregation can a group of such people
afford something that most individuals cannot >afford?
>There are only two possibilities I c
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Pat Mathews wrote:
> There is NO WAY an ordinary wage-earner could have saved enough to cover
> the sort of insurance-inflated medical bills common today.
>
If true, then by what magic of aggregation can a group of such people afford
something that most individ
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
>
>> In other words, we have a continuing culture ware against a backdrop
>> of change that is rapidly making the old culture obsolete.
>
> Well put. I might add that the old culture is becoming at least
> vaguely aware of their increasing marginality, irrelevance, and
There is NO WAY an ordinary wage-earner could have saved enough to cover the
sort of insurance-inflated medical bills common today. Call around and ask what
various procedures and prescription medications cost. I have insurance because
I worked for a University. A lot of people were unable to g
From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Brad DeLong
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:21 AM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: Down with the government
Better engineers, and more of them?
Better engineers, and more of them?
Lots of Stanford and Berkeley engineering graduates to hire?
When I talked about this last year with the Google people, they said that
they still believed that you got more dollars for your money hiring
engineers in Mountain View than in Durham or Austin.
They
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Pat Mathews wrote:
> Besides which, we greedy geezers will pass our ill-gotten wealth down to
> you hard-pressed Xers and your children in due time via the normal process
> of inheritance, if the medical bills needed to keep us functioning don't eat
> every last
Besides which, we greedy geezers will pass our ill-gotten wealth down to you
hard-pressed Xers and your children in due time via the normal process of
inheritance, if the medical bills needed to keep us functioning don't eat every
last bit of it up.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
>
There's also people like me who figure I'll not see much, if anything out of
them but don't grouse too much about paying for those already in their golden
years.
- jmh
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, John Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia wrote:
>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia wrote:
> "The old people" don't equate to "the old culture". There's a fairly large
> intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or improper) of the
> other.
I understand that, but as you say, "there's a fairly large
intersection of the two".
"The old people" don't equate to "the old culture". There's a fairly large
intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or improper) of the
other.
"Old people", or more to the point, their lobbies (think AARP) wield a fair
amount of political power right now. That's where the Social
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