unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID deaths surpass 2020
The travel job typically has housing built in too and often per diems. So probably closer to 4-5k equivalent! But quality of life isn't great to your point. Software is the objectively better job there unless you're really passionate about nursing!
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID deaths surpass 2020
It's inherent when quarterly numbers trump long term stability. If managers are only incentivized to meet short term numbers, they make decisions that are detrimental to the future to meet present-day goals. Our financial markets reward this (though there's a question about why they do this that's open in my mind, as most of the money in the market is invested long-term!), so it trickles down into managerial metrics.
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID deaths surpass 2020
It does if you're willing to be a travel nurse and work on covid floors. I've been hearing $6000/week numbers being thrown around (and some nurses are picking up two contracts at a time!). It's insanely shitty work right now (surrounded by people dying left and right and understaffed on top of that, but the pay is good...).
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID deaths surpass 2020
Agreed! The job got a lot worse and extracurricular demands shot up, so people quit. How do you get them back? Pay more.
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID deaths surpass 2020
Probably because procedure volume was down, so they canned people who they could. And then got caught off guard when demand increased again suddenly. Same thing happens over and over in manufacturing.
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID deaths surpass 2020
When push comes to shove, 99.x% of healthcare professionals get it. So we're taking a rounding error in staffing. The problem is how many nurses just got up and quit in the past couple years
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows
It's not clear that they want to admit fewer Asians... That is unless those Asian families aren't massive donors to the University...
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
This is a clear example of regulation making cars more complex! In the 70s, there were no crumple zones, airbags, backup cameras, traction control, lighting intensity requirements, or a whole host of other things that are mandated today. Those things do cost money.
That said, this is also a clear shift in consumer demand too - a 1970s $3500 car is going to be a sedan, small, and pretty featureless. Compare that to a $20k Corolla today - which is the same proportion of median income that the $3500 car was in the 70s. It's larger, more reliable, safer, and has a whole bunch more features.
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Why battery costs have plunged since 2010
Which is effectively a battery! Hydrogen production is energy intensive, but if you produce it with excess energy capacity and then use it when it's needed, it's a decent energy storage method. Though mobile applications (air travel, trains, etc) are more likely to dominate in the shorter terms as it's lighter than batteries in high power applications
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
Does anyone close down operations for a tornado watch? Maybe they should, but I've never heard of anyone doing that anywhere...
The bigger issue imho is that these employees don't seem to have been in a tornado shelter during a tornado warning?
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
I've never been called off for the threat of severe non-winter weather anywhere. And the risk of being in a house hit by this tornado was probably higher than in the warehouse.
The lack of tornado shelter is the problem here - or more likely, they probably had one but weren't instructed to use it...
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Kellogg to hire replacements for 1400 striking employees
My question: where are they finding these replacement workers in this current labor market?
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Anthem Blue Cross breach notification [pdf]
And all this would do is make the CEO a sacrificial position. Cheaper to pay someone to go to jail than it is to fix the problem
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: More Cash Invested in Stock in 2021 Than Two Decades Combined
The policy that enabled people to get raises through unemployment is long gone at this point though and has been for a while.
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Video shows San Francisco police watching as burglary unfolds
If police unions defend officers from all accountability...surprise! They're not accountable to anyone. This means they don't engage when they don't want to and engage with unreasonable force whenever they feel like. We've got the worst of both worlds: cops who both shoot civilians with impunity and don't engage with criminals
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: How I got wealthy without working too hard
Given that 80% of the world doesn't have that, yeah. But for that 20%, the author's path isn't entirely unreasonable (if a bit quick). Make $$$, spend $, invest $$. it requires living somewhere other than CA and probably not having kids, but if you can make those sacrifices and can play the software engineer game, it's more a matter of math working out than it is an unreasonable path.
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: How I got wealthy without working too hard
Still great $$ if you live in a reasonable location. Where you can buy a reasonable house for $200k instead of $2M
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Real-Estate Investors Bought 18% of the US Homes That Sold in the Third Quarter
I mean, you get three households instead of one. And it's more likely 2 adults plus 1.7 kids in the house vs. 3 DINKs in the condos. Which points to the other problem of upping density: families who are able to move do so
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with new cable design
Two minutes is shorter than most pumps I've been to recently (and seems to be the theoretical max fill rate). Seems stations are using one actual pump for multiple dispensers. Meaning that it takes more like 5 minutes to actually fill my car from empty. Also, there's the "good enough" argument - 5 minutes gets you to the point where there's no perceivable difference.
5 minute charging would be a game changer. That means urban dwellers could use EVs the same as gas engine cars and that road trips look exactly the same as they do now (presumably gas stations would add EV stations with enough market penetration). This cable isn't the big issue in making that happen, but it's needed. Battery chemistry and power distribution become factors at that point, but we're on the way to solving those issues too
unpolloloco
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4 years ago
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on: Real-Estate Investors Bought 18% of the US Homes That Sold in the Third Quarter
Converting a 3-story house to 3 condos is a great thing for affordability and housing availability. There (mostly) isn't room for new housing in DC, so upping density is the only way!
