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  1. People will monetize any gaps and inefficiencies in markets:

    More than 2,800 people may be working as nurses under false pretenses after allegedly buying a fake diploma for between $10,000 and $15,000 from a massive Florida-based scheme recently busted by federal investigators. State and federal authorities are now working to track down the alleged fraudulent nurses, and in some cases, immediately annulling their licenses.

    Last week, the Department of Justice announced charges against 25 people in five states connected to the alleged scheme. The investigation, code-named Operation Nightingale, found evidence that the 25 defendants worked to sell more than 7,600 fake diplomas, along with transcripts, between 2016 and 2021, making over $100 million in the process. The fraudulent diplomas and transcripts were allegedly issued from three accredited Florida-based nursing schools: Siena College and Sacred Heart International Institute in Broward County and Palm Beach School of Nursing in Palm Beach County.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/2800-fake-nurses-lurk-in-the-us-states-are-working-to-track-them-down/

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  2. 1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

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    Reminds me of an interview I read with Hannibal Burress and one of the questions was about TikTok:

    How would you explain TikTok to your great-grandparents?
    A record player but it keeps skipping and it’s a video and it’s Chinese face-scanning software.

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  3. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Good lord, it took me (grumble grumble) X years to hit that pay as principal engineer and reluctant department manager.

    There is definitely a lot of "regressing to the mean" now that the heady, free-cash and cheap VC money days are over (to come back one day or gone forever?) and it's healthy to recalibrate some of the $200k jobs that are really $100k (or whatever) jobs outside of a tight labor market in tech, but the point is that it's still not great that high paying jobs in high COL areas are being gutted and replaced by low paying jobs, no matter the nominal gains.

    Maybe the volume of jobs gained, no matter the quality, will outweigh the jobs in tech lost as it pertains to helping the economy and our consumption-based GDP model and if so that is a good thing. I haven't seen data to suggest that.

  4. 51 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Cincinnati has some really pretty neighborhoods. Wife was offered a job there several years ago and we were both really surprised when we went to visit the city and look at houses. A lot of the old neighborhoods, like Indian Hills above, are built around the old village concept with each village having a little village center. We looked at some really nice houses in Indian Hills. Didn't end up taking the job, but we were pleasantly surprised by the city.

    Yea Cincinnati is actually a really nice place to raise a family that might be a dark horse for having a renaissance in 30-50 years based on climate change modeling. That whole NKY/Cincinnati metro could be a great investment today.

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  5. 4 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

    Dallas, Washington and Detroit: the only teams in the conference not to appear in the NFC Championship Game in the last, what, 27 years?

    Excellent strategy Jerruh, and you are executing it flawlessly.

    Also, and I know the fallacy of expecting an Arkie dumbass to comprehend this, but the Eagles and Rams have both been to more than one Super Bowl in the past few years, so maybe 'ol Jerruh ought to pay attention to their systems.

    +rep because I had completely forgot about the Rams laying an egg in a 13-3 stinker in 2019.

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  6. 33 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Bump. 
     

    tldr DVT in left leg from playing football in November threw a clot into his lung. 
     

    https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/football-injury-leads-to-air-force-academy-cadets-sudden-death?_amp=true
     

    or if you are of a certain persuasion, it’s a cover up!

    I see what you did there lol

    This definitely gives oxygen to that persuasion though

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  7. 21 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    250K since "the start of 2022" has a lot of wiggle room.  I'm also not sure that $130K makes sense as average salary -- if amazon is laying off warehouse employees, is that a "tech layoff"?

    Not disputing, just asking questions.  For a friend.

    Layoffs.fyi seems to be a good source:

    2023: The Tech Layoffs Continue

    2022 became known as the year in which dozens of tech companies began to lay off thousands of employees even as many businesses have found it hard to attract qualified IT personnel. And 2023 seems to be following the same pattern, with a variety of tech companies cutting their workforces.

    So far in 2023, 200 tech companies have laid off a total of 86,822 workers, according to layoffs-tracking website Layoffs.fyi.

  8. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I haven't followed the tech layoffs save for a few headline stories -- are 250K workers and $130K average compensation correct numbers industry-wide?

    250k is a number that is being bandied about a lot, but who knows. I've seen various numbers. Fortune said this: Layoffs in Big Tech have caused turmoil for nearly 250,000 workers in the U.S. since the start of 2022, according to Layoffs.fyi, and has led to what’s been coined as the great tech-job reshuffle. Some affected workers have taken to LinkedIn and other job boards clamoring for a new gig, while others have realized that “that their skills are still a hot commodity,” recent Fortune reporting shows. https://fortune.com/education/articles/amid-big-tech-layoffs-cybersecurity-job-losses-have-been-few-and-far-between-industry-leader-says/

    As far as the average compensation I don't think there is data that supports it specifically, but $130k seems conservative (and that's not included the fully loaded cost, just the dollar compensation the employee was getting) based off: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/06/what-big-tech-companies-are-paying-based-on-new-public-salary-data.html

    This is from a WSJ article I read today: https://www.wsj.com/articles/layoffs-labor-market-bosses-power-workplace-11675347655

     

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  9. 24 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

    You know if Trump was in office the MAGA idiots and trumpeters would be spiking the football on the jobs report. 

    Truth.

    And also the progressives would be saying that "yea but the jobs are all wage slavery horrible cost of living and quality of life low pay jobs while higher paying jobs are being sloughed"

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  10. 9 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    You could use your own (autologous). Stem cells are harvested, You are treated with high doses of chemo to kill the cancer. The high-dose treatment kills the cancer cells, but also kills the blood-producing cells in your bone marrow. Afterward, the collected stem cells are put back into your bloodstream, allowing the bone marrow to produce new blood cells. It is effective against Myeloma, Lymphoma, and Leukemia. Not so much for solid tumors such as Bruin's neoplasm with a caveat that Opdivo is more effective.

    Better is to use a close relative's (allogenic) stem cells. The relative is given G-CSF and GM-CSF to stimulate stem cell production and the stem cells are then harvested. Then like with autologous transplants you are treated with high doses of chemo to kill the cancer and afterwards the close relative's stem cells are infused into your bloodstream. The relative's stem cells will take over production of new blood cells.

    You can expect some amount of what is termed graft vs. host disease as the stem cells will to some extent attack your body as it recognizes it as foreign but since the stem cells are a close match, the amount of GVHD is limited. Opdivo will enhance GVHD but the process also makes Opdivo more effective. Also, since there was something in your immune system that allowed the cancer to progress, hopefully, that same "something" isn't in your new immune system so it may be more effective in attacking any remaining cancer cells. A side benefit in Bruin's case is that the inflammatory process in some of his autoimmune diseases may be diminished or even halted due to the new stem cell infusion.

     

    Thanks for this response. Super informative.

    God bless you Bruin!

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  11. 31 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Some (many?) of the 250K tech folks weren't producing labor worth $130K per year. When Google fires that 23-year old with limited experience, it has zero impact on their revenue but saves them the compensation. Tech grew too fast based on pandemic needs and they needed to rebalance their labor force.

    Many of the big tech firms still have more employees than they did 12 months ago.

    I do feel for the under 35 crowd who have never experienced a time where someone wouldn't keep giving them raises and better jobs regardless of productivity or the economy. 

    1) agree with your first point, but my point was for overall economy (wages -> consumption/spend-> services/consumption based GDP) as well as the quality of living and quality of jobs that provide a comfortable living for people are being lost while the nominal term "jobs" are being added which are much less in quality.

    2) Tech grew too fast in some instances (Google and Amazon being two culprits), but I've read data that shows that mostly the general tech hires and firms grew linearly at the same rate over time. The myth that the pandemic caused all these tech companies to hire exponentially is false.

     

    YoY employee increases in Big Tech

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    The popular narrative right now about these layoffs is that tech companies dramatically over-hired during the pandemic, but while that seems to have happened with Amazon — and for arguably very good reasons given the way that e-commerce shot up during lockdowns in particular — the reality is that the rest of the tech companies largely increased at the same rate they always had. Sure, the number of employees they added was large, but that was a function of keeping the same hiring rate off of an ever increasing base.

    3) Big tech firms still have more employees than they did 12 months ago, yes, because they are growing their people at a healthy pace.

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    In short, no one was giving up a job at one of the big five tech companies this year as fear spread about a broad-based slowdown in hiring; I have certainly heard this anecdotally. These companies, though, adjusted more slowly to the slower rate of attrition, which means they accidentally increased their headcount — that’s the theory anyways. And, to the extent that theory is right, the relatively limited size of the layoffs to date actually reflects that: these companies are not returning to their pre-pandemic levels of employees, but rather to where they would be had they kept up roughly the same rates of hiring this year that they have over the last ten.

    In short, I don’t see any real indication that this spat of layoffs, at least amongst the big five, is anything other than an opportunistic cull of headcount that (1) gives investors what they want while (2) keeping the exact same sort of strategic priorities and planned employee count the exact same it was a year ago. That may be imprudent: Meta in particular should have probably cut more given the impact on their business of ATT in particular, but for now there simply isn’t much evidence that these companies over-hired or that they are truly changing anything about their employee strategy.

     

    No comment on your faux-sympathetic last sentence.

  12. 15 hours ago, Bevo said:

    If chemo/biologics become a necessity, stem cell therapy may be a possibility. This could improve your autoimmune issues - but it is a very complicated issue with both Opdivo (and stem cell therapy) and autoimmune diseases (and stem cell therapy). Anyway, the point is that there are options.

    How does this work, exactly?

    1) If you have an autoimmune, you don't want to harvest your own stem cell via blood marrow because you are tainted, so you need to use someone else's stem cell or cord blood and 2) even if you have access, you have to find a clinical trial or something via a Cleveland Clinic or some NIH thing, right?

  13. 9 hours ago, ajax said:

    Man, fights weren't like this when I was a kid. Little guy with the high side kick, flying kick, take down defence, single leg takedown, and attempted suplex. Kids got skills.

     

    It's funny because a class of characters can't seem to fathom that you can use your feet and kick in a fight and they are literally flabbergasted by the idea:

    *Guy kicks* "Yo WTF! Bro what you kicking for?!"

    End of the video

    *cry voice* "Stop kicking N-word!"

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