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That homeless man’s name? Jean Valjean. /s

“…nothing at all…nothing at all…”

And I wonder if I should, sometime in the future, apply to those wards managed by the same people that 2 years ago rejected and outright ignored me, because it’s always good to have a plan b on the back burner and I’m running out of managers within my hospital I haven’t interviewed with.

You know your industry better than I do, but my industry-agnostic answer would be: “Yes, absolutely apply if it moves your career forward”. Even horrible bosses/departments can be useful as stepping stones. Many times these are open and others are avoiding them because the environment/boss sucks. If you can do a year in that department/boss as a springboard to a higher position elsewhere, I typically think its worth it.

I disagree with your original position, but it appears even that too has evolved. I appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thank you.

What if people could earn money by generating solar energy and selling directly to vehicles, instead of the grid? I believe this could actually boost renewable energy generation over the roof.

If you’re cutting out the grid, how do you propose getting electricity generated by solar to the EV? In your system do they have to come to my house and plug into my solar array when its sunny to collect their purchase? Or are you expecting the grid to deliver it, but not expect any compensation for grid capacity consumption, transmission and distribution of the electricity?

Generators would be rewarded with a blockchain token for the energy generated, while consumers would pay for the energy in those tokens. Therefore speculation would be curbed as the tokens are for a real thing, energy, which on top is a stable unit - kWh.

I’m a generator. Why would I want a token to buy electricity I already have a surplus of for my EV? How do non-solar EV owners get tokens? Does your system propose non-solar owners buy tokens on the open market with real money (dollars/euros) from solar generators? If I’m spending dollars/euros to buy tokens, why don’t I just use my dollars/euros to buy electricity for my EV instead?

They are doing fantastic with electric car adoption too. Incredibly progressive in that area with other countries still stuck to their antiquated reliance on gas vehicles and still trying to prop up that industry.

I’m all for the electrification of cars in China, but don’t think for a second its because they’re concerned about climate change. China doesn’t have the vast petroleum reserves of most other large nations. This means if they continue to have their energy needs in control by other nations, it will always be a national vulnerability, so they are seeking ways to hedge against decoupling from world energy markets.

If you want to otherwise continue to think China is fully committed to green energy, don’t look at how much domestic coal China has, nor how much China continues to increase its consumption.

Keep in mind, I’m not throwing shade on China. This is geopolitics. If it was the USA in the same situation, I’d be saying the same thing.

Yep. The problem is that they keep trying to push it as some sort of workspace for home or office.

It’s a shitty workspace. Nobody wants that box strapped to their face and work in a cartoonish porthole view world.

It will eventually be great for a virtual workspace, but the technology isn’t there yet. The resolution on headsets has to get several orders of magnitude better, and the headsets need to get several orders of magnitude lighter/more comfortable.

I just love the people who refuse to get a Quest device (formerly Oculus) because it’s meta. And meta bad. But then they have their entire life connected in a web of google and/or Microsoft.

Meta is a walled garden. You have to give them everything to get anything. Google and/or Microsoft you only have to give them some to get some, so you can choose if what you want is worth what you get from them. Meta is all or nothing. So for Meta, I choose nothing.

You didn’t need the attribution line. With just your quote we all heard it in our heads.

Additionally, making more money is MUCH easier when you have money too start with.

If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn’t everyone doing it?

First, lots and LOTS of people (and companies do it).

Three reasons people don’t do it:

1. Some people believe they can make even more money by putting it into something else (other riskier stocks, non stock investments like their own sole proprietor businesses, bitcoin, scratcher lottery tickets).
2. Some people are entirely risk averse. If they can’t SEE their money they don’t trust where it is so they buy precious metals or stack cash up. Neither of these are good investments for returns, but are generally safer that index investing (which is what S&P500 is) if you need to sell on short notice.
3. Investing anything requires money you don’t have to spend somewhere else. Lots of people are at negative money, so they don’t even have a dollar to invest.

“How about a nice game of chess?”

I like the end result that ISPs are pushing back on this, but don’t mistake this for altruism on their part.

Their businesses make money selling internet service. Were they to support cutting off those accused of piracy, they would be losing paying customers. Further, the business processes and support needed for this to function would be massively expensive and complicated. They’d have to hired teams of people and write whole new software applications for maintaining databases of banned users, customer service staff to address and resolve disputes, and so much more.

Lastly, as soon as all of that process would be in place to ban users for piracy accusations, then the next requests would come in for ban criteria in a classic slippery slope:

• pornography
• discussions of drugs
• discussions of politics the party in power doesn’t like
• speaking out against the state
• communication about assembling
• discussion on how to emigrate

All the machinery would be in place once the very first ban is approved.