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Nursing has become a pretty bad job in modern times, and being a male nurse tends to have more downsides. Exploitation is high in the nursing field, support staff are non-existent, mandatory overtime is common, patient ratios are trending up, break times are non-existent in some areas, being assaulted is increasingly common. Being a male also tends to mean you are expected to do the harder or heavy lifting parts the majority of the time in addition to all the other problems the profession has.

That's close enough to my experience in state government. The biggest problem was generally a lack of widespread competence. There was plenty of red tape, but there were also lots of people whose job was to deal with that tape.

While most the manufacturing work has left the US, the Midwest is full of engineering universities. It's not a coincidence that the big 3 auto companies were based in Detroit and Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are full of top engineering colleges. There's still lots of nameless firms there designing all sorts of things that are manufactured across the globe, but they don't have the employee count to be massive drivers of a city's economy.

There's plenty of material in Harry Potter to serve as a useful book for the basics of literary analysis. The quotability isn't really relevant to that. There's bravery, slavery, love, loss, fascism, resistance, classism, racism, journalistic integrity, crime and punishment, the hero's journey, and more.

Dollar stores are generally more expensive in the long run than other stores. They make their money on higher per unit margins and/or vastly lower quality of products.

I'm not sure I can agree with that. I think the top level of curling has reached a point that's boring to watch as too many shots are perfect. It leads to boring games of waiting for a missed shot. It's far more entertaining to watch the chaos of a mixed doubles match. That said I wish I could see more than just the Olympics.

A manager of developers should know how to code, but any formal expectation of them coding shouldn't exist. This holds for medium to large organizations. The managerial duties should be enough to require the vast majority of their attention. Expecting development on top of management is a way to add fake capacity to a team to help ensure burnout.

I'd argue just making everything POST is the correct way to do a public Api too. REST tricks you into endpoints no one really wants, or you break it anyway to support functionality needed. SOAP was heavy with it's request/respone, but it was absolutely correct that just sending everything as POST across the wire is easier to work with.

There's not a market for healthcare in America though, at least not accessible to the average person. There is a market for Companies and insurance providers, insurance providers and doctors, but essentially nothing for a person and a doctor. It's practically impossible to actually shop for most medical procedures, by price, service quality, outcome, or any other potential metric. It's a little better for prescription drugs as different companies offer different sets of discounted drugs, but consolidation has hurt that too. Using prescription coverage, the patient is once again far removed from any actual market.

The vast majority of houses aren't rebuilt with any regularity in the US. The extreme high-end McMansions are commonly rebuilt, but that's an outlier. Much of the affordable housing is the luxury apartments of 40-80 years ago.

Separate rates and markets already exist. Commercial property is a totally different market than residential, and agricultural is yet another market. Investment into residential is different than primary residence in origination rules and pricing.

It doesn't matter. It's still just as illegal to get into an unlocked car or one with wide open doors without permission. The same premise applies to computers in a lot of places, access controls don't matter. If you access something on a computer not indented to be accessible, it's considered a crime.

Obesity isn't a temporary problem, practically every weight loss solution fails at 2-5 year outlooks. If this drug has to be taken for decades it's still better than decades of obesity.

This is explicitly not what this ruling means. The Judicial branch will rule is an agency has the power to regulate a limit for X in the water. The limit would still be set by an agency.

It's not prop 13 that made property values 10x in the last 30 years. It's the lack of supply forcing bids ever higher. Downsizing and rebasing taxes isn't a big deal if you went from a 1980s 100k 4-bedroom house to a modern 300k 2-bedroom condo, it's a huge problem if the cheapest option is over 1 million.

It could work with abundant housing, say 20% more housing than the number of people that want to live there. If there's always a lot of empty units, landlords are encouraged to reduce rents to not be stuck with too many vacancies. Rents can go up so much now because there are more qualified applicants than units. That number likely requires about 200% more housing in large cities, which is unlikely to ever happen.