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by 71a54xd 5y ago
This is the media "grift" I absolutely can't believe. The vaccine IS preventing people from dying and it's largely known that the vaccine doesn't prevent infection or spread. That said, GET THE VACCINE, I do not
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Do you have any guidance as to how to best make this transition? It also seems there are many better trajectories on the tech org side compared to just being purely technical.
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Your post wreaks of working at Amazon. I hate to tell you, but Amazon is the lowest hanging fruit of all FAANGs. They hire and fire at above average rates to try to find the best and then bait the rest to stay on with stock. If you'r
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Ask HN: Those of you who left tech, where are you now?
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
The petro-dollar is a bit of a catch 22. Either we produce our own domestically and purchase with Canada (ideally using the keystone pipeline - but we know how that played out) or we throw out all of our internal production for "envir
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Many of my friends who are from Ukraine actually prefer to work in St. Petersburg and Moscow due to better opportunities and higher pay. Granted, compared to the US Russia's economy is horrendous, but the opportunities are still great
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Just incorporate a shell company in the Seychelles - it's basically the only way to go about this. Ironically, it's also one of the only ways to circumvent insane legacy payment provider requirements for industries that require h
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
More calls for crypto regulation in 3..2..1..
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Completely agree. At this point I'm relatively convinced you always have to go "back to the market" to get a meaningful pay raise. Even if you switch to the product side or make 2-3 compensation incentives, you're like
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
This is such an awesome fix! I'm curious as to what portion of the aero / solid rocket motor causes these violent vibrations, specifically in the 10-12Hz range? Maybe I should've just finished my mechanical engineering degr
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
I can't explain with words how similar this is to my life experience thus far! Granted, I've only been "fired" once due to a really poor fit, however the focus issue got incredibly worse with covid and WFH.
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Care to elaborate? I'm actually seriously considering moving from the tech side to product side.
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
I think the real answer here in terms of long term career "scaling" and upward mobility is to work in product with prior experience in engineering. Clearly unless you're brilliant or credentialed enough to eventually be a pr
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Use s3, case closed.
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Completely agree, this is why where I grew up in TX many of the business owners who are stout conservatives are basically complete hypocrites since they hire illegals! Tbh I strongly advocate to grant citizenship or work visas to people fr
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Could you go into more detail here? My head is still slow to digest economics concepts like this, but this is something I certainly haven't read about before.
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Great, actually. I've worked my ass off, paid-off my student loans and live in a great city. By no means making crazy developer money either.
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Yep, but at the end of the day anyone who's trying to build wealth or have anything left for retirement gets fucked by inflation. People who are spendthrift and receiving UBI or unemployment payments (long term) were never trying to d
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Yep, and in states with lots of illegal immigration the actual price of "labor" is heavily depressed since they're willing to work for basically anything.
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
One could argue the move to continue unemployment payments / covid payments is a strategy to "raise minimum wage" without actually having to pass any policy to do so. Politically it's brilliant, you gain the support of
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Nope. I'm keeping Schwab for my banking needs. The last thing I need is a "bank" with more data about me than they really need and a lack of impeccable phone support. Unfortunately, it's probably going to take some tim
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
It's surprising how fast you can get DETS (the persistent storage version of Elixir's in memory kv-store ETS) to act as a database of sorts. Even on a relatively slow SSD.
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
This is problematic and wrong, however, in today's climate I think the term "activist" is applied far too liberally. At times, so much that clear enemies of the state could also claim to be "activists". Another im
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
The long term value in crypto is the value in their utility as transaction layers, not the currency itself, not stupid smart contract garbage. Visa is pretty shitty but obviously the best choice for most systems currently. I like crypto, b
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
IndieHackers has turned into a garbage site as of late. The quality has plummeted and it's mostly people just desperately cold emailing thousands of people while making less than $3k a month. Low key, in most cases those people would
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Risk someone else's money not your own. If you can't convince someone else to risk their money on your idea, it's probably not good enough even if you manage to execute and ship. You have a house at 25, let that sink in for
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
I guess the question here is if he conflates being a statist crony with "right-wing". Clearly he misses the fact that the fed is controlled by people who don't even delineate their political affiliation and only seek to cont
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
"nerdsniped" is my new favorite word - thank you for this post haha
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
I made the mistake early in my career of not taking enough vacation. If I'd just taken time off, I could've avoided partial burnout, coasting to handle burnout and nearly getting fired a few times. Funny how you learn things lik
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by 71a54xd 5y ago
Reminds me of this automated aquarium controller build from a now defunct personal blog! https://web.archive.org/web/20140313035949/http://kill-9.me/...

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