AFNobody

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by AFNobody 8y ago
Nah. $.04/GB is practical. https://www.keycdn.com/pricing
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by AFNobody 8y ago
So now we are going from the general case to the Bay area tech crowd? I think you live in a bubble, honestly. Get out of it and realize how most people live.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
If it is obvious predictable stuff, like being unemployed that almost everyone experiences eventually it isn't useful.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
And making it back from the Secret Service/etc in fees and then some. It is clearly a scam where he donates $X then quietly steals a multiple of it. http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/12/news/secret-servic
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by AFNobody 8y ago
His math is a little optimistic when we are talking about "almost all market conditions" and once you start factoring in things that might go wrong, like a couple years of unemployment stretched over a 20 year career. MMM ignores
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by AFNobody 8y ago
> Why isn't everyone installing then? There is a net cost somewhere. Because it is damn close to break even and would you spend money on something you didn't need just because it was good for the environment? Most people don&#x
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by AFNobody 8y ago
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market-... Even with bad market timing, you still have pretty good odds if you are genuinely dedicated to the task. Keep in mind, to succeed in ~20 years in alm
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by AFNobody 8y ago
> Tell me how many foreign auto manufacturers are allowed to build in JP and SK. What's their output? Which is you admitting the OP is correct btw. They are protecting a few politically important industries just like the US does. Or
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by AFNobody 8y ago
And then you know that employer has issues and to avoid them.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
If you are interviewing with a company, asking you to spend time in exchange for money is reasonable. If you feel you are above that exchange, personally, that is an effective filter for a potential problem employee.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Ah yes the "well you must not be good enough" response when someone points out the average person is average. Usually followed by crabs in a bucket or pessimists or whatever. "I can do it so the majority can" is rarely t
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Republicans showed they wouldn't enforce net neutrality regulations so there isn't fear of Govt action.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Yup and the fallback position of taking a local job if they can't find remote work w/o relocating which (honestly) was the original issue I was bringing up. It isn't finding 1 remote job that lets you work from a rural area t
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Do you realize Austin isn't a small town? And that the experience you are expressing is in no way relevant to what I said or the person I responded too? Your career in Austin is the exact opposite of what I want. It is the very definit
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by AFNobody 8y ago
> I'm working for a San Francisco YC alum tech company but living in one of the most affordable places in the US. > It's beautiful out here and I wish more tech workers would consider the Midwest when they decide to leave th
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Trades pay well with a customer base to support them. The core problem is, ultimately, the customer base is led by the white collar jobs who lack the skills to perform those tasks. The blue collar tradesmen, frankly, has the skills to avoid
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by AFNobody 8y ago
It isn't even that, they just need to eliminate the position and not rehire anyone for it (or a similar one) for 18 months.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
You should target 10-15 years of relevant job experience on your resume and keep it to 1-2 pages. The goal is to appear no older than a 30-39 year old professional on the job application as much as possible. 22+15 = 37 (24+15 = 39, if a mas
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by AFNobody 8y ago
> 2008-2013, about 3,500 roles > * How do you even send that many applications? Is there some site where you can click thousands of checkboxes and apply? Do you send individual emails? (3500/2) = 1750 hours, or just shy of one wo
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by AFNobody 8y ago
> That's not to say the broader criticism of job security is wrong. I have plenty of 50+ family members that are struggling on the finish line to retirement. Other people in my circle never had a fair shot at the start, but I don&#x
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Laws about abortions, bathrooms, access to the social net, etc.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
I think you will find in your 50s finding those jobs will get harder. 30s seems pushing it for no reason but by 50 it is quite nesc.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Politics isn't just local laws but also state laws.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
The weather in Atlanta isn't much better than Seattle, if you compare season to season. Seattle has one bad season, one good season. Atlanta is the same.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
> I don't think so at all. Sure, Amazon has a certain reputation, especially in hacker-news circles. That said I think you're forgetting about the silent but huge majority of average joes who would kill for an Amazon job. They
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by AFNobody 8y ago
If you are capable of correctly estimating that, you are likely better off running a hedge fund than working at Google.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Faster = higher probability of an injurious and/or fatal accident. So from a safety standpoint, that is a not a win.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
The thing is they weren't defending Backpage but Craigslist (among others) that shut down due to new legislation. I don't think anyone was really defending Backpage (the site itself, rather than the broker function) in any real nu
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by AFNobody 8y ago
Where were they and in context on HN? And please prove there were hundreds.
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by AFNobody 8y ago
> And the CEO himself pleaded guilty to money laundering. I remember people here were coming out in droves to defend the company against big bad government when the site was first seized. They weren't defending Backpage, they were c

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