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by JCM9 5y ago
It’s actually quite common for approach lights to be located off airport property. That’s a bit of an extreme case with peoples homes and backyards. Usually this would be across roads or commercial properties.
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by JCM9 5y ago
Google has seriously struggled to be financially successful in anything other than selling information about you to others (via “targeted” ads). That means that they’re going to be increasingly desperate to maintain their data collection ab
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by JCM9 5y ago
This is pattern than falls most supply shortages. Lumber was in seriously short supply during the pandemic and prices skyrocketed. A few months later places has more wood than they knew what to do with and supplies were piling up.
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by JCM9 5y ago
If a company is 100% remote that’s one thing, but in any hybrid scenario those that consistently appear in an office will unavoidably be at a significant advantage. Those informal coffee chats, grabbing lunch together and such are invaluabl
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by JCM9 5y ago
RSU value at vesting is taxed like salary in the US too (gains post vesting would be taxed less at capital gains rates if one doesn’t immediately sell).
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by JCM9 5y ago
Given the wide availability of more complete data points on total comp packages from other sources (eg levels.fyi) it’s unlikely a “government mandated salary database” will add any net new information in many cases, and per above that gove
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by JCM9 5y ago
These laws don’t have the effect people think they will in tech given that “salary” is often a small part of someone’s overall compensation. A role might say it has a $150,000 “salary” but if someone has say $300,000 in RSUs on top of that
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by JCM9 5y ago
$350k is just the max base salary (cash). Comp packages have multiple components and then the actual total compensation including the value of shares awarded would typically be higher, veritably much much higher for anyone getting $350k bas
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by JCM9 5y ago
I think the more relevant/interesting question is where is the money flowing into crypto coming from. The data there suggests it’s highly concentrated from folks that really have no business investing in extremely speculative things, w
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by JCM9 5y ago
There’s a whole bunch of geriatric millennials out there remembering what happened to second life. With the pandemic letting up the last thing people are going to want to do is live in some virtual world. Fresh air is the new black.
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by JCM9 5y ago
That’s not necessarily a problem if the future of the cash cow looks bright. Facebook’s problem is that the cash cow is looking rather ill with nothing clear to pick up the slack. Also the business model of GOOG and MSFT is far more diversi
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by JCM9 5y ago
Facebook’s core business model appears to be in decline. They don’t have a very diversified revenue stream despite trying various side businesses. This is the market worried that Facebook’s best days are behind it. Facebook is betting the f
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by JCM9 5y ago
You don’t “fake it till you make it” in healthcare
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Hubble Contacts Fined $3.5M(ftc.gov)
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by JCM9 5y ago
The pricing is like medical billing. There’s no logic to it. A number is just made up and the insurers (in this case the finding agencies) are willing to foot the bill. Once the insurers (funding agencies) decide they no longer like that nu
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by JCM9 5y ago
Check with your local municipality. In the US most places have free testing via a local government lab. The only way to know for sure is testing the water. It’s also not just lead pipes that are the issue (although that’s the biggest proble
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by JCM9 5y ago
Different companies will fair very differently. Those that have revenue and are (or in a path to being) profitable should be fine. Valuations might take a hit but the companies will be fine. Those that have crazy valuations but no clear sig
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by JCM9 5y ago
Watson was mostly data science powered consulting pretending to have/be a product. They played heavily on the Jeopardy thing from a marking standpoint but what they were actually trying to sell was a hot mess. I do consider this a good
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by JCM9 5y ago
Fully self driving cars are far further off in the future than most in the sector would publicly admit. In controlled environments there’s a lot of potential today and things like self driving trams at airports are nothing new. But self dri
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by JCM9 5y ago
:-) This is one of these fake physics things that action movies and video games have put into our heads. In reality if you shoot a fuel can it will likely just leak out of the hole and maybe, if you’re lucky, a spark will be created that li
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by JCM9 5y ago
The VC market is super frothy at the moment. That drives up valuations in the short term and results in a very easy time to raise capital (aka Gold Rush). However what follows is a period where the market will turn the screws really hard on
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by JCM9 5y ago
A big part of this service is AWS helping you navigate the paperwork minefield that is involved with beaming data down from space. You need agreements with the FCC equivalent in all the countries that you’ll be beaming data down to. After t
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by JCM9 5y ago
Layman’s explanation: When modern planes land in bad weather, especially fog, the height off the ground is determined by bouncing radio waves off the ground. Essentially radar pointing down off the bottom of the plane. This provides added s
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by JCM9 5y ago
This is the fallacy with this approach IMHO. Yes you can save a ton my living on minimal spend with no kids. That’s also not a life many/most people desire to live. I’ll all for saving and do broadly follow a similar approach. With kid
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by JCM9 5y ago
…or there are Internet issues that are causing issues for people. Do we actually know AWS is having issues or people are speculating? Not seeing any issues here, but am seeing people reporting broader internet issues at the moment. Post tit
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by JCM9 5y ago
Queue the people that buy a house next to an airport and then complain about the airplanes. They will be “outraged” at the “onslaught” of planes flying overhead and demand reform.
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by JCM9 5y ago
AWS didn’t “go down”. They had an outage in one AZ, which is why there are multiple AZs in each region. If your app went down then you should be blaming your developers on this one, not AWS. Those having issues are discovering gaps in their
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by JCM9 5y ago
Status page says there are issues. It’s not all green.
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by JCM9 5y ago
Early data is always a bit iffy, but in the broad sense this is expected. The virus will mutate and over time the original vaccine will be less effective. This is going to end up like the flu where new vaccines will be continually developed
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by JCM9 5y ago
The deaths during Ida had nothing to do with Amazon or Amazon workers. There’s a story about illegal basement apartments that came out of that, but trying to link this to Amazon is goofy.

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