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by VRay 6y ago
IMO, 4 year university degrees in the USA in their current state are basically a scam We're promising kids that if they study hard in school they'll be elevated to the middle/upper class by their degree, but in reality most o
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by VRay 6y ago
Lysol can destroy delicate coatings, so your screen won't be as anti-reflective, or your device's innards might be less waterproof, etc Some cleaners can mess up the texture of rubber parts too
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by VRay 6y ago
This crap happens all the time on small cap stocks One of the main subreddits for stock speculators (wallstreetbets) had to ban mentioning penny stocks or small cap companies because having all the Reddit gamblers pile into something would
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by VRay 6y ago
I switched to some sexy cargo shorts, and my wife was pregnant a month later Coincidence? I think not
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by VRay 6y ago
You can disinfect your electronics with rubbing alcohol and/or removable covers, but don't put Lysol or other harsh cleaning agents on them
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by VRay 7y ago
Haha, I kept getting e-mails asking me to take a 3 month contract in "Plantation, Florida" Yeah, right
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by VRay 7y ago
I kinda lucked out and learned my lesson about this stuff early on I was trash-talking one group of internet people with another group, and the trash talk ended up getting indexed by Lycos or AltaVista. They called me out for being a dick,
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by VRay 7y ago
Man, it was mind-blowing back in the day to see a video streaming from a server right to your local machine in real time
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by VRay 7y ago
just make everyone in the company do it IMO, and let the managers distinguish who was an over/underperformer later on Of course, you'll just find out that there's practically no correlation.. Some of the least useful teammate
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by VRay 7y ago
> CyberRebate Holey moley, that was a fun rabbit hole During the dot com bubble of 2000-2001, there was a company where you could buy things online for 10x the normal retail price, but they'd send you a rebate of the price after a c
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by VRay 7y ago
Honestly I'd love it if someone did this I'd just download the next version of their app off the store and save a copy of it, then decompile it to prove my code is there and sue the living shit out of them I guess that's not
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by VRay 7y ago
You get fake discounts off egregiously inflated eye exam/eyewear prices You can easily buy prescription glasses online for less than $20 a pair, and you can get an eye exam done for $50-$100 If you use your vision insurance to buy glas
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by VRay 7y ago
You think they're going to spring back up? Why's that? The same reasons it's been flying up for the last few years, or something in particular?
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by VRay 7y ago
Don't worry, he responded with this very data-driven explanation: > Generally speaking, people like this have never actually dealt with large data sets
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by VRay 7y ago
I interviewed at some startups from the HackerNews "Who's Hiring?" threads, and I had positive experiences with them. There wasn't much Leetcode BS, it was mostly talking with human beings. (Unfortunately, it turned ou
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by VRay 7y ago
I dunno if consuming many types of garbage data is going to help you zero in on the truth
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by VRay 7y ago
Some of the exploits that've come to light in the last decade are pretty mind-blowing too If you sent a security expert from today back in time to the 90s, they could basically pull the same ridiculous shenanigans that the characters d
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by VRay 7y ago
It's $200k/year, which is basically nothing to a megacorp like Huawei. Not sure why you're so incredulous
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by VRay 7y ago
Check out the HackerNews hiring threads, there are a ton of great jobs where you can net 150k/year doing remote web development
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by VRay 7y ago
It's all well and good until you get judged by a bunch of completely borked-up, unfair metrics. The computer sets you to running halfway across a gigantic warehouse again and again, then measures your "picks per hour" vs som
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by VRay 7y ago
Yeah, I was a lot less upset about some of the crappy experiences I'd had working for evil giant companies after I read "The E-Myth Revisited". My elite 10 person team was doing a great job on Device A, while Device B had a t
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by VRay 7y ago
Sir please just skim over the article Just glance at snippets here and there It's really quite well-written, well-sourced, articulate, and frightening
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by VRay 7y ago
I dunno man, I ran the numbers and came out WAY ahead in the Bay Area As a senior engineer, I was able to negotiate 150k for remote work (and I'd rent a house house in a nice Midwestern city or a nice apartment in Tokyo for $1200/
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by VRay 7y ago
More info about Émilie du Châtelet and her work on her Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet
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by VRay 7y ago
This got really bad in World of Warcraft: Legion, when people were deleting and re-creating their characters to try and get better loot. The game had these "Legendary" items of incredible power you could attain that were insanely
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by VRay 7y ago
It's like you ask someone if you can borrow their pen, and they say "Sure, but only if I can rifle through your wallet and attach this GPS tracker to you"
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by VRay 7y ago
Haha, dude, I remember that. They were definitely breaking OSHA rules. They had something like 3x the dudes per bathroom allowed I used to just go home when I couldn't find an available bathroom. Fuck that company
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by VRay 7y ago
Ugh, same thing happened to me. Bumping my salary from 55k to 60k was inconceivable, so I went to another company for 120k. (Turns out, the same skills you use to make piece of crap parking meters/medical devices are needed to make s
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by VRay 7y ago
> that is literally proof that they can’t get away with this ?? What if the company saves a lot of money, and only lose a tiny percentage of employees every year? I think it's pretty safe to say that most salaried employees will jus
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by VRay 7y ago
It saves a fortune, but the companies are spending a fortune on their employees' salary and benefits too I think we're talking the difference between $300/month on open desk space vs $1000/month on an office. It's

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