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by a1pulley 5y ago
Owning and having are not the same thing: you can have housing while renting it, receiving it as a gift from parents or your spouse, etc.
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by a1pulley 5y ago
To be fair, it's doable as a senior or staff engineer at a big company earning 300 to 500k/yr. I'm (lucky enough to be) in that range and qualified for a $1.5M loan. Combined with 500k for a down payment, you can see how thos
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by a1pulley 5y ago
I was trying to draw attention to the fact that "I'm in the top 2% of earners but I can't afford a house" isn't surprising when legislative factors make it hard to add housing stock, when turnover is low, and when t
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by a1pulley 5y ago
> It's honestly quite scary how I'm in the top 2% of income earners in my generation and yet I could barely afford to buy a small place in a semi-desirable area. I can easily see myself not being able to compete in algorithmica
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by a1pulley 5y ago
I snowboarded as a kid but relearned how to ski at 21 because I wanted to ski tour—i.e., go hiking in the winter with skis on my feet instead of snowshoes. Specifically, I wanted to ski across the Sierra Nevada from the Whitney area to the
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by a1pulley 5y ago
> I think there’s a genuine mystery to be explained here: if people prefer traditional architecture by a large margin, how come we’ve stopped producing it? It takes time—decades, perhaps centuries—to develop the techniques and traditions
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by a1pulley 5y ago
This is correct. My city has two zones: min 1 acre SFH and min 2 acre SFH.
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by a1pulley 5y ago
It says my lot isn't qualified because of high fire risk: Properties that are located within CalFire's "Very High Fire Severity Zones" are not eligible for SB 9 (unless excluded from the specified hazard zone by a local
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Retaining wall engineering manual [pdf](allanblock.com)
1 points by a1pulley 5y ago|1 comments
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by a1pulley 5y ago
> I’ve seen plenty of secrets go to a married pair’s grave. Is that possible?
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by a1pulley 5y ago
Ignoring for a moment the statistical hand-waving and terrifying 1-in-10 probability of being labeled suicidal—and the corresponding restrictions of freedoms—I was a bit taken aback by the high predictive power of yelling and arguments at h
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by a1pulley 5y ago
I live in a small, gated city in Los Angeles with 1 acre minimum lot sizes and rigorously enforced exterior styles, like white paint and single-story elevations. The average lot size is closer to 2 acres. You could snip the street map in on
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Netflix is now hiring non-seniors(jobs.netflix.com)
1 points by a1pulley 5y ago|1 comments
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by a1pulley 5y ago
I wonder whether the Inuit aversion to anger is a cultural adaptation to living in close proximity to others through long winters when sulking off to one's own room or house isn't possible. In the boiling water and fishing line ex
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by a1pulley 5y ago
As mask mandates started to disappear, I found myself dreading showing my whole face again. It takes considerable mental effort for me to choose the "correct" facial expression, and masks hide a conspicuous twitch in the corner of
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by a1pulley 5y ago
Perhaps "majority" wasn't the right word. Other than Levels (see below), I don't have evidence to back that up. However, you're not comparing apples to apples. The pools of students who are targeted for FAANG or top
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by a1pulley 5y ago
Associates at top firms live in HCOL areas at similar rates as SWEs at FAANG companies.
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by a1pulley 5y ago
> "At WilmerHale 1st year counsel makes $350,000. The 24 year old 1st year summer associate still in law school walks into the office in a $1,500 Burberry suit and makes $202,500 that year. Those Amazon workers they swindled out of
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by a1pulley 5y ago
This might be a cynical take, but in addition the things you typically hear, like improving cashflow and aligning incentives, I think it makes it easier to manage employees out. I.e., if you want to replace someone who it would otherwise be
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by a1pulley 5y ago
Google no longer forces arbitration [1]. [1] https://www.vox.com/technology/2019/2/22/18236172/mandatory-...
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Show HN: Minimalist, self-hosted iOS photo backup and sharing(github.com)
6 points by a1pulley 6y ago|2 comments
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by a1pulley 6y ago
After I maxed out the microSD on my iPhone with pictures of my new kid, I found that the experience of using a USB cable to download them to my laptop had a high enough energy barrier that I wouldn't do it regularly enough to protect m
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by a1pulley 6y ago
In hindsight, do you think he was just wearing the identity of a rock climber or do you think he just happened to enjoy climbing? Was he competent? Psyched? I vaguely remember his name, but 2017 was a heads-down work year for me when I didn
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by a1pulley 6y ago
If Dongryul would add the latex files to the repo and use more descriptive folder names, I suspect that he'd see some pull requests come in to fix errata. If the coursework started at an undergraduate level, I would have been happy to
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by a1pulley 6y ago
Apparently Shel didn't negotiate "founder's stock." This excerpt is from [1]: So, you are kind of the forgotten founder? Most people think of Jeff Bezos as the creator of the company. “In fact, to be completely technical
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by a1pulley 6y ago
The Google ones are wildly off—I work there as a SWE. Just review CLRS [1] until you hit minimum spanning trees, skipping starred sections like the one on matroids. Do a handful of LeetCode medium and hard questions on the way. A few weeks
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by a1pulley 6y ago
If anyone here could chime in with anecdotes or generalized advice about moving “up” castes, I would be interested to hear it. In my limited experience, being early at a growth company (e.g. Uber in 2014) increases the probability that you’
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by a1pulley 6y ago
A few months ago, I moved all my old photos from Drive to a local media server. I had to manually call an API endpoint [1] to remove several hundred thousand files from trash—it took 30 hrs to finish its batch job. [1] https://de
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by a1pulley 6y ago
I was in Andy's dorm (house) at Caltech. When I matriculated, I chose begrudgingly to study a "real" science--physics--instead of what I actually liked--computer science. It was in no small part thanks to Andy's contagio
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by a1pulley 6y ago
I recently installed a 6.8 kW system on my house. The final cost was $1.60/watt for "premium" Panasonic panels and Enphase microinverters, which was significantly lower than all the quotes I got. Tesla is now competitive watt

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