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by agf 4y ago
Tegus | Engineers, Data Analysts, Managers, Designers, Product | REMOTE | Full-time (US), Contractor (US, PL) https://www.tegus.com/careers/tech We’re a team of engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists a
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by agf 4y ago
Large, slow ships are easily found and caught. If that's a problem, then you build smaller, faster ships, which are less energy efficient. Losses of ships are only a financial matter because losses are very rare, so insurance is cheap.
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by agf 4y ago
I'm a fan of Patreon, but in my experience, it's not a well known platform outside of tech. I've mentioned it a number of times to a variety of different musicians, music producers, etc., and until maybe the past year none of
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by agf 4y ago
Tegus | Engineers, Data Analysts, Managers, Designers, Product | REMOTE | Full-time (US), Contractor (US, PL) https://www.tegus.com/careers/tech We’re a team of engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists a
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by agf 4y ago
What he won a Nobel for ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2008/kru... ), and what he writes and speaks about in the non-academic realm, are very different. And I don't think the implied
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by agf 5y ago
No, it was refreshing, but it wasn't really quite long enough to break the mental patterns that I'd built up for so long around computer / internet / use. I did come back excited to read HN etc., I was no longer tired of
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by agf 5y ago
Not sure what specifically you mean about surprises. I guess not? I bought health insurance on the state marketplace where my permanent residence is. Just feel like it's time for a change, and I'm willing to accept the likely payc
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by agf 5y ago
No, I just want a big change within tech without totally invalidating the specific technical parts of my skillset. I would like to also be somewhere I believe positively in the impact of the company on the world overall, rather than just ne
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by agf 5y ago
I don't really have too many regrets about it, there would have been both advantages and significant disadvantages to leaving sooner. Certainly being a bit less emotionally invested would have reduced the burnout, and lots of people st
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by agf 5y ago
I posted on a thread about burnout back in May about quitting my job[1] after nine years, this seems like an invitation to post an update. I used the time off to travel around in a van, hiking, eating, camping, and visiting friends. I'
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by agf 5y ago
Except the distances here are twice that, and the farther you get apart the more the curvature matters.
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by agf 5y ago
The 170km number given in another comment (and by the calculators) is meant to take into account "normal" light-bending; the distance here is 250km. While I'm not an expert, that seems like a lot of extra distance / angl
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by agf 5y ago
Same result, just true "line of sight" vs. including light bending. The calculator I used gives both values.
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by agf 5y ago
Using https://www.everythingrf.com/rf-calculators/line-of-sight-ca... because it's the first result that came up. 298m height where he's viewing from = 61.6km line of sight 610m height of Knockbrack = 88.2km
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by agf 5y ago
Thread in question: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/87674/independent-evidenc...
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by agf 5y ago
While I agree he's wrong about open source's economic effect, there are plenty of areas where open standards have succeeded in creating interoperability without open source, the obvious example being in computer hardware -- think
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by agf 5y ago
I think this being a good answer hinges on the resulting user experience. If one person spends several minutes going through the process of putting in their payment and other info only to be told you don't have a ticket, they're g
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by agf 5y ago
Senators and Presidents are more likely to be re-elected by a certain segment of the population if they oppose COVID restrictions of various kinds, yes. And news networks always profit in ratings from a crisis. Both political and ratings su
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by agf 5y ago
> you being by default direct can give some people the opposite impression Definitely rings true. > Make it into a cooperative discussion so they don't feel like they're the only one criticizing the subject If these are peop
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by agf 5y ago
I've unfortunately not found this to be true. I regularly say the difficult things, sometimes ultimately productively, sometimes not; sometimes I'm successful at structuring the feedback so people don't feel "attacked&qu
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by agf 5y ago
> I save over 50% of my income but I don't make anything close to $300,000 so yea, taking a whole year off would be a big chunk of my savings. There is something wrong with this piece of information. If you really save 50%, then tak
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by agf 5y ago
20 years, not 10. ((((((((50*1.07+50)*1.07 + 50)*1.07 + 50)*1.07 + 50)*1.07 + 50)*1.07 + 50)*1.07 + 50)*1.07 + 50)*1.07 + 50)*1.07*0.04 = 30,000 per year income, after saving 50,000 per year and making 7% for 10 years at a 4% withdrawal rat
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by agf 5y ago
Personally, I think there is a lot of truth to the autonomy, mastery, and purpose framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_Ab... Another way to say it would be that I think it's about t
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by agf 5y ago
One of the reasons I don't usually answer financial questions like this online is because, in a sense, it really all comes down to this answer. If you make a lot of money, and you're careful, and don't get unlucky, the rest j
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by agf 5y ago
> I guess I'm still confused. "Pays well" as in, pays well above average? I'm taking average to mean ~$130,000 in California / Bay Area. > So you made well above that for 9 years AND lived somewhere with a low
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by agf 5y ago
One of the most important parts of my plan, and part of what I was referring to when I said "almost nothing that looks like work" is to keep a hard cap on computer time. This break is about other parts of my life. Being in the rig
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by agf 5y ago
Professors are paid (though sometimes only ~50%) during their sabbaticals. Otherwise you're exactly right.
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by agf 5y ago
For the past nine years I've worked at a place that pays well, and saved a very large percentage of my income. I did this specifically so I have the flexibility to take time off, and potentially choose jobs that don't pay nearly a
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by agf 5y ago
The latter part of the article, about "The Burnout Society", maps much more to how I and others I know use the term. There was a period at my job where I was burned out -- but that ended when I decided that I was never going to ac
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by agf 5y ago
What are the other options for anonymity that don't provide the same cover for criminal activity?

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