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by alexc05 9y ago
I absolutely loathe youtube's suggestion stream. It is clearly designed to be exploitative of children's media-illiteracy. Clickbait, misleading and outright deception in the headlines and thumbnails. For lack of a better term &qu
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by alexc05 9y ago
I'm a Tesla shareholder (of little significance in the grand scheme of things, but I bought some) and this wouldn't put me off. In fact, I think they should have a union.
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by alexc05 9y ago
Do you think he'll dry his tears with twenty dollar bills or will he use hundreds? He was responsible for a lot of terrible shit.
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by alexc05 9y ago
I think this one it my favorite on the list. - Accelerated the shift to self driving cars. That deserves serious credit. If you consider corporate espionage and theft of IP "accelerating the shift" but how much of what Uber was ma
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by alexc05 9y ago
But add in the increased housing costs & commute time. I'm not sure if there are additional concerns about health insurance (though California has recently passed single payer) I don't typically see $200k salaries but expect $
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by alexc05 9y ago
But the salaries they publish in h1b are done so to prove that they are not doing a job cheaper than a comparable American citizen could. The expectation is that h1b's statistically represent the normal curve. (Or are higher) I think
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by alexc05 9y ago
It depends where you start. Now, I typically don't see $200k salary differences but there might be some. If you browse Amazon, Google or Facebook in h1b databases for San Francisco or Seattle you see a range of roughly $130k to $160k.
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by alexc05 9y ago
If you make an effort people will welcome you with open arms :) Montreal is lovely.
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by alexc05 9y ago
I've done those sorts of calculations before and that aligns with roughly what I figured out at the time.
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by alexc05 9y ago
As the others are saying, there are a lot of features to life in Canada which aren't made up for by a $20,000 difference in salary. It isn't perfect but consider for example the 2017 world happiness report: http://worl
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by alexc05 9y ago
For sure. I love in Toronto and my girlfriend is going to school in philly. Every time she visits she brings up treats from TJ's There's a chilli-lime spice shaker, and an "everything bagen seasoning" shaker. I've n
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by alexc05 9y ago
I also think that the retirement-age might also be part of that. At 65 your income is expected to drop significantly. By allowing deferred costs on property tax at the age of retirement, you reduce a pressure on tight resources. Seniors in
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by alexc05 9y ago
I thought the trick was to back up the phone on one side of the border, factory reset / wipe, restore the phone on the other side of the border. Obviously that doesn't work for laptops - but for a phone it is in the realm of possi
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by alexc05 9y ago
Interesting! So there are laundering services. Still, even if that were a 'terminal' point, you'd know at least where they were going. I'd love to read the story of 'follow the money'
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by alexc05 9y ago
What would be really interesting to me is the reverse-engineering of the outbound bitcoin to trace this back to real/named individuals. Consider that every transaction is public information - so any bitcoin spent from that wallet has t
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by alexc05 9y ago
If you search the definition of regulatory capture you get: >Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political con
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by alexc05 9y ago
I feel very much the same way about No Man's Sky. $80 (Canada) for a great gaming experience, but there was a massive blowback on that. To me, it was pretty much exactly what I was expecting. Many people complained of 'lies, false
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by alexc05 9y ago
> if a recruiter sends us three candidates who cannot pass our coding test, we fire the recruiter is there any room to take blame for the quality of the test? All testing must consider its reliability and validity as a measure. If it
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by alexc05 9y ago
I had to smirk at this one: > none of us would ever consider opening a Laundromat or a stationery store I've actually fantasized numerous times about selling it all and buying a laundromat or two. The dream was all around the "
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by alexc05 9y ago
See, I agree and disagree with that. People on tinder are probably reasonably expecting that their pictures are used for meeting up with locals for the purposes of dating. The debate about whether this is a reasonable expectation isn't
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by alexc05 9y ago
Experiments without informed consent. While Tinder might have something in their T&C which requires that they're allowed to look at the data, it isn't ethical for third parties to scrape and use that same data without inform
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by alexc05 9y ago
I miss-wrote. It sounded like I thought there was ONE solution required. Clearly you have a point and there is far more to the story and there isn't any reason I can think of why you wouldn't be able to do both of these and more.
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by alexc05 9y ago
Well, not precisely, he was a single dad as well. But I take your point, along with another commenter who says "mass pardon program" (which one would expect to have the effect of bringing some fathers home) Maybe it's a case
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by alexc05 9y ago
I really think these articles are important to read. I still think about and reference Ta-nehisi Coats' article "the case for reparations" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06&#x
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by alexc05 10y ago
Failure really hurts me on a psychological level. I don't have any interest in half assing stuff. If I can't crush it, I don't want to play. The cost of the flight & hotel is pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things
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by alexc05 10y ago
now are you referring to #1 (younger + training) or #1 (older)?
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by alexc05 10y ago
That would be a no-brainer for sure! At $75k/year $15k for a day off a week would be roughly "break even" on the hourly rate trade off. Someone on $100k taking a pay cut to 4 days would see their time valued at an increase in
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by alexc05 10y ago
Ugghh... this exactly. I recently turned down a "we will fly you to the west coast" interview with one of the big five because I couldn't be bear the idea of spending weeks preparing for the 4-8 hour day of whiteboard coding
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by alexc05 10y ago
I hope you've trademarked the term "epochalypse" because it is really catchy! I love it.
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by alexc05 10y ago
I actually did an involuntary fist pump when I saw "Tuples" listed. That feels like watching my preferred team score a touchdown in sports-ball.

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