alexwasserman

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by alexwasserman 6y ago
I think the issue here is that for a given rank or role there are salary ranges that are defined, and effectively immovable. Those act as floor and ceiling functions on the salary that can be offered. So, even if you made $280K at Google, y
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by alexwasserman 7y ago
I'd always assumed it was leadership by the shit, similarly to poppycock - https://www.etymonline.com/word/poppycock But, that's a latin root, not greek. Then again - it does suggest the same root: https:&#x
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by alexwasserman 7y ago
I think this starts to get at it, but missed the lopsided situation we're in today. In the small town he mentions, yes, there's little privacy, but it's constrained to the small town, and largely equal. Everyone knows about e
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by alexwasserman 7y ago
The investment / checking side sounds very much like a normal sweep-account setup: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sweep_account Commonly available where you have business or high-net-worth accounts. The credit side i
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by alexwasserman 7y ago
Or Speaker’s Corner by Hyde Park. Pratchett was English, and likely more away of the London location. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner
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by alexwasserman 7y ago
And also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery The Doomsday Wreck.
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by alexwasserman 8y ago
This reads like a joke. >Talk to anyone who has ever worked on a mainframe and you will see that they are acutely aware of important factors that are sometimes overlooked on other platforms. Things like security, control, scalability, an
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by alexwasserman 8y ago
In NYC Schleppers were really good - used them twice, would use them again, if I was in their area. I used United for my last move, who were also good.
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by alexwasserman 8y ago
Cost is heavily dependent on the size of the move. The boxes and paper are actually a pretty large faction of the cost. I was a while back, but moving a 1 bed apartment was $1-2K, I think. 5 bed house was roughly $7K to move 100 miles.
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by alexwasserman 8y ago
Having moved in the US several times, this looks like more like the difference between good movers and bad, regardless of country. I've used the pack and move services in the US, and they came a week or two before to review and get an
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by alexwasserman 8y ago
Found it interesting the VIM started off as VI Imitation, before becoming VI Improved. I think the article really meant "A look at VI", since it was about VI, despite starting with "Vim creator Bill Joy told Linux Magazine.&q
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by alexwasserman 9y ago
http://qdb.us/ was the other fork from GeekIssues.
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by alexwasserman 14y ago
A couple of years ago, prior to moving completely to the US I opened an international personal account with Chase - basically regular checking, but without the need to be in the US. I didn't have an SSN at the time, or even an ITIN. I was i
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by alexwasserman 14y ago
Your Contact page has a Help link at the bottom that isn't a link - doesn't do anything. That link doesn't appear on the other pages. Help would be a useful page.