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by angarg12 8y ago
What bothers me about this is not the figures, but the feeling that the only thing that matters to increase your salary is competing offers. The more articles I read the more convinced I am that this is by far the most important factor in a
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I read this book a few years back when I was interested in making games as a hobby. I think it's a good one-stop source for game design. If you had to read one single book on game design, it should be this one, as it covers many topics
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Amazon went down over 90% from peak to valley after the .com bubble. It then took 7 years to recover to peak valuation. I don't think a 90% drop is common, but I also don't think it's outrageous.
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Let's put it another way: we are looking at the top 1% of software engineers. Is it surprising that they have incomes in the 1% range? For comparison, in Amazon, Senior and above engineers count for ~20% of the total, and those are the
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I appreciate the link, but it seems to have the same issue that most of the web suffer from: discoverability and curation. +1,000 free movies might be great, but with such great numbers I need something more than a list in alphabetical orde
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Coming from a Mediterranean culture I can sympathise with the 'money doesn't mean happiness' maxim, but the opposite narrative is not much deeper. In my life I moved from both extremes, from a poverty level wage in a dead bea
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This [1] is the video which made me fed up and stopped watching Smarter Every Day. The only way that video made me smarter is realising how blatantly most social media offers low quality content crammed with advertisement. [1] https:/
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The general tone of the discourse is so depraved that you can either cry or laugh. I choose the latter. The relationship advice is a particularly dirty source of entertainment.
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I don't want to take the spot away from the topic of the article, but what horrified me the most is the appalling conditions of end-of-life care of the health system in the US. If there is one reason I'm glad I was born in a EU co
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It's a baby step, but that was to be expected. You can't realistically expect everyone to switch to an EV overnight, but this kind of plans will accelerate adoption, which AFAIK isn't going so well in Spain. If this experimen
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A while back I told my friends "in the next 5 years a major European city will ban non EV. And if it's a success, the flood gates will open and there will be no way back". I'm surprised (and pleased) that this initiative
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by angarg12 8y ago
Brain Drain is a real issue in some parts of the world. I grew up in Spain and got all my higher education for free. The state essentially spent large amount of money in me, hoping that I would give it back to the economy as a skilled worke
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I'm from Spain and I am in love with Spanish country houses. I find the rawness and authenticity of those house much more beautiful than this manicured fabricated penthouse. There is an almost primal appeal to the houses of old people
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I'm looking to relocate to the Bay next year, and I'm exploring renting a one bedroom with my partner. Our plan is to rent as cheaply as we reasonable can, even if we can afford more (that is what we are doing right now). I think
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I'm from Spain and I have lived in Germany and now UK. What surprises me from these numbers is that the share of Spaniards abroad isn't higher. My reason to leave was my career. In Spain most things work via connections and merito
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I got it from this online shop: https://www.alpacacollections.com/100-vicuna-scarf-10549.htm... I had to pay a (hefty) custom tax to import it, but I didn't had any other problem bringing it into the EU.
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I have a Vicuna scarf and I have to say it's a luxury item I was very happy to purchase. The scarf itself looks and feels amazing. But best of all, every item made of vicuna wool is numbered and is accompanied by a certificate of authe
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I'd love to have such a feature in RightMove or Zillow, to be able to search properties within say 30 minutes drive from work, instead of just faffing around in Google maps trying to guesstimate.
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I'm tired of hearing 'X is the Silicon Y'. The truth is that few places in the world have the tolerance to failure that SV has. In many so called 'Silicon Y' a failed startup would mean the end of your career. And t
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I visited the US (particularly the bay area) for the first time recently, and I was baffled by the sparsity of buildings. Suburbs and shopping areas are so far away that you need a car to go anywhere, and in turn you need massive expanses t
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by angarg12 8y ago
As the article points out, the economic miracle of Norway is fueled by oil and gas, just like Spain economic miracle was fueled by cheap industrial labour and construction decades ago. Unlike Spain, they have been wise enough to use their m
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> According to the recruitment website Hired, the average tech salary in London is $78,000 a year, versus $142,000 in Silicon Valley. And this is one of the reasons for the brain drain that the mention before. Silicon Valley firms pay si
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> As the tech workers land the big salaries, home prices are skyrocketing, and the locals are being squeezed out. Joke is on them, I'm a new tech immigrant to Cambridge and I still can't buy a house here.
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jxub give a good summary of some of the big issues. Below I write my take on the biggest issues for me: (1) Favoritism: Knowing or being the right person is quite more important than doing a good job. In small companies usually the boss fam
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Is not even an issue of number of jobs, but of quality of labor. Spain grew economically in the 70s and 80s because it was a developing country, and could provide cheap labor to neighboring countries. The growth in the 2000s came from a ma
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I moved to England less than a year ago, and out of all the countries where I have rented, this is my worst experience so far. Ignoring the poor treatment received by letting agencies, the landscape of property ownership is grim for newcome
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At the same time some properties are being held purely for speculative reasons and going derelict. I would much rather have a new construction rather than a rotting 'historic' building. Point in case: The luxury Principal Tower [1
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Bear in mind that hundreds of thousands of those employees are in the fulfillment centers etc. According to my guesstimations, engineering should be 80-60k, which is still a healthy number.
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I was talking with a colleague at the coffee machine, telling him how this weekend I went to the supermarket to do the groceries, and how it was a pain to carry bags around. He replied 'I haven't stepped in a supermarket in months
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> People spend less as a percentage of income on food and housing I've lived in several places in the last few years and this couldn't be further away from truth. I spend the same or more % of my income in housing than my paren

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