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by badpun 3y ago
Also, rents numbers are usually not given after adjusting for inflation. It makes breaking record a phenomenon you’d expect, similarly how Hollywood keeps constantly breaking its blockbuster records.
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by badpun 3y ago
> You can live in a prime location in Manhattan for about $1000 a month if you’re willing to live in a single room apartment with a shared bathroom and a kitchen that consists of a sink, mini fridge, and microwave Is this an apartment, o
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by badpun 3y ago
Also, teenager-level philosophy.
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by badpun 3y ago
That's tech monopolies (FAANG etc.), which have more money than sense. In the normal businesses, there's hardly any busywork, because the relatively low margins don't allow for it.
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by badpun 3y ago
How expensive are the tools and equipment necessary to pull this off?
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by badpun 3y ago
I've recently arrived at financial independence. It was the only way to break the cycle for me.
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by badpun 3y ago
Managers represent the objective realities of deadlines and needing to writesoftware that will increase profits of the company. A worklife without managers would be much less stressful, because it would be a life in wonderland, with no resp
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by badpun 3y ago
There are hardly any $200k-$250k coder jobs in Europe (most coders make less than you're making now). I'd say maybe ultraspecialized people in things like HFT make that much, or perhaps to people at a FAANG in Switzerland. Other t
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm taking plenty of multi-month brakes, but they don't feel like recovery. As soon as I'm back to work, after the initial honeymoon that lasts maybe 3-5 weeks, I'm already contemplating quiting the job again.
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by badpun 3y ago
Writing a novel is far from low-stress, unless you don't mind writing absolute garbage. The term "tortured artist" exists for a reason.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Building your own thing can be very conducive to burnout b/c most of the time you’re not really getting a lot of positive ideas. That's a very good observation. Once in my late twenties, I took two years off to pursue an idea
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by badpun 3y ago
> Everything feels too hard, you feel too old, you see no prosperous future, and you yearn to end everything - not suicide, but to quit work, quit life, and disappear. I thought it's not burn out, but just getting older and wiser :)
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by badpun 3y ago
> 3d rendering algorithms research My guess is those jobs either go to PhDs in graphics programming, or people with extensive (and impressive) practical experience.
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by badpun 3y ago
> IMO, Pandora's box has been opened. Now humans are hyper-aware about the possibilities to optimise their life Funnily enough, if you read Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", his impression of Americans back then (
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by badpun 3y ago
It has been noticed since the sixties, when comstockery was abolished.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Game of Thrones was extremely unique and "Non-American" for the nudeness and many sex scenes. Really? My feeling is the other way around - that say HBO shows (made by Americans) always have gratuitous nudity and sex scenes. E
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by badpun 3y ago
It's not the point. You might also not want the love of your life to say, do gross things in front of you, because it puts you off on a biological level. Of course, it's her choice to do it if she wishes to, but it's also you
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by badpun 3y ago
> It's weird that all movies seem to play in a parallel universe where everyone looks like the fittest people ever. It's not weird if take consider commercial cinema for what it is - an escapist fantasy meant to induce short-te
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by badpun 3y ago
Extremely high consumption levels?
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by badpun 3y ago
That changes from society to society, whereas intelligence as a positive predictor of success is universal.
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by badpun 3y ago
The managers I've most worked with are mostly concerned with what will be built (and that is discussed with other managers as well as other stakeholders external to the team), and don't care that much about internal team dynamics.
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by badpun 3y ago
> There are many funded projects not executing for lack of captains today. Perhaps those projects are just not viable economically, because they can't pay enough to attract the captains. Or, the owners are too rigid to pay (for exam
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by badpun 3y ago
In my country (Poland), long-haul truckers are paid roughly double what the local truckers (those who get to come home every night) make. This is enough to compensate people for the inconvenience, and there's generally no shortage of w
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by badpun 3y ago
His point isn't that web development is or will be so easy that it will be easy to hire for and thus not in demand. His point is that, most of people who work on "web" code do pointless busywork or just don't work very h
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by badpun 3y ago
> I've had my fair share of useless, self interested recruitment firm representatives who enrich themselves at up to 20% of my six figure salary and literally offer me and my employer nothing. If they truly offered nobody nothing, t
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by badpun 3y ago
From what I recall reading, there was a grow in population during XIX century that to this day is still hard to explain by historians. A lot of that surplus population couldn't live off the land, since it was already at capacity in mos
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by badpun 3y ago
That's not the top though, that's just a relatively comfortable niche somewhere in the middle of the ladder.
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by badpun 3y ago
> All in all, I think that the net proportion of skilled labour grew significantly. I'm not so sure. Before industrialization, most jobs were skilled. For one, most people were farmers, and it required a lifetime of knowledge (usual
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by badpun 3y ago
> Also, industrialization saw the rise of the skilled workforce. People started earning more the more they could use their brain. Not neccessarily. The whole Luddite revolution/movement was trying to fight industrialization _because
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by badpun 3y ago
By definiton, there's very few people on top. Way fewer than people attempting to climb there.

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