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by badpun 3y ago
CEOs of similar (market cap wise) companies in Europe don't even take in 10 millions a year. I'm betting some would be happy to relocate for the 10 mil.
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by badpun 3y ago
Where is it 4x ? Most expensive area in US (Manhattan) is maybe 2x as expensive as most expensive area in Europe (Central-ish London).
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by badpun 3y ago
What I was meaning to say was, "throught western history". I don't know enough to make an universal claim. In Europe, though, aristocracy was at the top of society and they thought work was a domain of slaves. They thought hi
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by badpun 3y ago
Jacob Fisker Lund, the original FIRE grandaddy proved that, with lifestyle changes, you can retire in five years on $80k salary.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Arguably, one's aim early in life should be to find for oneself labor that is so characterized - boutique, internally motivated, and capable of ekeing out a profit. This is a very modern and American take on work. Through history,
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by badpun 3y ago
The salary in the ad is always a jumping off point for negotiations. They can go always lower than that if they feel like you don't meet the criteria given in ad, or higher if you're particularly attractive. But, at least, it give
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by badpun 3y ago
> Try quitting caffeine or nicotine for instance. Or eat well and get regular exercise. These things will make anyone infinitely better off, yet are enormous undertakings. How are people better off by quitting caffeine?
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by badpun 3y ago
I believe there are still individual coders who make a real difference. It's vanishingly rare in server-side coding, but happens more often in niche fields such as game engines, compression.
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by badpun 3y ago
> American economy was made great decades ago, when corporate tax rates were like 3x higher, education was free, etc. American economy was made great when America was practically the only developed country in the world that wasn't d
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by badpun 3y ago
> Also, this is nothing compared to millions of deaths due to wars and entire vast regions fucked up badly for generations. In that aspect, US is much worse than Russia or China, if we check past few decades (which is way more relevant f
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by badpun 3y ago
> If someone feels like a faceless drone and constantly has to worry about how to make it through life after retirement, neither a 3000$ gaming PC nor a trip to Bali is going to make them happy, both are just bandaids over the misery. Mi
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by badpun 3y ago
> Considering Tesla is on track to deliver 1.8M vehicles this year and the delivery growth trajectory it's been on, 4M is a good target goal for 2025, $45k ASP, 10% profit margin, 30 P/E . . . from that I get $180, so today&#x2
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by badpun 3y ago
You stop the fed from printing so much money. I mean, right now it's too late, but for the future, it would be a good policy.
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by badpun 3y ago
We actually already have water flowing uphill, in the pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities. So who knows.
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by badpun 3y ago
> "2x father 2x Ironman finisher" Humanity can be really hilarious. Perhaps aliens don't contact us because they prefer just watching us on their TVs, as a highly entertaining reality TV show.
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't have kids. I think the approach should highly depend on the kid. I for one was good at academic subjects and also reasonably concerned about my future to put in the work at school (I never ran off with the circus etc.), so hand
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by badpun 3y ago
> As an investor, you want to put your money where the growth is. Yes, but a reasonable price. Whereas, Tesla is priced as if the growth had already happened.
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by badpun 3y ago
I was pretty much allowed to do whatever I wanted. Overall, I was punished only once in my teenage years (was told I had to skip a ski trip because I came home very drunk one night, at 15 or 16 yo). All in all I'd say I did pretty good
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by badpun 3y ago
> That is, my kids risked their parents being charged if they were capably on their own. My kids had nowhere to go if they tried to be independent. Were my kids to risk having some ambition, they also risked adult-sized punishments for k
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by badpun 3y ago
It's simple - Brooklyn just became a trendy place in the meantime. And so, of course it's overpriced. Smart people don't overpay for things - the solution is just to live somewhere else. 99.9% of places are not trendy and thu
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by badpun 3y ago
> people whose lives and livelihoods depend on the ocean (somewhere around 1 billion people). Can you give a source on that? Thanks.
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by badpun 3y ago
You could have a similar or worse list of grievances about every period of human history.
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by badpun 3y ago
They didn't prove to be that important in pre-modern warfare, though. Much less impactful than a horse. So maybe they're actually not that hard to deal with.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Because that's not how games work - they don't run "at minimum capabilities" and they run their game loop constantly, Unless you VSync?
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by badpun 3y ago
I have very similar opinion. Presenting things in perspective projection (where things closer to you are taking up more space on screen, and are potentially obscuring things farther from you) is a very peculiar approach, applicable only to
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by badpun 3y ago
- CEO of Microsoft is a child of middle class Indian immigrants - so is CEO of Google - CEO of Apple comes from working/lower-middle class family - CEO of Johnson and Johnson (12th largest SP500 company) is an immigrant from Spain, com
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by badpun 3y ago
If the CEOs have it so great, why not become a CEO yourself and reap all those benefits?
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by badpun 3y ago
I meant - most people on this forum. The whole discussion was in the context of programming jobs.
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by badpun 3y ago
Most people work way more than they need. No one needs a six figures salary for 30 years straight. People just get addicted to the nice, non-necessary things, they can get on such income though. This, and their taste for anything other than
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by badpun 3y ago
I agree. Strongest and most passionate devs I've seen by far in my career so far were almost all Scala developers.

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