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by baron816 4y ago
Dead people’s portfolios also tend to perform really well.
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Quite the opposite: you’re going to be in even higher demand and will make more money. Yes, it will be possible for one person to do the work of many, but that just means each person becomes more valuable. It’s also a law in economics that
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by baron816 4y ago
Oh, that’s external debt, not public debt. They’re not the same thing. Public debt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...
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by baron816 4y ago
Comparing debt to GDP is a dumb though. You’re comparing a stock to a flow, but it’s a flow that doesn’t have any meaningful relationship to the stock. GDP doesn’t tell you very much about the serviceability of the debt. What we probably ne
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by baron816 4y ago
I am not a government that prints its own money.
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What’s the problem here that needs to be “solved”?
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Still just two eyes though.
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No way average SF salary is that low.
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Ask HN: Why do software engineers hate technology?
11 points by baron816 4y ago|15 comments
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I ran track and cross country in college and graduated in 2010. I had been having the same dream for many years after: I hadn't trained at all during the summer and was completely out of shape by the time the cross country season was s
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by baron816 4y ago
I work at a FAANG as a SWE. Never spent more than 5 minute on Leetcode. I do mostly frontend, but I doubt a manager’s interview would be very different from an algorithms coding perspective.
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by baron816 4y ago
Don’t study leetcode. If you want to work at FAANG, get some interviews with them. You may discover that you really didn’t need to spend days studying stuff that’s not relevant to your job. At the very least, you’ll get some interview pract
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Someone call the DOJ.
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Ask HN: Should Governments Set OKRs?
7 points by baron816 4y ago|1 comments
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What they could also be used for: - Allowing people to become unproductive and still get paid. - Protecting sexual harassers. - Blocking marginalized people from joining the company. - Enriching union bosses. - Propping up organized crime.
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Yes. Charge $20 per use instead of a subscription. $50 or whatever they want. Just don’t make people sign up for a subscription.
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I don’t think it would be that hard to enforce with pretty basic software. Casinos have to get a license to operate as is. They would scan people as they place bets. Casinos might even get behind it since they would get access to the data—t
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by baron816 4y ago
I’ve thought it would be a good idea for states to issue “licenses” for many vices. Want to buy alcohol or go to a casino? You need to take a short course on the dangers of it and how to be safe. If you act irresponsibly by over drinking or
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by baron816 4y ago
Lots to love in this, but I’d like to call this out: > many observers were sure Tau could have done better if he had not been chased nearly a mile off course by wild dogs.
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by baron816 4y ago
This is a good summary for what it’s like to live in SF. There are lots of people around who are completely immune from any accountability and thus treat the whole city as a literal public toilet (and land fill).
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Yes, the population continued to grow, but the housing stock did not keep pace.
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That theory doesn’t apply as strongly to recessions as it does financial markets. Recessions just aren’t well defined, and you’re not going to know for sure if you’re in one/were in one until months or even years after it started becau
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by baron816 4y ago
This sounds almost exactly what happened to me and got me inspired to move into tech. I was working at an economic data company that had a bunch of grunts uploading publicly available data into our databases so our users could use it with o
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by baron816 4y ago
Do keep in mind that it is just an initial estimate. These numbers get revised, occasionally dramatically.
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I spoke to a housing advocate who worked for a city government in the Bay Area some time ago, and he said that one of the best ways to convince people to allow for upzoning was to actually give them pictures of what their neighborhoods coul
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by baron816 4y ago
Companies don’t exist for the sole benefit of their employees, unless they’re a coop. Capitalism doesn’t allocate resources based on “hard work” or some sort of social notion who “deserves” to be paid what. You get paid what the market dete
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by baron816 4y ago
> If they were actually top talent, they wouldn't need to move there to get what they want This may be true now, but it has not been that way for all of the last 15 years. Top talent was moving here for at least a decade because it
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by baron816 4y ago
Why do Bay Area devs cost $300K+? It's not that cost of living is so much higher in the Bay Area. It's that most of the worlds top developers have chosen to live in the Bay Area. Sure, you can find fantastic developers elsewhere,
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by baron816 4y ago
Thanks for posting this. I don’t have a family, but was thinking about this today and expecting the experience to go along these lines. Thinking back you my childhood, my parents weren’t really involved in my education at all. I doubt they
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Ask HN: Anyone run their family like an Agile team?
4 points by baron816 4y ago|7 comments

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