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by base698 10y ago
It's about average for LA at the moment. Not new grads mind you but 5+ years experience.
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by base698 10y ago
They could rent and probably squirrel enough away in a few years to retire or buy in cash the houses in foreclosure after the crash :)
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Ask HN: Is anyone having problems with Couchbase?
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by base698 10y ago
I've seen repos completely borked because the gui kept a merging and pushing in the background. This was after spending a lot of time removing binaries from a repo and not being able to figure out how the same binaries kept ending up
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by base698 10y ago
There is a third group of people to which I belong: Don't use car for normal work life but use it for weekend adventures. I'm a bike commuter during the week but on weekends I drive more than 100 miles one way. Doing this with Ub
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by base698 10y ago
I would refrain from using CBT as an acronym. Urban dictionary could explain why.
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by base698 10y ago
Averages are a bad way to look at the overall risk. An example: Every time the auto pilot encounters a truck turning in front results in a fatality. 1 in 10 times a drunk driver fails to avoid the truck turning in time. The average
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by base698 10y ago
They do actually, remember the titanium protective plate retrofit a year or so back on the Model S? There have also been various drive train issues and such. IIRC think the Model X had a problem with the headrest already that resulted in f
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by base698 10y ago
I actually worked out the math on this--Tesla is lying with statistics when they made this comment they did about 1 in 130 million miles. Here's what I did: 1 in 90 million rate: 1.1 x 10^8 Probability of No accident in one mile:
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by base698 10y ago
Can confirm. Been trading options for 3 years, lose money on 90% of my trades, but still up 30% for the year. It's basic expected value, magnify your wins and minimize your loss to what you know you can lose.
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by base698 10y ago
Mostly true. For me I go a lot of places that are a 2 hour plane ride followed by a 2 hour car ride. In those cases it's faster to just fly directly where I want to go, and avoid the car portion. Most places have smaller airports a
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by base698 10y ago
The original writings on free speech very much included non government censorship. Where did everyone get that? It wasn't by reading On Liberty .
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by base698 10y ago
Mill says you're wrong: Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable
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by base698 10y ago
People that have a million in stock from a previous exit that don't need the money for a few years?
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by base698 10y ago
Or maybe those things took over because of lack of opportunities for healthy identity in terms of meaningful contribution to society. Ship away everyone's opportunity for self esteem building work in locations with little wealth for se
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by base698 10y ago
There is a whole book on this phenomena with a kitchy title: http://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People/d... The book was really enlightening and went through some of reasons of the rise of Donald Trump
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by base698 10y ago
I've made some huge mistakes, but I'm up 20% overall YTD. Just randomly picking tech stocks with out of the money puts has been profitable enough to stay up 20% even if the majority of them wash out. Biggest hit was 8x.
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by base698 10y ago
I had calls on spxs at the start of the year. If didn't work out that well. But I have similar positions again. Any reason you chose spy over qqq or others?
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by base698 10y ago
Skin in the game, lack of it being the biggest problem in modern society--at least according to Nassim Taleb.
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by base698 10y ago
Just met a doctor who owns three planes all worth more than $200k, one was $500k. My wife used to audit doctors in NC and some of them pulled $1 million a year net. The plane guy is not a specialist and one of the NC doctors was a podiatr
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by base698 10y ago
Do you have any good links for the employment posts on ZH? I was telling someone about that recently then couldn't find it.
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by base698 11y ago
Really? You can bike 100 miles each way to do something active and not be too tired to do it? Also ropes, parachutes and other adventure activity equipment doesn't bike well.
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by base698 11y ago
"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of poli
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by base698 11y ago
I know this isn't the popular opinion in the modern world, but originally free speech was argued to be better than censorship, because even though negative or false ideas are present, these bad ideas can illuminate the truth. Free spee
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by base698 11y ago
Finance needs it's cut of everything.
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by base698 11y ago
> The tesla vehicles have an 8 year warranty on the battery pack, which is the only item besides tires, brakes, and windshield wiper blades that is likely to wear out. This is Tesla marketing through and through. Look at all the problem
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by base698 11y ago
Probably because Tesla has had tons of bad news already: the Model S has had many recalls and reliability issues and the X still hasn't hit its stride in terms of units shipped despite the large backlog. Yet the stock still goes up i
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by base698 11y ago
Most of the Clojure community seems centered in Durham now. Pretty wild.
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by base698 11y ago
This is why we are getting a Trump presidency.
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by base698 11y ago
I made $99K with about 7ish years experience and had friends that were in the $130K range about 5 years ago. It seemed high then too. I was interviewing when I found the $99K job and another company said they'd pay $80K, but want to m

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