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by bradlys 2y ago
You need money to have a marketing budget. How’re you going to get the budget? If you take VC money, you’re back at the same issue as every other dating app. Growth at all costs. You’d need a benevolent billionaire or something to make this
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by bradlys 2y ago
You need a lot of users to make a dating app successful. That’s the biggest hurdle for any dating app currently. How’re you going to get people to know about your app if you don’t have a large marketing budget? It’s gonna be hard. You’d nee
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by bradlys 2y ago
Currently, the narrative is that women cannot be at fault for anything. They are always victims and therefore regardless of what they do - they must somehow be being manipulated by others or suffering from someone else besides them. Women w
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by bradlys 2y ago
Go to Leetcode, look up a bunch of LC hards, and you'll start to get an idea. Even with practicing those well and doing well overall, I am finding employers are looking for something exceptional. You can pass all of those questions opt
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by bradlys 2y ago
Only works if your issue is getting through to the hiring manager and getting approved. Ultimately, what I’m seeing is that companies are just more picky when it comes to interviewing too. Everyone is asking harder or less common leetcode q
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by bradlys 2y ago
It really isn’t. Asking people stuff like N Queens, Trapping Rain Water, and other such questions is really about if you’ve seen the problem before and studied enough to solve them optimally in under 20 minutes while explaining out loud. It
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by bradlys 2y ago
It’s filtering on dedication and desperation. It’s why so many in the tech industry are H1B. There’s no lack of domestic talent but domestic talent doesn’t need a visa to stay in the country. So, they’ll not go through the insane process
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by bradlys 2y ago
Getting into quant finance is not very common. Getting into tech SWE - even FAANG - is much more common. There are way more people working as SWE in tech than as quants. I've rarely met anyone who is a quant and doesn't have a PhD
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by bradlys 2y ago
Makes me wonder if this is just a ploy to email harvest and there never was any coffee being sold.
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by bradlys 2y ago
If you’ve followed the money train, you should practically be fatFIRE by 50 assuming you’re in SF. I can imagine it being difficult if you’re single income but dual income tech workers in SF should be easy FIRE territory for a 50 something.
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by bradlys 2y ago
They're announced publicly. It's very difficult depending on the state you're in to be completely anonymous as a winner of the lottery.
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by bradlys 2y ago
Find me a decent home that you can actually buy in SF proper with $200k/yr.
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by bradlys 2y ago
You’re assuming you even could buy a home at $200k/yr. You can’t in several places - usually places where those $200k incomes are achievable.
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by bradlys 3y ago
Maybe in some cases but I often see founders getting diluted a lot as well. Many times when startups get acquired/whatever - founders will get next to nothing because the investors had liquidation preferences. The founders still go thr
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by bradlys 3y ago
Well, sure. I’m talking mostly about the US coasts where most of the YC audience is. HN is a very SV focused website.
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by bradlys 3y ago
I’m not the friend but I’ve quit a 7 figure job. I hated it and put my money where my mouth was. I took another job for a massive pay cut. Money isn’t everything. I started comparing my everyday life to prison. “How much money would I take
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by bradlys 3y ago
It’s a really fucking bad time to be joining startups. They’re picky, offering shit comp on top of it, and have very little chance of a sizable liquidation event for employees in a long time. Idk if I’ll join a startup again in the next few
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by bradlys 3y ago
Ultimately, dilution doesn’t matter for 99% of employees. You could experience 10x dilution but if the price goes up 100x - you’re still up 10x. Would it be great if you went up 100x and no dilution? Sure but that’s not how it works.
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by bradlys 3y ago
Not all of it is “fake”. Getting a pump, having good downlighting, and being picky about what you eat that day are all things that will make a lot of people who appear soft in other conditions look freaky. I’ve seen it for myself. Downlight
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by bradlys 3y ago
I couldn’t tell you the articles I read on HN yesterday either. I do however remember them when something relevant comes up in daily conversation. For instance, today I was scrolling on TikTok and learned how to properly hold a bunny. It’ll
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by bradlys 3y ago
Most people I’ve seen would agree that female rating of males doesn’t follow a typical normal distribution like men’s does. This is why everyone talks about “the binary.” It’s definitely not a typical normal distribution - maybe more like a
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by bradlys 3y ago
A lot of this assumes so many things that I think people who were born and raised in stable UMC (like most on HN) take for granted. Even if I lived close to the family I was born into, I would never let them get near my children. The years
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by bradlys 3y ago
The college educated also live in very expensive cities. What they make in gains of income gets subtracted by landlords.
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by bradlys 3y ago
You just said it yourself, the market is dead for anyone not in ML/AI. Why are you being contrarian just for the sake of it?
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by bradlys 3y ago
You're gonna need a source for this. Every person I know in SV is having trouble getting interviews at big tech employers outside of FB. FB is the only one that is actively still interviewing - and they're negotiating people down
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by bradlys 3y ago
Big tech is definitely not hiring like it used to. I’m not sure where you’re getting your source but big tech has been doing most of the layoffs for the last 18 months and not rehiring to fill.
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by bradlys 3y ago
I’ve got about ten years with acquisitions and IPO as an early engineer at startups plus some big company experience. I’ve barely been getting any interviews for the NYC market. When I do, they have weird processes too. I haven’t done a sin
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by bradlys 3y ago
I think 20 years for physics won’t really make much of an impact. Maybe you build an even bigger particle accelerator and confirm another well accepted idea. But, there’s not really going to be groundbreaking changes that affects people on
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by bradlys 3y ago
It’s used primarily as cargo culting and also as a way of suppressing salaries. Big tech and other companies use it to keep H1B candidates from easily switching jobs and having to do indentured servitude in hostile work environments. That’s
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by bradlys 3y ago
I don’t typically spend an hour at the airport either. This is why SFO is generally amazing and my favorite airport in the country. I often show up after boarding has started and have never been close to missing a flight.

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