bradlys

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by bradlys 3y ago
The US population doesn't need to be convinced. Only the stakeholders of the MIC need convincing that their NW will go up.
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by bradlys 3y ago
I doubt Google is publishing these stats publicly for engineering. I’ve worked at similar public companies and I can safely say the stat they’re quoting is accurate. It really is 75%+ Asian and overwhelmingly foreign born. These stats are i
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by bradlys 3y ago
> In the US, the proportion of female workers in tech rose from 31 per cent in 2019 to 35 per cent by the end of 2023, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. It rose by an absolute 4 percent during the incredible rise
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by bradlys 3y ago
> I'd be fascinated if someone who couldn't get a date in LA moved to DC and blogged about the results. I moved from the bay area to Manhattan. It didn't improve my dating success at all. I've blogged about it a lot o
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by bradlys 3y ago
> considering how infamously bad traffic is in NYC I find it difficult to believe that you can actually just not own a vehicle in NYC. > who knows, maybe it's not really that bad and I'm ignorant here, it's possible. Yo
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by bradlys 3y ago
I'm sure both would be fine but a lot of people want to live in a place like NYC. They just need to build more housing to accommodate it. For instance, I'm a single man. I could get numerous remote jobs. This wouldn't help my
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by bradlys 3y ago
This might be an exceptional town, not sure what kind of place you're talking about, but most places don't have public transit or much in the way of walkability in the USA. He's talking of not using a car and doesn't wan
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by bradlys 3y ago
End of the day, landlords aren't doing any labor for the rent they are collecting. If you do something that drives up the value of the property - you'll get some amount of that when you go to sell the property. If your father buys
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by bradlys 3y ago
Look, for something to be a good investment for everyone you have to perpetually have the asset go up in value. Can you see how that is not affordable ? Things that go up in value forever are not affordable...
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by bradlys 3y ago
Investors are speculators. Fundamentally, they should not be cared about. We should be considering the lives of everyday people and labor. Just cause some capitalist lost a few dollars doesn’t mean anything. Capitalists don’t do any labor -
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by bradlys 3y ago
You cannot have housing be affordable and an investment. You need to decouple the two. Fundamentally these are in disagreement. If you believe that landlords should control the world then keep believing this idea that housing should also be
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by bradlys 3y ago
Rent control ideally wouldn’t need to exist. But since no one is fucking building anything - you need it to prevent landlords from just extracting more money from the pockets of laborers without having done any labor themselves. My landlord
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by bradlys 3y ago
I want to give you a thought to hesitate on any of the anecdotes you’re reading here. The dating landscape has dramatically changed for single people around the age of 30. If you go online, you’ll see that there are two emerging patterns: m
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by bradlys 3y ago
I don't pay anything, man. That's my point. I don't have to as long as I don't put them on public roads. You can race them on the track or do whatever you want with them.
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by bradlys 3y ago
I own vehicles in CA. There is no property tax for vehicles in CA. I can guarantee you that. I specifically own vehicles that I don’t renew with the state and there’s no problems with that.
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by bradlys 3y ago
> I pay property tax to keep my car. I get a yearly bill based on the value of my car, and I pay taxes based on that. I pay property tax to keep my house. I get a yearly bill based on the value of my house and I pay taxes based on that.
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by bradlys 3y ago
You don’t pay property tax to keep your car. You pay registration fees to drive your car on public roads. You can still drive that car on racetracks and other such places. The car/house comparison doesn’t make any sense here. You don’t
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by bradlys 3y ago
Just because I can’t recite rabin-karp off the top of my head or some suffix tree with LCA shit for some leetcode question about palindromes doesn’t mean I’m unqualified to do the work of an engineer. I’ve gone public, been acquired by Goog
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by bradlys 3y ago
I’ve interviewed there multiple times over the years. It was full of typical leetcode shit. There’s a reason there’s a list of problems on leetcode tagged as Google having used them recently…
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by bradlys 3y ago
Bowling Alone was written before the year 2000. These issues have been going on for a long time before social media took off.
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by bradlys 3y ago
L6 being 700k+ is a top tier offer even from a big company. That’s an exceptional offer for staff. I know several people in staff roles and they were not offered that comp upfront. They get to that through appreciation.
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by bradlys 3y ago
I think you're exaggerating the idea of offshoring. The reality is that tech is not a sexy sector at all and that's what pushes Americans away from it more than anything. The people who work in tech are usually people who were nev
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by bradlys 3y ago
L7 and L8 aren't staff. That's senior staff and principle. They're both pretty hard to get and are very small portions of any company.
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by bradlys 3y ago
Regardless of being in a poly relationship or single or not - men do have to invest much more time into dating and dating-related activities (such as exercising and diet to achieve a great physique, grooming, and dress) to get anywhere near
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by bradlys 3y ago
I am almost certain those questions do exist on certain websites - you’re just not looking in the right language.
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by bradlys 3y ago
This is the real reason for them using cars. In NYC, those delivery guys on e-bikes and scooters live within a reasonable distance (via bike or public transit) of where they’re delivering.
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by bradlys 3y ago
The only companies where you’ll see more than one American in a meeting is in startups. They don’t have the bandwidth for internationalization when they can’t even get a domestic audience. People outside of SV don’t get how few Americans ar
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by bradlys 3y ago
How long ago was this? I went to UW about ten years ago and it was definitely one of the worst campuses to date on out of any college I’ve ever heard of.
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by bradlys 3y ago
Is it actually inaccurate though? Try to tell me a wife who wants to live in SV in her typical $2-3m home is going to be okay with moving to BFE and giving it all up including the nice private schools for her kids.
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by bradlys 3y ago
It's not a realistic approach to life. Homes cost money. Children cost money. Wives cost money. You can't just go pursue whatever passion you have unless you are willing to say give up having children, a wife, and/or a home.

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