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by bradlys 3y ago
Many . Most were from before I was 18. Culture around video games changed in the late 2000’s to early 2010’s. I stopped making friends with random people online like I had when I was ages 10-20. One game that stands out as one I played a m
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by bradlys 3y ago
You don’t put your entire take home pay into the joint account - is the point. You put in whatever is agreed upon and then keep the rest of your earned money to yourself.
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by bradlys 3y ago
Electrical resistance heating is considered one of the most wasteful and least efficient forms of heating. Heat pumps are four times as efficient and that’s why they’re used…
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by bradlys 3y ago
We’re getting a lot of comments from people who are not familiar with different markets. This is HN - where the focus is on Silicon Valley and associated companies. User is posting from having just left Meta. $475k as a PM with 16 YOE isn’t
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by bradlys 3y ago
Was it actual pair programming (where you actually build something tangible) or was it a leetcode style interview? In a leetcode style interview, I could see being thrown out for debugging. In a true pair programming exercise, I wouldn’t th
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by bradlys 3y ago
Some of these aren’t that far off from the American process. It being an ARM, not being able to get a house if you’re going to retire, and the impermanent job type are a bit weird though. Usually for Americans, you need to show some years o
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by bradlys 3y ago
I often wonder who the audience is for subjects like this. One where someone essentially is what I’d consider a shit stirrer. I’m referencing the articles by Amia - not the summarizations here. Part of me thinks it’s maybe interesting to br
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by bradlys 3y ago
In my experience, this "avoiding the Peter Principle" is rare for people who are founders/friends-of-founders. I think that's where the complaint comes from. It's mainly that a lot of competent people get skipped be
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by bradlys 3y ago
Yet, in any major city like Sydney - developers "want to be developing properties as quickly as they can" and yet will leave the property vacant rather than sell it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJE3B_ra3lY Why
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by bradlys 3y ago
> There will be developers building anything legal to build at any cost level that they think will lead to returns Have you ever considered that developers also own existing property and land? Developers and construction companies are n
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by bradlys 3y ago
Build more housing and remove regulations - but wait… developers are never going to build housing that lowers the price of housing overall. This would only help people who have all the cash to build their own single family dream house… whic
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by bradlys 3y ago
When people make the comparison to the cost of cable TV and so forth - I feel like people forget: you were paying for TV and still got shown a ton of advertisements. About a quarter of air time was just advertising. That is usually high
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by bradlys 3y ago
As much as we are all about laissez-faire when it comes to dating and romance - I think we’re getting to a point that might cause some real strife in the western world. Seeing 60%+ of young men be single when only 30% of young women are sin
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by bradlys 3y ago
This is HN - the bubble of Silicon Valley and venture capital. I can tell you with great certainty it is incredibly uncommon to encounter people in HR who will tell you the reason why X person left the company. In a region that is happy to
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by bradlys 3y ago
Again, I’ve never had this issue and never has anyone I know. They don’t call companies to ask if you were fired. They ask and tell you if you worked there and for what dates. Reason for leaving is never told.
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by bradlys 3y ago
Yeah, lie. No shit. You think companies aren’t lying? Lying is part of the theater that is our current employer-employee relationship. Everyone knows this
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by bradlys 3y ago
Yep. Lie. It’s what I do every time. I’ve continued to get new jobs and ones that were better than previous.
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by bradlys 3y ago
If most people can live forever, they’ll rebel against the conditions they live in. I suspect the rich would actually perish. A lot of life now is ordained on the idea that we don’t live forever and we can’t see change in our lifetimes… but
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by bradlys 3y ago
First “round” interviews are so often done by recruiters that it’s basically a joke to pass them. I always call them screeners and “are you a serial killer” calls. Unless you say something that goes against the typical grain of what these c
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by bradlys 3y ago
I say this as someone who spent a month visiting Poland and seeing many native people of the area…
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by bradlys 3y ago
I find this weird. My interpretation of Poland and of a decent amount of folks who came from Eastern Europe is that both sexes actually exhibit more faux-stoic and vaguely masculine behaviors than other western countries. There is an idea t
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by bradlys 3y ago
The issue is that if you get rid of the male/female bracket - you’re going to never see women win almost any sports at all. As soon as men go through puberty - most women are at a significant biological disadvantage. Turns out, some wo
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by bradlys 3y ago
Great as a concept - terrible when it comes to the crushing reality that is the dating market as it is. Average looking men are already dealing with an incredibly challenging dating market. Now you add on that they have higher expectations
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by bradlys 3y ago
Neocon wsj writers decide that “waiting until you can afford to have kids when you’re old” is normal because they want you to slave away at your jobs all so that capitalists can accrue more and more. If bullshit like this becomes mainstream
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by bradlys 3y ago
This doesn't seem like as big of an issue as you make it sound from my anecdotal experience. The finance guys I know in NYC don't have this issue? It's such a common part of the work that hiring people this far out in advance
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by bradlys 3y ago
At least in NYC - the non-competes that I know of are for way longer than a couple months. Most of the guys I know with non-competes are at least six months with many being a year or two... They're not getting paid peanuts either. Th
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by bradlys 3y ago
Programming is a low status job. You might make 7 figures as an engineer but you’re gonna be dateless because programming is still associated with low status. Status is very important for most women.
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by bradlys 3y ago
I went to a dozen countries last year in Europe. It was relatively easy to talk to strangers in a lot of contexts - not just bars. Even in places like Poland I was being chatted up. To be clear, I don't think I'm even a very app
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by bradlys 3y ago
Those shows are from 30+ years ago. TV isn’t always a semblance of real life. Do you think that everyone could relate to having a very nice home with a live in caretaker for your father, a very nice upscale and large apartment in an expensi
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by bradlys 3y ago
Something that is specifically different than Europe - from what I’ve heard - is that while going out and doing social hobbies is still an excellent way to make friends… it’s not the only way to make friends in Europe. Whereas in the US,

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