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by ceras 5y ago
The team doesn't work Fridays.
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by ceras 5y ago
The team doesn't work Fridays. Even if in other roles you can get by with < 40 hours, you'll be hard pressed to fully disconnect from work on Fridays. Having clear 3-days weekends every week is much nicer than just trying to ta
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by ceras 5y ago
If you haven't stumbled upon it already, you may enjoy reading about rule utilitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_utilitarianism > Rule utilitarians argue that following rules that tend to lead to th
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by ceras 5y ago
Suddenness still applies if it continues to come in waves like Omicron. If the waves are spaced far enough apart, the extra capacity is hard/expensive to plan for. Omicron came very suddenly after a long period of little activity (and
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by ceras 5y ago
There are downsides to wide buildings and how the impact the street's ability to feel human-scale: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/06/is-building-height-d... There was a study awhile back that showed peo
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by ceras 5y ago
Skyscraper districts are typically office buildings, which make population density comparisons a bit misleading. From your example, Midtown Manhattan has few residential buildings vs office buildings, but it gets very packed during the day
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by ceras 5y ago
Maybe pre-nup has a different meaning where you live. I'm in the US, and here a pre-nup is an agreement that defines custom rules for a marriage and divorce that are override, add to, and/or clarify the rules of the default marita
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by ceras 5y ago
An example that surprised me: a friend of mine is unable to quit his stressful, unfulfilling high paying job due to alimony from a contentious divorce. Depending on jurisdiction, alimony payment amounts can be based on your earning potentia
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by ceras 5y ago
I think the AOL search leak reference is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak Even if you take more care than AOL did in anonymizing your data, the unfortunate reality is that any publication of
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by ceras 5y ago
Yeah, like many Google products, it's poorly and confusingly named. It's a separate app from YouTube, and basically just like Spotify. The only connection to YouTube is you can also listen to songs that are only uploaded to YouTub
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by ceras 5y ago
The list of core services is defined here: https://workspace.google.com/terms/user_features.html Anything else that happens to work is an additional service. My guess on the "may" part is that there is no gua
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by ceras 5y ago
YouTube Premium also includes music streaming, which makes the price much more reasonable.
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by ceras 5y ago
Depending on your definition of mid-level, some FAANG companies wouldn't allow this: companies are sometimes "up-or-out" for entry-level and mid-level engineering, and require engineers to get to senior engineer after about 5
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by ceras 5y ago
For people who are skeptical of how regulation can help with this, Japan actually used to financially penalize buying large cars relative to small cars. The small ones are called kei cars: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by ceras 5y ago
Also, the alcohol people consumed most freely back then had very low ABV. "Small beers" were 0.5% - 2.8% ABV, and "table beers" drank by all ages were were typically under 1% ABV: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by ceras 5y ago
Not all companies have an aggressive patent strategy. Historically, I believe Google felt negatively about software patents, and had fewer than other tech companies. Eventually they bought a large portfolio of patents (e.g. through the Moto
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by ceras 5y ago
OP's link supports their numbers for NY state: 95% of 18+ year olds have 1 shot, 83.4% of 18+ year olds have completed vaccine series.
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by ceras 5y ago
Note that the headline is overly broad: this is just for tenure-track academic jobs. Non-academic jobs weren't in scope for this study. More specifically, it covered these academic jobs in these departments: biology, engineering, econo
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by ceras 5y ago
No longer caring about Covid isn't the same as being against vaccines. Many people no longer care about it because vaccines are widely available to anyone who wants the - except for young kids, who are much lower risk from Covid any
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by ceras 5y ago
Simpson's Paradox applies here: once you slice by age, the data tells a different story. Even when vaccines are highly effective, the confounding factor that gets lost when you aggregate across ages is that the most vulnerable (the eld
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by ceras 5y ago
I think there are several differences here. Experts can give a ton of useful information, but they unfortunately can't answer everything for everyone for something as unprecedented and complex as Covid. In particular: 1. Experts speaki
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by ceras 5y ago
> Did you see my last sentence? If you chose to not using a car, it's a different topic. But not using a car does not give you more freedom. Yes I did, but if that's your counter-point, then I fear you've misunderstood thi
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by ceras 5y ago
> When you live the suburbs (with a car or multiple cars), you have way more choices to grocery stores, doctor's offices, friends' houses, public parks, lakes, etc. Walkability means limiting choices, not expanding choices. Wal
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by ceras 5y ago
You're right, it's not like that in small-town America: small towns aren't walkable in the US. There aren't many walkable or bikeable areas in the US, and those that exist are in a handful of large cities. Many US cities
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by ceras 5y ago
> Your desire to work from the office comes at the cost of everyone else. Not everyone prefers remote work. There are many permanent remote teams and companies these days to choose from. What's so bad about people like you joining
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by ceras 5y ago
I agree that fully remote teams benefit a lot from this. But this would be my least-favored option, personally: I can see why others like it, but traveling for work is too disruptive to my life. Especially global travel. I'd much rathe
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by ceras 5y ago
> We can only redevelop a block or two at a time, so the only choice is for 10+ story towers. Especially because land is so expensive in these cities. That's not necessarily true: it's much easier to build a duplexes/tripl
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by ceras 5y ago
Besides Europe, I remember seeing several sidewalks in Japan that allowed it. And many (most?) streets in Japan are fully mixed across modes, and have no sidewalk, so you'll see bikers+pedestrians(+cars) combined there too. There'
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by ceras 5y ago
Facebook is also aggressively expanding in expensive markets like NYC. So it looks like they aren't all-in on arbitrage. Google too: they just bought a large new building in NYC, yet they're also growing a lot in markets where the
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by ceras 5y ago
The levels.fyi number you're looking at is across companies, so it's skewed by the type of companies hiring SWE's in Boston vs the Bay Area, which have different pay scales. Large Bay Area tech companies (e.g. FAANG) pay Bost

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