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by chadash 4y ago
I have heard a lot of chatter recently about how nuclear has fallen out of favor among certain circles on the left. Can someone explain what the reasons for that are?
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by chadash 4y ago
Probably because it's ambiguous and opens them up to legal headaches when there's disagreement over how much was made or saved.
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by chadash 4y ago
I don't disagree with the article. Within a tech company, it's obvious why they value engineers. In a "staff" you might also be highly valued or you might not be. As an example, I've recently noticed that home dep
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by chadash 4y ago
A great point on how profit margins are not always the best metric! A panhandler has almost no costs, so their profit margins are huge . But it's not a very scalable business :)
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by chadash 4y ago
> As an analogy, consider the lone sysadmin maintaining the lone linux server hosting a multi-billion dollar companies ERP, Billing Software, and website. The company probably cares enough to ensure this person has a backup, and is paid
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by chadash 4y ago
Related to this article: The owner of a company (non-startup, but growing and profitable) I used to work for gave me great career advice. He said to always focus on things that produce revenue. If you aren't doing things that produce r
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by chadash 4y ago
Yes, but there will always be niches where you can make good money, but not enough for the big fish to be interested. For example, my wife uses some statistical software that is apparently pretty popular in her field, but it's still on
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by chadash 4y ago
There's somewhere between a "lifestyle business" and a unicorn though. You can be a contractor with a focus on re-doing roofs and pull in $1m/year without too much work once you have things running. You will be wealthy,
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by chadash 4y ago
I am sympathetic to companies that keep backups of their data, but don't have comprehensive plans to restore that data after an attack. A company that plans properly might be up-and-running within a day or two, but getting to that po
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Facebook plans to reduce hiring as revenue growth slows(cnbc.com)
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by chadash 4y ago
three more :)
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by chadash 4y ago
People want to have their cake and eat it too. Silicon Valley companies pay very well because cost of living is very high in the area and they _need_ to pay well to attract talent in that area. If remote work becomes the norm, pay will star
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by chadash 4y ago
I love this. On a similar note, I have a friend who majored in math at Harvard. He once told me that he came into Harvard being arrogant because in high school he was always at the top of his class in math. He enrolls in his first college l
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by chadash 4y ago
When I was in kindergarten, I used to do math booklets at home with my mom for fun. I learned basic multiplication sometime around then. 13 years later I majored in engineering. So I'm not saying it can't be done by any 5 year o
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by chadash 4y ago
Out of curiosity, is that a hunch or are you aware of any schools teaching multiplication tables even in Kindergarten? This used to be done in second grade when I was a kid.
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by chadash 4y ago
What's the point of teaching kids to memorize something that they can't apply? When I was a kid, schools taught multiplication tables in 2nd grade, when most kids are 7 years old. The difference in cognition between a 4 year old a
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by chadash 4y ago
Pre-K (4 year olds) seems a bit young for teaching multiplication tables.
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by chadash 5y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcastic. Marijuana is both a "schedule 1 controlled substance" (which is a federal classification) and fully legal in 18 states. The term "schedule 1" doesn't say much about danger, wh
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by chadash 5y ago
> with no real benefit when compared to performing these functions offline Most organizations these days are developing in the cloud. I assume you don't mean "offline" but rather performing these functions yourself . I&#x
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by chadash 5y ago
No one thinks that the Russian people are collectively responsible for what's happening in Ukraine. If there were a way to target Putin, and Putin alone, then we'd do that. But it's impossible. So we use the blunt (and unfa
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by chadash 5y ago
Let's say you make a "bare minimum" car and after all of your design costs, you can get the MSRP down to say $13,000. The problem is that once I'm already paying 13k for a "bare bones" car, I'll probably t
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by chadash 5y ago
Deaths tend to lag behind peaks of cases and we recently passed the peak of our biggest wave by far (official numbers for this peak are around 800k/day in the US, vs 250k for previous peak in jan 2021, but this doesn't account for
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by chadash 5y ago
I think you are probably spending too much of your time on software and too little time on marketing. When I look at an open-source project, I ask myself three things: 1) What does it do exactly? 2) Is this easy to get started with? 3) Does
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by chadash 5y ago
so dropping cluster bombs on civilian population centers is ok if you didn’t sign an agreement not to?
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by chadash 5y ago
As a candidate, I hate applying to jobs only to get a lowball offer at the end. So I appreciate bills like this. As a hiring manager, I see that this is actually not so simple. You give someone a range, say $100-150k. I ASSURE you that th
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by chadash 5y ago
Oh, absolutely. All these numbers are pretty conservative. Real life is full of situations like cars breaking, HVAC systems getting too old to repair and daycare closing down for a week and now I need to fly grandpa in with a day's not
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by chadash 5y ago
A lot of people on HN don't have families, so let me illustrate some costs. Let's say you are a married couple with 2 young kids and you make a combined $150,000k and you live in Boston. Federal tax: ~26k State tax: ~7.5k Work cov
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by chadash 5y ago
People who have this POV often miss the point: - A degree from Princeton (or other elite schools) is worth a lot of money regardless of what you actually learned there. For the rest of your life it follows you around and helps your career.
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by chadash 5y ago
> This struggle was reflected in our exam averages, which were, respectively, in the 50s, the 60s, and the 30s. There's a big disconnect between STEM subjects and liberal arts in my experience. As an engineer, I was used to classe
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by chadash 5y ago
> A lawsuit to recuperate the wages and damage to the business might even be worth looking into. No, probably not. Speak to any business owner who has been in a lawsuit and they'll likely tell you it's not worth the headache. A

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