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by ck425 7y ago
HIV is an incredibly manageable disease these days. The day to day effects are on a similar scale to Diabetes ie take regular medication and watch for specific symptoms that could imply it worsening. Otherwise there relatively little day to
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by ck425 7y ago
I don't buy this as a reason. The UK has a thriving startup scene, as do certain cities in Europe. Yet that hasn't translated into higher pay anywhere near as much as it has in the US.
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by ck425 7y ago
Damn. Is that mostly just salary? Tbh I wouldn't want to live in London. Even on £120k I'd still have a long commute and probably struggle to own property / not want to since the market is terrible down there.
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by ck425 7y ago
Can anyone explain how the US got to such ridiculously high salaries for Tech compared to most other countries? As someone working in the UK I'm more than a little jealous and tempted to try the visa gauntlet though it seems like a lon
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by ck425 7y ago
> 2. Most people think scrapping it is a political move, because there are weird power dynamics between Downing Street, the execs in charge of BBC News and the rest of the BBC who seem to have problems with the News division and their fr
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by ck425 7y ago
I don't agree wit that assessment. There's a difference between fun and unprofessional. You can treat your teams like adults while still encouraging them to have fun.
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by ck425 7y ago
That sounds more like an issue with the tips system. It's one fo the worst things about visiting the USA, combined with taxes not being in the price that is.
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by ck425 7y ago
There's a reason that Scrum Master / Agile Coach roles exist, they help train up the team to work in a self organised way. Sometime a Product Manager or Engineering Manager does it as part of their role but it's the core of w
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by ck425 7y ago
> Generally speaking, we know exactly what we need to get done I don't agree. I still don't know what I really want to achieve in life. I have a better idea but honestly a big part of that better idea is realizing the things I
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by ck425 7y ago
That's the more important point here. Figuring out what gives you enjoyment and motivation is HARD and we shouldn't beat ourselves up if we haven't figured it out yet. The process of figuring it out is messy and chaotic but s
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by ck425 7y ago
If you're a software engineer that security exists in every major city. Plus the cost of living to salary ratio is so much better that it's far easier to save an emergency fund.
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by ck425 7y ago
It doesn't. And I totally understand from a business point of view why they do what they do. This is an unfortunate side effect of the monopoly they have on web search, which due to network effects and aggregation is unlikely to go awa
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by ck425 7y ago
Same with the Scottish central belt. There are plenty of good jobs up here. Part of the reason for the London centricness is that relatively few people realise just how many good jobs there are outside of London.
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by ck425 7y ago
That's not necessarily an argument against daycare, it is an argument for high quality daycare. Studies show that boys with working mothers are less sexist and have more positive relationships with woman in general. Picking up behavior
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by ck425 7y ago
What you fail to mention though is the whole host of benefits to society that comes from gender equality, equality that is a direct result of woman working. Unfortunately it seems to be fundamentally difficult to make both models of the fam
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by ck425 7y ago
It's hurting Jane in the sense that her family has to get by on one income vs two and due to 'keeping up with the Jones' her family then feel poor and disenfranchised because they can't have all the same stuff Amanda can
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by ck425 7y ago
It's worth noting that the amount of time parents (more so mothers) spend with each child has increased vastly, with relatively little evidence to suggest much increase in attainment. Most studies show that it's quality of time, n
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by ck425 7y ago
That's the exact reason I will never have an Alexa, Google Home or any equivalent in my home. I was a massive xbox fan and that made it an automatic no go for me.
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by ck425 7y ago
They blew it by not listening to hardcore gamers in the first place. By forcing the technology (and still unreasonably high price tag) onto gamers who didn't want it they created a huge backlash. If they'd sold it separately and i
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by ck425 7y ago
That's true but it's also true that getting access to flight data is far easier the larger you get. Therefore the flights metasearch industry (and travel metasearch in general) will tend to consolidate to an extent.
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by ck425 7y ago
I'm not sure that's true. I worked for a flight meta search for years and that was never mentioned by anyone (we were very candid internally). It is however true that consolidation of airlines gave them more bargaining power. For
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by ck425 7y ago
I've worked in companies that did this and if those people refused to take time and insisted on working late it was viewed as a bad thing and they were told as much. People who work hard are generally ambitious so telling them it'
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by ck425 7y ago
That depends, what is your goal? If you're goal is to lead a happy life then not comparing yourself to others is good advice.
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by ck425 7y ago
I think there's a vast difference between discussing porn and discussing the technical details of porn websites. I'd never discuss the former at work but I have discussed the latter, albeit only with colleagues I know well and whe
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by ck425 7y ago
You have to look at that in historical terms. Until very recently the vast majority of sexual exploitation cases where dismissed using a form of victim blaming, normally by pointing out the agency the victims still had but didn't use.
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by ck425 7y ago
It might not be normative in parts of the world (even the western world) but I still have the right to hold that view and to condemn those who emailed to try destroy the woman's career as immoral (evil is a terrible term). Regardless o
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by ck425 7y ago
Out of curiosity how did you switch to being a quant?
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by ck425 7y ago
Personally I'd try two things to make the process easier: 1) Fit physical activity into your day to day life. I run to work but there are far less extreme ways to do this. Walk or cycle places, find a hobby that burns some calories etc
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by ck425 7y ago
I don't see what is unique about airpods that an androids supplier couldn't replicate in terms of the platform stuff. Also I expect the growing trend of disconnecting from technology will hit immersive technology forms like audio
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by ck425 7y ago
Does this mean you sleep less in Summer? And what latitude do you stay in? I imagine this would be more difficult in Scotland where in winter there's only 7 hours of sunlight but in summer there's over 16 hours of sun.

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