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by code4tee 8y ago
This isn’t retirement it’s just people deciding to live a minimalist life off minimal income. This could backfire big time when they realize they want “normal” stuff a few years down the line or have expenses (like health issues) that cost
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by code4tee 8y ago
There are a lot of short term periods where renting certainly makes more sense than buying. However over a lifetime it’s extremely hard to make the numbers work out if you only ever rent vs someone that conservatively owns. That of course a
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by code4tee 8y ago
Exactly. Someone buying a home for a million dollars typically isn’t buying that from scratch. They sell an existing home, roll their equity into the new property and trade up. People can argue forever if real estate is a good investment (r
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by code4tee 8y ago
What he is doing is probably illegal then (if he’s rent controlled). You can’t profit like that.
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by code4tee 8y ago
People tend to move up as they establish and grow a family but then sideways or down in retirement. That equity stays even if you move up into a bigger house. It’s not uncommon for someone say in an extensive Northeast community to retire t
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by code4tee 8y ago
The “pro renting” crowd has a lot of consistent falacies in arguments: - Financial calculations ignore the leveraged nature of buying a home. Small increases in property value are multipled relative to your initial investment. - Calculation
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by code4tee 8y ago
The financial arguments assume one only pays the minimum mortgage payment amount. Many people add a bit extra each month which can quickly turn a 30 year mortgage into a 9-12 year mortgage. It also ignores many of the other benefits of owni
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by code4tee 8y ago
Crew did a great job with a textbook handling of the situation. It’s a testimaent to the training of the crew that this didn’t turn out worse. Obviously a lot of people are going to be taking a very close look at the engine and what happene
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by code4tee 9y ago
Sadly this is true of many/most of these “based on a true story” movies. The very high level concept is typically real (there was a restaurant named McDonalds eventually taken over by a guy named Kroc), but beyond that the main plot is
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by code4tee 9y ago
For many of the reasons mentioned in this article the FAA has now banned certain types of these “doors off photo flights.” This sort of thing is intended for professionals with extensive training on the harnesses—in some cases including act
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by code4tee 9y ago
You mean journalists just printed a bunch of nonsense they didn’t understand and never made any effort to learn the material so they could report accurately? No... never! ;-)
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by code4tee 9y ago
A cacophony of management dissonance, bureaucratic internal processes, your job being outsourced to India and then being asked to clean up the mess created by said India team... So basically Google is like any run of the mill tech departmen
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by code4tee 9y ago
In my experience the NYC tech scene is far more grounded in reality. Far far less hype, uber for lawn gnomes nonsense and a lot more companies focused on real solutions and, often, with real customers. Silicon Valley has become, well, Silic
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by code4tee 9y ago
There’s a balance. A group run by clueless managers is bad. Equally through a group run entirely by engineers that don’t think about or consider anything other than their engineering concerns is bad too. A good manager knows how to find the
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by code4tee 9y ago
Just looks like ADS-B Data. Neat but hardly new. Lots of sites out there already. For a few bucks you can build your own receiver and collect/visualize the data.
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by code4tee 9y ago
Very true (and actually has been that way for a while now). Big banks are largely tech companies that happen to do banking.
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by code4tee 9y ago
Another reminder that with Apple you are their customer. With Google you are their product.
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by code4tee 9y ago
They’ll learn and move on. All told it was a very successful mission and they got the money shot of the two other boosters landing back at the space center + putting the car in orbit. Very impressed with everything they’ve accomplished and
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by code4tee 9y ago
TapJets was just being incredibly stupid here. Pilots and airlines know the regulations and know if they mess with them they’ll get hit hard. Anyone that knows anything about aviation is just rolling their eyes at TapJet and saying good rid
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by code4tee 9y ago
What’s even worse is that advertisers end up paying a lot of money to advertise to these bots. In an early ad campaign with Twitter we quickly realized a lot of our spend on “engagements” was engagements with bots. We pulled the plug on Twi
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by code4tee 9y ago
On the one hand this may help certain companies that focus on limited use of customer data thrive in Europe. On the other hand it’s one more tick against Europe for global companies deciding where to invest so expect to see some big downsid
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by code4tee 9y ago
Glassdoor has a big problem with fake or bad data. The salary data is often very inaccurate (at my last company we had people posting data for offices in cities where we didn’t have offices and with salaries that were just not true). Fake r
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by code4tee 9y ago
CNN bought a brand and not a product. In fact the only “product” the company had (beme) was shut down at acquisition. Seems like they simply never managed to translate some smart enthusiastic people into a viable product. Sad, but seemed li
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by code4tee 9y ago
Good intro, but the approaches used here are quite basic and outdated for 2018. Not sure this solves 90% of NLP problems.
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by code4tee 9y ago
This is an extreme case but the issues are not that uncommon in tech. Most employees with “equity” are not in a good place to know what that equity might actually be worth... and it’s very common for it to be worth far less than one thinks.
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by code4tee 9y ago
I think there’s two points of view here. On the one hand yes, if someone gets into your castle then they may have a lot of access you don’t want to give them. However that assumes that things inside these walls are also not secured, which i
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by code4tee 9y ago
Nice to see they’re being so transparent about setting the record straight. Mistakes like this happen in the journalism business, but few outlets make a serious effort correct misreporting beyond burying corrections where nobody sees them.
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by code4tee 9y ago
It will live on as a freight plane for a while, but yes the days of the “jumbo jet” for passenger travel are broadly coming to a close apart from a select few routes. The future is in large twin jets. Boeing knocked it out of the park there
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by code4tee 9y ago
Google’s engine also doesn’t seem to understand basic copyright law. Simply having a brief clip of someone else’s content doesn’t, under many ‘fair use’ cases, constitute a copyright violation. The whole system is also grossy a “guilty unti
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by code4tee 9y ago
Sorry, but there’s a massive difference between when Apple, Google etc hires an H1-B and when someone like TCS does. Very different jobs and very different reasons for using the visa.

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