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by dba7dba 8y ago
I have a funny anecdote about developer building high rise condos in a very crowded market, take some shortcuts to squeeze in as many units as possible under the local zoning law, and pay the consequences. I know people who live in a newly
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Hey in some places, you can work ONE shift and get paid for double pay. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-drop-one-day-rule-... And many use (or abuse) disability program and earn half a million or a milli
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by dba7dba 8y ago
people become that commodity, expendable, something to be taken advantage of by people with capital. Around where I am, I see plenty of western corporations doing above, even with plenty of natural commodity to extract from. And no, you s
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Haha. I guess that person was alerted. I should've taken screenshot. But really, the profile page included those cars.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Welp, I clicked on the link. Did not log into instagram. And saw following: ========== 1,976 posts 22k followers 1,117 following juan_ZILLAA Something like a " Wall Street wolf " 2014 Alpha 12x GTR 2015 Range Rover sport 2016 Lamb
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by dba7dba 8y ago
How do you think S. Korea transformed from THE poorest nation on the planet after 1953 end of Korean War to top 10 - 15 nation in a 65 year period? Imagine, there are still people alive who were born in the poorest nation on the planet, and
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by dba7dba 8y ago
the terrorist-proof cockpit doors, which enabled suicidal co-pilot Lubitz to fly Germanwings Flight 9525 straight into the French Alps I believe FAA of US specifically alerted German government's air travel agency (?) about the need
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by dba7dba 8y ago
First, managers change: any promise, especially a long-term one, is one manager-change away from becoming vapor Sometimes, you don't even need a manager-change for your job to be in danger. I know a guy who had a manager who was pret
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by dba7dba 8y ago
When you are called into HR to undergo PIP (Performance Improvement Plan), you should just nod as they tell you about how they will help you improve and grow. But the moment you walk out that door, start resuming, calling old contacts, and
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by dba7dba 8y ago
If no one is ready to be a team lead or manager, I have the team operate with that one until I spot someone who is ready. I've never been a ceo or a vp or team lead (probably never will be), but to me, it seems if an organization has
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Still, I'm glad that Apple are still the sort of company that replace the whole machine in these situations. I'm sure there are bean counters who will be thinking making it harder to get things fixed is the solution though. It i
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I just wanted to point out that Hyundai Motor demoed a electric scooter as an accessory for the Ioniq line in Jan 2017 at CES. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/hyundais-ioniq-scoote... And BIRD was founded i
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Well it seems some owners seem to think they can beat the market and get higher rent by chasing renters out every few years. So they can raise rent by 7- 10% instead of just say 3%.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
So in another word, wework is now discriminating against meat eaters. Isn't that being intolerant?
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Actually that is a brilliant way of fixing broken government organization.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I agree with this assessment. Bezos is definitely killing, not 2, but multiple birds with the HQ2 story. One is political influence and/or aspiration. He can literally get great onsite political influence with DC based HQ2. Imagine ha
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Neither. The recruiter is in it for self, for that commission. I wonder if anyone can come up with a long lasting score card of recruiters. How do the new hires do after 2 years? Or maybe even the managers should be graded in how the new hi
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I mean, I'm ok with occasional loud motorcycles driving through the neighborhood. But this case is more than that. So, this particular neighbor is not riding a motorcycle through the neighborhood. Other riders do and I'm ok with t
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by dba7dba 8y ago
But you are assuming they were living beyond their means. They were really not. They were able to find another place near paying similar rent. The point is the house owners were basically getting around a local laws meant to protect renters
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I've known a few families over the years in California who rented detached houses. They rented houses (didn't have the down payment) to get the benefits of more space (ex: 3-bedroom place), yard (well small yard, this is Californi
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I heard many many commuters who work in Tokyo actually live pretty far away, commuting via the bullet trains. So the housing market in Tokyo is not in tremendous demand.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Zoning laws get a lot of negative on HN, but I think they serve an important, good purpose. Here me out. I work from home. Yay. I live in a residential area in US, near an elementary school across the street, with an apartment building in t
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Not even that. How many non techies know about Vice or HN?
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by dba7dba 8y ago
In my friend of friend's neighborhood, thieves used hardhat/hi-vis vest to commit thefts. Basically, a man with a hard hat, hi-vis vest, and a clipboard knocked on the door of a house. He claimed he needed to check some gas line i
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by dba7dba 8y ago
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-... "The study of 261 senior professionals in the United States found that 21 per cent had clinically significant levels of psychopathic t
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I live in a city near Silicon Beach of Southern California. My family lives in a 10 unit apartment complex, all 3 bedrooms. It's extremely hard to find apartment complex with all 3 bedrooms in the city. Anyhow, when we moved in 5 years
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I've heard though that something like 60% of actual legal work is done by paralegals. That was just an anecdote I heard from one paralegal, so it's definitely not a firm number.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Simply due to North Korea. Despite all talks of normalization between South and North Korea, it's still not safe to let your guard down. Such talks of normalization took place few times in the past, going back as far as 1960s I believe
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Considering Sputnik happened, it's totally possible that USSR could've developed nukes if US had no Manhattan Project. And if that had happened, US (and rest of world) would've been really screwed. Manhattan Project used 1&#x
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Totally agree. US had no need for a big army, but saw the need for a bigger navy to protect sea lane approaches to US Continent, and thus had a fairly sizable Navy. But in modern day with big jets, fast transports, such stance of not having

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