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by defen 7y ago
> - You have heard or said the words "Hmm, it worked on my machine" I currently use VirtualBox + SaltStack to solve this problem, which has worked well and has significantly less overhead than going full Docker / K8s
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by defen 7y ago
So...this all seems insanely complicated. Is there any kind of rough guidance about how "big" an organization or codebase needs to be before it becomes a net win to go down this path? Either in terms of lines of code or number of
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by defen 7y ago
I don't think anyone really knows. A lot of it depends on the stock market - if it keeps going up, things will probably be fine. But if there's a big downturn it could wipe out a lot of money in the fund. At that point you could b
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by defen 7y ago
$180 billion in unfunded CalPERS liabilities, too...
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by defen 7y ago
The idea is that the large tech companies are overwhelmingly staffed and lead by people who qualify as the political left by American standards. As Breitbart said, "Politics is downstream from culture." - so if you have the most i
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by defen 7y ago
"IQ doesn't perfectly predict outcomes" is not a great critique of IQ. No one is arguing that IQ presents an infallible linear ranking of human worth / value / accomplishment. On the other hand, it's extremely
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by defen 7y ago
> For example, I enroll my family in my employer's HDHP. The total premiums from our plan is about $19k this year (employer pays about $14k, I pay about $5k). For this, we have $4k deductible and an $8k max out of pocket coverage. P
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by defen 7y ago
I'm not sure - since I have either option, I don't feel screwed over, but if an HDHP were the only option I would definitely expect to see an increase in take-home pay.
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by defen 7y ago
If it's an employer-provided plan, though, you don't generally see the premium savings. My employer provides the option (through one of the major payroll/HR providers) of a "regular" plan or a high-deductible plan,
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by defen 7y ago
Noted, thanks
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by defen 7y ago
It’s USC, not UCLA, unless I missed something.
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by defen 7y ago
The IRS would probably not look kindly on universities (tax-exempt) literally selling seats at massively inflated prices. But if you give a lot of money and your kid just happens to have really great “intangibles” well that’s just fine.
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by defen 8y ago
Now, consider the "meta-brain-drain" of 1) increased assortative mating (people are increasingly more likely to marry someone of similar educational and professional achievement) and 2) college-educated women delaying childbirth a
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by defen 8y ago
But you don't actually know that a customer will remain a customer forever, whereas you do know that a truck will be worth 15% of its present value in 10 years.
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by defen 8y ago
Good to know! I assume they do proper KYC? Do they exchange at 1:1 or do they take a percentage?
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by defen 8y ago
The sole purpose of Tether is to sell your Bitcoin (or whatever cryptocurrency) for "dollars". The quotes are important because these "dollars" are not real dollars that you can actually do anything with; they're ju
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by defen 8y ago
> He said it will compile it and submit report when he gets back to his desk. :/ So, he's asking you to do something he can't do? Why can't he just read your code and know how it will behave?
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by defen 8y ago
It seems like a "reasonable" search given that there is individualized suspicion of wrongdoing, and the search is non-intrusive.
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by defen 8y ago
Not a lawyer...but if a cop pulls you over, the default assumption is that there is an "individualized suspicion of wrongdoing" - you would probably have to show that the officer did not have a valid reason for stopping you (e.g.
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by defen 8y ago
I agree with what you've said, but there's not much that individuals on here can do about it. I'm just trying to convince readers here not to willingly participate in reducing their own wages for the benefit of insanely rich
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by defen 8y ago
Imagine if they had been paying you actual market wages, instead of "collusion-depressed" market wages. Then they came to you and said "Hey skybrian, we need you to take a $100k/year pay cut. You'll still be making
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by defen 8y ago
> Sure, but the ones who aren't doing that are also getting paid really well. So, don't require a 4.3 GPA from Stanford/MIT/Caltech for entry-level back-office/maintenance type developers. It seems like you&#x27
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by defen 8y ago
> So while this is bad... I don't know how to feel about this. Just to be clear: you are saying it's possibly ok for a cartel of billionaires to collude to suppress wages for a bunch of people making six figures? Because those
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by defen 8y ago
TD Ameritrade. You can either have 250k in your account or 30+ trades in the past 3 months. You'll need to fill out FINRA Form 5130.
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by defen 8y ago
> To each and his own, but bay area engineers pissing about making ONLY 300K has always come off as being a bunch of spoilt brats I think your entire attitude is wrong. Not in the sense of "you're being mean"; rather, in t
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by defen 8y ago
> Do retail investors get to subscribe to the IPO shares before the listing date? Generally no, especially if it's in high demand. My broker allows retail investors to place bids if they have over $250k in their account and agree, a
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by defen 8y ago
SQ up 5.8x since Nov 2015 TEAM up 4.1x since Dec 2015 TWLO up 4.7x since Jun 2016 SHOP up 7.4x since May 2015 OKTA up 4x since Apr 2017 ZS up 2x since Mar 2018 Retail investors can definitely still make money.
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by defen 8y ago
> 2+ hours per day commuting? BART from Berkeley to Powell St station is 30 minutes. 1 hour on/waiting for BART + ~40 minutes walking between your house and BART + ~20 minutes walking between BART and your job gets pretty close to 2
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by defen 8y ago
Berkeley -> Mountain View is 50 miles one way (25,000 per year) Berkeley -> San Mateo is 35 miles one way (17,500 per year) Berkeley -> San Francisco is 15 miles one way - 7500 per year (at an average speed of 20 mph) If you can us
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by defen 8y ago
I was using the numbers here: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/ but you could certainly get it down a bit if you don't mind driving an older car.

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