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by dimva 6y ago
For models, getting free drinks / drugs is table stakes.
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by dimva 6y ago
As is often the case, the problem is millions of millionaires instead of a handful of billionaires. There are 18.6 million millionaires in the US. If each of them bought 10 n95 masks just in case, or for themselves + family + friends, that&
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by dimva 7y ago
Maybe instead of continuing to build housing in uninhabitable places and having the taxpayers foot the bill when disaster strikes, we could build more housing in places which are habitable, like the west coast, the New York metro area, etc.
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by dimva 7y ago
Force them out... by giving them really good offers for their homes that they willingly accept? You have a strange definition of "force".
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by dimva 7y ago
What do you use instead? I'd love to be able to ditch amazon for most purchases.
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by dimva 8y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but Amazon.com's recommendations for me are laughably bad. "You bought a 48-pack of AA batteries? Your recommendations for the next few weeks will only be batteries, since you are clearly a bat
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by dimva 8y ago
Would you be ok living in an apartment (condo)? If so, you are not entitled, and your desires are very reasonable. But if you feel like you should be able to afford a detached single-family house in your city, you are not only entitled, you
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by dimva 8y ago
If people moving to your area and investing lots of their own money in the local economy is a bad thing, your local policies, politicians, and probably politics are very useless. People investing money into the local economy should always b
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by dimva 8y ago
We will still have ALL of the nation's leading engineers in one city / area, but no one else will be able to afford to live there. Even non-leading engineers will be forced to move out, and will no longer be able to learn from the
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by dimva 8y ago
I would gladly buy a new phone if they stopped taking away features. I currently use an iPhone SE, and I treat my phone as an extension of my brain - I use it 5 hours / day. For me, the pros/cons of an upgrade to an iPhone XS ar
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by dimva 8y ago
There's a 10% nominal return, but a 7% real return. Harvard beats this by 3% annually, which is huge!
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by dimva 8y ago
Then I guess you can stay in an airbnb or a hotel. Not every product has to be for everyone.
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by dimva 8y ago
If your landlord gets a property tax cut, would they pass on the savings to you? No. They are leasing you your place at market rate. The market rate is affected by supply / demand of rental units, not landlord costs. The only way they
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by dimva 9y ago
Any of the big tech companies, for starters. But, I don't work for any of those companies. You can PM me for details, we're hiring. Keep in mind this is in SF, and I don't know any senior software engineers here making less t
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by dimva 9y ago
Everyone is motivated by remuneration to some degree - the only question is who is remunerating our government officials: the public, or some other party with its own interests? In the US, we've chosen the private sector to remunerate
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by dimva 9y ago
This is a problem across all of government. As a mediocre senior software engineer with no reports, I was paid more last year than the goddamn President of the United States (and no, it's not because I got lucky with stock). This is co
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by dimva 9y ago
And what if you are hospitalized by another hospital? Seems like that's what happened to this guy. If he didn't have that tattoo they wouldn't have even bothered to figure out if he had a valid DNR document before resuscitati
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by dimva 9y ago
As an engineer living in SF, I agree that it doesn't really make sense for the average software developer to live here. But, if you are top 10-20% (not necessarily a superstar), it's definitely the place to be. Whether you want to
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by dimva 9y ago
You are right, it does say TB everywhere, and does not mention GB anywhere. But, if this is correct and all prices are per TB, that would be a ~1000x price cut compared to your current pricing, which is per GB.
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by dimva 9y ago
In finance, companies will pay you your salary to not work if they decide to enforce a non-compete. It's written into the contract. I have friends who get to take year-long paid vacations when they switch jobs just because they work in
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by dimva 9y ago
This would be the case in an efficient market, where the risk-adjusted economic profit of renting out homes is close to 0. This is not the case because San Francisco artificially restricts supply of housing. This causes rents to be determin
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by dimva 10y ago
Another shameless plug: I made a service like this for myself and a few friends: https://zenve.st It actually trades on your behalf, but only to keep your portfolio balanced and to allocate any cash you deposit into the account.
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by dimva 10y ago
Every company has no loyalty to its employees, they just pretend they do and thus expect loyalty from their employees. At least Netflix is honest about the lack of loyalty being a two-way street. I think it is more enjoyable to work with pe
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by dimva 10y ago
I'm not so sure. Nowadays they can focus their energies on profitable activities like ransomware or adware. If you're going to break the law to cause grief anyway, why not make some money while you're at it?
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by dimva 10y ago
It means you don't have to worry about any competition from South Korean companies in the field of cybersecurity.
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by dimva 10y ago
Hmmmm.... looks like there was some insider trading. https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
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by dimva 10y ago
They are trying to take over the entire publishing industry with Instant Articles. They are trying to create a mobile UI for every small business with Messenger Bots. They have added ways to send money via Facebook messenger. This is import
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by dimva 10y ago
The maximum yearly gain is $3000 * your marginal income tax rate. So, if your marginal tax rate is 33%, it would be $1000/year. This is because you can write off a maximum of $3000 of losses on your taxes every year. The information yo
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by dimva 10y ago
Yes, I agree. The pairs Zenvest uses for tax-loss harvesting all track different indexes (another reason why VTI is paired with VOO instead of SCHB - even though the indexes VTI and SCHB track are nominally different, they consist of the sa
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by dimva 10y ago
Thanks for the kind words! It basically follows the Bogleheads approach: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started You get roughly your age as the percentage invested in bonds, with some adjustments up or down fo

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