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by dtnewman 5y ago
Child care is crazy expensive if you have two working parents with full time jobs. Most schools or day cares let out around three. If you normally get home between six and seven like most people do then you still need to figure out a few ho
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by dtnewman 6y ago
> As a side note: The Economist MBA rankings 2021 have raised eyebrows because European schools rankings increased so much: https://whichmba.economist.com/ranking/full-time-mba Notably this list is missing most to
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by dtnewman 6y ago
Great job. I didn't read everything, but skimmed some of your materials online and most of this seems to be right on point in my view (having done hundreds of interviews and looked at thousands of resumes). A few points you touch on th
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by dtnewman 6y ago
> so people are leaving the cities where they appear to have careers/work/friends and are heading to the suburbs during lockdown because of the virus situation, while businesses are laying off and contracting/shrinking&#x
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by dtnewman 6y ago
I don't think that OP (or anyone else) thinks that urban prices won't be affected. He's just responding to the article that there's a rural and suburban boom.
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by dtnewman 6y ago
> "makes it unappealing to me" and to most of us, but i imagine that most people aren't in the target market. My university outfitted all new lecture halls built in the last ~20 years with professional grade video reco
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by dtnewman 6y ago
GrandPad. Ninety four year old grandmother uses it and loves it. Easy to use tablet, great customer support that only works with seniors and their app for other family managers is surprisingly good. It’s literally made for this purpose.
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by dtnewman 6y ago
I imagine a group of dogs sitting around and asking "How are we so good at thinking about fun ways to play with squeeky toys?". The truth is, that our ability to reason about ourselves is limited by our ability to reason. Perhap
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by dtnewman 6y ago
CVS and corner stores generally inflate prices outrageously. For example, for 24 pills of Aceteminophen (Paracetamol), you'll pay $4.59 at CVS [1] vs $1.19 for 50 pills at Target [2]. It's even cheaper if you buy in bulk. CVS is j
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by dtnewman 6y ago
Where is here ? AT least in the USA, cars used for commuting are almost never covered. If it's a car used for the job itself, then it is.
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by dtnewman 6y ago
They do compensate you. It's called a salary. I don't get reimbursed for my work clothes, car (which I only need because I commute) or haircuts, but my company expects me to have all of these. I'm sure that I can find a compa
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by dtnewman 6y ago
I got to demo their consumer product and it really is pretty cool. Perfect? Far from it. But it's good enough that you put it on and say "wow" for the next 15 minutes. In the demo I saw, you get immersed into a coral reef and
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by dtnewman 7y ago
My bad... I meant 11 months. Thanks for pointing that out. In any case, the overall point stands. At a minimum, most people would benefit from this kind of CD over the money sitting in a savings account. It gives you a low, but decent retur
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by dtnewman 7y ago
> "Someone bought a 50 year government bond in Austria I think and the interest rate moved a smidge and the value of his bond went up a whopping 50%" This can go the other way too. If interest rates rise a smidge, the value o
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by dtnewman 7y ago
> No. negative interest rates won't go that negative. Even if your bank is earning -1% interest, it still makes sense to be saving. A great way to lock in decent rates and still have the safety of a bank account is with CDs. See
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by dtnewman 7y ago
There's a limit to how many people can work remotely. Certainly, factory workers, restaurant employees, healthcare professionals, retail workers and bank tellers can't do this. And homeschooling isn't for everyone... But it&#
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by dtnewman 7y ago
Even if you make your software open source and have the top security experts pour over the code and have a transparent process for how it gets deployed... laypeople won't trust it. In fact, quite the opposite, the more you focus on sec
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by dtnewman 7y ago
From the article: > With only one level, there’s nothing to worry about. With only two levels, a boss and those who report to the boss, the boss has skin in the game, no boss causing problems for them, and not enough reason to reward ba
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Trump is right about this: Americans need to move where the jobs are(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by dtnewman 9y ago|1 comments
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by dtnewman 9y ago
When you say "large", do you know _how_ large? Solutions might vary based on whether you are looking at a million rows or a billion rows.
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by dtnewman 9y ago
> is it considered bad form to give a recruiter reference contacts, without first asking those contacts for permission? When I was last looking for work, I called up my references and told them that I'm applying to jobs over the nex
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by dtnewman 9y ago
I'm on my fourth full-time job. I've been asked for references 2 out of 4 times. My references have been contacted from just one of my past employers. As an aside, it seems to me like it's always worth asking for and contacti
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by dtnewman 9y ago
Interesting to learn that!
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by dtnewman 9y ago
These points are relevant to health insurance, but in the second footnote of the article, he explicitly states that he is talking about property and casualty insurance. In a pure sense, what we call health insurance isn't really pure i
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by dtnewman 9y ago
I'm only 30, so it's not like 25 was particularly long ago for me. But since then, I've gotten married, which is a major life change (overall for the better for me!). But if I could go back to age 25, before I was married, I&
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Turing Tumble: Gaming on a Mechanical Computer(kickstarter.com)
1 points by dtnewman 9y ago|0 comments
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by dtnewman 9y ago
If you are worried about the possibility of losing your job and having to do without a salary, then you should start looking now. But from the way you asked your question, it seems like you are aware of this possibility and you are more wor
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by dtnewman 9y ago
I'd post on Facebook and see if there's anybody I know and trust who has bitcoin they could sell me in return for a promise of cash payment. Or I'd use a service that lets me purchase using credit cards, such as Coinbase, alt
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by dtnewman 9y ago
Jetbrains IDEs (PyCharm, IntelliJ, etc.). Jetbrains creates IDEs for various languages. I primarily use their PyCharm tool which I think is hands down the best I've seen for medium to large projects in Python. I actually _like_ the fac
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by dtnewman 9y ago
TLDR: Microsoft is using WannaCry as an opportunity to complain about the NSA and as an opportunity to tell people they need to update their software. I personally think that it's great to get the message across that people need to kee

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