ejvincent

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by ejvincent 3y ago
If you have a modern heat pump system, it's often more energy efficient to keep it at a steady temp. They become more efficient the less they have to work. This means if you're changing the temp while at work, there's a spike
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by ejvincent 4y ago
This is my personal take, given that I work at Amazon. Here's the landscape of people I interact with: * Supply Chain - Bellevue, Vancouver, Austin * AWS / other businesses - Seattle, occasionally elsewhere (NYC, Boston, HQ2) * Fo
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by ejvincent 4y ago
Read the article: Wojcicki has been involved with Google practically since the beginning. The company's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, set up office in her parents' garage soon after they incorporated Google in 1998. Wo
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by ejvincent 4y ago
> My question for more financially savvy HNers, is I recently changed my investment portfolio to be more in money market and bond accounts since it seems cash will be safer as stocks would expect to go down, with the thought that once it
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by ejvincent 4y ago
Less atmosphere to absorb UV
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by ejvincent 5y ago
Sounds like it's a patreon style setup, but on his hand-built stack instead.
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by ejvincent 5y ago
You are looking at this differently than the parent post. You are looking at cross-industry inside Japan. Parent is talking about inside Japan vs outside Japan within the same industry/job. If you look at public data on somewhere like
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by ejvincent 6y ago
Barcelona too.
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by ejvincent 6y ago
You should be careful of the tax implications. WFH outside of the state your employment center was based in opens you to possible complications around how your employment is viewed by the IRS.
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by ejvincent 6y ago
600k is too low for any home in the area that isn’t in bad shape at that size (and your example shows this). Also, that 30min can become 1h+ with traffic, with almost no public transit alternatives.
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by ejvincent 6y ago
Stagnation of 90s era breweries that started out strong is something I've seen play out on the west coast as well: Bridgeport (Portland), Hales Ales + Pyramid (Seattle), Redhook (Woodinville).
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by ejvincent 9y ago
> So for those of us who know next to nothing about rock climbing, what's the difference here? Apparently Caldwell & Jorgeson were using ropes for safety although not for the climbing per se (hence why it was freeclimbing?) Aid
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by ejvincent 15y ago
I upgraded from the 3GS. The difference in processing speed is very noticeable. I used to have some apps lag the keyboard input because they were taxing the processor. Updating apps took awhile, and some opened slow. All that goes away tha
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by ejvincent 15y ago
Some days I like it more than others, but turntable.fm coding_soundtrack rooms are usually pretty good ( http://turntable.fm/coding_soundtrack3 )