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by em500 2y ago
In San Francisco $125k is a mundane salary (and $3k for a 1br is a normal rent). Public sector salaries in California are public. Here's a look at recruiter salaries in the SF public sector: https://transparentcalifornia.com
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by em500 2y ago
Yeah, I didn't do a full blown analysis, just went trough wikipedia's top 10 biochemicals by revenue (Novo Nordisk was no.14) and picked 5 years since that's the longest 1-click option from Google Finance to get a consistent
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by em500 2y ago
I quickly went through the 10 largest European/American biomedical companies by revenue in Google Finance (Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Merck, Pfizer, AbbVie, Bayer, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Bristol Meyers). AFAICT the only one
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by em500 2y ago
They're selling prams with tablet/phone holders now, so the kids can learn to swipe before they can walk or even hold up a tablet. Better start as early as possible with "digital skills" I guess.
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by em500 2y ago
Ha, SQL is one of only a handful of computer languages that is both older than most of us and probably will outlive most of us.
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by em500 2y ago
That sounds a bit implausible if you're in the EU. Here in the Netherlands the large supermarkets sell potatoes, carrots and onions for around €2/kg, while chicken is usually around €10 to €15/kg and beef more like €15 to €4
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by em500 2y ago
Where does the expectation come from that Bash should come ootb with BSD? Or anywhere else outside of mainstream Linux distributions with GNU userland? Bash is the standard Bourne/Korn-like shell for the GNU project, which was envision
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by em500 2y ago
> Again with thousands of hedge funds and very few pension funds how could the majority of clients be pensions? The US alone already has around 5000 defined benefits pension funds. (The smaller ones probably invest via fund-of-funds, rat
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by em500 2y ago
Straight from wikipedia[1]: During the US bull market of the 1920s, there were numerous private investment vehicles available to wealthy investors. Of that period, the best known today is the Graham-Newman Partnership, founded by Benjamin
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by em500 2y ago
> That's years of salary in those countries But not in the US, which is what makes migrating so attractive (and the price so high) in the first place. > and no you can't even save that in a decade there There are many ways a
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by em500 2y ago
Completely cutoff from the internet is probably not feasible for most of us, but many cases of access are probably far less urgent than we pretend them to be. Barring work, for me the vast majority of necessary access (such as financial adm
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by em500 2y ago
Sme here, usenet, Slashdot, Digg, Ars forums, HN. Video sites/apps never did anything for me, but I'd read text-only forums for hours and hours.
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by em500 2y ago
I believe most articles about smartphone addiction are missing the more important half of the issue: the addictive substance is the internet, rather than the enabling device. Certainly the phone allows more opportunities, but the actual sub
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by em500 2y ago
The same rule applies to phone apps as to work email and meetings: the usefulness to you is likely proportional to the time/effort spent by the sender devoted specifically to you. Heuristically, it's inversely proportional to the
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by em500 2y ago
Many countries especially in continental Europe have strong pro-tenant rights. Often the rent contract cannot be terminated by the landlord, only by the tenant, which can make it more profitable to leave property empty vs renting it out. (W
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by em500 2y ago
How are they stretched for resources? Mozilla's revenue is around a half billion USD per year.
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by em500 2y ago
For economic (as opposed to business) data you're usually better off with FRED https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
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by em500 2y ago
I think your experience is far outside the norm for age 6 or younger (Kindergarten age). I don't know about specifics in Germany, but in the Netherlands, the fraction of children going to school unaccompanied between age 4-12 was as fo
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by em500 2y ago
The Netherlands has a segmented rental market. The social/rent controlled sector has a price ceiling of €880/month and is only accessible with annual income below €48k/€53k (single/multi-person household). These norms ap
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by em500 2y ago
Numbeo already includes (among other factors) CoL in their QoL index calculation, see: q https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/indices_explained.jsp You can of course use alternative calculations / weights, but wi
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by em500 2y ago
Quantitative finance interviews are pretty much all probability and stats questions.
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by em500 2y ago
Raw data comes from https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp , the paper is here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46581-5 . Both are linked from the article.
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by em500 2y ago
There were stories in local newspapers here in the Netherlands about similar scams. The victims mentioned that the scammers spoke perfect accentless Dutch.
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by em500 2y ago
Everyday Chinese describes foreigners as 外国人, literally "people from outside the country". Everything non-domestic is 外国 "outside the country". These seem to be pretty neutral terms to me.
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by em500 2y ago
Note that the majority of tests and durability claims about M-DISC (particularly about the special recording layer) are about M-DISC DVD-Rs. Although manufacturer likes to conflate them in marketing, it's not clear whether the M-DISC B
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by em500 2y ago
Because in practice people don't clean up after themselves, especially in public places.
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by em500 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/opinion/the-trump-berlusc... "Nobody who knows Berlusconi and has watched the rise and rise of Donald Trump can fail to be struck by the parallels."
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by em500 2y ago
Sure, but what are the alternatives? They never had significant industrialization. Before mass tourism, their economies were based on fishing and banana farming. The British Crown Dependencies, without the great weather and scenery of the C
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by em500 3y ago
NES Castlevania. It's tough but satisfying to slowly master an increasing number of stages that seemed impossible initially. I can beat the first 3/4 of the game pretty much any time without dying now. Last year I finished NES Sup
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by em500 3y ago
The internet happened. Like effective age restrictions, real gambling bans or regulations will require fairly rigorous (and privacy invasive) ID verification.

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