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by eqdw 12y ago
Sometimes I feel shitty about the fact that I don't work at a glamourous, name-brand company. Thanks for making me feel better :). I should read these reviews for more companies.
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by eqdw 12y ago
+1 on that. I bought a car last year, and my car (at $22k) is costing way more than the expected cost of gas over a 10 year lifetime (~$12k). Gas prices aren't actually the blocker, when you take the long view. Driving, on the other
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by eqdw 12y ago
> just because a bunch of other people swoop in and drive up prices around them. Because they are now wealthier, and can convert the wealth of that house into liquid assets (through sale, remortgage, etc), or income-generating assets (by
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by eqdw 13y ago
These kinds of airbnb-based eviction articles make me laugh. The overwhelming media narrative here is "all evictions are bad, look at this rich uncaring landlord forcing this poor hardworking american into homelessness". But the o
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by eqdw 13y ago
> The fact Airbnb is allowing this to continue makes me question their ethics. Don't ascribe ethics to a company. Companies are not people. Companies don't care about ethics. They care about legal responsibility.
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by eqdw 13y ago
They post a warning that you as a host are responsible for making sure you're following all your local laws. Of course they're skirting the grey area of the law to make a profit. At the same time, every single host who affirms tha
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by eqdw 13y ago
I agree with you, and can't help but think: how many of these people would resign in protest when an openly Christian CEO takes the reins of their company. There's a lot of slimy shit in the bible: homophobia, slavery, misogyny, p
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by eqdw 13y ago
> No, I meant what I said. Victimeless, and no it's not at all hard to define. Drugs, sex, gambling, bigamy, etc; basically laws based on Christian morality that try and tell you it's wrong to do things that only involve consen
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by eqdw 13y ago
With a battery life of <2 hours, they're gonna need a different camera /s
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by eqdw 13y ago
> It's not easy for people to just pack up and move. What if you've lived there your whole life? What if your friends and family lived there? What if your job was there? I lost my job in Canada, and it was prohibitively difficu
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by eqdw 13y ago
I also feel that way, but the fact that I'm having an emotional reaction tells me that the article was probably written to trigger that. So I'm trying to ignore it. SF's land use policies are horrendous, but anecdotes (in any
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by eqdw 13y ago
If people want to KEEP SAN FRANCISCO THE SAME, they could just build in other cities and amalgamate/improve the existing transit infrastructure, too. I have a working theory that people would be less obsessed with living in San Franc
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by eqdw 13y ago
> That might have been good advice 30 years ago, but it certainly isn't now. Modern insulin preparations should be kept at room temperature while in use for up to 30 days -- keeping it refrigerated while in use is contraindicated du
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by eqdw 13y ago
Make them quote a number first. Do not tell them what your previous salary was. Whatever their number is, ask for $15k more If they are a strong no, try and trade off that $15k for increased benefits in some way If they are a weak no, lower
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by eqdw 13y ago
I've had discussions with my friend in NYC. He's married in NYC, I'm single in SF. My salary is $10k/yr more than his, so why do I feel like I'm barely getting by, while he's doing all these crazy Rich New York
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by eqdw 13y ago
> I wonder how much of comfort is attitude or perspective. I also happen to be a single man living in a high-rent city (Palo Alto). My income is about $30,000. I live in a shitty small apartment in a run down part of SF, and my annual re
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by eqdw 13y ago
> Yes sure consumption has increased with affluence but Many people don't realize how hard it is for an unskilled and unconnected person to find any kind of work. I wish the focus of the US public discourse was less "how terrib
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by eqdw 13y ago
When I said "NY, SF, DC" I meant the metro areas, not the cities. My friend is fond of telling me I could get a sweet 1000sqft loft in downtown Houston for $1200/mo or so. Or a regular apartment for half that. Of course, to m
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by eqdw 13y ago
I'm a young guy who makes approximately that much, and I feel like I'm not getting very far either. I moved from my hometown of Winnipeg, Canada to Silicon Valley to build my career. In moving, I tripled my salary. I am definite
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by eqdw 13y ago
I'm a Canadian expat in San Francisco, and one of my favourite cultural-tourist hobbies is comparing my public school experience with my (American) girlfriend's > Heck our high schools even teach us how to properly consume, and
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by eqdw 13y ago
> You say you eat out "some of the time". Most people I know say that, and they mean "at least one meal per day". This is not good for your finances! I personally increased my monthly savings by 50% once I limited my
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by eqdw 13y ago
> Life is far easier today than it was 50 years ago, at least for most workers. Whenever I find myself following the line of thinking that OP put forward, I try and remember: I'm the first generation in my family to be able to rely
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by eqdw 13y ago
> I am no Luddite, but I think that perhaps taking a step backwards in time could be an interesting experiment - create more towns that are self-sufficient, grow their own crops, build their own houses, etc. It seems like much of the wea
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by eqdw 13y ago
> A fairly small studio apartment in the area where I live is approaching $2000/mo, minimum Unless you live in NY, SF (/me waves!), or DC, that number is grossly out of touch with the actual costs of rent in the United States.
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by eqdw 13y ago
Meanwhile, I invested $15k in a CS degree, and eventually got a six figure job at a tech company. Canadian universities rock.
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by eqdw 13y ago
Few years ago I saw a feature in IEEE spectrum about contact lens displays/computers. Apparently, because they're so small and have such low power requirements, they can power themselves off of the ambient radio / wifi /
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by eqdw 13y ago
According to some data I forget where I read (does someone have the citation handy?) a family of 4 needs a household income of $76k/yr to support themselves in the SF Bay Area. Assuming that that number is accurate, I do not at all fee
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by eqdw 13y ago
Well, basically, I was reading http://pando.com/2013/12/26/look-whos-gawking-inside-nick-de... and found myself wanting to know the context of several of his claims. There must be 10 or 20 links to valleywag
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by eqdw 13y ago
As I was reading this article, I found myself wanting to click the links he was posting (to get context), but didn't want to give Valleywag my pageviews. So I wrote a chrome extension that solves this problem. https://news.y
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Show HN: Read Gawker posts without giving them your clicks(github.com)
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