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by fergie 8y ago
It depends. If you have nothing from before then selling for $2.2M is not that great of an idea- you might walk away with $1.1M after tax. This would be the equivalent of a modest bay area property, or 4-8 years SWE salary. In other words-
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by fergie 8y ago
Yet he is so often (wrongly) portrayed as an advocate of unregulated markets.
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by fergie 8y ago
Capitalism has been allowed a free reign over western society with the consequence that _ownership_ is rewarded at the expense of _contribution_. The result is that owning property or a business is now really profitable, yet working hard i
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by fergie 8y ago
People in the US totally recycle metal, but paradoxically it is never encouraged since the economic incentives are so large. For example: One of the main reasons that abandoned buildings in Detroit decay so quickly is that they are generall
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by fergie 8y ago
"And then there are items that should go straight to the trash — garden hoses, wood pallets, or, on one recent afternoon, a bound stack of roofing shingles." Ideally this stuff should be redistributed to places it can actually be
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by fergie 8y ago
TIL- will check it out
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by fergie 8y ago
Joyce's books are, in a real sense, "unreadable", and thats to some degree what the attraction is.
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by fergie 8y ago
But the big problem with CPI is that it fudges housing costs so that it doesn't properly take into account the massive rise in property prices. Heres how it could be fixed: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/
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by fergie 8y ago
Seconded.
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by fergie 8y ago
I was one of the first employees at a fairly large dotcom 18 years ago and via a circuitous route through industry and academia I find myself back at a startup now. One mistake I see early-stage startups make over and over again is low-ball
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by fergie 8y ago
You’re not paranoid, and it does matter. Distributed systems definitely struggle to stay distributed. Git is a great example, as are most cryptocurrencies, which despite being distributed by design, generally come to rely on centralised wal
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by fergie 8y ago
TIL- thanks!
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by fergie 8y ago
> the reality is if the military were in the business of making a profit, retaining employees, or pleasing customers, it would fail miserably You could argue that this has in fact been the reality of late...
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by fergie 8y ago
Anybody who lives in a rich part of a progressive country will have noticed that in 2018 all of a sudden people started to drive EVs, and that they are positioned as "aspirational" items. Norway is currently at 37% of all new vehi
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by fergie 8y ago
Since I am a functioning adult and therefore have various obligations outside of work, I need an unambiguos breakdown of salary, holidays, overtime, flexitime and pension. You can choose to be coy about it, but you will have to tell me even
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by fergie 8y ago
Maybe VW was just the best match. VW have significant experience of producing cars for other manufacturers, and put a lot of effort into developing reusable "platforms". They are super popular in Europe- hitting the exact sweet sp
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by fergie 8y ago
You are essentially restating my question: what _are_ the possibilities with proxies? (What can you do with proxies that is much more messy/difficult/verbose to do otherwise?)
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by fergie 8y ago
This is new to me, and it took me a while to see the point, but having read the Mozilla docs ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... ) I can see a few use cool examples of validat
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by fergie 8y ago
"can they pay professors in different departments very different amounts?" I've worked at a couple of universities, and as far as I understood it there were special provisions for professors of law and medicine, meaning that
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by fergie 8y ago
Its also reasonable to assume that staff and students who choose to _study_ entrepreneurship are less interested in actually _becoming_ entrepreneurs.
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by fergie 8y ago
Does this mean that you can just open a bash shell and start doing bash stuff? If so that is fantastic, and is maybe enough to get me back onto a Chromebook.
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by fergie 8y ago
Can "sprints" be reconciled with volunteering? The joy of open source is that you can work on what you want, when you want. The moment that somebody tells you what to do and when to do it, it begins to look at bit like a job.
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by fergie 8y ago
Is there any verification that these are the good managers? (genuine question)
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by fergie 8y ago
A lot of these README’s seem a bit samey. Is this a trend that was stared somewhere? Was there some dude middle-managers all look up to who suggested an example README that was used to provide inspration?
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by fergie 9y ago
"If you think the private healthcare system is immoral, you should take a look at the 100% government ran healthcare system that is the VA" Or you could actually read the linked Economist article
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by fergie 9y ago
Ok, but I meant rent extraction in the economic sense https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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by fergie 9y ago
Maybe, maybe not. See the link I posted elsewhere on this thread.
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by fergie 9y ago
I wrote about this a while ago: https://hackernoon.com/why-isnt-software-engineering-a-profe...
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by fergie 9y ago
If you live in a first world country, try to find out what your mid-tier technology consultancies (Accenture, Deloitte, CGI, etc) are charging customers. It is almost certainly around 250-350k per year, even if they are working for an ungla
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by fergie 9y ago
Its not a bubble. $240k is a reasonable salary for a professional with good grades from a good university working for a highly profitable private company. In fact as long as there is such a gap between revenue per employee, and compensation

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