flachsechs

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by flachsechs 9y ago
there are probably tens of millions of engineers in the world, a small percentage of whom work for FAMG. yeah, no kidding, you'll make a ton of money if you work there get equity compensation. you don't say!
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by flachsechs 9y ago
don't forget the caipirinha, usually a double or triple shot of sugarcane rum mixed with sugar syrup and fruit juice (more sugar)... sometimes served with granulated cane sugar on the rim of the glass. needless to say, it gets you ham
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i sincerely congratulate you, but my point stands ("or were simply granted some kind of employee stock"); that $500k is with generous equity compensation, and you are one of the lucky few who was able to get it, thereby probably d
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by flachsechs 9y ago
"uhhh", isn't that what i just said?
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> (hint: it's not when taking taxes, commute and accomodation into account) this is important to keep in mind. the people who are the true high earners are making 500k+, sometimes married to someone else who also does. the real
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> Does Motel 6 hand over their guest list to local police so they can check to see if any of them are wanted for murder or rape? Nope! well, apparently, yes, they were. this is just how arizona does things.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
yeah, and good luck convincing anyone , anywhere that building a methadone clinic in their back yard is a good idea. here's another turn of phrase you might find handy: choose your battles.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> It's rare for the down-turn of an area to have one extraordinary cause. no it's not. he's talking about a single store. in my town it's the homeless shelter and halfway house that causes a 5 block radius around
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by flachsechs 9y ago
this works in vim also.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
well you could say the same thing about 'this is your brain on drugs' when crack was going around. that was also a PSA that entered into the public consciousness and then turned into a joke.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
to be fair when meth was ravaging poor/rural white people nobody really seemed to care much either. in fact it was something of a joke i.e. the "not even once" memes etc. i think the real issue is opiates seem to be heavily
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by flachsechs 9y ago
a lot of buyers are coming in with 500k+ of equity, sometimes over a million dollars, sometimes ALL CASH because they liquidated a boatload of stock and are now upgrading their living situation. your mortgage numbers are way higher than rea
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by flachsechs 9y ago
if anyone hasn't seen the movie "lord of war" with nic cage, i highly recommend it. it deals with these kinds of issues.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
well, i'm a successful professional that's been working nearly every day for over 20 years, so... if i lost my phone i would simply buy another one. is this a trick question or something? i'm not going to jump into a swimmin
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by flachsechs 9y ago
fwiw, they make drafting stool aeron high-chairs. protip: buy one used, because the new price is high even for HM.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
it's southern california specifically, because the freeways had names before they had numbers. i.e. the hollywood freeway, the san diego freeway, the pasadena freeway. the habit is spreading as people start leaving socal in larger nu
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> convenient way to activate Bluetooth temporarily, only when needed the slide-up menu in ios is pretty convenient.... you can do it when the phone is locked, even. i use it all the time to disable and enable wifi and bluetooth and us
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> Will men consider beautiful girls a risk to the workplace this isn't just a concern at work, but also when hanging out with male friends also. adding an attractive female will instantly change the dynamic. some men completely c
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> most people don't have the full skillset required to own a business i agree with your post but i never miss an opportunity to be pedantic -- reality is nobody has the full skillset to run a business -- in my mind it's reall
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by flachsechs 9y ago
you are seriously out of touch with what life is like in a place so impoverished it can't even sustain a good grocery store.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
either those people can't afford locally produced food, or the farmers can't afford to do it at the prices they'd demand. people need affordable supermarkets. this isn't complicated, it's unfortunately just not ver
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> if I could just get 2 of my regular visa card i don't know about the chip cards but back in the day i used to do this by just calling and saying the stripe wore out, and i need an exact same replacement card.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
most people don't talk about how they made peanuts in an entry-level tech job for years, but it's more common than you may think. that first few years of experience is a brutal battle every single day. this is basically one of th
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i'm guessing it's more useful to speak cantonese in shenzhen. if you don't speak either, hire a translator.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
the tribe doesn't have the ability to manufacture, market, and distribute the drug. the best they could do is sell the patent back to a competitor. which is doable, but probably expensive, because allergan would stop at nothing to re
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> These are the people that need a service like Little Warden you just typed out two very convincing paragraphs that they are not, actually, in fact, in need of this service. you might think they are - in which case, you should make y
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by flachsechs 9y ago
don't listen to anyone who thinks $20/month is 'prohibitively' expensive for anyone who runs a commercial website, i.e. one that shouldn't go down over a small oversite like domain expiration. it's not too muc
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i didn't say they deserved your sympathy, you projected that onto me because you have a political agenda. good luck with the taxes thing though.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
yeah, the top 5% includes basically any married professional couple, and any above-average successful individual like a small business owner or lawyer or consultant. they aren't "rich" people, although they likely may be one
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> Why not just shrug and go along, if the roulette wheel controlled it in the first place? notice how buddhism and stoicism is all of a sudden so fascinating to everyone in the 'scene' ?

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