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by ghaff 5mo ago
Total comp is complicated etc. etc. But, yeah, even in markets like the broad Boston area--I'm not in HR--but $200K would seem like a really good salary for someone just out of school. And I did have salary discussions at work when I h
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by ghaff 5mo ago
These people are in a massive bubble. People with STEM degrees from good schools even with a few decades of experience would often consider $200K in compensation pretty good in a lot of places in the US in a lot of jobs. The developers at F
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Yes, but that's how the US Census divides urban vs. rural. Of course, they could go by more granular ESRI divisions but they don't. But various people use them anyway by imagining you're in Manhattan or in the middle of nowhe
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Totally. I'm not going to go to a gym, not going to go to the pool, I might get some more takeout if it were a 5 minute walk away. But I'm not going to the theater once a week. I've actually lived in Manhattan and it just wou
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by ghaff 5mo ago
There are some places in the US--probably Manhattan most obviously--where there's a culture that doesn't have the expectation that you have a car. But, while people living in most other cities can basically do a post-university li
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by ghaff 5mo ago
And part of the problem in the US is that the US census has a very binary definition: urban and rural. Myself and two neighbors live on about 100 acres (not counting adjacent conservation land). We're considered urban. because we'
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I'm not sure that's actually true in a typical park. It may very well be true for a bunch of noisy kids in a shopping mall which exists and is paid for for the purpose of people, well, shopping.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Yeah, it depends on your definitions I guess. I'm certainly not in classic suburbia. I think ESRI says I'm in an exurb. In any case, I'm certainly not walking anyplace except down to the river or to a couple adjacent neighbor
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I don't really disagree. One hour each way starts to seem like a lot. 30 minutes isn't walking next door or downstairs but seems pretty doable in general. Even within a large city with decent public transit, it's not hard to
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I guess. I have a season ticket to a theater about an hour away. There are also local concerts/theater out where I live. I see theater when I travel. I actually have decent restaurants out where I live but don't use them much. I g
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by ghaff 5mo ago
It depends on the infrastructure as well. I'm about a 7 minute drive from my local commuter rail but it's essentially unwalkable as that 7 minutes is basically along an interstate. I do take the commuter rail if I'm going int
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Historically, probably more people had to work in cities and many of those people had a preference for not having a long commute. Those dynamics have doubtless changed to some degree. But, if I had to commute daily to the nearest large city
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I won't argue with that. There's photonics, there's trapped ion. Need to dive back in.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
There seem to be fixes available for crypto. The issue is getting people to implement those fixes. Which, of course, is the issue with getting people to implement a lot of security fixes more broadly.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I don't have the same level of cynicism with quantum that I had with enterprise blockchain. (Hey, I spent a number of years getting sucked into things that didn't pan out along with some that did in a big way.) I pretty much agree
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I've been out of the space for a bit. IBM has been betting on the engineered superconducting approach, which makes sense given their background, but there are other options, often for potentially different problem areas. Need to dive b
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by ghaff 5mo ago
This has been a political issue in the past--mostly with respect to Spanish--but there's essentially a de facto English requirement for most purposes.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Or it just decays without a real owner.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Luxury malls in cities aren't really my thing and there are even some higher-end suburban malls where Apple stores seem to have become an anchor store in this day and age that I would have laughed at once upon a time--shows how much I
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Yeah, I walked by the block-long line of people a couple months ago and pretty much crossed it off my mental list. Didn't need another physical book and there is no shortage of cafes in Paris. Also didn't even make a special trip
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by ghaff 5mo ago
And, in the north, you have snowstorms. I'm glad to not be in a situation where you were pretty much expected to drive into office jobs every day whatever the conditions any longer. But that used to be the case barring the rare state o
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by ghaff 5mo ago
The general theory of most malls was that you had anchor stores. My local one has a couple of stores adjacent to the mall (a local chain supermarket and and Home Depot) that are very busy, almost too much so. The mall itself is pretty much
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by ghaff 5mo ago
If it's empty and crumbling, I doubt it's all that valuable to be repurposed for housing or anything else. I did note the other day in the very small downtown of a nearby minor city that the the ancient travel agent is now a party
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by ghaff 5mo ago
And building gas turbines (or even designing them) are probably not jobs that pay salaries developers got accustomed to, especially in Sillicon Valley, over the last 10-20 years. Jobs at GE in Schenectady may not be what those developers ar
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by ghaff 5mo ago
There are a bunch of factors that are intertwining. And unfortunately, some specific demographics are mostly those being most caught in the crosshairs.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I would have said Knoll was the bigger fail on the spam front. You can't have unmoderated posting generally.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
The decline of RSS among a certain audience was only peripherally related to the elimination of Reader; it's not like there aren't other RSS readers out there even if Google makes a convenient villain. But Google did whiff on soci
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by ghaff 5mo ago
A lot of those aggregated records very quickly become a very precise public record. I'm not saying if it's good or bad but a lot of people on this site probably object to having their lives be essentially an open book which is ver
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by ghaff 5mo ago
It was probably all pretty silly but there were a few probably-not-all-nutcases that were concerned about the LHC causing something horrible.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Just take away the sidewalk and bike lane :-/

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