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by jacalata 9y ago
Mine too, eventually. I am surprised that the writer was unable to make even that very simple point clear.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Actually they do - the combined Microsoft 401k fund is large enough that they can reduce fees compared to normal places. I think most of the indexes I am invested in were at something like 0.05% costs. It's similar to the benefit of Va
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by jacalata 9y ago
This is at Fidelity, right? You can still use the exact same investment options as when you were a Microsoft employee, you just can't add to the account. The Microsoft 401k has some of the lowest fee investment options out there, so wh
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by jacalata 9y ago
Homicide is a little more ambiguous than that, because it's quite possible to fatally injure someone who lingers in hospital for a month.
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by jacalata 9y ago
My kids, no, but that will be a hilarious birthday present for my brother.
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by jacalata 9y ago
No, it's because people have fundamentally different end goals.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Your pros and cons for option 1 are wrong. You don't incur the long term cost of translating all strings just by making your software localizable - you incur it by releasing localized software. (Same for making it accessible to the lar
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by jacalata 9y ago
Subjects, minions, whatever you want to call them :p
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by jacalata 9y ago
I really hope you wouldn't get tenure for a study that killed all your subjects.
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by jacalata 9y ago
We're not talking about the whole group of tech people, we're specifically talking about the ones who own several houses. I agree that it is laughably atypical and the commenter who brought it up as a problem is overstating the fr
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by jacalata 9y ago
I know some of them. They moved here in the early 90s to work at Microsoft, or they made a ton of money when their parents and grandparents all died and left them a couple houses in places like Queen Anne and Ballard. I don't think the
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by jacalata 9y ago
Ah yes, the age old dream of a house for every community college student.
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by jacalata 9y ago
They could have voted for transit in the 70s. They could have not reduced allowable density across the city. And then when they realized people were moving in they could have increased density, a couple decades ago. And the increased densit
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by jacalata 9y ago
Building for density would mean you didn't have acres of single family housing within a block of the light rail stations.
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by jacalata 9y ago
I'd be very surprised if you only ever saw giant violent men being creepy.
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by jacalata 9y ago
It is certainly possible to meet women in a way that is unambiguously not creepy, and you could always aim for that if you have trouble with where the line is.
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by jacalata 9y ago
What are you arguing here? That the tech industry has fewer people than those others?
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by jacalata 9y ago
I think your argument was a bad one which you attempted to shore up with an irrelevant and misleading rhetorical sleight of hand, comparing money grad students don't get to money other people do get and implying that because it was a h
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by jacalata 9y ago
Yes, they're correlated. If that's the only understanding you have of the relationship, would you agree with my assertion that the cost of employing a grad student is about 10% of the median cost of an employee?
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by jacalata 9y ago
Did you know that many people buy lottery tickets week after week based on their understanding that other people are winning, and not their own experience of losing constantly?
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by jacalata 9y ago
Comparing cost to the employer against the median income is nonsensical. At least try and estimate "median cost to an employer".
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by jacalata 9y ago
Yes, it does. God forbid I wanted to work on something and not keep listening to the five nearest conversations in case they are relevant to me, though. Why would I ever need to focus on anything at work?
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by jacalata 9y ago
> I thought in the US you guys are more liberal when it comes to building highrises. That's probably not true, although it depends where you are comparing it to.
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by jacalata 9y ago
They didn't say it was unfriendly, they said it was not friendly. So, neutral.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Note that this only applies to the mortgage on the house you live in, not for landlords.
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by jacalata 9y ago
And if you're doing all this and still depressed, there's no solution and you should kill yourself. That's how I read advice like yours when I was a college athlete. Fortunately, instead of walking in front of a bus I went to
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by jacalata 9y ago
Did they say they asked? I thought that comment just indicated that they had noticed. And since you are the person who brought up the concept of identifying as a boy in this context, I don't think anyone else can tell you why it might
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by jacalata 9y ago
I don't understand why you would expect anyone to say "this is for boys" when producing a toy that is generally considered to skew male. Try looking at Meccano, for instance - I've never seen them say "boys" bu
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by jacalata 9y ago
It would seem rude for a toy maker to be asking children for their gender as assigned at birth (which is what I assume you mean) so they probably don't know.
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by jacalata 9y ago
20% is definitely higher than average, and higher than any company I've worked at. And you're assuming a completely random distribution, which is not the case in my experience, for whatever reason.

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