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by jcdavis 13y ago
Just because you have a limit order doesn't mean you aren't getting fleeced, as you could've bought it for less otherwise (assuming some level of fixing as is suggested)
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by jcdavis 13y ago
> Did you think that the Tesla and Supercharger of proprietary connectors for no reason This isn't just entirely for a competitive advantage, although I'm sure they plan on licensing as you mention. The fact is none of the exis
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by jcdavis 13y ago
Most Glassdoor numbers are out of date.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
Can't say salaries, but any engineer who joined facebook in 2008 is now safely a multi-millionaire.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
They have CT 200h, which is basically a rebadged Prius. Pretty common around SF at least.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
The trick it folks intentionally talk in vague terms to avoid anything being spread around. Most of the easy FD deals have been killed over the last few years because of this. The time/value tradeoff for those is now above my threshhol
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by jcdavis 13y ago
Yep. Most of the new plans the carriers in the US have rolled out recently have unlimited minutes + texting as standard, and then charge extra based on data limits. Not exactly cheap mind you, but that's how its structured. Even my che
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by jcdavis 13y ago
I suspect that those (% gone with a year) numbers vary drastically by industry, and may be 80-90% or whatever in some lines of work, but are likely much lower for developers.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
Ive been at least 20+ chipotles in at least 5+ US states and never heard of this greeting thing.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
I got it working, but it's a huge PITA. Since their broken site keeps redirecting you to login, you need to stop the page before it finishes loading that JS. And do this for each of the ~4 screens in the flow. I'd recommend just c
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by jcdavis 13y ago
Its a reference to the "12th man", a commonly used phrase to describe Seattle Seahawks fans (Also Texas A&M, but thats another matter) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_man_%28football%29
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by jcdavis 13y ago
Most of the big companies have routes every 30-60 minutes. Every 5 minutes probably isn't much of an exaggeration overall.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
Almost certainly. Still, surely the patents aren't worth $9B are they?
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by jcdavis 13y ago
And I don't think you fully understood mine. Regardless of the effectiveness (or lack therefore) of their recruiters, Google is still has over a thousand open positions (look for yourself: https://www.google.com/about&#
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by jcdavis 13y ago
That doesn't change the fact that tech folk are unique in being so lucky in the current economic climate to be complaining about getting asked about job opporunities. I know plenty of people in other skilled fields who would be happy t
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by jcdavis 13y ago
I'm not a founder, but I spent something around 30k last year while living in SF. I have a roommate, don't eat out very often and take advantage of work food options, take transit/walk almost everywhere, and don't purcha
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by jcdavis 13y ago
He is talking about the $30 prepaid plan, which is both still available and doesn't start throttling until 5gb.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
India's inflation is almost as high, making the real return much lower
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by jcdavis 13y ago
T-mo's coverage in California at least is noticeably worse than Verizon's. In SF its absolutely slower, and elsewhere it is non-existent where Verizon has LTE. I'm overall quite happy though. I switched from paying Verizon $1
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by jcdavis 13y ago
Is that from dividends or growth of capital? 2013 is definitely a historical anomaly when it comes to returns, not hard to do well when the S&P 500 is up 27% YTD
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For Roger Mahony, clergy abuse cases were a threat to agenda(graphics.latimes.com)
1 points by jcdavis 13y ago|0 comments
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by jcdavis 13y ago
And to add to twoddfin's (excellent) response: only half of that 12.4% is paid by the employer, the other half is paid by the employee
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by jcdavis 13y ago
He left the company earlier this year.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
This is a bait headline, its just an automated machine to only allow exits. Several airports in Europe have similar systems
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by jcdavis 13y ago
These are particularly cheap because they are 1) Per person for a 2 person room 2) extremely last minute (< 30 days out).
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by jcdavis 13y ago
If it makes you feel any better (I'm sure it won't), folks in San Francisco and New York face similar. Las Vegas is somewhat unique in having low housing prices coupled with a huge tourist market which makes such a setup workable.
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The Hydrogen Hoax (2007)(thenewatlantis.com)
5 points by jcdavis 13y ago|1 comments
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by jcdavis 13y ago
The delta changes on a modified truecrypt volume is basically the whole file. Still acceptable for smaller volumes generally though
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by jcdavis 13y ago
$1B is the value of shares being offered to the public, not their market cap.
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by jcdavis 13y ago
As someone who spent 4 months in Qatar several years ago, I am unfortunately confirm the pathetic treatment of foreign physical laborers there. As an example, one thing all the malls there do is "family day": the idea in theory be

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