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by jurassic 7y ago
With FICA and the 0.9% Medicare surtax in the mix, in California, I think you'd need an income of about $2,300,000 to have an effective tax rate of ~50%.
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by jurassic 7y ago
I visited Spain last year after studying the language seriously for several years; overtourism spoiled many of my experiences. I literally fled a cathedral in Granada because the crush of bodies was giving me a claustrophobic panic attack.
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by jurassic 8y ago
I dropped out of my PhD as soon as I felt it was clear I wasn't on trajectory to land in a tenure track role. It was a stressful and confusing time in my life and not an easy decision, but one based on a clear-eyed view of the economic
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by jurassic 8y ago
Absolutely. I won’t be surprised if this craters after the open, long before the rank and file employees get to see a dime.
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by jurassic 8y ago
For the most part, the promotional price is irrelevant to my decision to subscribe. What matters to me is the full freight pricing that I will be charged for my lifetime as a customer. If I would be willing to subscribe at the promotional p
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by jurassic 8y ago
I’m not talking about one-off meetings where the name doesn’t stick. That happens to everyone, of course. I’m talking about working on projects with the same group of people over a period of months. I have not seen the Matts and Ryans of th
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by jurassic 8y ago
> areas with primarily male coworkers, and creepy bosses This describes basically every tech job I have ever had. Real life engineering woman here reporting in. In 2014 I joined a series B startup as engineer #15 and was the only woman i
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by jurassic 8y ago
The flip side of this, of course, is that not everyone wants to be involved in support and that sharing around the support burden can lead to a loss of focus within the organization. Often everybody doing everything is indistinguishable fro
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by jurassic 8y ago
In the US, contributions to 401k retirement plans are not liquid or available for penalty-free use. But the tax-advantaged contributions are capped ($18.5k last year) and people with significant savings often have other money in unrestricte
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by jurassic 8y ago
The phenomenon of high-income low-net worth is described in detail in the personal finance classic The Millionaire Next Door. I strongly recommend it even though some aspects are quite dated. You didn’t give an age for your $400k/yr co
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by jurassic 8y ago
I was trying to show that while this is not a common scenario it is attainable and probably has been achieved by thousands if not tens of thousands of engineers over the last decade (many of whom read this website). It does not require inhe
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by jurassic 8y ago
Depending on age $500k savings isn't THAT unreasonable. For example, if you worked at FAANG-level companies for a decade and held your lifestyle to a reasonable level this should be doable without hardship. These people are privileged
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by jurassic 8y ago
George Orwell is best known for 1984 but he was a prolific essayist. The collection of his narrative essays "Facing Unpleasant Facts" was one of my more interesting reads last year.
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by jurassic 8y ago
Dating takes time, weddings cost money, and its hard to drag partner/spouse/family around the globe for each new short-term position. I once worked in a lab that joked about a “celibate for science” lifestyle. I think the PI reall
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by jurassic 8y ago
I don’t know the norm of the author’s specific field but I had the same reaction: His publication record is not even in the ballpark of where it probably should be for tenure. I feel so sad that the scientific industry is set up such that g
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by jurassic 8y ago
I guess this is what they've needed to do to scale their revenue. A quick google search shows that eBay did about $9B in the US last year whereas Heritage Auctions, one of the premier auction sites for high-end collectibles and luxury
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by jurassic 8y ago
As a shopper I hate a lot of the recent shifts in their strategy. The only thing interesting enough to make me want to deal with all the hassles of eBay are the interesting vintage or collectible one-of-a-kind items: coins, camera gear, art
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by jurassic 8y ago
One of the challenges, I think, is that landlords don't want to rent to you if your salary isn't three times annual rent. I'm not a real estate professional, but I've been told that multiple times when looking for my own
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by jurassic 8y ago
That may be, but good luck running a business that relies on all of your staff deeming 4 hours of daily commuting reasonable.
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by jurassic 8y ago
Small business owners do care about the health and happiness of their employees. But even if we pretend for a moment that they do not, it's a threat to the business viability if workers cannot afford to live within a reasonable commute
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by jurassic 8y ago
Yeah, moderately. This year I gave about $7k to each sibling which is life-changing for them and not really a hardship for me other than slightly delaying my home-ownership goal. For one sibling, I'm the safety net when crises happen t
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by jurassic 8y ago
I feel this a lot in my own family. I’m in tech at a fairly privileged BigCo. Siblings work retail gigs for a small fraction of what I bring home. I’ve had raises and bonuses equal to what one of my siblings makes in a year.
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by jurassic 8y ago
You should study. You still have to have the chops to pass a full-day onsite. Having a contact from your network trying to bring you in just cuts down on the amount of pointless hoop-jumping. Building and maintaining a professional network
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by jurassic 8y ago
It sounds like you are applying cold and going through the process used to filter the unwashed masses (e.g. new bootcamp grads, college grads, career changers with no network, fakers of all stripes). There are some diamonds in the rough the
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by jurassic 8y ago
Not sure what you mean by "sycophant recruiters". Most recruiters I've worked with were strongly motivated to bring good people on board at their company. If you are an attractive candidate but you let them know you're o
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by jurassic 8y ago
I think this is getting upvoted because everybody likes to dogpile on Amazon. But nothing this guy says seems to reflect especially poorly on Amazon. If the author is going through another job search now I might recommend taking the piece d
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by jurassic 8y ago
You don’t have to be an absolute beginner to make this mistake. You just need to be on a project with inadequate test coverage.
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by jurassic 8y ago
There is also the reality that not everybody can work at FAANG. I know plenty of average engineers who know which way the economic wind is blowing but haven't been able to successfully make it through the process at big companies.
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by jurassic 8y ago
There is abundant evidence that teen pregnancy has a severe negative impact on the economic prospects of young women. Many of these women will drop out of high school and almost none will complete college degrees.
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by jurassic 8y ago
Early in my career, I nearly quit tech because of a negative experience I had with some douchebros at a noisebridge javascript event. In retrospect those guys were just a couple insecure idiots and really not representative of the average t

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