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by jurassic 8y ago
For many of these people, even if they have a driver's license, the cost of gas and a hotel room is insurmountable. Many have their entire extended families close by so there isn't a cheap "stay with relatives" option th
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by jurassic 8y ago
Can anybody weigh in on why Boulder is so skewed? I was expecting San Francisco to have the most imbalance because of the tech-dominated economy, but it looks like it's relatively more balanced than any of these other cities. That this
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by jurassic 8y ago
> My savings had already been wiped out by a car accident I am always amazed when I see statements like this coming from people in highly-paid professions. It seems like the OP has already figured out that financial insecurity contribute
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by jurassic 8y ago
I agree with most people here that A is the better choice on paper. Your comments on B seem confusing to me. Options are typically granted with a strike price of whatever the 409A assessment of the fair market value is at the time of the gr
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by jurassic 8y ago
Agreed. I would have shopped around if I knew this was going to be a major expense. My gyno referred me for this to follow up some questions after my annual exam and he was very nonchalant about it. I had never had an ultrasound, but I thou
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by jurassic 8y ago
I hope this reaches hospitals and patients soon. I recently had to pay ~$1k for a transvaginal ultrasound at Stanford Hospital. That is what I paid AFTER insurance, I think the hospital billed the insurance company another $5k or so. Absolu
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by jurassic 8y ago
Maybe they could, but why would they? Landlords charge rent according to what the market will pay, not what their costs are.
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by jurassic 8y ago
I’ve been reading a lot more poetry lately. One thing I like about it is that it directs focus very intensely but the works are small. You only need to bring one page worth of focus at a time.
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by jurassic 8y ago
Folks doing bootcamps often are doing it on a shoestring budget. They can't scrape together significant deposits and proof of income needed to rent a more legit place.
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by jurassic 8y ago
This phenomenon of trust shattered in a tightly knit community reminds me of Truman Capote's description of Holcomb, Kansas, in his book "In Cold Blood".
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by jurassic 8y ago
I’ve felt a similar urge recently to turn off the noise. I was feeling especially burned out by the never-ending work pings over email and slack. Deleting a few apps I couldn’t moderate and disabling ALL app notifications except Messenger (
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by jurassic 8y ago
Given my rate of book damage, I also have low confidence that the replacement item would arrive in good condition so exchange seems like a waste if time. I want to buy things and have them show up undamaged. Is it so much to ask?
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by jurassic 8y ago
Lately my items generally show up on time but badly packaged. I would say 9 of the last 10 books I bought on Amazon have had some kind of visible damage, from minor cover dings to folded covers and ripped pages. The worst is when they put a
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by jurassic 8y ago
Definitely. When I was taking 6.001 there was a person in my dorm who wanted to “work together” which ended up meaning “copy my work” because they couldn’t handle fizzbuzz-level problems much less tricky recursion and other material of the
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by jurassic 8y ago
I’m disappointed jsonnet is not a poem.
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by jurassic 8y ago
Maybe I'm overlooking something here, but I don't know why leakers don't just use a forever stamp and drop something in the mail. Securing electronic communications seems freakishly hard by comparison. Is there some reason th
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by jurassic 8y ago
I think video reviews will become more and more important. Sure, people can lie on camera, but I think it’s harder to fake convincingly. And AIs/spammers can’t present on camera with the same ease that they throw up blog posts.
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by jurassic 8y ago
I've been reading a book called Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini. He dropped a writing productivity tip he learned from a colleague which is to always stop in the middle of writing something so that the desire for resolution will pull yo
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by jurassic 8y ago
Costs are out of control and university interests are not aligned with student interests in this matter. It seems like federal educational lending should be capped at some lifetime maximum ($200-300k per student?). The higher ed industry wi
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by jurassic 8y ago
This resonates. I was recently in Seville, Spain, and felt myself on the verge of a claustrophobic panic attack while touring the cathedral because of the thundering herds of tourists pressing in from every side. Big organized tour groups w
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by jurassic 8y ago
As half of a thirty somethings couple that wants children but can’t afford the financial implications in the Bay Area, it seems pretty clear to me why fertility is down.
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by jurassic 8y ago
I wouldn’t worry about being “stuck”. I would focus on the quality and interestingness of work you get in your current role. People who think they are stuck should consider other factors like how they present themselves in interviews. Caree
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by jurassic 8y ago
I’m most worried that in the future our DNA could be used by health insurers the way financial institutions use credit scores. Those with genetic predisposition to expensive conditions might never be insureable.
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by jurassic 8y ago
I know of at least one consulting shop that bills corporate clients $250/hr for mostly general software development in SF. The employees only see about ~1/3 of that amount. As a bonafide expert with a significant addressable marke
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by jurassic 9y ago
Property taxes are locked to the purchase price of the home in California because of a law called Proposition 13. It's a been major contributor to the housing crisis but is extremely popular with everyone who currently owns property. I
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I got the same basic memo when I was a PhD student in science, and I think I would have quit sooner if not for the emotionally coercive aspects of this advice. This advice replaces the rational question of "is this going to get me to t
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by jurassic 9y ago
The kind of injustice that has more or less always been there (e.g. the financial system favoring the rich over the poor) seems less likely to provoke this kind of sudden and violent response. The shooter’s anger was over a sudden change
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by jurassic 9y ago
This makes me sad. I never actually responded to any of the personals on Craigslist, but looking through them back in 2008 and seeing what I felt attraction to helped me understand and come to terms with the fact that I really am bisexual.
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by jurassic 9y ago
The Vanguard web experience isn't great, I agree. But if you set up a recurring automated purchase you rarely need to log in and mess with it. Set it and forget it. Viewed another way, I would say the Vanguard fund costs are low for a
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by jurassic 9y ago
Facebook is chock full of information that is illegal to ask about in job applications like marital and family status, sexual orientation, age, religion, etc. If this feature saw much adoption it seems like it would only result in greater d

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