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by jurassic 4y ago
As an LGBTQ person, this makes me very sad. Just look at fandom twitter and you will see how much even a small amount of representation on screen means to people like me. I wish everybody could experience that.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I don't know about daily notes, anything that's daily kind of loses its impact. But leaving surprise love notes for my wife, spontaneously, a few times a year is wonderful and something I highly recommend. Get some post-its and a
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by jurassic 4y ago
I found a few 1860s wedding certificates and a handwritten IOU from the same era in one of my grandfather’s reference books on stamp collecting.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I had a host leave me high and dry at the last minute during a holiday on the Amalfi Coast once; we showed up to the property we'd booked for a week and found it occupied with family/friends of the host. It was high season and eve
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by jurassic 4y ago
Somebody is always trying to call the top of the bubble, but nobody really knows. People told me I was being stupid for buying last year after the initial COVID price surge, and still my home's nominal value is up something like ~10% s
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by jurassic 4y ago
Not during wildfire season when the weather forecast is "smoke"
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by jurassic 4y ago
I've struggled with weight my whole life. The only thing I've figured out for sure is that cutting out nearly all added sugar is essential to keeping my calories where they should be. Firstly because of the calories in the sugar.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I recently bought one of these to pair with my standing desk and I'm losing about one pound per week from walking a leisurely 5-6 miles a day during work. Took me a few days to get acclimated, but after a few weeks I felt fully product
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by jurassic 4y ago
I completely agree. I was only lightly using Netflix so when they last raised prices it was the push I needed to actually cancel. The recent content they've rolled out doesn't justify the heftier price tag compared to competitors.
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by jurassic 5y ago
Twitter's announcement says they have been working on the Edit Button since last year. It has nothing to do with Elon's poll. Let's give credit where it's due.
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by jurassic 5y ago
Yo
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by jurassic 5y ago
Congrats to the parents.
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by jurassic 5y ago
> Do you really think a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft has $2.5M in cash sitting in his checking account to buy a home? No way. It's not common, but definitely possible. E.g. if you were part of an acquihire. Or just got luck
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by jurassic 5y ago
Positive feedback is nice, but it doesn't negate the amount of assholes and entitlement I needed to deal with on a regular basis.
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by jurassic 5y ago
A few years back I was in a role where it was my job to maintain a small but non-trivial open source project (~1500 github stars, 5 core contributors). I burned out after about two years in that role. People repeatedly demanding help in the
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by jurassic 5y ago
OP isn’t going to fix his financial picture by skipping lattes and getting a cheaper apartment. Even if he went into hardcore miser mode he might save about $20-30k per year. Compare that with seeking market rate comp he could pretty easily
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by jurassic 5y ago
For a software person with 12 years experience in a major US city, $110k is insanely low. I’ve known people who made more than that after a 12 week bootcamp.
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by jurassic 5y ago
You need to make more than you spend. Your comp is very low so you need to change jobs to get your comp closer to where it should be. Not much else to say on this. Start leetcoding and polish your resume. Edit: Yes, $110k for a tech employe
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by jurassic 5y ago
This is right up there with gas station pumps that blare video ads at max volume while pumping gas. The “experience” is extra good when a different ad kicks off simultaneously for the person on the other side of the pump, or the next pump o
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by jurassic 5y ago
This is a huge part of the dilemma for me. My equity has, on average, traded sideways. Equivalent offers or even worse offers from companies with better stock performance could end up being worth materially more.
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by jurassic 5y ago
I somewhat agree. Tech comp seems to be up a lot more than inflation and I’m sure it’s going to lead to a lot of churn.
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by jurassic 5y ago
I agree with that. Thanks for the perspective.
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by jurassic 5y ago
Big companies often ladder refresher grants so you always have a lot of unvested equity just over the horizon.
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by jurassic 5y ago
We have a good rapport. We talk candidly about comp.
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Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year's comp review cycle?
209 points by jurassic 5y ago|277 comments
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by jurassic 5y ago
I don't know why anyone would join Google at this point. Even before this return-to-office mandate, stinginess on PTO is a dealbreaker for me.
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by jurassic 5y ago
I think it makes sense to have a different approach for your primary residence vs your real estate investments. If I were a real estate investor, I probably would be hoarding cash waiting for deals, licking my chops at the prospect of anoth
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by jurassic 5y ago
I really appreciate this comment. The $1M house I bought last year at 2.75% (now supposedly valued $1.1M) might go down to $600-700k if we have some kind of major correction, but it's in a desirable area and never going to zero. I&#x27
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by jurassic 5y ago
Netflix has produced a lot of fairly solid content. Not at the level of the all-time great prestige TV shows like the ones you mentioned, but enough to keep a lot of subscribers happy for long periods of time at an accessible price. House o
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by jurassic 5y ago
It's annoying Quora makes us sign in, but at least the answers are written by humans. On average, answers seem better than affiliate link blogspam found elsewhere.

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