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by kcorbitt 9y ago
Actually, if your investments fall in value to the point where it looks like your account is in danger of becoming insolvent, they'll likely immediately sell as many of your assets as it takes to make up the difference, locking in your
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
I understand how hedonism could seem appealing. But when I consider my own life experiences, I find that the happiest people I know are all motivated by some "higher calling," although the callings in question vary widely, and may
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
You're right, I was unclear. $50k is our after-tax spending (including housing, which we're renting at market rate). For a couple making $130k like you mentioned above, with the worst-case scenario of 0 deductions or tax credits,
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
They don't need all the vision data -- likely what they're doing is running their beta self-driving features in the background all the time, and only send data back (1) when the driver's input differs dramatically from what t
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
As a counterpoint, my family of 3 is living in San Bruno (San Mateo county, on the peninsula) on a budget of $50k[1], and enjoying life immensely. We do without a lot of things that other people probably take for granted, but it's by c
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I think a lot of us younger engineers would love to see the results of that type of analysis, as biased and incomplete as it inevitably would be. My career planning will be significantly different under the assumption "as long as I f
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Far from the spartan shopping experience turning me off, I preferentially shopped at Aldi and Lidl when living in the UK. I like that it's noticeably cheaper, but more than that, I like the feeling that I'm doing my small part t
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I say this not as an excuse, but as an explanation: these things are very, very hard to get right, and can be nearly impossible to retrofit onto existing systems. When every single one of your dozens (or at Google's scale probably hund
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
The best way I've found to compare taxes between countries with very different tax regimes is by comparing tax revenue as a percentage of GDP. Wikipedia has a nice table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Utah is also doubling down on public transport with the Frontrunner regional rail service that connects Utah and Salt Lake county, with further extensions in development. As a former Utah County resident, I was pleased with the service and
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
...and that financial firepower, and resulting ability to outbid everybody else, comes because they're using their workers more productively than anybody else. Successful companies should be able to command the best, most scarce reso
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Seriously; the AT&T monopoly -> "now anyone can get a cheap cell phone" "example" is particularly historically deaf. Does Thiel not realize that the two largest cell providers, making up 66% of the market (AT&
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
And heavier, larger and more expensive to manufacture.
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Not only does it depend on your personal preferences, but also to a huge degree on life circumstances. I worked from home for a fully-remote startup for two years and loved it. My wife was working long hours downtown at the time, and I had
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I don't know... I work for a (non-unionized) company about half the size of Boeing, and we don't have anywhere near that level of bureaucracy, so I have a hard time accepting the premise that "that's just how things have
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I have a friend who's a long-time engineer at Boeing (in Washington). He'd always complain that union rules were strict to the point of ludicrousness, eg. if he got a new desktop computer he was prohibited from plugging it in hims
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
...but in a single day datacenter, which realistically drops several "9"s from that guarantee when you consider tail events. I like b2 and am using it for backup in some projects, but unfortunately it's still not an appropria
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> But we can't, and won't stop there to continue to drive down the cost of computing. It is just the end of the road for CMOS lithography. I mean, is there any reason to believe this is actually true? There's no law that j
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I'll be worried about a potential Amazon monopoly if they keep increasing market share for the next 20 years. But I don't think that will happen -- the Internet seems to have a way of shaking even apparently unassailable monopolie
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Agree about Atlas LLC: the best way to help "more companies get started and that they're more successful" is to help the companies at the margin -- the companies that won't actually get around to being formed if the pros
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Back when I lived in London, I made friends with an old, salty Welshman who had worked as an administrator for the Port of London, before containerized shipping made London as a port eternally obsolete. His last official act on the job, 30
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
There doesn't seem to be any direct evidence against Uber itself so far, which makes me question why Uber didn't fire Levandowski five minutes after he plead the fifth and refused to let his personal devices be searched for the st
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Does Schwab have business checking accounts? Their page at http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/accounts_produ... lists brokerage accounts but nothing about checking accounts. I use Schwab for my pri
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Eh, when I interviewed my recruiter was definitely friendly and willing to answer questions, but didn't really have any actionable information about what to expect in the interview. Answers on Quora/blog posts were actually a lot
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
"avoid using Google's services" implies using an Android build that doesn't include Google Play Services, which means you're probably going to have to download and flash it yourself. If you're willing and able
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I've built a relatively large React app using Redux for state management. Etheryte's point is valid -- if state is only used within a single component (or maybe shared with its immediate children), you're probably better off
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Invest where you think you might end up. Or just invest everywhere; as a youngish American my (very small) future retirement stash is 50% broad-market US and 50% international (Vanguard VXUS). I think this is a reasonably prudent allocation
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> The theory will eventually catch up Maybe... but the emergent behavior in a complicated system (and these networks are only getting more complicated, not less) is likely to quickly become more complex than the human mind can reasonably
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I was about 2 years out of school, and yes, in the US.
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Counterpoint: when I was applying at Google they did ask for a full copy of my college transcript. Not sure how much weight it was given in the hiring decision, but it seemed important to the recruiter.

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