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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Being born with this type of genetic predisposition is unfair, but passing that risk on to an unknowing employer is also unfair. For a medium-size business that underwrites its own policies (very common), a few employees with multi-million
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
This legislation was a complete mess. Republicans have been warning about the Obamacare "death spiral" for years. For the life of me I can't figure out why no one is talking about the much worse, much faster death spiral embe
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> There was no way I wanted to be in a position where I would feel like I had no choice but to accept an offer like this. For me, that's the biggest takeaway from your story. When you're in a situation where you need money NOW,
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Your critique would be much more useful if you explained what he's wrong about. As someone who has done a small amount of contract work in my career, his summary broadly matches my personal understanding.
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
But government revenue is almost certainly the wrong thing to optimize for. You probably want to optimize for something closer "wellbeing of the median citizen," although there's of course a lot of disagreement on what the ac
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Look at the bright side -- we seem to be approaching a point where the expected outcome of any serious war is one of either (1) no human lives lost at all, because high-tech weapons blow each other up before they can actually hit anything l
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
This is a reasonable critique of other JVM-hosted languages I've worked with (Clojure and JRuby), but the external interface of classes and methods in Kotlin are completely compatible with Java by design. And in practice, it's ver
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Very inspirational, but I'd be interested in knowing what exactly the author was optimizing for in his job search, and how he decided that FutureAdvisor "best aligned with [his] personal values." In the current hiring climate
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
This isn't really an "in theory." Welfare states are fundamentally incompatible with open borders until we live in a world where equivalent levels of welfare are available everywhere. The incentives just don't add up. On
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Not a direct solution to your problem, but maybe try React Native? Getting the tooling set up initially is still a bit involved (but way easier than React for the web or Android Studio) but once you have your first view rendering to the scr
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
That actually sounds... more plausible than I would have expected. Like, doable with technology I can imagine being within reach in the next 50 years even if we don't achieve any currently-unforseen breakthroughs.
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Google and Facebook both pay reasonably above-market and have high employee satisfaction, and receive more resumes in a month than they could possibly hire in the next 10 years. They also both have ginormous internal recruiting departments.
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Not sure exactly what you have in mind, but it's possible that there's a misconception here about how these devices work. They don't depend on the touch being "unique to you" -- as mentioned above, it's just lo
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Not necessarily. If you can get a bunch of unsophisticated traders on relatively high-latency connections (AKA the readers here) to execute a known strategy, you can actually make a lot of money by simply frontrunning them. :)
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I'm in favor of vastly raising the H1-B cap, or eliminating it altogether. But. If we are going to have an H1-B cap, I think awarding the visas to the highest-paid applicants is probably the most fair way to administer it. I know of
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> I don't plan on living in the Bay Area long-term
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> If you were looking at living in the Bay Area long term it would be a different story. Agreed. > In SLC as a software engineer if you live reasonably frugally you can own a decent family home outright in under 7 years. Sure, and tha
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
While we'll probably end up in a house with a yard eventually, I don't feel a pressing need for that lifestyle at the moment. I am factoring in taxes and cost of living. The difference doesn't make up for the $55k wage gap. I
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I live in San Bruno, not SF. I agree that it would probably be very difficult to have a decent quality of life at our spending level living in SF proper. But we're just an 18-minute BART ride away from downtown when we want to go in.
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
My commute is a 15-minute walk, or 5-minute bike ride. :) I chose the apartment based on proximity to work -- could have saved $100-200/mo with a longer commute, but the savings would have been more than eaten up by the gas/car ma
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
This analysis may be reasonable as far as it goes, but it can still make financial sense for someone to live and work in the Bay Area. I recently took a new job near San Francisco paying ~$160k. Living cheaply, our actual consumption for my
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Seconded. Having access to a huge community of people who were a little further along in the visa issue process made navigating it much, much easier. Little stuff like "oh, they're now requiring 2 passport photos instead of 1 and
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
It's worth noting here that if your plan is to buy and hold, it's probably not in your interest to buy leveraged index funds. The high expense ratios combined with far below-market returns in the case of volatility make them a poo
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Well this should be interesting -- I could see this stay leading to a constitutional crisis in short order if Donald Trump decides to ignore the court's ruling. PS I just donated to the ACLU. You should too. https://action.a
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Yeah, the title isn't great and is a bit click-baity, but if you read the article I think you'll find the content much less objectionable.
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I think that the only way to fix this long-term is by winning the hearts and minds of those who think this ban is a good idea, or who are ambivalent about it. Unfortunately, those of us who have been shrilly opposing every move Trump has ev
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Absolutely. I don't fully understand workplace cultures (including my own) that claim to care more about "getting your work done" than "hours in a chair." The problem is that output is in many cases a very crude mea
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Don't know what country the OP is from, but my guess is the phrase he's referring to is the Spanish "Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo" (which translates to what he wrote above). It's a common saying in Sp
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(What follows are generalizations that of course have exceptions.) For the record, this is likely less true in Barcelona than in most parts of the US. While a supermarket cashier isn't seen as a good job in Spain, people also care mu
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
This is really exciting. I previously worked at a startup for that could have benefited enormously from even 90% accurate speech recognition. As of six months ago when I last looked, there were no open source speech-to-text libraries with a

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