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by kodah 4y ago
Ah, that is a misinterpretation. I said there's a little bit of luck involved, but it's mostly hard work. I even regarded it as a bit of soul sacrificing.
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by kodah 4y ago
I'm not sure if you realize how what you said looks, but I clearly cut the whole college thing early. Studying the required math for programming, even leaving out DS&A, is very hard. It's a lot of book reading, not a lot of
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by kodah 4y ago
> A whole bunch of folks graduating in 2007-09 walked into a massive dumpster fire of an economy that makes the current scenario look like nothing. Can confirm. I was putting myself through school and when my programming job went away it
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by kodah 4y ago
I would say they're equally plausible. It's kind of gross that folks are so ready to deny that there's an over focus on metropolitan issues (I say that as someone that lives in a metro and has lived in a pretty rural area bef
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by kodah 4y ago
The issue is that PSR trains have been resulting in these crashes for a while. If you want to look at the data for yourself: https://railroads.dot.gov/accident-and-incident-reporting/tr... Select "Class 1 Railroad
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by kodah 4y ago
These train derailings have been happening, which is my point. It took a particularly bad crash for it to get this level of attention.
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by kodah 4y ago
> Our media barely report, and then under report the seriousness The national media isn't very good at representing issues outside of major cities. Events like this are largely unimportant to people living in the places they sell th
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by kodah 4y ago
I probably conflated OPs argument that the IRS already knows everything they need to know about you, which is not true. Someone else posted the stat on this thread that roughly 40% of Americans could benefit from what the IRS already knows.
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by kodah 4y ago
16% of the US, or roughly 30M people, also own businesses which take advantage of an evolving and incentivized tax code. That's why I said making it more simple doesn't solve the problems people think it does. An e-file system w
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by kodah 4y ago
The IRS already kind of does this. They know that when someone itemizes their expenses and their net income is x while net losses are y that their itemization has an error threshold of +/-z, where z is an already padded number. All tha
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by kodah 4y ago
> That information is already there! It's already being calculated! This is a common misconception, especially on HN. For the average tax payer this might be truthy, but only insofar as the IRS is aware of certain tax events. If y
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by kodah 4y ago
I just spec'd one out and it was pretty similar to the I9 MBP. Personally, I'd pay that price for a Linux laptop that's on par with a MBP.
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There's a famous statistic from 2008 in the US that said something along the lines of, for every 1% of unemployment there were 40,000 suicides. That makes unemployment almost as deadly as coronavirus. I don't believe that statisti
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by kodah 4y ago
Pretty sure that's called Eugenics my guy. Let's not do that.
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by kodah 4y ago
I think I'd be happier if Keybase and Zoom would publicly commit to a direction for Keybase. I don't know what the acquisition details were for the OKCupid alumni but this dance of slow and no updates makes Keybase a risk when it
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by kodah 4y ago
You keep insisting there's a score or hierarchy, but I've yet to see an example of what that looks like. To me, and clearly others in this thread, the point is that there is no victim hierarchy. Nobody's victimhood, trauma,
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Americans Flunked This Test on Online Privacy(nytimes.com)
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by kodah 4y ago
AOC isnt exactly a shining light of intersectionalism. In fact, she kind of prides herself in tribalism. Consider this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1103163478024601601 Rather than trying to share g
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by kodah 4y ago
As I said in another thread, what makes this dubious is that YIMBYs are already home owners. Sure, the rental stock needs to get up to an acceptable level where renting one side of a two bedroom duplex isn't $3.5k/month, but I&#x2
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by kodah 4y ago
> I can't tell if all of this is due to the age of people who have joined the workforce over the last decade, when we were in a constant uphill swing. I've lived through four recessions now and worked through two. My first work
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by kodah 4y ago
I'd argue ignoring how important home ownership is and will be in the future makes them dressed up NIMBYs given that they are already homeowners.
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by kodah 4y ago
I read through the article and couldn't tell whether these are rentals or whether the units are for sale. The vast majority of duplexes I saw in the Bay were rentals, which doesn't really solve the wealth building side of the equa
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by kodah 4y ago
Neeva has an AI for search. It works sufficiently well enough on some searches that it's all I'll read. Others I can tell it's missing things.
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by kodah 4y ago
The story of Bay Area engineering and management is so fraught that it's hard to know where to begin. First, tech and team leads are regularly pushed out of authority by management types, like the ones you described or worse ones who g
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by kodah 4y ago
Yeah, poor choice of words on my part. They don't face discrimination in hiring . They make up a fairly large chunk of tech engineering.
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by kodah 4y ago
Every story is going to be different I think. Having tools that marginally shift our statistical outcomes makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense to me is the people who propose specific proportions as a set of diversity criteria, a
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by kodah 4y ago
There's different reasons we design different systems to combat discrimination or lop-sided outcomes. White and Asian people, if that is their only identifying class characteristic, are not discriminated against generally. An argument
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by kodah 4y ago
I think they're just saying this occurrence isn't unique and it doesn't look like they approve of it. Many of us identify with our own struggles in deep ways. If you create an opportunity for people to organize around those s
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by kodah 4y ago
> there's a surprising amount of comments here that seem to not understand that growing companies don't hire for today, but for where they want to be tomorrow This can be simplified to market reading. People in finance get fire
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by kodah 4y ago
> There's also the fact that most (read: all) of the computing pioneers are white Not refuting this take as it's accurate, but if you're looking for someone that's Black in early computing I'd recommend free soft

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