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by lcvw 4y ago
Depends on the school district. Growing up my district did it younger->older, my partner’s did it the reverse. I think it’s considered my progressive to do older kids later since they tend to go to bed later.
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by lcvw 4y ago
Intel (and similar fab companies as well) is famous for even treating it’s phds as menial process engineers. When I graduated the only Intel fab jobs I was qualified for were in Indonesia or some other SE Asian country, and descriptions we
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by lcvw 4y ago
CNSE class of 2017. The usual career progression of people I talked to was: get a phd, work 12 hour shifts (including nights), be underpaid because you “are not an expert yet”, be fired after 2 years because the company abruptly changed tec
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by lcvw 4y ago
The last time I looked at marketplace plans (in my state ymv). I couldn’t find a single one that had good enough coverage for this to be worth it. The person I was looking for hits their out of pocket max every year though, so it just depen
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by lcvw 4y ago
I don’t think Meta or Google are doing that for the most part. Yes there is a small pay cut if you move away but if they said you could be fully remote then they have honored that. And I don’t think Tesla or Apple ever advertised that roles
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by lcvw 4y ago
Absolutely. You could just literally stop showing up one day, it is the company’s problem at that point. 2 weeks notice is expected, and giving less is considered a bit of a betrayal, but it’s perfectly legal. As much as like the idea of ha
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by lcvw 4y ago
It is arbitrary. But he worked really slow. And it stood out to me that someone who claimed to have been doing this for years wouldn’t have muscle memory yet. It was one of the things that made me think he had lied on his resume, but I didn
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by lcvw 4y ago
That they legitimately have no idea how to write a computer program. My first job was at a company which had a poor interview process. Hire fast fire fast right? 1. One programmer spent nine month trying to implement a simple Java app that
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by lcvw 4y ago
Yes it is true. Basically the formula for your taxes are (appraised home value / total appraised value of all houses in the town) * budget of the town. The market does absolutely take it in effect, like I said, towns with lower taxes s
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by lcvw 4y ago
I hope that is what happens. So far only a few companies are giving up fully on pay being linked to COL. Even so, flexible work (1-2 days in office a week) is currently revitalizing parts of New York as people move twice as far from the off
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by lcvw 4y ago
That is not true. Property taxes are based on relative property values within a region such as a county or school district. Here in NY, appraisals are done at the county level and then that determines the amount you pay to the school distri
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by lcvw 4y ago
My understanding is that some stablecoin projects do that. The issue is greed, it’s too tempting to invest the money in something riskier and keep all of the returns. When you lose the money you have nothing to defend the peg with.
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by lcvw 4y ago
They usually run down to the floor in my experience, and are generally much nicer in general. I wish NYC would do paid bathrooms instead of just having no public bathrooms.
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by lcvw 5y ago
The other thing that is wrong about this post, that I haven’t seen anyone mention, is that jobs like be a plumber also require constant upskilling to remain competitive. My plumber learned how to install ductless heat pumps, and now that is
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by lcvw 5y ago
400A is an absurd number. I live in the northeast have a heated pool, electric water heater, and am putting in heat pumps and it all runs off a 200A. 100A is the standard hookup in my area. I have no idea what this person is doing (are they
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by lcvw 5y ago
Stocks also don’t have a “true” value. Their price is driven entirely by supply and demand, which in turn is weakly anchored by investors doing fundamental valuations on the stock (there is more demand for an underpriced stock). The issue
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by lcvw 5y ago
I seem to remember that you can’t even pump hydrogen through existing natural gas infrastructure because the smaller hydrogen molecules are more prone to leaking. I would imagine the equipment at a plant has a similar problem and combine th
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by lcvw 5y ago
The Alexas were for my elderly mother in law. If she fell or was having some sort of problem, she could call us with just her voice. Also she and my partner both like the convenience, so who am I to say that they shouldn’t have such a devic
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by lcvw 5y ago
It was truly a bizarre experience. First we noticed a random intermittent ringing noise in the house and couldn’t figure out what it was. We tracked it down to the Alexa but since there are no logs or notifications we didn’t know what had j
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by lcvw 5y ago
I’m also very interested in an answer. We use Alexa a lot, but this week I had to unplug every Alexa in the house because a distant family member had gained access to the family Amazon account and was trying to use the “drop in” feature to
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by lcvw 5y ago
Libraries can get you a physical copy of pretty much any paper or book for completely free. But somehow getting a digital copy is not on the table? It’s just insane, I would happily pay for a service that did this even if it included drm or
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by lcvw 5y ago
I really hope sci-hub survives this. Sci-hub and libgen are like an entirely different internet, one allowing you to dive as deep as you wish into any technical subject. There’s really no comparison I have found anywhere for the depth of ma
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by lcvw 5y ago
The most shocking one to me is always going to be penicillin. There are still people alive who were born before it was discovered. 90 years ago you could die from an infected scratch and now we have the whole arsenal of modern medicine av
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by lcvw 5y ago
According to Wikipedia 54-74 white farmers have been killed in South Africa in the past 5 years. Compared to the annual murder rate of 20,000 per year that seems negligible. How is this comparable to apartheid at all? Also I would hardly ca
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by lcvw 5y ago
In general if a material is shearing along crystal plains the material is breaking apart. Also I am pretty sure that diamonds are polycrystalline meaning that the a diamond is composed of many crystals with different orientations, so it is
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by lcvw 5y ago
I mean 1860 is when the civil war happened, possibly the worst time in American history. And the 70s were the end of Vietnam, another terrible time. Cynical elites have been apart of American history at every point between those two dates.