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by leetcrew 5y ago
I changed jobs about six months ago. overall it was a pretty nice place to work, but they didn't pay enough to retain people. they froze raises during the pandemic despite continuing to post profits >30%. I left for a role where I g
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by leetcrew 5y ago
at the time of this post, no one in the comments is saying that. I see a lot of posts that could be summarized as "they shouldn't do this" (which I agree with). that's subtly but importantly different from "they sho
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by leetcrew 5y ago
not necessarily. most plans seem to be pretty bad at covering major work, but every plan I've had has paid out more for my two yearly cleanings than I pay in premiums, making it a no brainer.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
there's also a flat fee per transaction (eg, 3.25% + $0.10). this can make the effective rate pretty high for small purchases. https://www.valuepenguin.com/credit-card-processing/intercha...
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by leetcrew 5y ago
you're missing the part where the renter is continually investing the difference between their current rent and the mortgage they would be paying. but yeah, if you're prescient enough to know ahead of time that you're going t
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> Rent is pissing away money, and from the rates I've seen, the monthly rent on a house is often very close to the monthly mortgage payment, so the "investing the difference ins S&P500" ends up being moot. this varies
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by leetcrew 5y ago
in general, per capita crime is higher in cities though. some of that is misleading: truly random murders are rare pretty much everywhere. but you're a lot more likely to be the victim of crimes of opportunity (armed robbery, car&#x2
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by leetcrew 5y ago
housing markets aren't disjoint this way. people will consider moving up or down a couple tiers if it makes financial sense (or they don't have a choice). if the market for mansions is particularly tight, you will see rich people
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by leetcrew 5y ago
how about not calling anything misinformation until you're pretty damn sure you're right yourself?
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by leetcrew 5y ago
happy medium: write shitty code with strong API boundaries. at least the damage is localized and every so often you can go back and clean up or replace components independently. or more likely, just leave it that way and make more poorly i
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by leetcrew 5y ago
maybe this is a naive perspective, but it seems to me that the union should have more to offer labor than simply middlemanning access to an employer. if people genuinely want to be in the union, it should be hard to find non-union workers.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I personally don't like osx, but I see why developers and sysadmins go for them. it's nice to have a product with "good enough" posix compatibility that is supported by a large company. the price doesn't really matt
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by leetcrew 5y ago
to be clear, it's kind of absurd to suggest that renting out the car you need to get home for the duration of your shift is a reasonable thing to do.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
meh. I'd be happy to sit in a chair and watch nonsensical videos for $100/hr any time you like.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
what would we do with "proper near earth detection" other than contemplate our impending doom? lowest estimate for lead time to prepare an interception mission is one year, and even still the probability of success is not clear.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
good point. getting an internship for summer and maybe fall/spring part time is a good way to defray the opportunity cost of not having a full-time job for four years. I think you have to be a pretty strong student and well organized t
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by leetcrew 5y ago
if true, that doesn't look like a very strong correlation to me, at least at first blush. the difference between high and low income is 111 points on a scale that goes from 300 to 850?
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> People see the "$30K" price tag for Lambda School and other programs and assume it's a steal, yet most in-state tuitions are in the same range and provide substantially more education. on the other hand, the time cost of
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by leetcrew 5y ago
should be easy to test for loose lug nuts, I agree. bald tires (or inappropriate tires for the season, just as bad) I'm not so sure of though. afaik, limit of traction can only be determined by exceeding it. > I assume any collisio
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by leetcrew 5y ago
having a system that can detect the current state of all safety-related components of the car seems like an unreasonably high bar. humans are driving around right now with bald tires, loose lug nuts, bumpers held on by scotch tape and a dre
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by leetcrew 5y ago
in most us states, 0.08 is the "per se" limit. you can absolutely be convicted of DUI (or whatever it's called in that jurisdiction) below that BAC based on the testimony of the officer. at or above 0.08 just makes it automat
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by leetcrew 5y ago
easy to say, and not hard to do yourself. nearly impossible to convince the general public.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
worth noting the manufacturer doesn't have complete control over the car either, once it's "in the wild". maintenance is an important and frequently overlooked part of driving safety. a sophisticated ai driver (or human
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I guess I'm just saying there's an opportunity cost to doing research in undergrad. at the school I attended, it was pretty common for students to have part-time internships during the semester. these were not google-tier companie
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I think GPs perspective is not wrong, but assumes (or maybe hopes) that students are at least considering graduate+ level education. like you suggest, I think this is mostly not true of undergrad cs students. if you have no intention of goi
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by leetcrew 5y ago
right, I understand from thread context the conclusion I am supposed to draw. what I don't understand is the internal logic of the story. the guy is described as wealthy, and apparently is already taking advantage of a struggling famil
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't really understand the story. the guy is trying to pay 100 for something he suspects a struggling family hopes to sell for 150, and he's mad that the page haggled off an additional 5?
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by leetcrew 5y ago
there is an opportunity cost but it's hard to precisely measure. if you're a salaried employee making $100k, you can't just work extra and automatically get to $110k. it might improve your chances of a raise/promotion in
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I mean yeah, I wish the government were a lot more frugal with my money in general. but I don't mind as much when the money is spent on things that directly keep people fed, off the streets, and possibly learning some useful skills to
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by leetcrew 5y ago
what kinds of services do you get from a bank/CU that cost money? I've been using schwab for a few years, and the only thing I've ever had to pay them for was the privilege of throwing away my money on a couple stock options.

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