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by lotharbot 8y ago
> "Boise engineers make $85k and SF engineers make $145k" if you click on the Boise link you provided and change the city to SF without making any other changes, it shows about $125k, not $145k. 145 is if you add "senio
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by lotharbot 8y ago
"software engineers" in SF aren't making 140k either. If you look across several software-related job titles that are around 140k in SF (you may have to include terms like "lead" or "senior") you'll f
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by lotharbot 8y ago
As someone who was looking at the data on glassdoor while writing my comment, and who has dealt with offers from recruiters, and who has an extensive network of friends who are open about their earnings, I call bullshit on your calling of b
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by lotharbot 8y ago
Overall Denver is less white than the US as a whole, but has some neighborhoods that are almost entirely white (take a look on https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/index.html ). You can hang out in, say, Cherry Cr
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by lotharbot 8y ago
software engineer salary somewhere else is usually more like 20-25% less rather than 50% less -- someone making 140k in SF might make 110k-120k in places like Boise or Denver. They'll pay 5k less in taxes (both due to lower total inco
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by lotharbot 8y ago
Boise is absorbing a lot of people who either can't afford to live in California any more, or don't like California's political environment. Boise is currently the fastest growing metro area in the US. This is happening in a
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by lotharbot 8y ago
I suspect that's the joke. Making fun of how Javascript parses or evaluates expressions is a favorite passtime in programmer circles. See, for example, https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by lotharbot 9y ago
as a Denver native, I completely agree with point 2. The post hasn't produced much quality-original content for quite some time. I can't think of any specific type of coverage where they provide the best available. They're be
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by lotharbot 9y ago
the CEO of Scruff replied elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16738283
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by lotharbot 9y ago
via https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/laws-re... "The Security Rule applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and to any health care provider who transmits health informatio
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Stupid Patent of the Month: A Token of Troll Appreciation(eff.org)
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by lotharbot 9y ago
more generally, "corporate personhood" in US law, going back to at least the 1790s and in other countries going back even longer, serves the legal purpose of establishing that when people work together to do something under the &q
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by lotharbot 9y ago
in the context of having to leave the building due to a fire alarm, no, you're not meeting them back inside the building at the phone re-collection point (or in this case one of the phone unlock mechanisms). At least not immediately.
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by lotharbot 9y ago
frequently, these situations are not so much hypothetical as simply explanations of situations some of us have found ourselves in. Perhaps you have never had the experience of taking a close friend or relative with a disability, social dysf
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "an invitation to mortal peril" There have always been people with (physical and mental) health concerns or disabilities who need to be able to get hold of a caregiver on short notice. In the age of cell phones, it's m
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "I have a hard time imagining one" Someone mentioned above that, in the event of a fire alarm and being separated from your group, being able to reconnect with them is important. Particularly for vulnerable people (whether
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by lotharbot 9y ago
"The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character and properties of individuality on a collective and changing body of men." - chief justice Marshall a few of these decisions to be aware of: The Rev John Bracken v.
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "Let's train/condition 300 million people" the vast majority of people in the US know not to run from bears. They also can identify pikachu on sight. Knowing how to respond to the unexpected appearance of police w
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by lotharbot 9y ago
there are also still retro games being played, like Descent, with small and tight-knit communities.
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by lotharbot 9y ago
I lived in a community with municipal broadband (Brigham City, UT / UTOPIA fiber) and it was extremely well run. There were still private ISPs handling basically everything, it's just that they used city-owned fiber and offered ve
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by lotharbot 9y ago
from the 2015 data set via https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs.html : out of 118.29 million housing units, 80.8m (68%) have dishwashers, 97.6m (82%) have washing machines, and 95.7m (81%) have dryers. For the
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by lotharbot 9y ago
yeah, building and zoning are certainly relevant considerations. I'm not saying "this is all the fault of consumers". More like "when we measure inflation, we conflate monetary and lifestyle inflation, and our preferred
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "Over a certain amount of space, increases experience diminishing returns" Indeed. And yet, that's what we buy. Or, that's what's being built and therefore that's what we can buy. I don't know whe
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "It is completely dependent on it being the US stock market." Not really. It's only dependent on stock prices inherently reflecting all of the information buyers and sellers have about their expectations, including expe
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by lotharbot 9y ago
"core" CPI includes housing. This is funky for another reason: people don't live in similar housing to what people lived in in the past. If you look at census data (American Housing Survey) from 40-50 years ago, you find the
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by lotharbot 9y ago
personally, I've seen several circumstances where the costs of "doing something" are much higher than the benefits of deliberate study and taking correct action, even on a global scale.
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "you're confusing a personal religious/spiritual practice with the physical act of abstaining from food" No, she is not (being married to her, I can speak with some authority regarding her intent.) She does not fa
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by lotharbot 9y ago
I currently play with a group on roll20. It's not perfect, but it's adequate. (We pair it with a discord server for voice and secondary/out-of-character chat and logistics.)
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by lotharbot 9y ago
in my current game, the dwarves all have redneck accents, and if anyone questions why they're not talking in bad Scottish accents, they start talking about "ijits" who've never seen a real dwarf but only halflings dresse
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by lotharbot 9y ago
the short answer is that some systems better support creative experiences than others. Each system provides both power to tell stories and restrictions on what stories make sense within the framework. 3.5e, for example, was a high-powered b

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