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by lsc 8y ago
> Not really, you have to pay competitively of course. But you can safely assume that everybody else does that too. In silicon valley, the difference between what a FAANG company pays and what almost everyone else pays is... pretty big.
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by lsc 8y ago
Interesting. when I use my iphone SE, I use it one handed; I use swype with my thumb, which doesn't look like it'd work; my thumb practically covers the whole keyboard, but it ends up working really well for me. swype on th
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by lsc 8y ago
that's the thing; I mean, yeah, we'd all take small pay cuts for a lot of things; but dropping out of a FAANG company to one of the companies that is having a hard time hiring is a massive pay cut. Like, for me; I'd be so h
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by lsc 8y ago
I think #1 is mostly a pay issue. If two companies pay the same and one expects more hours, they don't pay the same. (note, I'd also take a small hourly cut to work fewer hours a week, but as far as I can tell, the paycut I wo
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by lsc 8y ago
Isn't it just... mostly money? I mean, if you want to hire someone good, who presumably has a good job, you have to pay better than what they are getting now. I think this is probably especially true in Europe; I mean, as far as I kn
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by lsc 8y ago
I'm reminded of the quote about how writing everything down is going to ruin the minds of young people for memorization. In general, I'd argue that this is not so much 'de-skilling' as 'learning how to use tools&#x
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by lsc 8y ago
is that true? I mean, that staring at a screen degrades your vision? I haven't read anything convincing on the subject.
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by lsc 8y ago
I personally agree, but most people like cars as they are now, even in SF and LA; only in NYC is public transit really good enough that there is a critical mass of non-car owners voting to keep up the public transit. I live in silicon val
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by lsc 8y ago
making a safety-grade data network would be an interesting challenge. I do think it is a possible thing to do over limited areas, and I think that if we had defined areas that had safety-rated networks, that's a thing that self-driving
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by lsc 8y ago
>Almost all technical problems of self-driving cars are solved by current algorithms once we get 100x faster HW, That sounds off to me, because my understanding is that the computer is a small portion of the cost and the mass of the self
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by lsc 8y ago
do you type with both hands?
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by lsc 8y ago
>What I don't get about the larger phones is how people comfortably carry them around. Maybe its because I wear skinny jeans / pants, but there's absolutely no way I could fit a larger phone in the pockets of my pants, and
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by lsc 8y ago
My theory is that big phones are best for single device users. Most of my social circle has a computer at home and at work, and they often carry a laptop or tablet. The phone, in that case, really is a mobile device, and especially if
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by lsc 8y ago
Do you eat yeast? It's good for that sort of thing; I mean, you can get it drinking unfiltered beer, too, but personally I kinda like how nutritional yeast tastes, and I'll use it as a condiment.
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by lsc 8y ago
If you are in Silicon Valley and want to experience a flip, try out 'the haberdasher' in san jose. So good. If they have a good thick stout on tap, get the 'beer flip' - I can't tell you what's in it, oth
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by lsc 8y ago
Note, walmart has a wide selection of extremely cheap mail-order mattresses. No idea if they are any good, but if you are looking to save money on a mattress, it's probably worth doing some research.
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by lsc 8y ago
I'm not sure anyone is fooled by the "It's cheaper" - but there are a lot of us who will pay a reasonable premium to not have to go to the store and deal with salespeople in person, and personally... I think that'
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by lsc 8y ago
The other thing I point out here is that "the cloud" is suuuper expensive, and while that is still way cheaper than hiring a me or two to handle your hardware while you are small, there comes a point pretty quickly on amazon where
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by lsc 8y ago
physical activity has a lot to do with burning calories; that doesn't translate into weight loss for most people because physical activity makes you hungry.
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by lsc 8y ago
Eh, I've been a sysadmin/programmer since 1997 or so; I'd argue the slow automation of our profession has been going on forever. it used to be that sysadmin started as the kid who swaps the tapes and does the reboots, and w
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by lsc 8y ago
right. I mean, getting a new job has always seemed easy for me? but I don't think that disproves anything you say. (Another big part of why I think finding a new job is easy is 'cause I kinda like interviewing, and can do it a
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by lsc 8y ago
I would argue that 'interviewee' is part of all our jobs. Not a big part, but it's a very important part. My observation is that my interview-avoidant friends either spend a lot of time unemployed after an employer goes away
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by lsc 8y ago
eh? I dunno about hoarding, but I have feelings about eating. At least for eating, most people don't operate rationally; can you tell me how many calories you ate and burned today? yesterday? I can, but I have been putting a lot of e
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by lsc 8y ago
I think that has more to do with competence than passion. If you are good (and good at interviewing) getting a new job is easy. If you have passion... losing your current job over differences in how to do things is... common.
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by lsc 8y ago
I know, right? No company would give us a private area to make phone calls without disturbing our neighbors.
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by lsc 8y ago
I don't think that changes my point? A lot of people consider something like article 25; some right to minimal food, shelter and medical care to be part of human rights. Right-libertarians generally don't believe that you have a
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by lsc 8y ago
> Since when libertarianism and human rights have been on the opposite sides? I dunno about opposite, but certainly in opposition on certain points: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/inde..
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by lsc 8y ago
like... half the people I know who own a single family home generate a good portion of their own electricity. Sometimes centralization helps efficiency, it's true, but sometimes the opposite, decentralization helps, too... it sure look
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by lsc 8y ago
eh, I think the real problem is that we're building/converting space into office space at a much faster rate than we're building/converting space into residential. I personally think that to get zoning approval to build
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by lsc 8y ago
hm. what if the employer starts counting commuting as work time? I mean, the big difference between this and just paying enough that I'm getting more money per hour counting my commute is the recognition that if I'm commuting 1

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