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by mahyarm 10y ago
When rent is well over half your post tax income, it's low income there.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
The Uber/Airbnb/Dropbox/(Facebook X years before IPO) type company give RSUs. They have the typical 4 year vesting schedule and an IPO condition. If you leave the company before IPO but have stayed long enough to meet the
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by mahyarm 10y ago
They've had thermal throttling issues in some of their high end ones, so maybe there are reasons why they are ignored. For a person who is just going to use their laptop as a browser, email, WebEx & MS office machine, that doesn&#x
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by mahyarm 10y ago
It's not that big of a deal to get a gun in Canada. It's easier and faster to get a firearms license (weekend safety course) than it is to get a driving license. People don't feel like it's a big burden to carry their
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I moved away from Vancouver because of the cost of living : income ratio there. Seattle is basically identical, but housing is cheaper and pay is better for software people. And they are about 2 hours away from each other.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
How is it child friendly? I've heard the stereotype is quite the opposite. Do you rent or did you buy that place? Also I work at the same building as square HQ in SF, haha.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Immigration isn't that great in switzerland. It takes even longer than the USA to get citizenship. A high income is also good for saving, so you can bootstrap your own ventures in life instead of being beholden to a govt' retirem
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by mahyarm 10y ago
There are a lot of laptops like that in the PC market, more skewed towards gamers. I like Dave 2D's youtube reviews (no affiliation) of laptops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLsDn59fxdQ He has a whole bunch more o
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Homebrew has been pretty great for me. You can install desktop apps with brew cask, dump your current app install state with brew bundle and then reinstall it all with one command on a new machine. You can even manage mac store apps with
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You can change your sleep mode to get rid of the hibernate restoration. I have to warn you although, your battery life of your sleeping laptop will go down: http://www.macworld.com/article/1053471/software/sl
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Yeah. The tax rate that is collected whenever you buy a property and 'reset' the prop 13 timer. %1 for the base rate, plus a bunch of other one off fixed charges that add up to the %0.2-%0.5 rate. People who have had prop 13 pro
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by mahyarm 10y ago
The funny thing is, the effective new property tax rate in Oakland or SF is something like %1.2-%1.5, which is bigger than Seattle King County's tax rate of %1. And Seattle has better roads than the bay area, no state income tax, a lo
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Sorry I was unclear. I was talking about the Victoria-Vancouver ferry, which is about 3hrs. Same with the Seattle-Victoria Ferry. The SF ferry is also slower than driving with no traffic or bart :)
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You can get a dongle attacher, like this one for the magsafe 1 adapter: https://www.amazon.com/Cozy-Industries-MC-RD-1-2-MagCozy-2-P...
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Bridge choke points, mountain ranges and other small body of water crossings is where electric flying cars / taxis will shine. It would be very useful in cities such as Seattle, SF or NYC. It would also be useful for places like Vi
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I once had a comment where I translated a clojure function into it's equivalent syntax in python. It was still pretty hard to read. I think its about how lisp uses function composition for everything makes code hard to parse until yo
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by mahyarm 10y ago
That can become common at many larger tech cos. Usually its about some random technical fact, like how to write a better test or whatever else. It's community driven at about the sophistication level of a community newsletter.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
It's hard to work for any software bigco that doesn't have an ethics violation somewhere. Same as living in a country without an ethics violation attributable to it's govt. Google is probably the scariest one out there out of
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by mahyarm 10y ago
If you know swift/objc pretty well with it's ARC reference counting memory management, do you pick up the borrow checker faster?
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by mahyarm 10y ago
It depends if they went hungry at some time in their life.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Or if the cell phone provider is telling your baseband to execute some random code, or modifying the baseband itself!
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by mahyarm 10y ago
LVT changes #2, because the ongoing tax cost of putting a new high rise on your empty plot of land is no different than it being empty or it having 4 single family homes. The property tax bill make having a single family home an expensive
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Usually the service is worse in 'tip expected' industries.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I think Uber realizes if someone else has autonomous tech first, that company will cut out the drivers and they will all be out of jobs. So either way, it doesn't really matter who does it first. And it's also why Uber is probabl
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Big boat shipping is not going to go automated anytime soon. Boat staff are a relative rounding error in costs from my estimates. There are only 39k of those boats in the world, and they are not going to be electric any time soon unless th
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Advertise the lower prices and then add a flat 'staff service fee'. That way you can advertise the same prices with a similar tip difference.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You will have carseat cars, cars with sports racks, larger minivans where you don't need the sports rack and so on. Uber today has a car seat option for example in NYC. I could see cars that let you just move the stroller in and lock
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Can you sue the city & the builder then for not actually inspecting properly and not building a house that was supposed to be built to code?
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by mahyarm 10y ago
It might be a function of being in a position to effect things that far in the future, or thinking that far in the future will matter that much. People love to armchair quarterback federal politics and long term plans that might effect the
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by mahyarm 10y ago
There are many good principles that come from social sciences and such. The problems are: 1. It's difficult to make a career in it unless you apply it in a non-traditional way. Many kids are often misled by that. 2. There is a lack o

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