mahyarm

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by mahyarm 9y ago
I'm from BC, so it was actually a decrease in the cost of living. Seattle had cheaper consumer goods, cheaper gas, less taxes and cheaper housing. SF is a bit more expensive, but houses cost about the same as Vancouver while rent is
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by mahyarm 9y ago
How much would the equivalent office space cost for the employer?
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I would add a 'company is public' column to this spreadsheet. Even if you don't disclose the company, you can at least say if you can sell your equity easily ;)
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It's because you live in Canada. Canadian devs get paid a lot less. $80k/yr CAD is typical for a sr dev there. I moved down to the USA for the big raise.
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Where do you live? I did brooklyn -> oakland and it said that oakland is %15 cheaper. These are jr. dev salaries
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by mahyarm 9y ago
But why do public organizations in developed europe & co have infrastructure projects for cheaper then? Don't they have similar or even stronger public work cultures?
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by mahyarm 9y ago
It's so bizarre, seeing how pinterest screams for some sort of machine learning image matching ad system, combined with direct buy buttons for the stuff in the pictures.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
The typical maid service before all of this is someone you hire off craigslist or word of mouth and pay directly in cash. Who may or may not be an illegal immigrant. It is pretty much a pure contractor model on it's face. Equivalent t
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by mahyarm 9y ago
How possible would it be for a group of parents to hire a teacher and have them teach 6-12 kids at someone's house? Sidestepping a lot of the administration BS?
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How is their local internet connection going to handle that? Do you have the same kind of professional reliability like data centers do? You should be doing a local NAS type thing like you do with your optiplex at home and a cloud service
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by mahyarm 9y ago
If the HSR is fast enough, it might induce a long distance commuter community in bakersfield as it induces demand. So it's hard to say. It's kind of like the joke that it's cheaper to live in vegas and fly every day to work
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by mahyarm 9y ago
It's the country your building it in, not the people who are doing it.
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I found it useful for lower costs in sending money across country and currency borders. Someone will reply and say it's not actually cheaper, but what is available for the average joe it is definitely cheaper. It's also faster an
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by mahyarm 9y ago
A lot of rideshare / delivery companies include insurance as part of their service fee while you are delivering / driving people. I would assume walmart would do something similar.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
It might be part of the reason why you tend to see older people in bigco and younger people in startup co.
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We could apply the same logic to the entire Chinese communist revolution then. If it didn't happen then china might be Taiwan today vs. the polluted authoritarian land it is now. The famine which killed 15-45 million people and did a
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by mahyarm 9y ago
They are convenient voice command lines. It's faster to speak your timer, ask the weather, play music, or remotely turn off lights than to fiddle with your phone.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
It would become part of the same process of renewing your registration and getting smog checks. It would probably be like smog checks where there are many depots to get read, run by small businesses and gas stations. I would actually just
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Extensive toll roads are inefficient. A yearly mileage based tax based on location & car weight/type is more efficient for everyone.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
It's about round trips in large cities. For example, if I want to drive from san jose to sf and then come back that is about 220km in one day for 2 hours on the highway.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
For me I just want 1 thing: Sleeper economy: Something that will let me lie flat that isn't 4x the price, for trans-pacific 12 timezone flights that take 12+hrs. I would be totally fine with beds that stack, it's too bad it does
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by mahyarm 9y ago
They definitely do and are working on it. But it's not perfect and eventually you need human judgement. Even if it's just for the initial data training set.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
They tell you about GEMA although as the cause of their fear, at least to me. The details, as you say, are probably different.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
GEMA is pretty aggressive in Germany. Talking jane random and they don't do file sharing because they are in fear of GEMA.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Startups aren't that special, and I lost a lot of income by doing small startups first as an employee for 4/5 years. Startups even in successful cases are just break even working at AFGAM. Usually you'll quickly be throwing a
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Processing lag probably contributes
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by mahyarm 9y ago
If rides show up instantly, wouldn't it be more efficient to just get another uber ride after your 5 minute shopping trip?
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by mahyarm 9y ago
There is a nerdy segment that loves tracking all of this health data forever and ever. There is also the segment that just wants to lose weight, and that can apply at all ages. A continuous glucose monitor is also a great way to monitor ke
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I've seen the concept mentioned in writing from the 1800s, and you can probably see it even further back. I don't know if it's that modern ;)
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I need large mouses to not get hand pain, and the sculpt mouse has been the biggest mouse that I've found that fit that criteria for me quite well. It's even bigger than the mx master. I haven't found a larger traditional mo

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