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by malyk 13y ago
"Only" a thousand bucks for people making $14,500 a year is A LOT OF MONEY...they could, you know, buy groceries for 3 or 4o months with that.
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by malyk 13y ago
Had the exact same thing happen except my bill was only for $1800 after insurance. The kicker was that when I called the insurance company to ask about the cost they told me that it was unknowable in advance because they have rates negotiat
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by malyk 13y ago
The absolute last thing anybody needs is more horrible sprawling "cities" like those in the sunbelt.
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by malyk 13y ago
It's difficult in that you can't go out to a normal dinner without being really careful about what you eat. For instance, if you go to a normal restaurant (not one catering to vegans) and order a salad and ask for no cheese, but
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by malyk 13y ago
To be honest, I'm also someone who doesn't mind jumping online to fix something quickly in off hours. But I think the ad that prompted the post by dhh is part of a trend in our society that is only going to get worse. It's
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by malyk 13y ago
My wife and I are "vegan" in that we try not to eat animal products. But what's made us able to do it for 2 years now is the flexibility we give ourselves. For us it's mostly not an ethical choice, so we don't feel
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by malyk 13y ago
"At more senior levels, shit happens - servers blow up, deals come out of nowhere, and your top client with millions of dollars in arrears declares bankruptcy. It's generally unreasonable to declare all those situations unworthy o
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by malyk 13y ago
I believe the city of Richmond, CA (in the bay area, green party mayor) has already passed a provision to use eminent domain for the same reason. Oakland is following their lead.
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by malyk 13y ago
Sure, but comments in this thread alone tell us that not all job hoppers do it for money/title bumps. I'm happy to pay market salary, and give competitive raises if warranted, but you aren't going to become the VP of engineer
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by malyk 13y ago
I'm trying to hire an engineer right now and job hopping is almost an instant reject. But my guess is that it really depends on the stage of the company and size of the team. If you come from a recruiter that I have to pay $25k (or mor
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by malyk 13y ago
And the chances of you actually seeing anything particularly interesting is pretty low.
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by malyk 13y ago
We can start with the federal fuel tax which hasn't been raised in 20 years.
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by malyk 13y ago
I'm seeing the same thing with my iPhone. I Have a 4S and while I like what the 5s brings I'm just not sure it's worth upgrading now. There is just starting to be the very hint of slowness in some things on the 4S, but it is
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by malyk 13y ago
McDonald's is just an example. Presumably when we are talking about one company paying a living wage we are talking about all of the companies in their industry doing the same. Then again, starbucks pays well, has health insurance, e
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by malyk 13y ago
What does new housing have to do with rent control? Housing built after 1979 isn't rent controlled.
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by malyk 13y ago
This comes back to transportation a bit. Living in the outer sunset or outer richmond and commuting to soma or the financial district is either a really long bus ride on packed buses or an N/T/etc fraught with delays getting onto
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by malyk 13y ago
Isn't that exactly what proponents of basic income hope will happen? People will be free from the shackles of employment and will be free to pursue their own ideas and interests?
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by malyk 13y ago
Of course, but the time you've decided to hit the close button you've been exposed to all of the ads and esquire has gotten exactly what they want out of you. Hell, if their lucky you try to go back to the site and wait to zoom i
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by malyk 13y ago
I hear that, for sure. Oakland has a serious problem with burglaries/robberies. The police force is understaffed and, while oakland is finally trying to add more officers, it's going to take years to get back to a level of staffin
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by malyk 13y ago
While I completely agree that this problem is the responsibility of the government you have to understand the frustration of the people whose houses are being broken in to on a regular basis. Ok, not the same house (usually), but the same
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by malyk 13y ago
I live in Northwest oakland (near san pablo and stanford/powell) and the amount of robberies/burglaries that have happened in the greater neighborhood is kind of crazy. It's rarely more than a couple of days between reports
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by malyk 13y ago
Since 2001. Stackoverflow seems to be the place where my JS searches lead me.
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by malyk 13y ago
I've never heard of mdn before this thread somehow. But w3schools is perfect for looking up the things I tend to look up (mostly CSS or HTML attributes) and it's really easy to parse. Plus it's always the first google result
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by malyk 13y ago
Prices in the east bay are still way over asking and there is a lot of cash. My wife and I paid $75k over asking for our 1300ft2, 1 bed, 1 bath house in north oakland just shy of a year ago. We bid on 6 houses total and every one of those
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by malyk 13y ago
I like this take. Makes pretty good sense to me. The one quibble I would have is that I'm not sure that all of the new tech will filter down in the next generation. That's the way they've done it before, but it could be that
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by malyk 13y ago
I think he meant radical for the iPhone brand, not the apple brand.
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by malyk 13y ago
The article states that it will remain a separate product.
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by malyk 13y ago
I know that I have about 5ish hours of good programming work in me a day. I know that I like to take a 45ish minute lunch. I know that I have some admin type stuff to do on occasion. So, sign me up for a 6 hour day and you'll get my
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by malyk 13y ago
Playing with computers is awesome. Coding is awesome. It's always a huge boost to put something new out to the world. It's great. But you know what else is awesome? Spending time with my wife, gardening, hiking, traveling, biki
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by malyk 13y ago
Um, don't we already have things set up to share things properly and call them Libraries? In Oakland there is the Tool Lending Library, where you can borrow tools from a screw driver all the way up to gas lawn mowers, electric trimmers

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