mancerayder

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by mancerayder 11y ago
Well sure, because in salaried jobs no one counts your hours. However, in my experience in both finance and ad tech, you end up working more than 40 hours. My IT buddies making 250k+ work 55-60 hour weeks, easy. It's not much better
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by mancerayder 11y ago
This happens to me consistently here among the NYC recruiters. When I was young and naive I fell for it, now I come back with, "I have a policy, out of respect for the other recruiters I work with, not to reveal where I'm interv
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by mancerayder 11y ago
"Still, the UK remains one of the best places in the world to be a contractor. Rates in USA and Canada are a lot lower for contract work, mainly because there isn't as much contact work available." I don't know what the
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by mancerayder 11y ago
Fair enough. I stand corrected on that sentence. A few nuances need to be pointed out, though. While they increase, they increase to levels set by the city based on a calculation that incorporates costs of things like taxes, utilities and
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by mancerayder 11y ago
Nope, nope, you have it right but in the context of this discussion you have it wrong. :-) There is rent control and rent stabilization, two separate items under the rubric of "rent regulated housing". See, those terms have pol
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Australia blocks sale of Ireland-sized chunk of land to private Chinese company(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by mancerayder 11y ago|1 comments
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by mancerayder 11y ago
That, or it creates a nervous impetus in the authorities to pass those laws before more sophisticated encryption and adoption move faster than they can respond to it.
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by mancerayder 11y ago
I did after your comment lead me to it! There's more than one thing that's funny about it. Is it the word 'cybercode'? The man 'near' it, whatever that means? Or the nonsensical photo? Great stuff. They s
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by mancerayder 11y ago
Absolutely! One of the many reasons to go rogue these days, the 50k limit on 401k contributions.
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by mancerayder 11y ago
That's not a bad idea, thanks. Are there better job boards than Dice for this? State HR is a solid piece of advice, and confirms a friend's experience here in the city. But it'd be nice to look at non state/city roles
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Ask HN: How to find gigs as an independent contractor
4 points by mancerayder 11y ago|4 comments