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by matteotom 3y ago
Are you suggesting a specific policy?
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by matteotom 3y ago
There's a ton of extra space in the United States. Germany's population density is >600/sq mile. That's more than all but five states. It's not a new problem - it's one that's been solved by many oth
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by matteotom 3y ago
I know this is a common talking point, but what are you suggesting, specifically? Are you accounting for temporarily vacant homes due to finding new tenants? Or homes that are up for sale? Or whether people actually want to live in the p
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by matteotom 3y ago
Not necessarily - if you're a hedge fund and you think you have an algorithm that can predict gains just a tiny bit better than the call option's seller, then 99 times out of 100 you lose $x but that last 1 in 100 you might gain $
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by matteotom 3y ago
>Sooner or later some airlines will spin out their rewards business into a separate company to get the maximum valuation from it. Isn't this effectively what we have with Chase, Amex, Capital One, and Citi? Each earns points that c
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by matteotom 3y ago
try > ip --color address otherwise you might just have an old version
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by matteotom 4y ago
While it would certainly be difficult or impossible to find a jury of people who’ve never heard of Trump, I think it’s easy for us online news-followers to underestimate the number of people who don’t really follow news or politics. Sure Tr
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by matteotom 4y ago
Nit: it’s brinksmanship by the republicans. They happily blow up the deficit and raise the debt ceiling when they’re in power, but then cry foul as soon as there’s a democrat in the White House. I don’t know of any time the democrats have r
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by matteotom 4y ago
I've been running my own finances with double entry bookkeeping (via beancount) for about 4 years now, and it's ended up being super useful. As long as I'm 90% sure I got all the income, expenses, investment buys and sells,
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by matteotom 4y ago
The Fed is designed to be independent from the whims of any individual politician, but it still exists due to an act of congress, and could be changed at any time by congress passing a law and the president signing it. And if that can&#x27
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by matteotom 4y ago
I think every salary transparency law I've seen (including this one) only includes base salary, and not bonus, stock, etc. Realistically the laws probably cover 90+% of available jobs by only requiring base salary/hourly rate.
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by matteotom 4y ago
My hope is that the internal posting requirement will help with this, since internal postings are maybe more likely to be more specific about what level/location the team is looking for.
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by matteotom 4y ago
My biggest annoyance with most salary transparency law compliance is companies pretend they'll accept anyone in any location at levels between 1 and 5, resulting in ranges like "$85k" (lowest paid location, level 1) to "
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by matteotom 4y ago
Not anymore, anywhere in CA: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
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by matteotom 4y ago
Even if the on-chain stuff is transparent, there’s much less transparency in crypto/defi exchanges than any traditional investment firm.
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by matteotom 5y ago
If your car has a smart key, it can be over $100 to replace and another $100 to have a dealer or locksmith re-program it. Edit, more things that are expensive: - if you live in an apartment with nfc entry, they might charge an arm and a leg
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by matteotom 5y ago
Making it harder for people to vote is literally voter suppression. You might argue that it is ineffective voter suppression, but I don't think you can argue that adding unnecessary steps to voting, and making penalties for making mis
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by matteotom 5y ago
Laws shouldn't exist just because people think they'd be a good idea. There's also no evidence that voter ID laws prevent voter fraud, or even that voter fraud happens at any meaningful rate. Advocating for unnecessary rest
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by matteotom 5y ago
> If you do, start thinking critically please While there are some topics where I agree with both major parties, and many issues where both are near equally bad, I have yet to come across a national policy issue where Republicans are bet
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by matteotom 5y ago
I think the existing incentive is by browsing /newest, you can find interesting submissions and get a quality comment in earlier, and probably get more upvotes as more people view the comments page.
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by matteotom 5y ago
If you pay for M1 pro ($125/year) you can set a "smart rule" to automatically transfer above $x from your spend (checking) account to an investment account, and automatically invest it.
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by matteotom 5y ago
I know someone who's been doing wealth management for like 20 or 30 years now. Based on what they've told me, I'd separate clients roughly into 3 categories: 1. people who don't want to think about it - they pay for ever
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by matteotom 5y ago
Sometimes you just want to dump the bytes that are going over the wire. Sure you could pipe the output to a protobuf parser, but then you'd need to make sure the output of tcpdump or ngrep or whatever is what the parser expects. As an
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by matteotom 5y ago
In my experience, the important part is sometimes that _faster_ means _cheaper_. In many cases, 20% faster code means you need almost 20% fewer CPUs, which really adds up at scale.
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by matteotom 5y ago
WLB is pretty good, I basically never work more than 40 hrs per week. I could probably make 20-50% more if I changed companies, but I don't really want to give up WLB. And the industry is probably best categorized as ad tech.
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by matteotom 5y ago
I'd be in favor of salary sharing in this sub-thread: $155k base $145k/year RSUs (2021); $175k RSUs (2022 est) "Senior" SRE in SF 3.5 YEO, 3.5 years at current company
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by matteotom 5y ago
This affected on region, us-east-1, which is the oldest and largest aws region, and also hosts many core aws services. Each region has several availability zones (AZs) that are basically whole datacenters. In theory AZs should be mostly i
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by matteotom 5y ago
My understanding is there's a pretty strong culture of running amazon.com directly in AWS as much as possible. I don't think there's much reason to believe a sectioned off alternative would be much more reliable, it would ju
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by matteotom 5y ago
Reading this and the Bloomberg opinion piece from another commenter, it seems much of the consternation around PFOF comes from the (mis)conception that a stock has a single price at any time. In reality it has a spread between the bid and
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by matteotom 5y ago
The Fed has a pretty straightforward mission to balance inflation and employment. If they're doing a bad job of that, then the president or congress (acting on behalf of the people) can act to hold them accountable. If congress decid

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