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by morgante 9y ago
Certainly $100k+ is enough to interest some citizens. But there's always the marginal citizen who would be swayed for more money. Anecdotally, I had lots of classmates who aggressively pursued careers in finance not because they had
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by morgante 9y ago
Yes. If engineers were routinely paid $500k+ annually, I'm sure more US citizens would be interested in becoming qualified.
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by morgante 9y ago
> Are state insurance regulations preventing medical insurance providers using more sophisticated risk modeling to create larger pools Especially post-ACA, there are very strict limits on what factors can be used to set premiums. Risk-ba
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by morgante 9y ago
They're definitely here. I've had HN users insist that I, as a Jew, should be deported to Israel.
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by morgante 9y ago
> The only reason it's not public, is because an inefficient labour market helps the employers underpay their employees. If that were true, why wouldn't everyone voluntarily post their salaries publicly? For that matter, why wo
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by morgante 9y ago
Rigidity in salaries is a natural end result of open salaries, as otherwise everyone demands explanations of why someone else is making more. Even in this thread you already see people calling for unionization and collective bargaining to e
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by morgante 9y ago
> unionisation works and why it ensured that workers got their fair share of productivity increases Considering that most unions encourage rigid salary bands, this is a ludicrous statement to make. It's obvious that different worker
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by morgante 9y ago
Any company which won't clearly explain the last share price for you stock and your strike price is trying to pull a fast one. Without that information, it's worth $0.
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by morgante 9y ago
Most big tech companies give a substantial portion of compensation (up to 50%) in the form of RSUs, even for "ordinary" engineers.
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by morgante 9y ago
> I didn't assume ignorance, I observed it. Correction: you observed that I did not mention certain facts. From that observation, you have no way of knowing whether I am ignorant of said facts or simply don't agree with you on
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by morgante 9y ago
This is not at all my experience. Companies pay a premium for full fluency in American cultural and startup norms. I have made well over $100/hr even with clients who I literally never met in person and sometimes even serviced from bea
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by morgante 9y ago
Experienced solo devs can get into the $200/hr range.
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by morgante 9y ago
Why does it make you mad? If you're decent, you can definitely charge more. Feel free to email me if you want tips on upping your rates: me@morgante.net
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by morgante 9y ago
> This isn't to say there aren't valuable signals perhaps involving "cool kids" status, but there are a lot of diamonds in the rough. Yeah, it entirely depends on where you're positioned as an investor. If you ha
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by morgante 9y ago
That could definitely be true, but at least in my experience there are clear personality differences as well. Certain personality traits are necessary to get into senior management, and a lot of those traits tend to lead to valuing direct f
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by morgante 9y ago
I don't think we have evidence that mobsters don't have empathy, at least by the operational definition of empathy we're using. In fact I'd argue that successful mobsters likely have very effective models of people and t
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by morgante 9y ago
> Therefore, they require indirect language and those VPs have to dynamically adjust the communication to that personality. This was one of the biggest things I had to learn in my first management/executive position. Just because al
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by morgante 9y ago
A strong network is generally fairly adaptable. The work goes into building the network, not tapping it. Once you have the network in place, you can just as easily tap it to find a VC as to find customers. (Of course, this is assuming that
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by morgante 9y ago
You're missing the point. It's not about whether I'm "ignorant" about your points or am ashamed of said ignorance, it's that you should never assume you know more than someone else—especially if you barely know
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by morgante 9y ago
That's an extremely patronizing way of approaching this debate. I'm well aware of the different kinds of privilege which money affords students. I grew up lower middle class but went to boarding school and university with some inc
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by morgante 9y ago
For what it's worth, I agree with pg and don't think your college is the best predictor of anything (after all, I actually decided not to go to an Ivy myself). That being said, I reject the notion that it's trivial to buy you
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by morgante 9y ago
It helps, but it's certainly not the dominant effect. I don't know anyone who went to an elite university without significant baseline intelligence. I've seen so many students who still didn't do that well even after ext
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by morgante 9y ago
Not really. Money helps to get in, but elite universities provide the most generous financial aid of any schools in the country. If you come from a anything below the middle class and get in, you likely won't pay a cent.
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by morgante 9y ago
You might want to consider shooting for financial independence (see https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/ ). It might be a few years of grinding it out as a developer, but if you focus on it then it could
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by morgante 9y ago
> How do you plan your company around timing? It seems easy to say "they had good timing" in retrospect. You should have a thesis about what's changed in the world/market to make your product compelling now.
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by morgante 9y ago
Is that surprising? Effective pickup is rooted in psychology. Sales, romantic attraction, and friendship-building ultimately use the same skill set. Humans don't change huge amounts in different contexts, and the best tactics are oft
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by morgante 9y ago
There is definitely evidence for shared adversity being helpful for bonding, but I think it's a stretch to somehow say employment is adversity. By that logic, pretty much every interaction we have is through shared adversity. (It&#x2
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by morgante 9y ago
If I spend a weekend updating my resume, practicing algos, or browsing job listings, then that time is useful for all jobs I'm applying to and interested in. If I spend my weekend on a work sample assignment, it's only applicabl
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by morgante 9y ago
You're uncomfortable with touch, in a way that most people aren't. That's totally fine. I'm guessing you send off signals that you're uncomfortable with it. Part of social skills is knowing how to read those signals
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by morgante 9y ago
I didn't say it was okay or acceptable, but I had a much easier time imagining how a powerful VC ends up making a woman uncomfortable through flirting than full-on sexual assault. Like I said, that was my fault. This is a lot more seri

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