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by morgante 10y ago
I found it frustrating (but also understandable) that the running costs apparently don't include any personnel when they almost certainly dominate the entire expenses.
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by morgante 10y ago
He seems to have a lot more possessions than me.
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by morgante 10y ago
That's not always possible (especially in a small startup) and I'd argue it's not fair to force them to change teams. I also disagree with the notion that it'll show eventually. Usually if you consciously suppress them t
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by morgante 10y ago
> Then make alternative career plans for when you're 40+. Your alternative careers plans can and should be the possibility of retirement. It is extremely possible as a software engineer to save enough to retire by the time you'
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by morgante 10y ago
The legal fees alone can be a lot, as can splitting assets even if there is no ongoing alimony.
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by morgante 10y ago
I didn't mention alimony at all in my comment and would rather not delve into it, so I'm not sure why you fixated on it. Divorce can be costly even without any sort of alimony (personally, I think it is mostly an outdated concept)
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by morgante 10y ago
Just move to NYC. Or go to an Ivy League university.
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by morgante 10y ago
Arguably one of the benefits of marriage lies expressly in the expense of divorce. It's a way of precommitting people to working through the rough patches in a marriage instead of splitting at the first sign of trouble. If you look at
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by morgante 10y ago
If you do contract development, it's really not that risky. If anything, I'd argue it's riskier not having that option available. Even though I've taken full-time jobs on occasion, always having the option to fall back
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by morgante 10y ago
Seriously, this paper really surprises me. I find ambition very attractive, especially as a signal for a bunch of other personality traits (intelligence, seriousness, drive, etc.). I understand that there's men who don't, but it r
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by morgante 10y ago
I come down firmly on the side of meritocracy. If you're contributing a lot more value, you deserve to be compensated more. I've spent a decade honing my abilities and it's reflected in my skill level. It'd be unfair if
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by morgante 10y ago
> I'm actually open to be proven wrong, but I'm not sure that makes much of a difference in terms of how compensation is justified in the real world (again, ask your employer to provide justification for salaries if you think 1
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by morgante 10y ago
> People hear the term "union" and they think "shop rules" and "union contract salary". The problem is that a significant number of the people who push "unions" (especially on places like HN) are a
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by morgante 10y ago
I don't understand how anyone could be unsure about that being harassment. It's about as clear-cut as you can get. He should have been fired the day that surfaced. If someone who worked for me ever did something like that, they&#x
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by morgante 10y ago
There are certain types of code which I can unequivocally write better after a few drinks. It's honestly mostly low-complexity drudge work which needs to get done but when sober I can't power through it as fast due to (a) boredom
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by morgante 10y ago
> At the end of the visit, he apparently said "I wish I had known at the start that the people making fun of me probably liked me, and the people being perfectly polite probably didn't..." That's not really a cultural
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm not convinced that language is actually such an essential aspect. Cultural similarity seems like a much bigger one. For example, I've seen Indians with great English struggle a lot more to fit in and acclimate than French stud
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by morgante 10y ago
Did they compare against American students though? Modern culture is making everyone increasingly lonely and isolated, so I wouldn't be surprised if a good portion of that number is explained by the fact that going off to college and
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by morgante 10y ago
The problem isn't on the dev side. The devs are the ones reaching out and requesting a connection—it's the submitters who aren't following through.
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Engineers on Google's self-driving car project were paid so much that they quit(theverge.com)
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by morgante 10y ago
That's why I specifically said nobody is obligated to protest. Personally, I'm quite well-positioned to be able to do this. I'm a young self-employed single white man with no family to support. My net worth is probably enough
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by morgante 10y ago
I actually find the daily aspect to be valuable. It's a forcing function of keeping the description quick and easy to read. It's easy to take 30 seconds to scan the opportunity as part of my daily email ritual, but if it were a lo
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by morgante 10y ago
The fact that your connection rate is so low concerns me. Have you done some analysis on it? If these are real problems your submitters have, they should be very eager to talk to someone who might solve it for them. The fact that they don&#
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by morgante 10y ago
This doesn't surprise me, based mostly on the occasional conversations I've had with Medium employees (all of whom raved about their jobs, by the way). Medium seems to fall into a growing group of companies that are more intereste
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by morgante 10y ago
One approach I've taken is to commit to launching irrespective of outcome. I was inspired by Pieter Levels launching 12 startups in 12 months: https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/ Like anything, it gets easier
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by morgante 10y ago
Sounds like someone might have been hanging out on /r/keto. I just lost 20lb in a month on keto.
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by morgante 10y ago
That's assuming a hypothetical crime actually happened in the first place. In many cases it's possible that no crime ever happened . (For example, if the man in the article never actually had child porn that doesn't mean som
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by morgante 10y ago
> Well, you could also be held indefinitely for refusing to provide the combination for a safe. Is there case law supporting that? Traditionally I think the combination would be considered forced testimony.
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by morgante 10y ago
The theory is that 4th amendment protections are relaxed at the border (but they're not entirely eliminated). [0] That allows them to search your physical property and to request digital access, but it does not override the Fifth Ame
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by morgante 10y ago
Travel 'writing' as a literary exercise might be dead, but travel blogging as a professional pursuit is in its heyday thanks to credit cards. Sites like OMAAT[0] or TPG[1] make great revenue off writing about the practical aspects

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