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by morgante 10y ago
Sure, contracting in London is "very" profitable but it's still not as profitable as contracting in SV/NYC. It only looks good in comparison because full-time rates are shit. Also, if you're talking about contractin
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by morgante 10y ago
You seem to have no idea how health insurance works. Any good healthcare plan, especially post-ACA, will not have a cap like that. People way overvalue free healthcare. Yes, it would be nice but it's nowhere near worth the salary diffe
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by morgante 10y ago
I love how people trot out universal healthcare or pensions as a reason to ignore that European salaries are so much lower. With an American tech salary of $200k/yr, I can pay for all of that (health insurance, student loans, etc.) and
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by morgante 10y ago
Sure, and everyone besides hard core white supremacists considers Ashkenazim to be white. I've hung out with plenty of blatant racists who treated me, as a Jew, as part of their in-group.
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by morgante 10y ago
Who must it necessarily come from bad negotiators? The market rate for senior software engineers could easily be $250-300k if everyone negotiated aggressively. The ceiling on developer pay is the value they produce, and developers at many
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by morgante 10y ago
It's definitely one of my dreams to do as well. I just need to get the gumption to actually do it (and the luck to actually land a contract).
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by morgante 10y ago
Yea, good luck with that.
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by morgante 10y ago
"It is, unfortunately, one of the chief characteristics of modern business to be always in a hurry. In olden times it was different."
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by morgante 10y ago
It's not dirt-cheap but I'm fairly happy with the $160/m plan I can get as a healthy young person (no subsidies).
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by morgante 10y ago
That's why I deliberately included "American" in my response. This varies substantially between countries.
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by morgante 10y ago
A CV is a different thing than a resume, at least from a US perspective. I actually have both.
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by morgante 10y ago
> You are a special snowflake. I'm not even the only person saying it in this thread . In very rare cases, you can get away with 2 pages. A self-taught developer just getting into the field is definitely not one of those cases. I&#
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm talking from a US perspective. This varies substantially across countries.
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by morgante 10y ago
A CV is not a resume and mistaking the two is a fatal mistake that I see far too frequently. You might just be using it as shorthand, but I've seen far too many friends who thought sending in their 5-page CV for industry job applicatio
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by morgante 10y ago
It's not "just an opinion." It's an established best practice which you will hear from anyone involved in hiring at American companies. Lots of people think they're special snowflakes. They're not. If you'
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by morgante 10y ago
Yup, the US is increasingly heading towards the worst of both . We're investing massively in building a police state, while completely neglecting infrastructure and quality of life.
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by morgante 10y ago
Interesting, they must have changed the list. I definitely used to get the 3x for AWS purchases.
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by morgante 10y ago
Edit: nevermind
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by morgante 10y ago
It does if you refer to the bogeyman without pointing out that it's false. You said terrorists are an existential threat, not that some (crazy) people think they are.
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by morgante 10y ago
Eh, we're a country that also allowed slavery for decades and only allowed a minority of citizens to vote for most of its history. I'm willing to embrace an expansive definition of the "US."
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by morgante 10y ago
I'd say the end to constitutional governance would be a good definition. That'd be included in all your scenarios except the police state. As much as I'd hate to live in a police state, I don't think you can call that th
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by morgante 10y ago
What's the conceivable scenario where even heightened levels of "fear and uncertainty" lead to the collapse of the USA? Also keep in mind that people are already extraordinarily pessimistic and unconfident about the country
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by morgante 10y ago
That's a fair point, but it's not what people who talk about the "existential threat" of terrorists are talking about. They're usually the ones pushing for more surveillance. More terrorism might change the nature
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by morgante 10y ago
> There are sizable portions of the US and Europe that believe muslims are terrorist sympathizers who want to enact Sharia law. Sure, and there are millions of people who believe all sorts of nutty things. Millions of people believe that
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm not saying that terrorism isn't bad. Obviously it would be upsetting, but to be clear: an order of magnitude more terrorism would be a 9/11-level attack every year . Even with that catastrophic level, NYC would still sur
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by morgante 10y ago
> Terrorists are an existential threat Give me a break. I've never heard a more hyperbolic statement even from diehard warmongers. There is no conceivable way that terrorists threaten our national existence/security. Even sever
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by morgante 10y ago
I wish I'd had the opportunity to work in finance/IB for at least a little while. It's something I was always interested in, but would have taken more work to break into (vs. getting great-paying jobs for tech pretty much rig
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by morgante 10y ago
> But because they charge a high price they seem more valuable, give higher utility to owners and are hence actually become "worth" the higher price I feel like you've never owned nice clothing before then. In every concei
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by morgante 10y ago
Wordpress is 100% a competitor to Medium. Probably their biggest competitor. Even if you want to restrict to .com, WordPress.com (VIP) competes for many of the same users which Medium has been competing for.
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by morgante 10y ago
> So I think a hotel probably can ban guests from operating a wireless AP, but jamming such activity using active measures is going too far. Exactly. It's the jamming which is illegal, not the ban.

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