morgante

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by morgante 10y ago
Where do you get these assumptions from? My parents absolutely could not have afforded to pay for college without extremely generous financial aid. Thankfully, that's exactly what elite universities provide. I know plenty of other peop
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm sick of hearing this meme that Ivy league universities automatically mean you were born wealthy. Top universities have, by far, the most generous financial aid you can get out there.
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by morgante 10y ago
> The quote is "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." I'm quite familiar with the quote. Except that in practice, covering up a negative action is often exactly what lands people into hot water (see Watergate, Clinton
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by morgante 10y ago
> So I have noticed FB recommend people that all attended the same party that I have no previous relationship to. You probably knew some people at the party though, and some of them had location services on. It's really not hard t
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by morgante 10y ago
> That's a strange conclusion to come to. Why? I posit that a good portion of the customer fallout from this functionality has already happened since so many people believe the conspiracy. By lying about it, they add a whole layer
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm familiar with that feature, but it is: [0] (a) opt-in (b) only active when you're posting a status, not in the background Whether they save the data or not is immaterial (I also assume they probably do). This feature has nothi
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by morgante 10y ago
Agreed. That's exactly why my username everywhere is my real name (morgante). I'm under no illusion that anything I say online is anonymous.
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by morgante 10y ago
Perhaps, but I've monitored the volume of data uploads by the Facebook app and they're pretty minimal. There's also the fact that Facebook has gone on the record specifically disavowing this conspiracy. If it were true, they
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by morgante 10y ago
Even text would involve a vastly higher upload amount than Facebook actually uses at-rest.
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by morgante 10y ago
I will pay $1,000 to anyone who is able to provide conclusive evidence of Facebook targeting advertising based on listening to all conversations. It's an easily testable hypothesis which is blatantly false. If Facebook had an always-on
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by morgante 10y ago
It's a great plan and good luck. If you're interested in saving for the longer term, I recommend checking out r/financialindependence.
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by morgante 10y ago
3 hours a day is a huge amount of time and commute time is one of the biggest, easily changeable factors of happiness. Nobody in a software engineering job should have to live with parents for financial reasons. I appreciate OP's dedic
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by morgante 10y ago
> Most tech companies have hours ~8-6, because that is their customers hours too, not out of a mandate to irritate employees. The majority of tech companies do not have hours 8–6. That's farcical. Only truly archaic companies requir
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by morgante 10y ago
> Another question is: who will be getting their money? Everyone. The vast swathes of humanity who use transportation services (deliveries, taxis, etc.) will see the cost of said services decreased. Fairness is an arbitrary and stupid me
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by morgante 10y ago
Instead of depending on the charity of others, why not seek financial independence? As a (presumably) well-paid tech worker, it's really very achievable. Most engineers could do it in under a decade if they tried.
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm curious where you're experiencing so much self-checkout. The vast majority of stores I go to have, at most, a single self-checkout lane. Personally, I think if Amazon Go can follow through on its promise we'll see a drast
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by morgante 10y ago
Nope. I've been a VP without being an officer.
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by morgante 10y ago
> I would like to ask people who make the "you have no expectation of privacy in the public space" claim if they wouldn't mind if I hired a guy to follow them everywhere they go and then report to me. I wouldn't mind.
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by morgante 10y ago
> To give an example that is a bit more emotional, I would strongly object to some stranger taking pictures of a young child playing in a public park. Talk about the worst argument ever. "Think of the children." The child is in
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by morgante 10y ago
So then the competitive differentiator is "better drivers" and "better service" which are of course classic and common differentiators.
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by morgante 10y ago
I definitely share your views. If I'm in public, I by definition should not expect privacy.
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by morgante 10y ago
Juno has a substantially smaller driver pool. Whenever I get a ride, I always check all 3 and Juno is almost always much further out.
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by morgante 10y ago
Juno is totally non-viable. Being "better for drivers" is not a competitive differentiator. 99% (including me) don't choose services based on which is "better for drivers."
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by morgante 10y ago
I know it when I see it.
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by morgante 10y ago
Stopping people from looking at porn is, at best, orthogonal to sex trafficking. This is a bunch of religious zealots trying to control others under the guise of humanitarianism. It's a classic technique: who can argue with sex traffic
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by morgante 10y ago
It's right there in the footer.
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by morgante 10y ago
You can apply online: https://www.onboardiq.com/gigster-e787c98b-90dc-41dc-a8e3-8c...
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by morgante 10y ago
Join Gigster: https://gigster.com/ It's way easier than constantly hustling for new jobs. Don't waste your time on Upwork—you'll make peanuts.
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by morgante 10y ago
You can't simultaneously claim to know nothing about US tech salaries and then claim it's "easy for ANYONE to get $200k in NYC/SF." $200k is absolutely achievable, but claiming that ANYONE (and EVERYONE?) is getting
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by morgante 10y ago
I already did. $200k is very achievable for senior developers in big tech, with potentially another $50-100k in RSUs on top. Finance you're typically looking at $180k total comp.

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