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by mrep 6y ago
Interesting. I usually default to writing functions over classes for the simple reason that it makes testing much simpler as you just need to test inputs versus outputs to a function. With classes, you sometimes have to manage and test the
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by mrep 6y ago
Seattle wasn't as expensive back in the day and if I recall correctly, Bezos actually chose to move to seattle and start Amazon there for cost reasons (I think taxes were a big part of that). Moving an entire headquarters is expensive
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by mrep 6y ago
What companies are getting bailed out besides the airlines and even that was half loans and the other half for payroll so just a roundabout way of keeping people employed? I guess you could call the small business loans a bailout but that
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by mrep 6y ago
How is the fed subsidizing inefficient businesses? If you are referring to their corporate bond purchases, they have bought a mere 1.8 billion dollars worth [0] representing a minuscule 0.025% of their balance sheet and it's not like
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by mrep 6y ago
> Are these lost jobs primarily "low skill" jobs? Or are there a lot of white collar jobs being lost as well? The government posts stats [0]. For the more blue/white collar work: Education, training and library occupation
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by mrep 6y ago
Depends on the school. I don't think the elite schools like the ivy leagues do this but they are very selective so it's kind of assumed everyone that gets in is smart enough that they should graduate. A lot of the competitive pu
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by mrep 6y ago
Ha, my school straight up bell curved the grades for most classes at the TA level so that a certain number of kids were always going to get a D/F both of which are not passing grades and thus requiring the student to either retake it o
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by mrep 6y ago
Whose writing the design docs and the requirements then?
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by mrep 6y ago
Yeah, I'd probably go back if they started paying more than G/FB/N.
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by mrep 6y ago
Well, java is by far the most used language at amazon so that would make sense.
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"Affected employees will receive a severance package, which includes a minimum of 10 weeks pay and health benefits through the end of the year" [0] and their average senior software engineer is making 345k a year [1] so a minimum
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by mrep 6y ago
You can sell a proportion of you holdings to maintain the same ownership percentage thus acting like a dividend if you want. With fractional shares, you should be able to even do it with a small amount of shares. Albeit, I don't know
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by mrep 6y ago
The company buying back their stock had to buy it from someone though and that person who sold it is going to pay a tax on any gains from that sale.
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Not just less, there would be none and it would have all been given out as dividends. Stock buybacks are just dividends reinvested in the company for you.
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by mrep 6y ago
If the land tax is greater than what you can make renting, then that means your land is improperly priced. You can prove it by putting it on the market and no investor will buy it at that price because they would lose money and thus it wou
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by mrep 6y ago
This. It's useful to think of it as an investor. As an example, if you own a property whose value is 250k in land and 250k in a house, and it currently rents for 20k a year and the land tax is priced at 10%, you would be losing 5k a
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by mrep 6y ago
As long as you avoid the west coast, you should be fine as inflation adjusted price per square foot hasn't really changed [0]. [0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
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by mrep 6y ago
No, they sell order flow because market makers know discount brokerage users are uninformed and thus less risky to buy and sell from. However, they actually give you better prices than the public market offers and they have to or else the
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by mrep 6y ago
> The remaining $2.7 trillion went to businesses. Nope (and the total bill was 2.1 trillion not 3 trillion): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_Aid,_Relief,_and_E... > The fed has separately printed severa
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by mrep 6y ago
The FED is mainly buying U.S. Treasury securities and Mortgage-backed securities [0]. They just started buying bonds this week but haven't bought very much and they haven't bought any equities. [0]: https://www.federal
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by mrep 6y ago
The fed cannot give directly to consumers. However, congress can and did give directly to consumers with the 1200 check, the 600 a week increase in unemployment, and indirectly by funding payroll for small businesses and the airlines. How
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by mrep 6y ago
The Shiller Price earnings ratio is based on average inflation-adjusted earnings from the previous 10 years and the recent earnings weren't really affected by the virus yet and thus the current 10 years of earnings happen to align with
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by mrep 6y ago
> Most shares are non-voting, and don't pay dividends. 80% of S&P 500 companies pay a dividend [0] and non-voting shares are actually very rare. In fact, Snap even wrote in its IPO paperwork that "to our knowledge, no othe
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by mrep 6y ago
At 20.53 [0] why does it need explaining? It's been higher many times in the past. [0]: https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
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by mrep 6y ago
FYI, there is a project for that [0] of which Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter are a part of. It's not forced and is still in development but it's something. [0]: https://datatransferproject.dev/
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by mrep 6y ago
> You really can’t compete against free. Sure you can, you can set a negative price such that you pay a user for using your service which bing literally does [0]. [0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards/sea
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by mrep 6y ago
I prefer it straight black which this minimal CSS does (Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/2lcy1Ga ) :root, html { background-color: white; filter: invert(100%); } * { background-color: inher
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by mrep 6y ago
For desktop, I use the refined hacker news extension (github: [0], show HN for it: [1]) which allows you to set custom CSS. It has a dark mode setting but I prefer the following CSS which makes the entire background black and the text whit
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by mrep 6y ago
This. Also, when in a dark room like if you are laying in bed, don't you want less light coming out of your phone and it not to be like shining a flashlight in your eyes. Dark mode helps there especially if you have an OLED screen so
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by mrep 6y ago
If you are going to do this, I would first get it cleared with management because if you are moving states, it will change what state taxes they will have to pay for employing you.

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