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by nilkn 4y ago
Monthly payments haven't doubled. Here's an example. Imagine a $500k house in Texas with a 2% property tax rate and $2k/year in home insurance. Suppose a hypothetical buyer is putting 20% down. At a 3% mortgage interest rate,
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by nilkn 4y ago
Work from home. Even with the pandemic over and some big tech companies not wanting to fully commit, remote work has become dramatically more commonplace in the industry than it was a few years ago pre-pandemic. Even conservative companies
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by nilkn 5y ago
In the FIRE community, this kind of topic often comes up. Are there any enjoyable full-time or part-time jobs to do in semi-retirement? Invariably, the conclusion is that low-wage or part-time jobs almost always come with enough baggage to
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by nilkn 5y ago
Presumably, if your claim were accurate and such deaths were occurring on anywhere near the same scale, then the internet would be flooded with those stories. But it's not, and there are no statistics to back up the scale you're i
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by nilkn 5y ago
There are entire subreddits dedicated just to trying to keep up with stories of vocally unvaccinated people dying awful and scary deaths from COVID. These incidents are so common it's impossible to keep track of all of them -- 1k death
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by nilkn 5y ago
The sub’s content is based on actual examples of vocally unvaccinated people dying. Unfortunately, there has been an endless supply of new content. That’s not the result of astroturfing. It’s the result of large numbers of people refusing t
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by nilkn 5y ago
While this sub may be a bit distasteful for some, I recommend spending some time reading through the countless examples documented there of folks who refused the vaccine based on this kind of thinking and then ended up dying often very unpl
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by nilkn 5y ago
Does that really avoid #2? My understanding of that situation was this: 1. The driver senses an impending accident or dangerous situation, so they disengage autopilot. 2. The driver personally maneuvers the car so as to avoid any accident o
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by nilkn 6y ago
Wall Street compensation has become more and more bonus heavy over time (i.e., the salary to bonus ratio has shifted even keeping total comp fixed), so the methodology here really just does not make sense on top of the other flaws folks are
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by nilkn 6y ago
I'm sorry, but your employer is incompetent if they are not working with their remote staff to make sure their equipment is functional and high quality. That doesn't mean they must decree that everyone use wired headphones. It mea
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by nilkn 6y ago
600k in Silicon Valley is certainly not unheard of. That's within range for Staff Engineer and EM roles at top companies, and there are a lot of Staff Engineers and EMs. In fact, it can go up quite a bit from there. M2 [0] pay can be i
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by nilkn 6y ago
Most top companies have a mixture of junior and experienced talent. FAANG companies these days are paying $600k+ for Staff+ engineers, so clearly they don't think that relying solely on campus hiring is a viable strategy. Having a heal
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by nilkn 6y ago
I don't work at Discord, but Elixir seems like a perfect fit for the sort of infrastructure they build. BEAM is a marvel and there are huge success stories for it when it comes to chat apps (e.g., WhatsApp). Elixir is not necessarily a
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by nilkn 6y ago
Introducing C or C++ into an org with no expertise in them feels much riskier than introducing Rust. All three are difficult languages but at least with Rust you have Cargo and memory safety by default. I’ve seen smart folks burn days just
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by nilkn 6y ago
As someone who's spent time in both Austin and Houston, I'd agree with the sentiment that Houston is pretty objectively a much better place to live. These phenomena are probably more driven by superficial appearances, though, and
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by nilkn 6y ago
I see this sentiment a lot online, but k8s for us has been quite simple to learn and use and, like you acknowledged here, solved a lot of availability issues out of the box for us that we previously had to deal with in more manual ways. Bet
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by nilkn 6y ago
As someone who's never been on the DC metro, my first reaction to this story was that it's pretty unreasonable to post an employee's photo to Twitter just because they ate on the train. While we can't say for sure that t
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by nilkn 6y ago
This line of reasoning breaks down whenever a population is experiencing any form of mass hysteria, and I think there's a reasonable argument that the US is very much in the midst of such a phenomenon right now. Indeed, that was the po
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by nilkn 6y ago
It's interesting to consider that if we provided inmates with computers and a solid internet connection, they could potentially find remote work in the new virtual world and have a full-time job.
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by nilkn 6y ago
I bet you can pick out almost any medium-sized city and find some "cool" neighborhoods that are pretty affordable.
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by nilkn 6y ago
Affordable housing is out there -- quite a lot of it too. My parents paid $140k for their house a few years ago in flyover country. $300k would be going overboard. My mom's a nurse and my dad is basically an account executive for a foo
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by nilkn 6y ago
The delta is pretty obvious, though. Companies that aren't in tech hubs no longer have to hire from a limited local talent pool, and companies that are in tech hubs can save on both office and salary expenses by hiring across the count
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by nilkn 6y ago
You’re unlikely to find in-person training anywhere right now, so that would likely be a fool’s errand. You need to speak with your manager about this. There’s a lot of social contact and training that can be created without being in the of
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by nilkn 6y ago
> if your company is purely remote Pure remote companies are likely to be rare. But we may see a proliferation of hybrid companies that maintain office spaces but allow certain roles to work remotely most of the time. I think your anal
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by nilkn 6y ago
I'm an engineering manager, and I can say my teams are just as productive today (100% remote) as they were pre-COVID (100% in-office). I do have very high performing teams, though, and I'm sure that plays a role. I think one &quot
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by nilkn 6y ago
Where did you get the 100 number from? I think Nintendo is an interesting company for comparison here but I do find it hard to believe they only had 100 employees as recently as 2011.
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by nilkn 6y ago
Yep -- where I work, every language we use in any big way has a high-quality automated formatter, and we require all code to be formatted with these tools. It's been a dramatic improvement in code readability in general across the comp
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by nilkn 6y ago
Sure, I'm in my early 30s. I do believe I had a pretty mild case all things considered, and I'm pretty much fully recovered at this point but still plan to quarantine for another week. What I experienced was basically indistinguis
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by nilkn 6y ago
I agree with you, and that's largely why I wanted to share my story -- to illustrate that even without any tell-tale symptoms and multiple negative test results, you can easily still have COVID.
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by nilkn 6y ago
I'm in the US. The test was taken on a Sunday evening at about 7:30PM, and the results were delivered via text message the morning of the following Friday. My guess is there's a lot of variability in how long it takes to get resul

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