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by notJim 6y ago
I would guess that there are social accommodations and expectations for these kinds of things that might be missing in the US. Sort of like how in Europe, delivery is widely available for large goods, because many don't own cars. This
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by notJim 6y ago
I had these same concerns, so I bought a SFH. Going from always having rented, I wanted to try out full ownership. I'm happy with it, but I've realized that all of those things come with downsides as well. Maintaining a yard is re
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by notJim 6y ago
Sure it's a great speed, but $300/mo plus a $2k install just to get a decent upload? Seems like market segmentation where they're basically just ripping anyone off who wants to run a little server or backup their files to the
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by notJim 6y ago
This take is completely ignorant of the history around this. It is illegal to build anything other than single-family homes in many places in US cities. This is due to an (often-racist) history of homeowners creating laws to keep lower-inco
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by notJim 6y ago
LOL, and I'm sure Verizon would only charge you $150/mo for a whole gigabyte per month! Er I'm sorry, it's unlimited!* * Slows down to 2G after 1 gigabyte.
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by notJim 6y ago
Wow, this is awful. I live in Portland, and have symmetric gigabit fiber from CenturyLink for $65/mo. Honestly baffling to me that people tolerate the politics of Silicon Valley.
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by notJim 6y ago
I strongly disagree with this push to abandon hard-wired internet. I have never found wireless internet to be fast or reliable. My parents had it for years, and then the trees became too tall, and it stopped working. I live in the middle of
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by notJim 6y ago
Better yet, why not a federal jobs program that does something useful ?
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by notJim 6y ago
Are there companies paying like this around Portland? Obviously there are in Seattle. I'm in Portland and working remotely, but it would be nice to have more options. I have a friend who was talking to Puppet, and it sounded like their
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by notJim 6y ago
IMO the move is to find a remote-friendly company that will pay you $200-400k, and stay in Colorado, unless you're already making that and happy where you are of course. Stripe and Github are two companies that are known for paying in
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by notJim 6y ago
I was making ~$200k as a PHP developer, not sure what this has to do with it.
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by notJim 6y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions that are not necessarily true. You'll never know if you don't look. * Commute/housing: you can afford a lot of house in a good location on $500k (or even 250-300k which might be more at
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by notJim 6y ago
If you spend so much time preparing that you never interview, you'll never pass either.
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by notJim 6y ago
> blazing fast The thing I'm running into recently is that it gets very slow for large files. Unfortunately, where I work, the norm is to have files be thousands and thousands of lines long, which causes my setup which otherwise wor
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by notJim 6y ago
VSCode's vim setup is fairly customizable, and supports features from many popular vim plugins, like vim-surround, easymotion, and many others. I'd encourage you, or anyone else who's curious to give it a shot, because it may
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by notJim 6y ago
> the still-unfolding economic consequences of Covid19 may lead to an excellent entry point This kind of thing is what puts me off real estate investing. The idea that I would be a beneficiary of an enormous crisis leaves a bad taste in
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by notJim 6y ago
The way your friend describes it is almost like money laundering or something. I hardly use cash at all, why is a daily cash stream "something we all need and something that helps a great deal"? I find that phrase kind of bizarrel
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by notJim 6y ago
Why this anti-intellectualism? Are studies only worth doing or reading if you personally find the results surprising? If we don't have data about something, we should get it, rather than just assuming our intuitions are correct.
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by notJim 6y ago
> Hormones that are released by the gut to stimulate insulin secretion and increase feelings of fullness were changed the most by overeating (e.g. GLP-1 and peptide YY). I wonder if people who chronically overeat (hello!) develop ins
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by notJim 6y ago
I really like this idea. I'd prefer a more traditional or minimal looking watch, but I like some of the extra functionality I get from my Apple Watch. I would love something more in between the two.
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by notJim 6y ago
I'm surprised to read the stuff about asymptomatic cases. I thought the current thinking was that asymptomatic people are really pre-symptomatic, because of the incubation period. In other words, truly asymptomatic cases are rare. Am I
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by notJim 6y ago
This is the clearest response so far. Thinking about the tech world, we have all this VC money, but all of that is based on the idea that eventually the company will IPO and the VCs will get huge returns. However, given that both VC valuati
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by notJim 6y ago
Do companies routinely issue new stock to raise money? I thought it was a rare occurrence, obviously the IPO, and then occasionally afterward. Your edit is clear.
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by notJim 6y ago
I always keep this paper from NBER handy https://www.nber.org/papers/w24085 , especially this chart: https://imgur.com/h8Fo8yx . Stocks are in fact held primarily by the wealthy. This is a separate quest
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by notJim 6y ago
I'm a real dummy when it comes to economics, so I have a question. What is the theory that buying assets like stocks boosts the economy? Doesn't this just create incentives to hold on to those stocks, so that you can reap the grow
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by notJim 6y ago
http://archive.is/15nqg
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by notJim 6y ago
Opponents of Critical Theory are not interested in debates. They are interested in defending their privileged positions by any means possible. Questioning their rightful status at the top of the hierarchy is destruction of liberal norms its
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by notJim 6y ago
The thing is that the number of people who strictly belong to the capitalist class who participate in this app will be vanishingly small, because most of those people are too busy cashing checks to talk with us proles. Really all you need t
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by notJim 6y ago
> cowokers I know these are serious topics, but I hope we can all take a moment to have a laugh at this typo :).
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by notJim 6y ago
This is a thread where people are discussing politics, in which I am earnestly participating. Are you saying I'm not allowed to share my politics or ask questions on here? I thought we were concerned about free expression here. If you&

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