notyouravgdoge

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by notyouravgdoge 6y ago
Aren't Uber/Lyft/food delivery gig-economy folks already encouraged to complete the ride (or delivery) as fast as possible?
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by notyouravgdoge 6y ago
Hah, that's an interesting point. How exactly do you expect to get people to change their attitude? I don't own a home and I've spent a nontrivial amount of my net worth paying rent in HCOL areas, including the Bay Area. Rent
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by notyouravgdoge 6y ago
I'm not particularly knowledgable about housing so I could be wrong here - but if another 2008/2009 happens, you can just keep the house and wait for prices to recover. There are some assumptions baked in: - Either you don't
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by notyouravgdoge 6y ago
My understanding is that you can "liquidate" by taking out a home equity line of credit or by doing a cash out refinance. Both of those options only work if your home has appreciated in value.
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by notyouravgdoge 6y ago
What's missing in some salary discussions on HN: Compensation Trajectory: Sure, I can relocate from [HCOL city] to [LCOL city] and come out ahead today after factoring taxes, home prices, etc. What happens in the long term? Will I have
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by notyouravgdoge 7y ago
I find it interesting that most of my company perks apply only to the employee, their spouse or domestic partner, and their children, but not to their parents or grandparents. Your "family" could be covered by a great health insur
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by notyouravgdoge 8y ago
It's unclear to me whether the author meant two-plus hours one way or round trip (I think they meant one-way, but I'll address both cases). If the author meant 2+ hours round trip: Lots of tech employees making 200k+ do this regul
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by notyouravgdoge 8y ago
Ikea does delivery here in the United States, but their delivery service has a bad reputation. There are small businesses that have been created around this. I found a business that would purchase, deliver, and assemble items from Ikea. All
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by notyouravgdoge 8y ago
> The observations focused on a species of jumping spider, normally found in Taiwan Does the species have a name? I'd like to read more about this spider but I don't know what to search for.
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by notyouravgdoge 8y ago
This post resonated with me. I'm in my mid-20s and just a few years ago I would memorize grocery prices and track the value of the items I had in my shopping cart. Chicken breast at $2.99 per pound compared to beef flank at $8.99 per p
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by notyouravgdoge 8y ago
Does switching jobs so often raise any red flags when you interview?
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by notyouravgdoge 8y ago
It's my understanding that California's Proposition 209 [1] prohibits public universities from considering race in their admissions process. I'm curious if those who attended public universities in California felt that their
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by notyouravgdoge 8y ago
Was the burnout Google-specific, or do you think it would have likely happened at other tech companies as well?
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by notyouravgdoge 8y ago
I think they were being sarcastic
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by notyouravgdoge 9y ago
People pay for car parking at BART stations, but car windows are still routinely smashed.
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by notyouravgdoge 9y ago
This is the first time I've heard about The Tenderloin being a desirable neighborhood. Are you sure you were actually living in the Tenderloin and not one of its adjacent neighborhoods?
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by notyouravgdoge 9y ago
> correctness is easy to check This binary search bug took two decades to be discovered: https://research.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all...