ohwello

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by ohwello 10y ago
The statistic measuring this property is the price-to-rent ratio: https://smartasset.com/mortgage/price-to-rent-ratio-in-us-ci... Landlords in California have a great reason not to sell - prop 13, a tax benefit for peo
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by ohwello 10y ago
Without giving away too much detail, I was switched from a "tools and infrastructure SWE" (quoting you, not the actual job title) to a regular SWE halfway through the interview process at a top company. The base salary stayed the
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by ohwello 10y ago
>Take him seriously, not literally. This means: everybody, take all the things Donald Trump actually said, and replace them with the specific things you personally wish he said instead. Then you can all feel better!
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by ohwello 10y ago
>However, it's susceptible to vote-buying, which is a major part of the current election system's threat model. Hmm, there is extensive evidence of suppression of thousands of votes, but no evidence of large-scale vote buying i
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by ohwello 10y ago
Yeah, it makes sense to me as a sort of moneyball approach, to cheaply hire skilled candidates who are not as good at the standard evaluation process, are likely to have few competing offers, and who are willing to do extra work on nights&#
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by ohwello 10y ago
>The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. A majority of something, but probably not the population: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president?action=c...
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by ohwello 10y ago
Real wages had been rising, we'll see what happens next.
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by ohwello 10y ago
I'm not satisfied being in the top decile of historical human well-being, let's shake things up and take a shot at some reversion to the mean.