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by ojbyrne 3y ago
That whole extended ZIRP thing wasn’t great for interest on savings.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
Many of them might be on their second or third layoff by 50.
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Your Mileage May Vary.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
If you’re ever in Vegas it’s worth visiting the National Atomic Museum: https://www.atomicmuseum.vegas/
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
I was born in Dublin but left when I was young. It's mostly my last name people have trouble with. Not in Ireland.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
My name (Owen Byrne) is not that difficult but I’ve spelt it so many times in my life it’s become a reflex. Then I visited Dublin for the first time in 30 years and found myself embarrassed by doing it.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
My reading of the tax code in California is that the tax is pro-rated over the time you were resident in CA. E.g you get a grant with a 4 year vest in California and move away after 1 year: 1st year California gets all the calculated tax, s
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
TL;DR always sell at vest. Take the tax hit, diversify. As long as you’re still working at the company you have plenty of eggs (unvested RSUs and future ESPPs) in that basket.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
Looking at the github site for can_ada, I discovered that the developers live in Montreal, Canada. Nice one.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
The second paragraph seems silly. Nobody thinks its rude to talk with normal glasses on, and that's the same form factor. Meta's AR glasses are already available as both sunglasses and normal glasses (though obviously lacking in a
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My number as well.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
First thing I thought of after reading this - I wonder did the existing founders/employees get something like this? I suspect at least some of them did.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
It seems like this comparison is car vs “train passenger.” Put 3 people in the car and they’re ahead.
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Government investment probably due to its strategic position during WW2.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
Feature request: either an “uncheck all” or a “Select only” to select only one option in a list. Otherwise it’s a lot of clicking to find the 1 specific type of RAM you might be looking for.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
This is looking at trends starting from 1950, which is right in the middle of an event known as the “baby boom.” I guess there’s some usefulness to that analysis, but it seems a little shallow.
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My McLuhan Lecture on Enshittification(pluralistic.net)
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Waymo came out of X.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
for 110k students plus some amount of teachers. Lifetime earnings...
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
As a native English speaker, in my opinion it's incredibly pretentious.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
It’s impressive but I don’t think it beats Apple, which was pretty close to dead at one point.
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
I’m curious where the “Losing San Francisco” part of the title here comes from. I don’t see it in the version of the story served to me, neither in the headline nor the body of the article.
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H1Bs are transferrable. I did it at least twice.
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A lot of those are going to be contractors employed by agencies.
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It’s a fairly well known secret in areas that produce lobsters (I lived in Nova Scotia for a long time).
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I don’t think these policies last long enough to show up on an evolutionary timescale.
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The article starts with the phrase “The price of home charging”
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by ojbyrne 3y ago
How do people quit mandatory service? Doesn’t that usually involve going to jail?
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It's a smaller company now, so that's obvious.
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Most big tech companies don’t have debt.

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