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by pbuzbee 6y ago
The goal of hybrid models is to have people in the office when they need to collaborate, then work from wherever for individual work. But it seems like this will be hard to pull off. If everyone is in the office on different days, then of c
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I agree. The big appeal of remote work for me personally is the option to move somewhere that I can afford. A hybrid approach doesn't offer that.
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
It is a little condescending, but I think it serves the purpose of illustrating the divide the author feels between himself and his peers. It's hard to relate when one side sees work as time spent purely for money, and another sees wor
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Sounds like OP's spouse was the tipping point. If they stayed on the same page, I wonder if things would've gone differently (ignoring the medical issues which aren't trivial, of course). The OP seems content to live a life w
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Since you seem to think Prop 13 is beneficial, I'd be curious to hear your ideas on reforming property taxes! What would you keep or change?
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
No, it's definitely not. Thus why Prop 13 is referred to as the third rail of CA politics :)
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I wouldn't call it "destroying communities through eviction", but I do agree that cramming everyone into the same small set of places is its own harmful issue and should be reconsidered as well.
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
In the case of HCOL places like the Bay Area, yes, perhaps they should move somewhere cheaper. The money they would make from selling their house gives them a lot of options. As it is today, young families are the ones buying in far out pla
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I feel that the solution to the issue you raise is to reform property tax in CA, not to stick with Prop 13. Prop 13 definitely doesn't benefit people who don't own real estate because property owners have an incentive not to sell:
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I feel the issue is that the governments are primarily protecting property owners, which are not all of the city's residents. Property owners may prefer the status quo, but there's still an effect on the citizens who rent, which s
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Cool to see this on HN! I worked for Prof. Smith (quoted in the article) as an undergrad. TGFs also emit beams of electrons. One of my projects was investigating whether we can detect these beams of electrons bouncing back and forth along E
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I do this too: I prep my taxes in both TurboTax and in CK, make sure they agree, then submit in CK for free.
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Almost a year in, it seems like there isn't a clear consensus in whether or not we (as a whole) are more productive when working distributed. If there isn't a clear winner, I would hope that companies would err on the side of impr
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Wouldn't a cable that's thousands of feet long be prohibitively heavy?
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I would love smartphone postprocessing over DSLR raw images. I feel that phones usually make better decisions for contrast, white balance, exposure than DSLRs do. With a DSLR, reaching the same finished product usually requires a ton of man
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Counterpoint: Google confirmed recently that it's still planning to bring its workers back to the office regularly: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/technology/google-delays-...
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
This site offers visualizations of air quality over time: https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data/air-data-multiy...
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I've noticed this as well. If upper management isn't interested in working remote, it's going to be a struggle for ICs to get large companies to embrace it long-term. I see the acceptance of remote work by large companies as
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Do you have any insight into why people want the house to remain in the family? Is it to preserve their legacy, or something else?
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Yes, exactly. A $1M mortgage is about $5k/month. Paying that means sacrificing other uses of money like retirement, child's college savings, vacations, etc. And, as you pointed out, we would be in deep trouble if our income took a
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
The cost of homeownership is a huge factor for me. When I started working in 2014, I figured I would need to save around $150k for a down payment because the median home price in Santa Clara county was around $800k. Now the median price is
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I think people got consumeables (nuts, beer, wine, chocolates), media like books/movies, and a few practical things (e.g. my wife got a soil moisture tester because she's getting into gardening). I agree that a lot of items aren&#
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
This is a good idea. A "white elephant" gift exchange is another alternative, though with gifts that are desirable and not just amusing.
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Last year, the adults in my immediate family put a limit on how much we'd spend on each other for Christmas. I think we picked around $20/person, when in the past we probably spent $75-100. This has been good for us, mainly becaus
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Couldn't it play out the other way? As case numbers drop, people think that the vaccination isn't necessary anymore?
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I don't think there's a one-sized-fits-all solution. Tree comments do solve many issues with linear threads, but they do introduce their own issues, especially when paired with voting. Many cases do work better for tree-style comm
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
Any thread where the discussion isn't expected to splinter into subtopics, and the newest posts have more value than the 'best' post. One example might be a non-trivial tech support problem, where forum members work together
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
I feel like Reddit has replaced many niche forums, for better and worse. On the plus side, Reddit has a low bar to entry. It's super easy to find or create a forum for a topic. You don't need to create a new account, and you can v
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
In my case, we found that getting married changed the way that we view our relationship. We had already been together for over 10 years, but getting married was a commitment to each other that we'll try our hardest to make things work.
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by pbuzbee 6y ago
This is a major problem the US is going to have to figure out. How do you get anything done in the legislature when one party has the incentive and ability to stop everything?

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