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901.
by plandis 10y ago
It's funny you mention taxes. WAs no income tax is an added bonus. I also came from the Midwest and it was a nice perk.
902.
by plandis 10y ago
I've worked at Amazon for around 4 years now. I work 9-5 most days. The days I don't I'll work 10-6! I still work there because I get to work on interesting distributed systems. I've never really had any of the bad exper
903.
by plandis 10y ago
> It lost not only on the technical front (by a lot, the HTC Vive destroys it) Seems a bit hyperbolic. The Oculus doesn't have a handset yet but as an owner of both headsets I've got to say that the Rift headset is way nicer th
904.
by plandis 10y ago
This is pretty typical of guidance councilors at my high school as well. I went to a fairly poor public school and we were advised not to apply to extra colleges because we probably wouldn't get in and considering most of the student b
905.
by plandis 10y ago
My favorite part is the forced upgrades. Didn't want to reboot your computer? WELL TOO BAD MICROSOFT KNOWS BEST.
906.
by plandis 10y ago
This is awesome! But I do wonder what his safety nets look like. For instance, I grew up poor so even though I have a good job and have saved a lot I'm always in fear of getting knocked back down to where I was. How does he save for re
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What’s a University For? CWRU Shuts Down to House 1,700 Riot Police Prior to RNC(beltmag.com)
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by plandis 10y ago
So it's propaganda that Russia just took land Ukraine, is it? Russia has built little trust with the western world and unfortunately you reap what you sow.
909.
by plandis 10y ago
Amazon is a huge company I'm sure they have a lot of different interview types
910.
by plandis 10y ago
I actually think you have it backwards. A lot of those engineers probably feel the opposite because those companies have some amount of truly amazing engineers that those other employees get to work with. For instance I'm like 4 day ol
911.
by plandis 10y ago
One question I've always had is if psychology has some studies that seemingly always hold true when it comes to education. For example, collaboration might be a good thing now but is that universally true and we just realized this idea
912.
by plandis 10y ago
A lot of tech companies see it as strategic to be in a major city. A lot of those recent college graduates want to live in cities.
913.
by plandis 10y ago
So you want to help the homeless but not in your back yard? ;)
914.
by plandis 10y ago
Well to be fair the police in Seattle are a lot more hands off with the homeless than in NYC. You probably didn't perceive the problem because it was out of sight, out of mind as police routinely will move the homeless to less desirabl
915.
by plandis 10y ago
While somewhat true, analogies make for poor logical arguments. grellas' argument is much more succinct.
916.
by plandis 10y ago
Vanguards ETF expense ratios seem to be slightly lower than/on par with the admiral type funds from my experience.
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by plandis 10y ago
I'm curious to know how Google gets efficient usage of their hardware when people are choosing weird RAM/CPU combos. Do you know if they have released any information on this?
918.
by plandis 10y ago
I'd be curious to see how this works with third party libraries/etc... For instance did everyone at Google migrate to Java 8 at the same time? That seems like a huge amount of work in a mono repo.
919.
by plandis 10y ago
Don't give Google your data, instead give it to us! But seriously, I'm not seeing what the benefits are of using this? Also their privacy page has no English version so I'm going to pass anyways.
920.
by plandis 10y ago
Or at least not actively hiring in the place you're going to relocate from
921.
by plandis 10y ago
It happened a while ago. You don't think it was reported on at the time?
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by plandis 10y ago
What's preposterous about it? Minimum wage is less now than its been in 50 years. Do you really think that your average person has it better now? It's hard to get into a trade and your only other route is college which will put yo
923.
by plandis 10y ago
This fact is quite sad when you consider that there are some representatives who state that it's their job to make sure nothing happens. Then people elect these people!
924.
by plandis 10y ago
He did say bad stuff about poor people though. He incorrectly assumed that 47% of the US population will never take personal responsibility. When you're taped stating that you are not even going to try to help 47% of the population bec
925.
by plandis 10y ago
Everything you're saying is entirely true however the normal mechanisms that would have protected Gawker were skirted here. They structured lawsuits perfectly so that insurance never kicked in. Should the company be penalized? Most def
926.
by plandis 10y ago
I've done the same (US employee going to Canadian office). Interestingly enough, me and my colleagues were pulled aside for additional questioning because two of us didn't own cars (we both live in Seattle and bus everywhere). For
927.
by plandis 10y ago
Do you have proof? Your claims directly contradict what was written in their post mortem both in terms of time and scope. AWS might be using nice wording but I can't see them lying that much about the scope of the incident.
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by plandis 10y ago
Does anyone have any experience with how this compares to Prime Now from a sellers perspective?
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by plandis 10y ago
So only American companies?
930.
by plandis 10y ago
This seems like an intended grey area that just allows the government to go after whoever they feel like while not being required to go after other businesses.

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