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by ponker 6y ago
Sure, I just think the conversation right now is, "Why would you pay me less if I move from SF to Alabama, I'm the same guy doing the same work." The conversation in the future will be "Why would I hire you in SF and pay
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by ponker 6y ago
$400k, parents generation is retired with plenty of money. My point is more broadly that in a family where everyone can comfortably afford to live alone, living together can be massively more fun.
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by ponker 6y ago
Right now, we are at an unusual point in time where workforces are going from geographically consolidated to dispersed. Thus, we think of the "standard" salary as what they pay in San Francisco, and ask for everyone to be paid tha
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by ponker 6y ago
Right, but my point is that “Living with parents” is a wildly different experience if you have enough space. Not a rebuttal, a different anecdote.
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by ponker 6y ago
Susan Wojcicki isn't getting grilled by Congress because she has a manager, and he's getting grilled by Congress instead. When Alphabet's CEO was Larry Page the Senate was furious that he didn't show up: https:/&#x
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by ponker 6y ago
We live in a 3 generational family sharing anything but a small apartment and it's absolutely wonderful. Us, the nuclear family, occupies the 3000 sqft house. My in-laws live in the guest house which is about 800 sqft. My parents live
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by ponker 6y ago
Why sit around waiting and wondering if you can just pack your bag and go home?
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by ponker 6y ago
Nobody will have any guarantees, but controlling the probabilities lowers the number of people affected. I know that there were multiple women in my college being serially abused by a guy who had unconsensually shared consensually recorded
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by ponker 6y ago
Fleets aren't to protect the Leader of the Opposition -- they're to protect the random insurance adjuster who doesn't Tweet anything except sports because he's afraid of getting fired for it. Fleets might let him open up
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by ponker 6y ago
A screenshot is not verifiable. You can take a screenshot of my Tweet but that is not proof that I tweeted it, unless it's captured and verified by a screenshotting service that has a solid reputation for integrity.
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by ponker 6y ago
A writing app isn't there to turn Obama into Lincoln, it's there to get completely dysfunctional prose to borderline readable. I don't think there's any risk that Thomas Pynchon starts using this in a misguided attempt t
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by ponker 6y ago
Glad I used an old fashioned Honeywell for my core home security alarm and did the smart cameras on a separate system.
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by ponker 6y ago
The question is, if the prices were raised to sustainable levels, would the market be big enough to justify the amount of unsustainable spending that is going on right now to capture it?
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by ponker 6y ago
"After using vast amounts of money to completely tear apart the civic fabric of this nation I think I may have done an oopsie" is not really going to cut it. The only real mistake here is that these guys weren't Ceausescued w
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by ponker 6y ago
LOL George Soros. It's like hearing someone who still believes in the Tooth Fairy.
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by ponker 6y ago
The divisiveness is a consequence of the primary system, not the two-party system. The primary system is very new, only here since 1972, but the fact is that 1) the power to nominate candidates should have never been handed to the voters, a
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by ponker 6y ago
I don't think the future of remote work is an engineering org of 1000 people living in 1000 locations and working from home over Zoom. I think it's the organization working as 20 engineering teams of 50 people each, and where the
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by ponker 6y ago
When Microsoft and the RIAA square off, the letter of the law isn’t really the battlefield. The battlefield is influence with the US Senate, and the EFF, while well regarded, is a Sancho Panza compared to Microsoft.
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by ponker 6y ago
The principle here is good (check if the developer’s certificate is revoked) but the implementation is completely batshit. Why not cache the result and send a push notification through the centralized channels if there is a Sev1 revocation
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by ponker 6y ago
“All this could have been avoided” implies that Big Social Media wanted to avoid this. I don’t think they did. A ton of content that they’ve been wrestling with is just fleeing by itself. I imagine they’re thrilled.
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by ponker 6y ago
Any good insights into why food preparation is still stuck in pre-Industrial Revolution technologies? I prepare dinner from my family every night from scratch like I was a medieval artisan. With the economics of industrial production I shou
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by ponker 6y ago
Shouldn’t the liberals be using the app with the French name?
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by ponker 6y ago
As an individual I am impressed and happy for him. But I’d prefer that society doesn’t celebrate stories like this with public accolades. I think it encourages a “maximum accomplishments in minimum time” way of living which is antithetical
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by ponker 6y ago
"I'm sorry you felt that way" is considered worse than a non-apology by the current leading apology extractors.
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by ponker 6y ago
Well the job they have to do before I waste my time scheduling a meeting with your sales dude is 1) convince me that your product is valuable and 2) convince me that the ballpark pricing is workable for me. You can really only know a car by
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by ponker 6y ago
The blog post describes only the billing advantages of the "single vendor" approach like AWS or Microsoft. But the other half of it is much more important, and that's the security/compliance aspect. You know that anythin
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by ponker 6y ago
A great explanation of this that I read somewhere was that only a gay person could believe the doomsday scenario of homosexuality ending human reproduction. A gay person thinks “huh that’s scary, what if everyone is like me” while a straigh
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by ponker 6y ago
That’s very weird and unfortunate since poorer countries have a much more desperate need for inexpensive computers. Any idea of the rationale?
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by ponker 6y ago
There are very few things that will cause total extinction of homo sapiens, but quite a few things that will end human civilization as we know it. The Sentinelese may nevertheless persist.
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by ponker 6y ago
Everyone is saying this because Donald Trump is a dangerous moron but the fact is that the election process in the US is a complete basket case, most notably in the number of people it excludes from voting by design.

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