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by pound 10y ago
clean - yes, but corruption free? corruption is everywhere. if you have powers and decisions making you'll get corruption. look at lobbying in US - that's pretty much buying decisions. huge corps giving money to presidential cand
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by pound 10y ago
because of money?
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by pound 10y ago
Or may be some people don't litter not because of fear of trouble but because they know how to behave? Also about more cleaning: there is a proverb that sounds something like "It's clean not where a lot of cleaning has place
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by pound 11y ago
Oh, I wasn't talking about NYC. It was regarding 'tech is the scene' description. Sounds like a hell and I'm an engineer.
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by pound 11y ago
but is it a good thing? even if you're an engineer.
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by pound 11y ago
In general if engineers changing jobs after 2 or 3 years (quite common), let's say every 2.5 years, then for team of 10 engineers it would be exactly need for one hire a quarter.
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by pound 11y ago
saving money on their education cost and getting taxes paid is fine, sure. in the same time you have a local citizen who is out of job. how much money will be spent on him/her (in)directly? from unemployment benefits at first to potent
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by pound 11y ago
and wait for what? performance-improvement plan as paper trail for firing? "company culture" term is exactly that: company-wide culture. it's not that there is one fucked-up individual and it just happened that his(her) boss
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by pound 11y ago
in US? yes. when we will get to the "citizen of the world" equality it would be another issue. Right now we have distinct countries with their own citizens and their own support/taxes/infrastructure serving them and that
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by pound 11y ago
I'll add that people are romanticizing SF based on its past. Long gone past. Present is ugly.
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by pound 11y ago
1) "millionaire homeowners" is pretty much definition of SF. And while roughly 1/3 of SF residents are renters big part of them are temporary here (boom and bust nature of this place, you can call them carpetbaggers) and are
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by pound 11y ago
> There's some crazy statistic that 80% of Americans live within 50 or 100 miles where they were born. what is crazy about it? or wrong?
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by pound 11y ago
Sorry to tell that but no, it will not really help with raising a family here. Sadly current prices are new normal and deflated pressure will just let them to not grow further up in near future. (5%-10% drop is nothing for affordability). O
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by pound 11y ago
it's not about "government", it's about "consensus of the poor people"
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by pound 11y ago
and so did I. to3m is absolutely correct with sheeple term for them and yes, it's not my native language indeed
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by pound 11y ago
you just seriously insulted iSheeps.
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by pound 11y ago
That may be a certain relaxation point, way to entertain themselves. No need to seriously analyze something, just having fun going with it. Especially if you don't really care about what other people are thinking about you.
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by pound 11y ago
http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2015/01/26/meet-the-first...
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by pound 11y ago
They have high fees. Plenty of small vendors do not accept Amex at all.
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by pound 11y ago
I'd say that comment said that perception of safety is key
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by pound 11y ago
many time this^. Management in big companies cares only about benefits coming with position. Product? Fuck it, as long as they have power and cookies.
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by pound 11y ago
don't get it all too literally. it's about certain stereotypes.
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by pound 11y ago
yes, it is common sense and everyone indeed knows it. But many want to believe in SV as some not rest of the world place with equal opportunities for everyone, just be smart. We all want it to be ruled by meritocracy. That's why we kee
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by pound 11y ago
I actually liked ME. It booted fast, was relatively lightweight and worked without any problems for me. /I know it's not a common view on ME/
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by pound 11y ago
I'd say that having performance reviews enforces: 1) culture of "don't screw up". (Yes, opposite to your thought) What risks would anyone will want to take if it means preparing yourself to be scapegoat if something will
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by pound 11y ago
liberal values as not submitting someone to mental health institution against their will. we are not kgb or nazies, ain't we?
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by pound 11y ago
DanBC: how does what work? It's not about availability of services, it about engagement in it. There are programs in US too. Something people here looks like don't understand: there are resources for homeless. May not be enough bu
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by pound 11y ago
actually fuck that. I keep forgetting how people like to talk about ideas and theories about crazies (crazy enough to be shitting in the middle of main city streets in front of eateries) suggesting that they just need a little money thrown
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by pound 11y ago
I'll paraphrase it for you: psychos on streets are caused not by closure of mental health institutions, but by decision not to put them there in the first place. Closing of empty hospital after that was just a question of time. to clar
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by pound 11y ago
in that line I was talking about liberal values as a cause of closing mental health institutions. See parent I was replying to.

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