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by rb808 7y ago
I think the HN bubble is far detached from the real world. If you own 100k+ of assets, most of the people in the world will see you as incredibly rich. If you own a house in the Bay Area even with a mortgage most Americans will see you as r
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by rb808 7y ago
Anyone else run into SOx problems where audit wont let DevOps staff make changes to meaningful source code. How do you get around that? Seems like an insurmountable barrier to proper devops.
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by rb808 7y ago
This one I loved, though could be my background working in a proper 'shop. https://vimeo.com/98953952
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by rb808 7y ago
The point is most people dont want to work, but society needs people working to provide food, build the things we use, create gas/electricity, help the sick etc. Its an argument about the fairest way to do this. Allowing some people re
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by rb808 7y ago
It looks like you can choose to be employee, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/
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by rb808 7y ago
Most people still do have their first child in their (admittedly late) 20s. > The average age of first-time mothers was 28.6 years in 2015, compared with 28.5 years in 2014. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommu
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by rb808 7y ago
One thing about free healthcare and no real property taxes is that its a lot easier to retire early. If they lived in a coastal city in the US they probably couldn't retire because they'd need 40k USD per year in healthcare costs
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by rb808 7y ago
I dont like when they dont define the subject. eg if you're a "fullstack developer" are you a generalist or a specialist? If you're an artist who does some web design work are you a generalist or a specialist?
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by rb808 7y ago
> With CVS selling more groceries than Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s combined WF and TJ are niche supermarket chains, its just another dumb headline. https://www.statista.com/statistics/818602/online-and-offlin..
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by rb808 7y ago
Agreed - also the central planners products aren't that great, I'd dispute that China dominates anything except manufacturing. Juiceros are made in China and there are very few Chinese cars exported.
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by rb808 7y ago
Ownership is more about control that sharing the profits. So after a few years the staff can fire the founder? nice. We must be getting to the top of this bubble.
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by rb808 7y ago
If you restricted London to 1% foreign born people you wouldn't see a housing shortage either - currently 37% of London's population was born outside of the country. The article quickly dismissed that political choice, but it seem
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by rb808 7y ago
No problems from me. NY schools already have a security guard on duty that watches everyone coming and going through the front door. Its not always easy job, anything that can help them would be great.
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by rb808 7y ago
I completely agree. I think a good life is balanced and not being the best for the sake of being the best. I'm interested in Ivy League universities admissions though. From their point of view I think they want the best of the best I w
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by rb808 7y ago
I'm waiting for my dirt supplements.
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by rb808 7y ago
> there is plenty to do if you're into this lifestyle I wonder if there are fewer people that like the outdoors lifestyle now. New generation prefers xbox and eating at restaurants and doesn't like yard work or hiking. I'd
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by rb808 7y ago
> I will also admit that I’m not very interested in deep learning, floating point or crypto I feel like I met that one other guy in the world.
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by rb808 7y ago
I dont understand either, they should call it long-life cake or something. My supermarket has racks and racks of bread, and I dont like any of it.
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by rb808 7y ago
Someone posted this link the other day. https://zeihan.com/my-way-or-the-huawei/ . If enough people have a cold war mentality strategically it makes some sense. Combined with the chance to annoy the Chinese govt in the
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by rb808 7y ago
> Obviously if the market crash right as you retire, you're a bit screwed Actually this doesn't really matter if you live for 20-40 years after you retire.
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by rb808 7y ago
> growth assumptions of 6% per Wow that is optimistic. Edit: Yes I know US markets have done very well the last 100 years, but they were unusual circumstances. The next 100 are very likely to be different. Take a look Germany/France
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by rb808 7y ago
If you keep building more and more housing you'll end up with a mega city like NYC, Tokyo, Paris, Cairo, Munbai etc etc. Those places are still expensive, just bigger. SF could easily go that route. The people who live and own there do
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by rb808 7y ago
I'm starting to believe that a fixing inequality will help the most. A $20 minimum wage and 70% tax rates on those earning more than $50k will end a lot problems. A job in SF, NYC will not look so great. People will move back to the mi
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by rb808 7y ago
Pity the guys at WSB can't buy calls on this. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/
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by rb808 7y ago
more and more what though? I work with a lot of people that are intelligent and worked super hard their whole lives and are in the 0.1% but I really dont want to be like them. They are really boring. Meanwhile the janitor in our building ha
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by rb808 7y ago
I had the same problem. I also want simple binary metrics and batch related updates like are batch jobs running on time or over due. I really want to avoid writing my own dashboard but seems the only way.
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by rb808 7y ago
Perhaps you're right, but the article here says that is why spec's often dont work. The guy followed the specs, but the it wasn't what the customers wanted.
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by rb808 7y ago
Nice post, I dont really like Zeihan's cold war mentality, but in this case its probably best explanation I've read recently.
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by rb808 7y ago
There are some bad organizations, but overall most are not incompetent behemoths. Yes a little website for a startup that gets a few thousand people doing trivial things is technologically much more advanced. But when you get involved with
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by rb808 7y ago
Wow I searched the comments for agile and no hits. This is basic modern project management - get something in front of the customers and users as soon as possible and iterate from there.

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