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by rfrey 4y ago
There's no way the run-up in housing prices is all land. In 1960 the average house price was 11,700... about 115,000 in 2022 dollars. I'm 51 and have built several houses. Since I was 22 and started being interested in real estate
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by rfrey 4y ago
Homes today are cheaper than the 60s? The 60s where a single earner family, where the earner was a schoolteacher, could afford a house before having kids?
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by rfrey 4y ago
I have used this exact phrase multiple times, but your parent's "rant full of strawmen" did make me reflect on it. - How is "lived experience" different than "experience"? - How can an experience be "
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by rfrey 4y ago
The payout is often in a mix of cash and stock, and the stock will vest. Sometimes there are holdbacks for performance. That can result in not-too-much cash being available upfront, and it'll all go to preferred shareholders leaving li
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by rfrey 4y ago
It's not just slip-and-fall. Northern Alberta SAGD sites have 20km/h speed limits on premise - if you're a contractor you WILL be fired individually for going over (yes, they measure), and if you're a contracting firm tw
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by rfrey 4y ago
> There is no post-React Oh, you sweet summer child.
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by rfrey 4y ago
People can drive illegally. Everyone has $1mm of insurance to legally drive.
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by rfrey 4y ago
> I have more expertise in deep learning than anyone else here I... I guess it's possible?
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by rfrey 5y ago
So many people here saying throwing out a price obligates you to sell at that price. Deals fall apart all the time after a price has been settled on.
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by rfrey 5y ago
The difference is that Maslow did propose a hierarchy, and the original article is about how he never proposed a pyramid. So maybe it's dumb semantics, but I didn't start the fire.
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by rfrey 5y ago
"Past me" is firmly in the camp of other people. (Not just in code, obviously, but in pretty much all other choices as well.) Present me and future me, however, are certainly not other people.
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by rfrey 5y ago
Probably due to a pattern of Very Confident Statements from people who know a little bit about the subject. There may be things you are expert in that are similar.
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by rfrey 5y ago
Huh, I just pulled my undergrad psychology notes and I don't think I've ever heard or used "Maslow's pyramid". It's always been Maslow's Hierarchy to me.
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by rfrey 5y ago
What's with the "people like you"?
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by rfrey 5y ago
No one needs to learn anything.
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by rfrey 5y ago
> unlikeable women that don't register as real people I'm curious what you consider likeable or registering as real. As compared to, say, Batman.
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by rfrey 5y ago
The essence, perhaps... with none of the nuance or shading. If one thinks that is unnecessary, dispensable fluff, Twitter is no doubt sufficient for most writing. And a rhyming dictionary contains all poetry in many fewer pages.
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FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition(github.com)
48 points by rfrey 5y ago|15 comments
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by rfrey 5y ago
There are plenty of engineers from successful startups —- maybe the majority of them — who were lucky to get a new Honda Fit out of a very lucrative (for some) exit.
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by rfrey 5y ago
That's a weird thing to say on a website that values curiosity above almost everything else.
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by rfrey 5y ago
Perhaps I was too harsh, and you are not a native English speaker? "Seize" simply means to take control. The second definition in Miriam Webster is "to take control by legal means". Police seize drugs, for example.
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by rfrey 5y ago
You ask a question, then immediately assume the answer and draw conclusions based on that answer. I dispute that this is just something you like to think about ("Just asking questions here...") or that you are not pushing an agend
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by rfrey 5y ago
Mark seems awesome and thoughtful and deliberate. But it does seem that he implements some features without the approval of, or from the text, against the wishes of, the product people. Maybe his product people were unreliable and unsympath
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by rfrey 5y ago
Well, those long distance charges will kill you.
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by rfrey 5y ago
I'm curious how this works in practice. A conscientious employee will honor the 3 month term, of course. But if there is animosity, or a lack of trust, or a feeling of betrayal etc. etc. how does the company keep the employee working f
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by rfrey 5y ago
Because it tastes really good.
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by rfrey 5y ago
Let's see if they can pick it.
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by rfrey 5y ago
You would seem to have a very low pain threshold.
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by rfrey 5y ago
The worst of it is that price isn't even a good proxy for quality much of the time. I bought a chest-of-drawers for my daughter, chose one that looked about right and was about $350 - certainly less than a custom made piece but 3x as m
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by rfrey 5y ago
You are asserting that software is built far better than bridges and airplanes?

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