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by rifung 8y ago
I would argue even if something is technically correct but deliberately misleading companies should get in trouble for it. Nobody has time or energy to learn about every single thing they may buy. Also, how can we even know the hardware is
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by rifung 9y ago
> Gerald W. Johnson, a journalist who covered The New Deal during the 30’s for the Baltimore Sun, wrote that what angry poor people want is never usually money (or else they would have revolted a long time ago), but hope for a better fut
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by rifung 9y ago
> Why does policy need to be "fair" to investors I guess this is just an ethical question? I don't think it would be fair to those who recently bought a home if we just wiped out a substantial proportion of their assets. &
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by rifung 9y ago
> As we’ve pointed out at City Observatory, there’s an inherent contradiction between the goals of promoting housing affordability and using homeownership as a wealth building strategy. Affordability requires that housing be stable in pr
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by rifung 9y ago
True but statutory tax rate matters less than effective tax rate. As a proportion of GDP the US was already lower than average. https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the... I don'
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by rifung 9y ago
When I worked at Extrahop the engineers had offices with two to an office. It was a great place to work
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by rifung 9y ago
Why isn't it the role of the government to prevent loneliness if it's a serious issue? How is it any different from preventing disease?
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by rifung 9y ago
This exactly. I work at Google and it astonishes me how surprised people are when I tell them I use autosale, the company program where your stocks are sold immediately as they vest. They always ask "Don't you think Google stock i
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by rifung 9y ago
Is that really true? I feel like there are people who are actually just passionate about things early on and have ample opportunity to explore those passions. I believe those kinds of students are able to make it into top schools as well ev
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by rifung 9y ago
I assume by not looking right you mean the act of looking and not looking like your appearance? I believe that's the article was referring to the former and not the latter. Assuming you did mean the former, I find it fascinating that y
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by rifung 9y ago
> The problem here is that Google sold their engineers on "Don't Be Evil" and libertarianism and "we're a sweet little tech company that people like" and is now delivering military contracts. I'm not su
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by rifung 9y ago
> And they specifically dropped that when they changed to Alphabet, so the writing was on the wall for people to see Still there actually. https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
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by rifung 9y ago
> You think Asians are getting into good universities solely on their SAT scores? Universities de-emphasized the SAT decades ago, so your entire point is moot. From my experience, both being an Asian and being surrounded by them, Asians
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by rifung 9y ago
I am also Asian. > Speaking as an Asian, the insinuation that my race might be considered a meaningful dimension in the pursuit of class diversity makes my blood boil. This PR rep is barely even trying to hide the real implication here:
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by rifung 9y ago
I believe it already does actually (I work at Google but not in search so I could be wrong but I believe they talked about this during orientation)
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by rifung 9y ago
> Fucking stupid policy - so they have 90 days to off load your shit to Utah/gov-cloud before they “delete” your data? FWIW I would be surprised if there is not a delay when deleting from S3/Azure Storage/GCS (and thus any
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by rifung 9y ago
> Mostly you do research by being interested in something. If you need someone to tell you what to be interested in, a PhD may not be for you. Maybe I'm misinterpreting but this comment seems a bit condescending. The thing is, it&#x
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by rifung 9y ago
This is something I used to think about too but how do you do research without learning about prior work and how do you learn about prior work without an advisor to guide you?
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by rifung 9y ago
I thought people go with serverless so they don't have to deal with ops?
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by rifung 9y ago
> The average Developer/Engineer/etc works about 60 hours a week, they work on things that generate millions of dollars. Hardly anyone I know regularly works 60 hours a week.. Even if I generated a company millions of dollars,
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by rifung 9y ago
https://www.canva.com/ is probably my favorite I've seen? It has very little information I admit but I like how a site made for designers has a very unique design itself. I am not a designer myself but I was impressed
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by rifung 9y ago
But cockroaches are known for being extremely hardy! That seems like a good quality for a database.. Perhaps you should replace serious with pretentious or shallow?
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by rifung 9y ago
Sorry couldn't you elaborate on why you can believe it easily? I feel like people in tech are paid very well so this is a surprise to me. If anything I feel overpaid despite being paid much less than most of my peers
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by rifung 9y ago
Not really.. I have friends with no interest in computers but who studied CS because they knew it would lead to a well paying job. They work at Amazon and Google now so I guess it worked out for them. One requires motivation, but that motiv
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by rifung 9y ago
> the real ultimate benefit of mass transit that taxis can never replicate is _thoroughput_ in a dense area But what if in the far future people stop owning cars and so everyone is hailing a self driving car? Perhaps then there would be
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by rifung 9y ago
Ah.. but what about being able to afford a house on a job that requires minimal education like working in a factory? That was actually the main point from my interpretation.
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by rifung 9y ago
Is this the right link? This article is about poverty and not about how far you could go on a middle class income
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by rifung 9y ago
What motivates you to stay at your role instead of finding a different position where you would work in better conditions?
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by rifung 9y ago
> Prices are not dropping even when thousands of units are hitting the market every month. Well in fairness, even with all else being equal, units entering the market doesn't imply prices dropping. It only should imply prices being
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by rifung 9y ago
> Unless you aren't a native speaker, I'm inclined to believe that you are being willfully disingenuous by spreading that the latter was what he meant to say. I'm a native speaker but "they're" makes sense t

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