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by rmk 6y ago
Didn't mean to be rude, sorry :)
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by rmk 6y ago
When you have put the economy into the deep freezer for the better part of a year and consequently committed to paying everyone their wages (or more) for that year, things become desperate enough that you have to contemplate things like thi
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by rmk 6y ago
Read it again. The poster is saying that current regulations prohibit building neighborhoods for pedestrians, and we could focus on changing them (so that they promote, or at the very least do not prohibit, building neighborhoods for pedest
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by rmk 6y ago
A lot of the old-school employers run subsidised cafeterias. Cisco used to, back in the day. Pretty decent choices and reasonable pricing, until they started whittling down options making the cafes pretty unattractive compared to surroundin
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by rmk 6y ago
Snacks and other tchotchkes have become de rigueur in SV: I haven't had to buy my own lunch or snack for 8+ years now. With the pandemic in force and the prospect of going into an office itself coming into question, companies will have
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by rmk 6y ago
Is this really true, though? There are different types of job functions involved in designing and producing a new generation of a processor. Perhaps they have a tiered system wherein they will retain key talent by compensating it right? Sec
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by rmk 6y ago
A democrat is President. Science will triumph from now onward.
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by rmk 6y ago
A majority of Americans also reject tax increases on their incomes, and this program is very expensive: A majority Republicans and Republican-leaning voters reject the notion that the Government should provide overall coverage. Roughly 37%
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by rmk 6y ago
I'm aware of what the charges were. I'm referring to the original investigation of Muller's that had these findings.
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by rmk 6y ago
Disputing the vote and questioning results is very common in elections. Don't pretend like Trump is the first to do this, or the first to insinuate that fraud has influenced the result. It's pretty run-of-the-mill politicking. Her
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by rmk 6y ago
He violated campaign finance laws, but there was not enough evidence to support the charge of misuse of office in a treasonous manner. You may personally be convinced of the President's wrondoing, but to try a sitting President for wha
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by rmk 6y ago
Biden is pretty centrist and is not willing to go for universal healthcare, whereas the Bernie side of the spectrum explicitly campaigned for this. That's one of the examples.
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by rmk 6y ago
There is bipartisan agreement that China needs to be confronted and contained. How it is accomplished may be debated, but that is tractable. There is almost no agreement on the rest of the agenda, though. Democrats and leftists want green i
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by rmk 6y ago
Depends on the state law. CA is generally an at will employment state. AFAIK, you are not eligible for unemployment if you resign in CA. If the severance being offered is more than you could make from unemployment benefits then you should g
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by rmk 6y ago
Well, it did appear to result in the CFPB (the thing that Elizabeth Warren was heading?) and Dodd-Frank, perhaps (one can never attribute these things to some particular movement or event, I feel). I don't know if they have been defang
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by rmk 6y ago
Completely agree with everything you said. But how does woke and liberal politics square with almost complete apathy to the the plight of the homeless (or of those verging on homelessness)? Almost nothing has been done to make housing affor
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by rmk 6y ago
Prop 22 passing is what I simply can't square with the woke/liberal politics of CA. Workers' rights, whether they are cabbies, schoolteachers, government workers, construction crews, or really any other large workforce that c
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by rmk 6y ago
How many with young (K-12) children?
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by rmk 6y ago
Yes. I have lived in the Bay Area for a long time now, but never really liked the general holier-than-thou attitude (interestingly, I keep meeting older people who have never turned conservative, but have instead turned even more rabidly le
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by rmk 6y ago
I agree. A lot of this stuff is a function of age and marital status. Older people tend to get married and have kids, and once that happens they clearly prefer the suburbs. There are many folks who prefer city life, but I bet they would be
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by rmk 6y ago
Oh my. I feel like I will never understand California politics. Such blatant corruption and such a large vulnerable population, but also such a huge 'woke' electorate. It would take some crazy mental gymnastics to reconcile these
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by rmk 6y ago
To be honest, creating an Operating System, the ecosystem surrounding it, etc. is technologically much more complicated than a lot of the stuff that web-based companies are doing nowadays. Besides, Microsoft was definitely a much more techn
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by rmk 6y ago
One of the problems is that every person wants to live in some trendy neighborhood in "The City". Naturally, that means landlords can get away with charging exorbitant rents (the bulk of the inventory is under rent control, which
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by rmk 6y ago
Okay, that is something on the order of $10,000 per person if there's a homeless population of 60,000 people. I doubt if SF has such a large homeless population. Does this $600 million cover things like Churches sheltering the homeless
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by rmk 6y ago
For a moment I confused this gentleman's name with that of the character in Arrested Development (the "never nude" Tobias Fünke?) But why or how on Earth would a person like Tobias Lutke find the time to do this? Are there ot
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by rmk 6y ago
- Read code and emulate the style of code that you find good. In code reviews, pay attention to the comments you get from people you admire and want to learn from in your team. Likewise, perform code review on others' code, and offer c
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by rmk 6y ago
Thank you cyb_ for posting this. What a well-written, beautifully-worded article. This is what makes HN special: this piece of writing wouldn't show up anywhere else. Speaking of HN and Silicon Valley, I see parallels. There are people
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by rmk 6y ago
The main motivating example given is rent vs. buy scenarios for a family minivan. I feel that the author may be biased by the last 7-8 months, during which, the rationale behind having two cars has largely vanished. Another example given is
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by rmk 6y ago
So in your view, because a minor can not vote, he's not a constituent? It's not fair for an elected representative to stand up for him? How about a 17 year old? How about a person who's in prison, and therefore can't vot
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by rmk 6y ago
For "exceptional" people, there's the O-1 visa category. But candidate no. 1 likely would not qualify. You seem to think that the H1 program should place candidate 1 over candidate 2. Let me give you a counterexample: Suppose

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