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by rodonn 4y ago
I switched from a remote job to an in person job as a machine learning engineer. I have a moderate preference for working in person with other people. I don't love having to commute, but at this point in my life it is worth the tradeof
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by rodonn 4y ago
FWIW Mint now offers a premium subscription that removes all of the advertising. https://mint.intuit.com/premium
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by rodonn 4y ago
This is not true about Keybase. They do not ever store your private key on their servers https://book.keybase.io/security "Your private keys are only stored on your devices. For extra security, your private keys are on
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by rodonn 4y ago
Zillow does have a product like this: pay one application fee and you can reuse the background check across as many apartments as you apply to in a month. The biggest downside is that it only works for landlords that chose to accept the ser
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by rodonn 4y ago
DC is currently suing Doordash for this sort of deceptive pricing arguing that it violates existing laws. https://www.npr.org/2022/03/22/1087988691/washington-d
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by rodonn 5y ago
Yeah this article made a lot of claims that seem completely untrue. For example, CD says that Uber's money is running out. If you look at their net assets on hand it went up last year. This past year with tighter labor markets has s
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by rodonn 5y ago
This is very true when you only have a handful of assets (e.g 6 ETFs), but the benefits stick around for longer when you do direct investing in stocks (e.g. rather than buying S&P 500 directly, you buy each of the 500 stocks that make u
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by rodonn 5y ago
You have $1m and on average it will earn 7% per year. The fee is 1% of the $1m ($10k), but it is 14% of your expected gains per year (1%/7%). After fees your portfolio will go up by 6% per year instead of 7%, which is a substantial red
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by rodonn 5y ago
beeminder.com has a product that fills some of these needs.
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by rodonn 5y ago
Alternatively: Type the ']' key (to enter the package management mode) and then type 'up' (short for update) to update all packages. For more info on this: https://pkgdocs.julialang.org/v1/repl/
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by rodonn 5y ago
This is very cool! A feature I'd love to have (and would gladly pay for) is to be able to add multiple photos to one wall to test out different arrangements. We've been thinking about how to arrange our framed art on the walls, bu
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by rodonn 5y ago
Levels.fyi has a nice chart showing salary ranges at different levels of seniority for a variety of companies https://www.levels.fyi/charts.html
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by rodonn 5y ago
It's not a good rule of thumb. There definitely are some tech companies that pay less than half of FAANG (especially among small startups and eng roles in less tech centric companies), but there are also a lot of companies that have si
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by rodonn 5y ago
When Berkeley surveyed their graduate students, 47% were depressed and 10% had considered suicide... https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/22/berkeley-stud... Now I agree with your conclusion that
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by rodonn 5y ago
They give a nice comparison of S2 vs H3 here https://h3geo.org/docs/comparisons/s2 Which is better definitely will depend on your use case.
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by rodonn 5y ago
Depends on your use case. Hex's have a lot of advantages when you are a transportation oriented company. All hexes are the same size and the distance between the center of any two adjacent hexes is always the same distance. https:&#x2
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by rodonn 5y ago
The economist Bryan Caplan recently wrote about the experience of his twins who recently entered college after doing homeschooling for middle and high school. There seems to be a lot of overlap in their experiences to this article https:&#
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by rodonn 5y ago
I took multiple CS classes at a top university* and I never heard about message buses or events... Admittedly I was not a CS major and don't work in software engineering. (To be honest, it being a top university probably decreased the
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by rodonn 5y ago
I had a similar situation at my school where I was valedictorian because there are 2 Latin language APs vs. only 1 for most of the other foreign languages.
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by rodonn 5y ago
I use t.co (owned by twitter). Its major benefit is extremely short to type and no https.
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by rodonn 5y ago
But these numbers can be very deceptive, since they don't include RSUs or bonuses. e.g. when you look at Amazon you won't see any salaries about $200k even though total compensation goes much higher than that.
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by rodonn 5y ago
No that isn't one of the reasons given. The bigger reasons are: a) US unwillingness to learn best practices from other countries about how to keep costs of construction down, especially for public transit infrastructure. b) US builds m
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by rodonn 5y ago
I think one of the clearest examples of this is London, where tech salaries are 20-30% lower than SF despite it being roughly as expensive. My friends at Google say Zurich is a better deal that it might seem. Between lower taxes and moderat
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by rodonn 5y ago
Unfortunately under US accounting rules you have to do it this way in your financial filings.
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by rodonn 5y ago
There are only around 330 million Americans and about 5 million born/immigrated each year. 1 billion possibilities will be enough for about 100 more years. Presumably sometime before then we can replace or update the system (or worst c
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by rodonn 6y ago
This article suggests Instacart is making a small profit of $3 per order in 2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2021/01/27/instaca...
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by rodonn 6y ago
Book review by Joe Stiglitz https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/books/review/bjorn-lombor...
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by rodonn 6y ago
Yes, but there is a big problem of people other than the artist creating NFTs for other peoples art. There is nothing in the NFT process that guarantees the money is going to the "right" person.
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by rodonn 6y ago
You can do this without buying the NFT also.
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by rodonn 6y ago
Nielson does do this, but only for users who have explicitly opted into one of the panels, which they pay people to be part of.

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