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by rtlfe 4y ago
> If we could deploy Apple products in a business environment we would in a heartbeat. I'm not gonna pretend to know about how IT works in business, but most employees at big tech companies do all their work on Macs, so it's ce
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Are you making that decision because the quality of care you've received is better in the Canadian system than the American system That would depend completely on their job in the US. If they're a line cook, care was better i
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by rtlfe 4y ago
I wish. Nanny would be probably double that where I live.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> cost of child care in California, which has _the_ highest cost of labor in the US, is $956/mo The link you provided says $1,412. And this shows roughly $2500 in LA County and $3300 in SF County. https://insightcced.org&
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by rtlfe 4y ago
I hope this person never has a kid. Enjoy your rent doubling to get enough space and either losing your partner's income or spending $3k a month on day care. Plus whatever crappy insurance you're getting for $400 a month is going
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> My rent at the time was about a thousand a month. Sounds like this was either a long time ago or in city/town where not many people want to live.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
I doubt this hypothetical person making $80k has a Cadillac health plan. They could definitely be looking at costs like $1500 for a dental crown and $1000 for an MRI before they hit their deductible.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> because not anybody wants to be a programmer? Almost anybody who works in retail, manual labor, etc would jump on a job offer for 5x more money, better hours, and better working conditions. The reason they don't is they can't
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Yeah for the average adult without much experience debugging and hacking other things, "learned to code" probably means something more like "can write fizzbuzz in 30 minutes with significant effort" than "can debug
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> I can’t understand why the market isn’t flooded with coders I was able to excel at CS in college because my parents shoved a DOS computer in front of me when I was 5 and challenged me with math and general problem solving at every oppo
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by rtlfe 4y ago
In the US many data analysis jobs are at tech companies, so they require living in expensive cities and competing with software engineers for homes, but pay only like 1/3-1/2 of what software engineers make.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> you have to choose your specialization wisely The problem is that most people don't get to choose. There are few of these high paying jobs, so by definition most people are excluded. Either because they're not "smart&quo
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> I quite like being a programmer. This job is truly an anomaly. There are very few careers where you can earn top 1% income with no degree, no physical exertion, under 8 hours a day "on the clock", the freedom to quit any time
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Apple has now forced these companies to maintain their stuff No it hasn't. They can rebuild without improving anything.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> - We use cash to rent a building, order pallets of inventory, and sell that inventory locally to walk-in customers. > - We use cash to buy shares, hold onto them for a bit, and sell those same shares and make money off the spread. T
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> You can't combat this enormous societal change by making an individual effort to let your kids do more by themselves. Maybe not, but you can do things like: * Live downtown instead of in a suburb * Ask your school / DOT to cl
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by rtlfe 4y ago
There's a huge difference between "find it satisfying" and "love what you do."
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> I believe strongly that you can only have a happy life if you love what you do in your day job This is bad news for the huge amount of people with jobs like trash collector or grocery bagger.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> I would say charging at work I don't know the numbers offhand, but Vancouver has a pretty low rate of driving commutes compared to most North American cities.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
I like this approach a lot better than the municipal curb-side charging stations that a lot of cities are building. The former naturally scales up and down with overall demand for cars, while the latter further entrenches cars as the domina
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by rtlfe 4y ago
No heat seems bad, but I'd bet SROs with shared bathrooms would be extremely popular in NYC if they were legal. I'm not sure what happened to them, but there was a startup trying to do this: https://www.curbed.com/
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Aren't legal jobs drying up? I've heard a lot about how it's not the golden ticket everybody thought it was 20 years ago.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
There are a lot of jobs in medicine that aren't pediatric oncology.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
You're just nitpicking vocabulary. This is exactly what I meant, and I would consider the laws and regulations that result from this process the "design" of a city.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Even in cities that don’t require that, rents are still expensive Maybe you've got some good examples from other countries, but here in the US the only major city with reasonable zoning is Houston which has quite affordable homes.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Defense & prosecution aren't on a search for truth, they are on a search to make the best possible case for & against you, respectively. The most important things prosecution does are: decide who to prosecute, decide when
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Almost everything is more expensive in Canada Everything except the most expensive things. Paying 20% more for cheese is fine when you're saving 95% on healthcare.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Major cities are where the problem is most obvious. The cities need low skill workers to keep running, and those workers can't afford to live anywhere near those jobs.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> So what do you suggest we do about that except build more homes? Why are you trying to make this complicated? Just get rid of density caps so that developers build more apartments. Problem solved with zero cost to taxpayers.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> This can't change because it's not determined by some governing body. It actually is. Rents are expensive because zoning laws severely limit density and require lots of car parking.

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