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by shados 7y ago
I'm not on the west coast but was just reading an article a out the entry level salaries for software engineers at top tech companies in the Bay area. Many are really close to the numbers you used in your example, so it's well wit
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by shados 7y ago
Sure, but in the markets people bitch about that hasn't happened. Even during the crash, prices didn't move downward that much. There is a risk for sure, but that's true of all investments that pay better than t-bills.
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by shados 7y ago
This is very important, especially when discussing it with people who rent. People who are paying 3000-3500 a month looking at a 1 million dollar house as something insane (well, it is, sorry I'm just using round numbers to make it eas
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by shados 7y ago
As someone else pointed out, people from all over the world, not just people who want to live there, can buy a house. That means a LOT of people can afford them even if they were a few times more expensive. Still, the majority of homes are
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by shados 7y ago
You can copy a font (as in, design another font that looks exactly like the original) and then do whatever you want. I think people call that tracing a font, and is very common with Helvetica, of which a lot of alternate fonts have made &qu
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by shados 7y ago
I think Canada does that too, right? I'd be surprised if Valve saw any of that money though.
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by shados 7y ago
Well, this article shows why companies do that, no? If you operate in all countries you have to follow all their laws, which isn't realistic, so you have to pick and choose your markets (or get sued when you inevitably fuck up)
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by shados 7y ago
Thats still all relative though. If everyone made between 10-15 bucks an hour, 15 bucks an hour would be enough to pay for anything that matters. Chinese investors aside, the reason an elementary school teacher might have trouble affording
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by shados 7y ago
That's a trend all over the country. I read an article about Seattle almost completely giving up on this type and other non violent crimes. The east coast, like in Boston is getting there too. If no one is about to die, just shut up an
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by shados 7y ago
but if they don't get interrupted, what's the cost of it vs the cost of them actually being interrupted? Did someone else spend a day trying to solve a problem they could have solved in minutes by interrupting the lone genius?
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by shados 7y ago
> Instead, he used the odd hours to force us to give him only work that could be accomplished alone Ding ding ding. We have a winner! A big problem with people like that is that at the end of the day, writing code or building stuff is th
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by shados 7y ago
That's the issue. Articles like this talk about the "1%", but they're trying to convince people that everyone in the 1% are Bill Gates or Jeff Besos. If the top 1% is an household income of $475,116, and you have 2 worki
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by shados 7y ago
There's no reason they have to be structured this way, but unions usually work through voting, and the tech sector has a LOT of pretty shitty people coasting, and they'll get a vote that's worth the same as anyone else's
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by shados 7y ago
Neither are you if you're generalizing or engineering around repetitive tasks without considering the total cost of ownership of going either way.
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by shados 7y ago
The "form" here is a metaphor for "simple things". If i have a large system and I have 3 forms, I'm not going to add (or worse, build) a dynamic form generator system. Worse, the forms could be completely different
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by shados 7y ago
That's the key. It's very much two bubbles. Because some parts of the job is almost factory like, anyone with a bit of practice can do it, and the other part is extremely difficult, requires ton of experience, might need a compute
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by shados 7y ago
Getting downvoted, but there is something worth discussing here. Originally you had sex === gender. Pronouns being words to address them and describe them per their sex/gender. Then there was a split between sex and gender, and a push
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by shados 7y ago
Anecdotal survey in my city's community across a couple of companies say 30-50% of people never turn them back in, so while its a powerful tool that gets rid of a lot of issues with typical screens, it introduces friction a lot of peop
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by shados 7y ago
Heh, dealing with the intersection of money and people is hard. Lets just use the death penalty for everything. Less money involved then. Oh damn, the people making injection drugs will lobby too... I just can't win.
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by shados 7y ago
I always felt like punitive fines and fees, tickets, etc, should be de facto given out to a third party, unaffiliated charity. Got a ticket for not picking up after your dog? Money goes to an animal protection group. Of course, even WITH th
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by shados 7y ago
Let me ask. If you had to make a choice between "obeying copyright laws (where copyright is granted for 7 years, no more and fair use clauses are a thing), or being a literal slave (by the definition most people think of when you use t
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by shados 7y ago
We're unfortunately in a place where public transit systems are starting to fall apart in many major US cities (I dont know if its all), such as Boston and NYC. At the same time, we're trying to reduce car usage. That's a pre
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by shados 7y ago
The various content industries already had to move to models that assume everything will be pirated since its so common and accepted. For some the result was not bad. Even good (Spotify and co are pretty cool, at least for a casual user lik
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by shados 7y ago
Fair enough, I shouldn't have put the "with filler" part. I still stand by the "low quality" (or at least very mediocre flavor) bit though, which still makes the point stand. When I have a whooper most of the taste
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by shados 7y ago
The impossible whooper was inevitable and brilliant. As you mentioned, the meats served were often already low quality, with fillers, and it was arguable if it was even meat. Some fast food chains served "100% beef", but it didn&#
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by shados 7y ago
Don't only do they no longer do, you're considered crazy, awful or entitled for even considering it.
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by shados 7y ago
This is a pretty important point. Everything wrong with big American cities is normalized. If you don't like it, you're told to just go to the suburb. But it's all solvable and are usually consequences of policies as well as
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by shados 7y ago
"Empathy" is unfortunately becoming code word for "caring to a specific group of people but not others". It's almost never used for "the ability to understand and care about the feelings of people in general&qu
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by shados 7y ago
People are downvoting this, but the person has a point. That's exactly how Trump got elected (followed by millions of people wondering how the hell it could happen). Shame everyone who disagrees with you, cancel them, ban them on your
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by shados 7y ago
Obviously, we need to make sure NO ONE has any kind of quality of life. Large US cities should keep being shit shows and keep getting worse for everyone until 100% of people, no matter their socioeconomic situation, can live like kings.

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