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by shados 5y ago
Wait until the market stabilizes and new dev don't outnumber more senior ones 10:1. Until then, we have to stick to patterns that are very simple, easy to teach and have wide pits of success. We also have to lean heavily on systems tha
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by shados 5y ago
I always took the "slowing metabolism" more as the individual slowing down. As I'm getting older and things start hurting more everywhere, I move less. Because I move less, I have less muscles. Because I have less muscles, I
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by shados 5y ago
WFH only changes things in a small number of professions (hard to wait tables remotely, and sometimes doctors need to see patients in person). A large amount of people in those professions don't want to WFH (thus why a lot of big tech
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by shados 5y ago
yes, though I'm not sure what it has to do with the original question. Someone is comparing 2 types of property in a given area. The city's tax burden is a constant between the two in that scenario, so the only variable will be ho
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by shados 5y ago
Yes, thats why median home prices didn't really go up that much higher than inflation when adjusted for interest rate decreases. People don't want "a home". They want THAT home (or at least, a home in THAT area). Yes, th
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by shados 5y ago
Yeah. At the same time, I have a condo in a super hot area of a tech hub, and it still didn't really appreciate any faster than the market (you'd think it did with those crazy leaps, but the market has been pretty crazy for the la
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by shados 5y ago
Yup, like I mentioned, it's really its own beast, and all analogies will be flawed in some ways. But it also doesn't work quite like other taxes, at least in practice.
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by shados 5y ago
It's definitely not a negative and I'd pick a fight if I met someone face to face who said it was. I 100% agree with all of the benefits you outlined, and totally believe it's worth it. I'd also not focus too much on the
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by shados 5y ago
The math for this ends up being extremely complex. The leverage is one part, and a big one. You have to account for closing costs (especially when selling), and uncertainty around how long you'll stay. But you could theoretically rent
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by shados 5y ago
It depends where, as cities have some level of freedom in the shenanigan they implement in their tax structure. Normally though, taxation is just a matter of the property value. Often, cities with lower housing cost have higher tax rates (b
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by shados 5y ago
Not nearly as directly though. Social security is basically money in -> money back. A glorified forced 401k, or at worse a kind of retirement insurance. It's a bit more separated. When I pay taxes, I don't get a direct return f
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by shados 5y ago
I don't have all of the math for all the scenarios you describe, but still, overall you're completely correct. If you account for inflation and interest rates, and look at median home price, a home earlier this year was CHEAPER th
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by shados 5y ago
I've thought about this a lot, though if you google around you'll find people who dispute this claim. Still, it makes sense to me. If you have single income households, and all of a sudden everyone's a double income household
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by shados 5y ago
Yup. Don't forget the whole "frequently choose not to have a kid" part, and it becomes extremely one sided. Dual income families aren't new, but 2 high earners professionals with no kids aren't just the occasional d
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by shados 5y ago
Social security is more of a forced 401k. You will get back the money (in theory), but yes, it's not progressive and impact the poor more than the rich. It's a bit of an iffy one. If the social security system rolled up into feder
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by shados 5y ago
may depend where you're from. I'm a French speaker and it's always been "pomme grenade" everywhere I have been.
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by shados 5y ago
I mean, I know one software engineer who has a farm and probably could do it if the time was right. The rest of us would likely poison ourselves, break something, or starve if we tried. Living things are pretty far from my area of expertise
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by shados 5y ago
I bought a GTX 1080 Ti back when they just came out. It was absolutely overkill for my needs, but I got it for fun. I'm kind of glad I did now, since I'm still unable to upgrade. The extra oomph is ensuring new games still run dec
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by shados 5y ago
My friends and I always joke about quitting our software jobs to go work on a farm when things get rough. We're obviously just joking (things are never that bad). But you actually did it and living the meme. Kudos!
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by shados 5y ago
They're not lying though when saying everything else skyrocketed. There's been shortages of everything. With that said, labor shortage in the trades is probably the biggest culprit at this point. Even before the pandemic, in some
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by shados 5y ago
When I was in college, a few decades ago, we had a class on object oriented programming. Out of about 60 people in the class, you could count on the fingers of one hand how many people passed. It was so bad the professor had to offer a redo
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by shados 5y ago
> You'd get the same intensity out of a group of tired people too That would be interesting too, since AFAIK weed helps with sleep and gets you more deep sleep, but at the cost of REM sleep. There's a lot of theories tossed aro
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by shados 5y ago
Correct. They failed at monetization without pissing off their users. Partly because they did it earlier. Youtube was ubiquitous by the time they started pushing intrusive ads, so people either dealt with it, paid, or used an adblocker inst
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by shados 5y ago
Yes, they're losing yours, but that's a small cost to pay vs NO ONE discovering their stuff. Basically what this comes down to is that there's a market for something like Medium's earlier days, back when it was decent. S
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by shados 5y ago
> Discovery! Medium is about getting people to read your blog. This. I feel like as a reader, medium is becoming pretty useless, with the gate screens and stuff. But back when I was using it a lot, I published my stuff on Medium because
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by shados 5y ago
That's pretty much what it was designed to do. You could push it pretty far too. Relational databases at the time all implemented XML types, so you could have XML all the way down, and XSLT is how you'd go from point A to point B.
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by shados 5y ago
That kind of makes the point. Writing the code is the easy part. Designing a system that's easy to maintain is hard. But a lot of that is decided before you write your first line.
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by shados 5y ago
Ok, if that's true, I'm back to raging about how absolutely ridiculous this is. Why obsolete a computer that can still run almost anything on high-ish settings @.@ Because there's 0.01% more crash or whatever....
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by shados 5y ago
At the very least the support requirement is a soft one, not a hard one. A large portion of motherboards from that era had firmware updates to officially support Win11, and Win11 WILL work on an i7-7700k even though its not in the list. You
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by shados 5y ago
You're so right. Reminds me of when people were claiming ADA exemptions for masks, as a "loophole". Then folks involved in the ADA point out it wasn't a loophole, because it was illegal to claim an exemption if you have

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