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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
300k in 3-5 years? You can get that much in RSUs from a publicly traded company, and you can sell those for cash every quarter and buy a house before the 4 years are up. For me to work for a startup, the upside scenario needs to be an 7 fig
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I think the surplus from self-driving tech is going to go to the owners of self-driving IP and consumers.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I’ll gladly give my house to the bank and rent again if it means everyone can afford a place to stay.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
International tax law doesn’t seem very relevant to the housing crisis.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I don’t believe it’s true that rich people are getting to write off college costs as a donation. They might be paying them out of a tax advantaged 529 account. The magnitude of this advantage is such that middle-class people probably care t
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
The big ticket items are Medicaid and teachers.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I wonder if people assume Siri failed to understand the query when they hear its request for clarification. I think it should include some context, eg: “Which x do you want opening hours for?”
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I think it’s interesting to look at the patterns of historical usage mentioned in the wiki. The phrase always originates with an accusation by party A that party B calls party C useful idiots, but there’s never any evidence backing up the a
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
If you see people expressing an opinion that’s useful for the rich and powerful, it’s appealing to imagine that the people expressing that opinion are shills. But I think saying such out loud lowers the quality of discourse. If we go around
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
Facebook, Google, and Netflix are known to make better offers than Apple and Amazon (although those two are capable of great offers and have both employed thousands of engineers who became millionaires after stock appreciation).
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
Google seems to have no trouble playing music from Spotify for me. It can even manage it while I yell my song requests from the shower.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
Maybe they can’t be bribed with cash, but could they be bribed with a nice contract for the company they founded? Or threatened for access to a market?
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I don’t know, in the Bay Area 150k is entry level and big companies pay 250k or much higher to senior engineers. Whenever I hear about pay in Europe it’s a fraction of that. It may be worth it for a different lifestyle, I’m not making that
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
When heating you usually turn some energy into heat. When air conditioning you use energy to move heat out of the conditioned space, emitting waste heat somewhere else. If you’re doing it outdoors, it seems like the waste heat is going to m
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I wonder if we’ll see independently-owned drones doing deliveries ala Amazon’s driver-partner contractors. I suppose it depends on how much drones cost in capital and how much liability there is to make it worth it for the big cos to distan
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
Sure, but why do I need a blockchain for that? Can’t the service trusted by the government to enforce KYC regulation also run a normal commodity server to process transactions, without burning the earth?
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
Titles can be worth a lot to employees, but employers get to provide them for free. I think helps answer many questions: 1. Why do most of the programmers at my job have a title of Senior Engineer or better? 2. Why does Goldman Sachs have t
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
There are way more doctors than CEOs. If you’re gonna claim that CEO pay is a more significant factor than doctor pay you should do the math on that.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
Don’t companies like TransferWise already do international payments electronically without the need for a blockchain? I definitely support lowering the amount of human labor required for payments, but I don’t see the need for many coal plan
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
There’s no indication I’m aware of that Bitcoin is removing any labor or equipment from the banking system. So far all I’ve seen is traditional banking layering crypto on top.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
In my BS mental model of how brains work, I imagine that we estimate the probability of a risk not through some analytical method, but instead with a sampling-based approach where we observe how much time our brain spends worrying about dif
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I’m pretty sure it was a joke.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
I don’t have any opinion about Lambda School, but I believe it’s normal for schools to charge tuition before classes are completed. I believe the drop deadline at my college (after which you can’t be refunded at all) was around halfway thro
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
The new iPhones come with a USB-C wall wart and a USB-C-to-lightning cable.
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by shsjxjbsbs 7y ago
You really don’t think that a chemical company dumping waste into a river is worse than using phone numbers to target ads? Deep in your heart of hearts? Are you sure you don’t have an axe to grind against tech companies and perhaps that’s