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by smugma 4y ago
This happened to me and at least one other intern in the late 90’s at Cisco. The other intern told them after 1 week and was told to just keep it. I waited five weeks (a little more than $4K) and then told them. They never got back to me bu
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by smugma 4y ago
Not at all; it’s a good question, but it’s implied by the article. “Budweiser in 2010 cost one-fifth of what it did in 1950 after adjusting for inflation, one study calculated, and the cheapest available liquor cost one-fifteenth the price.
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by smugma 4y ago
Often time the money from so-called sin taxes is earmarked towards treatment. Also, a 0.25 tax on a can of beer significantly changes the price of a case of Bud Light but not so much the 4 pack of IPA that costs $15. So you don’t need carve
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Rise in Deaths Spurs Effort to Raise Alcohol Taxes(nytimes.com)
8 points by smugma 4y ago|21 comments
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by smugma 4y ago
“ Last year, 2,153 residents died of causes attributed to alcohol, according to the Oregon Health Authority — more than twice the number of people killed by methamphetamines, heroin and fentanyl combined.”
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by smugma 4y ago
I know many rich people maybe one qualifies as ultra rich ($100M+, private jet with crew). Some have assistants but they all access their own banking. They move money around, check balances, dispute fraudulent charges etc. But all the rich
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by smugma 4y ago
A friend is a Director at Apple and banks with Coutts. Just because your bank is shitty in some ways doesn’t mean you don’t care about technology. My bank (First Republic) caters to richer people, and has had shitty website features in the
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by smugma 4y ago
The city might lose some rights or have an overseer but it's not in anyone's interest to not require building permits to build buildings. I say this as a pro-development YIMBY.
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by smugma 4y ago
Yes. I think he ended up with a Honda Odyssey.
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by smugma 4y ago
Average dealership makes ~$2M/yr. Their margins are very high. I think you're referring to their margins on the sale of automobiles. Those are like the Big Mac. Their service departments are equivalent to the much higher margin so
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by smugma 4y ago
Or, 1-2% a year if you spread it over the next 8 years to get ready by 2030.
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by smugma 4y ago
Last month a friend was looking to buy a minivan (3 kids ages 1-3). The dealers either didn't have inventory or were charging $8-10K over MSRP. I suggested he try Cartelligent. They found him a car within 3 days at <$2K over MSRP. I
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GM offers to buy out Buick dealers that don't want to invest in EVs(cnbc.com)
29 points by smugma 4y ago|65 comments
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by smugma 4y ago
I thought the Buick brand was dead. Zombie? Is this part of a plan to shrink footprint or transition to DTC?
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by smugma 4y ago
Google were around in the Great Recession of 2009 so you can look there to see how they may react to a slowdown/recession. I recall at the time there were reports of something like 200 job cuts at each, <1% of their workforces at th
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by smugma 4y ago
I have an 8GB M1. It never gets hot but sometimes becomes unusable just using WebEx (and my inSync backup kicking off in the background).
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by smugma 4y ago
You seem like you’re all over the place, a Jack of all Trades. Specifically you’re counting the number of U’s in your rack as well as LOC. LOC isn’t generally seen as a great metric. But let’s assume some people like it. 20K over 8 years av
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by smugma 4y ago
“Too” aggressive. While normally not a big deal if there’s a typo, someone else commented and this in attention to detail can put people off as they may think it extends to other areas. It’s mostly relevant because your comment is about you
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by smugma 4y ago
$20-130/hr seems to be a reasonable range for tile laying (at least in California). A semi-skilled day laborer may charge $150/day and $100/hr is reasonable or even hard to find for a highly skilled artisan.
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by smugma 4y ago
When I was in business school 15 years ago I interned for a Big 4 consultancy, paid $40/hr (hourly on an $80K assumed salary). Rather than do things by hand like many MBA’s, I wrote some scripts to make it easy to create lots of Excel
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by smugma 4y ago
We work with Java devs in the Balkans and $70-130/hr is normal. Where in Europe do tile guys make more than that? (I’m assuming that Java rates have some global or at least EU stickiness)
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by smugma 4y ago
That's correct (I got the grades right but my summary was wrong).
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by smugma 4y ago
We really admire what cloudflare did in dealing with patent trolls… “Patent troll” should not be an acceptable profession in America, or anywhere for that matter! We will announce more on this soon. Cloudflare’s crowdsourced prior art sear
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by smugma 4y ago
Summarizing the source article: Google: F Facebook: C Amazon: B- Apple: A+ Twitter: C- Amazing how the “summary” made Facebook look to be better than Amazon and on par with Apple.
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by smugma 4y ago
I learned them in elementary school (in the US) as starting at 1. Indeed, Google's first result for natural number is from Oxford Languages, and defines natural number as: the positive integers (whole numbers) 1, 2, 3, etc., and someti
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by smugma 4y ago
"As an investor, I expect Snowflake to show amazing profitability and record-breaking revenue numbers. As an Engineer, if Snowflake continues on the current path of ignoring performance, I expect them to lose share to the open-source c
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by smugma 4y ago
Not showing up to the office when required could be a fireable offense (not quite insubordination but along the same lines). I knew a guy at Apple that was given 60 days to find a new job or move to LA or be terminated. He found a job in an
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by smugma 4y ago
I second this. Close to the Bay Area you have UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis… very different vibes but both will have areas with homes <$1M. Not a college town but also in California are Sacramento, Ventura, San Luis Obispo (CalPoly but I wo
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by smugma 4y ago
This is why Christmas shutdowns (and Thanksgiving) are the best holidays. Whenever we have a new person, we tell them how seriously we take the shutdown and to not send the team any emails until after. In 2020, we had a manager join from a
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by smugma 4y ago
You can have spontaneous discussions with people you know to be disclosed (three websites sucks); you don’t need to re-look them up every time. You can also talk about things that don’t require disclosure.

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