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by sologoub 6y ago
The reason retired people can’t live off of cash is simple - inflation. In many countries, governments provide and guarantee retirement. US has largely shifted to saved retirements in the form of IRA/401Ks. These are investment account
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by sologoub 6y ago
That’s just it, it doesn’t. To compare apples to apples between office and wfh, there has to be child care arranged and it can’t be the same person as the one working. You usually don’t take kids into the office. Work is still work, regardl
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by sologoub 6y ago
Childcare (and other “cares”) are being conflated with remote work. Remote work is still work - when you are forced to also handle childcare, you are basically working two jobs, at the same time. No wonder that’s at very least suboptimal. L
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by sologoub 6y ago
I’ve been using ChromeOS tablet as my video conferencing rig with front firing speakers and good microphone array. No echo and no overheated MacBook Pro. Suspect a newish iPad could work well too.
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by sologoub 6y ago
A lot of these tests miss validating one of the key arguments against means-tested assistance - that there is a cliff to scale for people who were on that assistance, but crossed the imaginary line to slightly better means and are now signi
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by sologoub 6y ago
Personal counter-anecdote. When I was I think about the same age (5-6), my mom would take me in the office and occasionally my only entertainment would be a DOS computer with a few basic games. From what I’m told, I was very motivated to ge
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by sologoub 6y ago
This. Basic supply/demand problem. For those in control of that scare resource (Bay Area housing close to employers/amenities), that constraint is pure profit.
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by sologoub 6y ago
As many already said - get outside as much as possible/safe. Fresh air and exercise do magic. On the human contact side, getting into massive multiplayer games might be interesting - there are a lot of interactions and cooperative play
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by sologoub 6y ago
Turns out the age old adaptations of having proximity to relatives really do matter. US is doubly vulnerable here - people move around a lot and the infra for childcare is simply not there. This is being discussed from the well-off perspect
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by sologoub 6y ago
So true!
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by sologoub 6y ago
Or Apple could just include a cover into the lid, like many other manufacturers already do. For example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/c...
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by sologoub 6y ago
Look at it another way - you are building a company and actually launched! Most people will never get there. You have a house, while in the past it was easier, overall home ownership is something only 32% of our age group accomplished. 65%
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by sologoub 7y ago
When stuff like this comes up, I keep wondering how Jobs would have reacted to this...
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by sologoub 7y ago
In order to look for something, you generally need to know it exists. When you live in the given social circle, you tend to develop a point of view on what’s doable/achievable that’s in line with that circle. Some people are not constr
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by sologoub 7y ago
You have to know that MIT OpenCourseWare exists. Many people do, but I suspect an even larger number do not. Gifted kids can come from all backgrounds. When parent involvement is there and the parents know how the system works and where to
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by sologoub 7y ago
Interesting view. I’m not a psyc major, but that almost sounds like a coping mechanism with the “trapped” sense. From that angle, office doesn’t sound like that happy of a place either. Sincerely hope that you are able to untrap yourself in
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by sologoub 7y ago
The sources are good and thorough, but very long. Here’s an ok summary of kappa proposal: https://milinda.pathirage.org/kappa-architecture.com/ In theory this sounds great, but you have to account for processing capaci
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by sologoub 7y ago
So what will you do when you inevitably retire? We’ve spent our lives making work the center (US probably more so than EU). What you are describing can read as “I can’t bare WFH” or it can be “the pandemic severed me from my social circle,
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by sologoub 7y ago
Wrote a lengthy post supporting, but decided it’s not worth the overall sentiment here. Will just say this - you are not alone in liking WFH :) Like most things, it’s a deeply personal choice and making claims about who can and cannot be pr
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by sologoub 7y ago
The lots in those communities (including Fairfield) look to be reasonably sized - some pools even. That’s plenty to have a few beds of greens. It’s not acre-sized, but that’s hardly a requirement. What do you propose then, Los Altos or Athe
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by sologoub 7y ago
SF Bay Area is not really representative of California as a whole. Most people outside of the dense cores have a place for a small garden. State is large and diverse. Los Angeles is a lot less dense and most people have at least a balcony o
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by sologoub 7y ago
Can’t upvote enough! It’s also my main beef with many chromebooks - decent specs and just unacceptable screens for productivity. Even though Linux may not scale resolution as good as a Mac or Windows yet, being able to fit more text on the
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by sologoub 7y ago
This depends on the skill set available and the goal of the company. My previous employer tried the open source route, but then the normal things happened - people left, documentation was lacking, new people preferred other tools, then thos
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by sologoub 7y ago
To summarize the answers below - it all depends on what you are trying to do. Data lakes are generally less structured than other things. They can also contain non-text things, like images and videos that can also be mined. Sounds like you
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by sologoub 7y ago
Glue worked well for my previous gig, but honestly it felt like a bit of an overkill. If you have a large org and a lot of tribal knowledge + new fields showing up out of the blue, yes you need to organize and keep track. If you are a relat
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by sologoub 7y ago
That’s basically how GA export worked from my previous work - everything in a session is nested. Upshot is basically what’s above - easy to filter and you don’t get partial data. The catch is if you need to filter by a property of the sessi
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by sologoub 7y ago
Not a bad read, but it’s written from the perspective of large mature operations. If your company is just starting out, the advice is actually there but not quite spelled out - use S3/GCS to store data (ideally in parquet format) and q
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by sologoub 7y ago
Those are probably tax values. Actual out of pocket is likely a lot more - SF area has a huge shortage of construction labor and prices are really high, with completion rates low.
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by sologoub 7y ago
Looks like 20k of that was just inflation: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=34000&year1=19... While still a lot, I’d suspect it’s quite different from today’s situation.
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by sologoub 7y ago
Over 8x seems to be a CA thing mostly (one tile in Oregon bordering CA). Wonder if we can thank prop 13 for that? (Frozen property tax that constrains supply and encourages ani-development stance by removing the tax consequences of apprecia

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