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by sologoub 5y ago
For US Median ~63k vs mean ~73k: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_Unit... Germany (typically used as an example of a wealthy country in EU) is ~49k mean (average), so US has higher median and mea
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by sologoub 5y ago
Chromebooks frequently go on crazy sales - bought my 8Gb/i5 Acer Spin 713 for less than $500. As work machine it’s perfect for me and is also disposable if something were to happen to it. Linux support rounds out what I need, though it
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For those starting out in SV now, that’s usually a choice of giving up a great job or paying super expensive rent/putting all your savings in a house or packing in with roommates.
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Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead(wsj.com)
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You’d probably already have indices by user then. There also other ways to store the data, for example not as a time series of user actions, but as another data structure. It just depends on your requirements and data model. The gist of the
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Sure, there are different design patterns for different data sizes. This also adds querying complexity, so just depends on what’s needed. Also, most applications have peak and low periods of load that are predictable (e.g. users concentrate
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by sologoub 5y ago
Wouldn’t a simple scheduled batch job be enough to go through periodically and drop records older than N days? This would also give you audit logs, etc. As well as flexibility to adjust business logic without updating the TTL on all records
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by sologoub 5y ago
So in ISP world, EU has better offerings than most of US, though US had a good 2020 when it comes to download speeds: https://fairinternetreport.com/research/usa-vs-europe-intern... However, upload speeds are still a j
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And if you pay rent, where does that go? Especially when renting from a large company? Better more folks accumulate at least something.
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It cuts both ways - if it wasn’t for FHA and very easy borrowing for first time home buyers, many many more people would still be renting and likely not building at least some wealth/equity. By constraining the supply of loans, first a
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1 through 6 already lead to taxes being paid - sales/VAT taxes in most places, individual income taxes, employee social security/retirement contributions and so on. Share buybacks lead to greater stock value and therefore income w
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You do realize revolutions usually involve killing people and all kinds of other violence? The price for “unceremoniously dropping” what you consider historical baggage are real lives and livelihoods of not just those you deem undesirable o
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In addition to many issues already raised, there are definitely more hidden ones like Santa Monica, CA being less affordable than Palo Alto or even Sunnyvale. Santa Monica is actually quite a bit cheaper, but the methodology compares ratio
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Terminology aside, the general principle is still the same issue and employees ARE better of with 4 year grants in high growth companies. Let’s say you target RSU comp is $100k per year. Stock is $100 in year 1, $125 in year 2, $150 in year
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The thing is that these don’t hold up well when compared to other peer nations, especially with the top EU healthcare - per capita spend is double in the US and outcomes are not better (actually worse than some). The more likely issue are l
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by sologoub 5y ago
> In 2017, health-care spending in the United States came to $10,207 per capita. Germany, on the other hand, spent $5, 848 on health care for each of its citizens. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/22/ge
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by sologoub 5y ago
This chart in the expense share of a typical income illustrates a number of issues well, but healthcare stands out like crazy: https://mobile.twitter.com/_cingraham/status/123195012984367... College, transportatio
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The general sentiment is right though - person A continued to live well below their means and invested, while person B fell into lifestyle inflation big time. The key here is that both started out with a huge income for someone just startin
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Sure and that’s how you get major independent wealth quickly. The little by little approach also works but takes discipline and commitment to the future that’s hard to keep when you are poor and don’t know where the next piece of bread is c
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They are probably in a one bedroom. While I grew up in a soviet 355sqft (33sq.m) box of a studio apartment, is that really what you think of as a good place to raise a family? They will need to rent something bigger and that costs even more
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by sologoub 5y ago
Guessing your beloved sonos setup hasn’t run into the S1/S2 nightmare yet. Nothing like spending thousands on several of company’s products just to have the said company force obsolescence. Personally, sticking with real speakers from
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by sologoub 5y ago
> Generally speaking, courts have ruled that individual residents do not have a right to demand aid from their government. However, there is one important exception: when the government was an active, willing, and knowing participant in
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by sologoub 6y ago
Normally, I wouldn’t hold up SF as any kind of functional example of city managed, BUT they do have one program that I think strikes an interesting balance between public interest in affordable housing and building wealth for underprivilege
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by sologoub 6y ago
I’ve experienced the opposite - as others have noted, making communication just a bit more structured and accessible to others in our org helped get clearer on what/how/why AND incorporate voices often left out because they are no
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by sologoub 6y ago
Golf is more of a US euphemism for connectedness/social shared sports, could be anything really - basketball, racketball, softball, whatever. As for low level... I guess you have never lived in smaller cities/towns in Europe then.
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Sounds like those coworkers weren’t really looking to socialize and had other priorities. But again, it’s being setup as a false choice - if it’s important to your orgs culture all you need to do is setup pre-arranged times for it, much lik
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by sologoub 6y ago
So meet by the original office location? Why is it always being positioned as a choice - it’s completely a false dichotomy.
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They are voicing a very US view on the relationship. From my understanding, in EU there are jurisdictions that any concession extracted from employees by employer is effectively done under duress because the employer controls employees live
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Pandemic is the only thing preventing organized lunch with coworkers. Nothing about wfh prevents it - just agree on a place and time. Internet is a problem, but a solvable one - assuming you are in the US, we need competition for ISPs. I ha
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by sologoub 6y ago
It depends on the country/connectedness of the execs with the said authority. In a non-corrupt place, sure report away. In a slightly corrupt, what if the regulator plays golf with an exec at your company? Or went to the same grade sch

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