thesmallestcat

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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I normally wouldn't buy a foreclosure for ethical reasons that I'm sure fail to hold water. But if there's a wave following the collapse of Bitcoin, count me in. I have zero sympathy for somebody who loses their shirt specula
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Agreed, I'm considering catching a few falling knives when the inevitable crash happens, but that's about it. Looking at the Bitcoin price chart for the past week/month activates the same part of my brain that prevents me tou
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Movies aren't as popular as porn.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Good point! I think that the decision skews away from the bay area (for startup work) if you're particularly skilled. A mediocre developer can make a load of money, relatively speaking, in the bay area, and might get screwed in the mid
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
You can straight away drop any repetition of a zero-width assertion, no?
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Are companies in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe startup scene ever hiring? Is it all word of mouth? New Mexico would be one of my top choices but all I ever see online are government Los Alamos etc. positions for people with advanced hard sc
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I really don't, it's possible the NYT found the only (very) attractive women in the 200k town for their article. My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Right, that's the inner question of my comment, and the answer is, they can't. Hence the "poisoned well" analogy. Unless you're the founder and want access to Googler/FBer/etc. dollars, or you have dreams
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
You (and the others in this subthread who are splitting financial hairs) are both missing and proving my point pretty hard. Which is that I'm not so money driven to care about doubling my earnings from their already high level, and mor
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
What a dull truism. I'm not living paycheck to paycheck, I make silly good money for where I live. The fact that I could be making 400k+ total comp in Google Mountain View hell or Facebook Palo Alto hell does nothing for me.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
The SV BigCorps have really poisoned the well out there. It's depressing that the majority of good programmers in the bay area are obsessed with the compensation package. Not saying it's the wrong decision, but like you said, it s
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Ouch, that's not a good look at all.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I might be inventing this but I swear they came with a hangman game.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
What does "indigenous" mean here? Are we talking about nations, as in the Navajo or First Nations? Because that's an entirely different discussion. For everybody else I'd say yes, with mobility comes displacement. The et
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Sounds like two have crushing debt. The family that's "struggling" on $100k in KC (really?) wants for "educational opportunities for her high-school-aged son," whatever that means, which somehow translates to "
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
To be clear, and not that it necessarily makes it better, but I wasn't saying "what [intoxicating substance] are you on", but "what are you on" as a British turn of speech, meaning "what are you trying to say h
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
You could still choose to be insured, wouldn't have to pay if your income is low, and couldn't be denied for a preexisting condition. My point is that you're not being _coerced_.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Yes, the percentage chart is what I was referring to.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
You're 100% right, I was upset because this is a legitimately interesting topic for discussion, and when I was commenting, the thread was being flooded with low-grade "hurr durr socialism" comments (I watched the thread rapid
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Agreed. Lincoln, NE shows up as one of the most expensive, which I believe is influenced by its large student population.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Argentina isn't even resource-rich, it's just large. Great for ranching, few mineral or energy resources. And it's not exactly a secret that petro states like Venezuela have fallen on hard times in the past decade.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Sean Penn is a movie actor, not a "liberal leader," what are you on?
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I'd like some of them in here, but you're a troll. Or maybe we're the "fucking morons." Oh well, mods in California will be awake soon enough.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
We can only hope that he has read through the applicative rulings.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Not if you use aws-cli. But I think the larger issue is that Amazon doesn't provide a low-friction, secure way for applications to access their buckets. A good way would be for each bucket to come with its own access key, or expiring t
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
That's still better than punishing people for not shelling out to private health insurance companies. If the goal is to give everybody access, we need single payer, the current state of affairs is corrupt to the core.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
It's not that so much but that novice users see two ACLs: "Public" and "API Key I use to deploy." So it's very easy to "fix" an access issue by making a bucket public, with the alternative being to gi
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
> The end of the individual mandate That's not true, ACA is still in force and everybody will continue to have access to insurance, no rejection for preexisting conditions, people can still be under their parents' health insura
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Two things that stand out to me: Now you can quit your job and do whatever without getting robbed by absurdly expensive plans through ACA or shaken down when you file taxes. That's a big deal for people who want to take a chance on som

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