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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
and he probably got a backyard with it too. In CA, you don't even get that. Why pay 1 to 2 million dollars in CA for a house when you can't even have a backyard?
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Absolutely. The Western diet primarily has very little variety in it. 55% of our diet comes from boxes/processed food which is almost entirely made up of only 3 things: Oil, Processed flour, sugar, and maybe some dairy. The vast maj
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
specifically, it's the tourists causing the cost increase. airBnb is just the facilitator. if they weren't going to airbinb they would've gone to hotels or people renting out their apartments.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
The government is what tells where and what things can be built. As, as long as that's the case, then gov is almost 100% responsible for this mess. Sure, the geography of SF is limiting. Look at cities that let people build where the
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
but his point about SF funds being squandered, definately has a lot of truth to it. There are a lot of ways to build high density housing in a cost effective manner that are not being used. The city constantly fights against anyone that t
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
And, while new residents and the next generation are paying insanely high property taxes, the NIMBYs pay a small fraction of the real property taxes. And, big businesses like Stanford and all the countless farms that fill up much of the la
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
There are mushrooms which contain B12. Or you could go with soymilk, almond milk, etc. Those typically are fortified with B12. People used to get B12 from the bacteria in the soil and the plants we eat. Not, anymore. So, yes, you could e
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
And, try to get those things from foods. It can't be said enough: Fruits and Vegetables have extremely high densities of all your minerals and vitamins. I've calculated all their densities here based on USDA nutritional info: h
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
I'd say, make sure it's backwards compatible with the old way of doing it because there's a lot of scientists who have been using it for a looong time and don't like change. You have to remember, for a scientist, a tool
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
>>> And you don't need to be the best (though see the quote about being the only), but at least in the top 10. Basically, you're saying only the top 1% will be employable. This is going to be a new experience for a lot of
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
this is very informative. I wouldn't have believed it, without the first person perspective. Before i read this, it was simply unbelievable to me that people could be that bored without any life outside work. Speaking as someone who
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
just to play devil's advocate: this day and age, is there anything better they could've invested in? Equities PE ratio is at all time highes and it's getting ever harder for early stage start ups to succeed. There's mo
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
the compensation numbers I put up are averages based on Stackoverflow salary postings. You're pay going up by x3 could have many reasons. If you're in the early part of your career, that's very much possible but it's no
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
yes, your skills did loose monetary value. That's because it costs X less to hire in that location. The reason people are will to accept X less is because there's a lower COL. But, the crucial thing to remember is that people&#x
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
I'd be fine with that. Even 30% reduction in pay would still be much better in an affordable city like Chicago or Houston.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
that will quickly change once you have kids/family. also, you'll see things quite differently when faced with the COL of CA.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
nope, it just says "no suitable licenses found" even though i got the email that i updated.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
I'm just guessing, but I think Twitter isn't going to have any trouble finding talent anymore, if it ever needed more. Once you break down the walls of location, you now have access to orders of magnitude more talent.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
the thing that sucks about jetbrains is that you need to keep updating license keys on your own end every year, even though you're paying a yearly fee. they really need to make this much easier. the end user shouldn't have to do
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
You're only thinking about the top 1 or 2% of software engineers. There's nowhere near enough FANG jobs to employ most SEs. What the heck is everyone else supposed to do? sit around unemployed forever? There's plenty of SE
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
the algo thinks you're having a good time.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
And, the real farce is that Google mistakenly sees all that scrolling up and down the page, looking for the recipe as 'engagement' and "Dwell time".
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Well, for one thing: jobs. It takes a lot of IT man-power to manage an on-premise solution, especially when you run everything on-premise. Just imagine if the CTO were to switch the company to a cloud based solutions, it would save the co
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Look at all the biggest spenders in Advertising: most of them are all big brand advertisers where proving ROI is nearly impossible. In that type of environment, in the absence of a good ROI calculation, a lot of BS can prosper.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
i don't why this is being downvoted. this is both interesting and accurate and brings up a good point about other's perspective of the situation.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Not if everyone follows the advice.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
This. and let's add: don't use fancy frameworks (that are cool and popular) that cause many headaches for you down the road.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
You can't let work be your whole life or it's going to eat you up. Everyone should read how things are done at Joel's company. Joel spolsky knows how to create a responsible work environment that is sustainable that won&#x2
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
well, at the time, worthless labor was all there was, especially if you had less than 3 years experience. It was a different time. You had senior software engineers commiting suicide because they couldn't ever imagine getting work ag
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
as a graduate, you'd be extremely lucky to have any job at all, let alone a job at a tech company, let alone one as well known as Lyft. Let's face it, with the current vast oversupply of labor, employers have a lot more bargainin

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