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by tmp092 8y ago
FWIW I became $500k richer this year and my happiness has not changed a bit. Same highish functioning depression. But purely see money as something that gives you options to do more things, not as something that allows me to buy a yacht, ca
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by tmp092 8y ago
I don't care to name names, but if you've read the book you should know who I'm talking about and can easily search on LinkedIn for this person.
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by tmp092 8y ago
Does Google even have a "Data Scientist" title? I don't think I've ever come across a JD for one.
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by tmp092 8y ago
Might be one of the most overrated jobs, other than product manager.
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by tmp092 8y ago
Sure, would have no issue with an IC or someone not cozy with management, but this was a specific senior HR person close to Balwani who was complicit in intimidating/spying on employees and trying to get them to sign shady NDAs, among
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by tmp092 8y ago
This is only semi-related, but I just finished Bad Blood (Theranos book) and started looking up some of the characters on LinkedIn to see what they were up to. The infamous HR person (Balwani's right hand person) just started a new pos
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by tmp092 8y ago
Having worked in tech for a few years now, it's pretty clear that Holmes is far from the only liar/sociopath/fraudster in the Valley. There's many just like her.
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Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit(cnbc.com)
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by tmp092 8y ago
Read to the end. She used the money to fully buy out her grandfather’s house in San Clemente, Calif. She jointly inherited it with other relatives and said she needed a loan to pay them for their shares of the property. This is a highly u
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by tmp092 8y ago
Assuming she and her siblings have a good relationship, if she were ever in a position where she might default then her family would help her. The pay out here was not purely transactional between strangers.
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by tmp092 8y ago
It says at the end, she'll rent out the rooms. San Clemente is in prime beach front Orange County. 1) She will be able to rent a single room for at least $750-$1000. 2) The property is in a highly desirable, wealthy area and will lik
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by tmp092 8y ago
Unconventional is anything that is not underwritten in a conventional manner. A situation where you inherit a property and take out a mortgage to pay out others with shared inheritance in a property is almost certainly not representative of
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by tmp092 8y ago
Read to the end...the example the WSJ used was not a normal situation. Shame on them for trying to use this person's story as an example of the "new normal." Hardly. She used the money to fully buy out her grandfather’s hous
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by tmp092 8y ago
It's a misleading situation...read to the end. She used the money to fully buy out her grandfather’s house in San Clemente, Calif. She jointly inherited it with other relatives and said she needed a loan to pay them for their shares o
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by tmp092 8y ago
I can't recommend privacy.com enough for this very reason.
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by tmp092 8y ago
I won't claim to know what incentivizes developers to build, but below market interest rates for construction seems like a tiny factor in whether a private developer would choose to build affordable housing vs market rate housing. Does
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by tmp092 8y ago
I feel like scraping my bank transaction data to be the most violating breach of my privacy (more so than my likes), and yet companies like Plaid are thriving because people are willing to give up access to years of bank transaction history