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by toephu2 6y ago
But Bay Area has all of that and more? You just gotta pay for it with a higher COL.
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by toephu2 6y ago
From what I hear, Austin traffic is worse than the Bay Area. Can anyone from Austin confirm?
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by toephu2 6y ago
Not just temperature but also humidity, isn't Austin unbearably humid in the summer?
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by toephu2 6y ago
Will probably take 10+ years to build?
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by toephu2 6y ago
Not really, unlimited data for cell service is not common in China.
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by toephu2 6y ago
Does anyone here run ads on Facebook? How does the performance of the ads compare to Facebook's competitors? (Snapchat, Google, Twitter, Pinterest, etc)
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by toephu2 6y ago
10k? LinkedIn has 16k employees..
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by toephu2 6y ago
So how is this person going to cash their BTC since all the transactions from the now most famous bitcoin wallet address in the world are traceable?
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by toephu2 6y ago
They made off with $117k in their bitcoin wallet, which is not connected to any exchanges: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
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by toephu2 6y ago
> The FBI has some very effective ways to pick faces out of the crowd once there's real money on the line. Like what? Any proof? How many crimes out of 100 do you think are actually caught and prosecuted by the FBI?
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by toephu2 6y ago
You think government-run organizations are that efficient? Have you ever been to the DMV?
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by toephu2 6y ago
There is no citizenship requirement for owning stocks of American companies. While U.S. investment securities are regulated by U.S. law, there are no specific provisions that forbid individuals who are not citizens of the U.S. from particip
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by toephu2 6y ago
You think the government is that efficient (or cares)?
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by toephu2 6y ago
> the underestimation of how advanced and pervasive insider trading / market manipulation surveillance is. Can you please explain to us how all-knowing and how all-powerful the SEC / gov is? Given the SEC only has a staff of 46
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by toephu2 6y ago
> People in this thread are seriously underestimating the competence of the authorities in dealing with financial crimes. Any stats/evidence to backup your claim?
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by toephu2 7y ago
> Most cars are ugly these days; What makes you think you can speak for the entire car driving population? This is just your opinion, no? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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by toephu2 7y ago
> every single in-person class was a waste. Hundreds of thousands of people have graduated from MIT. I don't think you can categorically say in-person class is a waste for everyone. As with many things in life, YMMV. Your one anecdo
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by toephu2 7y ago
So because "A close friend of mine interviewed there" and the interviewer showed up late, you have concluded that the entire company, Google, "just loves to waste your time"? And every one of the tens of thousands of int
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by toephu2 7y ago
Guys, as with all interviews, YMMV. Microsoft and Google interview thousands and thousands of engineers monthly, do not try to generalize the interview experience for everyone based on your one anecdotal experience (or that of a few friends
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by toephu2 7y ago
I guess you've never worked for a company that A/B tests products?
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by toephu2 7y ago
What companies in the Bay Area have a 4-day work week?
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by toephu2 7y ago
Yes, because 90% of HNers are ex-CIA. We should have known this, it's intelligence 101.
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by toephu2 7y ago
There's plenty of snow in the forecast this week for Toronto. The same cannot be said about SF.
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by toephu2 7y ago
Like how basketball is just throwing a ball through a hoop? You can marginalize anything if you wanted to.
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by toephu2 7y ago
"On average, private preschool costs about $1,350 per month in the city, according to First 5 San Francisco. T" [1] [1] https://www.scpr.org/blogs/education/2014/11/07/17526/san-fr...
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by toephu2 7y ago
> The US is the sole exception where developer salaries are priced close to doctor salaries. Actually, in the U.S. it is common for a FANG worker's salary to surpass that of doctors'.
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by toephu2 7y ago
Most FANG tech workers pay $0/month for healthcare.
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by toephu2 7y ago
On the flip side, if a U.S. citizen moves to India and wants to become a naturalized Indian citizen, just curious how long would that take?
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by toephu2 7y ago
You can easily find a room in a house for rent between $1000-1600 in SF. Far better than a "bunkbed". Just check craigslist. But hey, everyone loves to knock expensive SF housing. 28k/yr for preschool in SF is on the high end
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by toephu2 7y ago
How's the weather there though? Can we just stop comparing cities? Everyone loves to complain about the cost of living in SF and always brags about how they could buy a mansion in the midwest. No one cares. It's all about location

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