topkai22

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by topkai22 5y ago
There absolutely is an idea of morality of living off your parents income, at least after a certain age. While I know plenty of parents who will assist their adult kids who are working or provide short term help in between jobs, I know very
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Do these pay packages have to get accounted for in the standard filing? These pay packages seem like massive liabilities that need to not just be listed in the text but be accounted for in the numbers.
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by topkai22 5y ago
There are plenty of people blaming workers- I’ve heard many iterations of “we’ve got lazy people on unemployment who won’t work” or the signs at restaurants or stores saying “closed on X because no one wants to work any more” Is lessened w
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by topkai22 5y ago
Statements like this imply that "lobbying" is the only reason the government does anything. That, in my experience, is simply not true. Government employees and even legislators are motivated by accomplishing their mission. An aug
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by topkai22 5y ago
I don't think 4-5 years experience is Sr level, as used in the Robin example. $100k with 1% of the company seems... OK? The salary is a mid level software engineer is closer to $150k, Chicago should down adjust a bit, so maybe $130k sa
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by topkai22 5y ago
Yeah, but there was/is more balance when the magazine had to keep its overall readership up and quite possibly had a manufacturer’s competitive advertising as well. Advertisers could influence reviews, especially to keep from getting a
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by topkai22 5y ago
Well my specific belief is that housing won’t keep up with inflation rather than fall significantly in absolute terms. Not sure how I short that belief.
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by topkai22 5y ago
I did a quick LinkedIn search for PMs at Facebook. Only one PM out of the 7 I looked at had an MBA from a top 25, only 2 had MBAs at all, and both achieved those while already working as a PM in the FAANG realm. Managers and especially man
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by topkai22 5y ago
Short answer is no- see Yucca mountain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste...
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by topkai22 5y ago
I had a principal engineer who wouldn’t use the term “best practices”. Instead, he called them “proven practices.” I’ve adopted that term myself, because it is much more accurate- there is a body of knowledge on how to build software well,
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by topkai22 5y ago
Total aside, but the chocolate milk and coffee concoction he describes in one of the pictures was also my drink of choice. I dubbed it the Microsoft Mocha, although I don’t think the name caught on. It definitely fueled the pursuit of multi
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by topkai22 5y ago
Total aside, but the chocolate milk and coffee concoction he describes in one of the pictures was also my drink of choice. I dubbed it the Microsoft Mocha, although I don’t think the name caught on.
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Perhaps ironically, the biggest pedestrian/cyclists tax would fall on EVs, as they seem to be involved in more accidents due to pedestrians/cyclists not hearing them.
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Did you mean the 1880s? The US population has been majority urban / suburban since the 1920s. The rural population is declining, but remains 17% of the population. That's a significant portion of the population and would be incre
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Yeah, while there is a definite chance for some form of crash in real estate in the US, I think an equally or more likely scenario is that incomes catch up with pricing via inflation rather than an out right pricing crash.
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Public debt = all loans to the government of a country US Federal Debt = all loans to the US Federal Government (which excludes loans to state and local governments). Private Debt = all loans to non-governmental entities (individuals/b
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I disagree. It’s too big a chunk of people’s net worth to not analyze like a financial investment, if only to make one stop and think about them opportunity cost of buying at various price points and how much you are really spending to con
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by topkai22 5y ago
The NHS/UK isn't cheaper (just) because of insurance related dead weight though- they also just pay everyone less. The US Government estiamtes the total adminstration and health insurance expenditure cost $288B in 2019. Total heal
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by topkai22 5y ago
Don’t discount how rare 20% price drops in housing are historically - a nationwide 20% price decline has only happened once since 1951 (where I could find statistics start) and even then would only have applied for purchases in a 1 year win
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by topkai22 5y ago
Yes, you can get a shorter term loan and have a lower interest rate- 15 years is also reasonably common, and fixed rate products exist at 20 and 10 years respectively. Adjustable rate and 5/1 or 7/1 products exist as well, but th
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That’s the standard in the US. Current rates are about 2.75%, although they went below 2.5% for a bit earlier this year. Those rates are for 20% down, good credit primary residences purchases. Rates for investment or vacation properties ar
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by topkai22 5y ago
I imagine a quieter jet also helps marginally improve its war fighting capability by making the enemy less aware of its presence, although More importantly, as the article mentions it would also help protect the hearing of sailors, airmen,
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by topkai22 5y ago
+1 on “The Goal” as fantastic book on business/manufacturing. To tie it back to tech, “The Goal” is also a inspiration for “The Phoenix Project”, one of the seminal books on DevOps and similarly great read. Both have significantly inf
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That's far less extreme than you think- different states have different rules about if/when/where/how much under 18 year olds can work. I was able to get a job working as lifeguard for the school district at 15 in my hom
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It does, however, apparently allow for employers to charge employees more for insurance under a “wellness” scheme. This is how Delta is charging unvaccinated employees $200/month. Edit- I am also familiar with wellness incentives/
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If there was a safe, low cost shot to prevent obesity I’d get it in a second.
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There were as so many features WP got right. My favorite was “kid mode”, which you could activate easily provided a simplified and more locked down experience for you little ones. You could hand your phone to a 2 year old and they’d be able
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I was a contractor to another very large tech company. They were better and tried to give each employee a private office, but were out of space. Employees were doubled up, but they put 8-10 contractors into a converted executive corner off
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At least start putting out feelers and start interviewing. For me at least that helps with the feeling of helplessness. I've had a pretty stable career and some disappointments with interviews, but at least feeling like an alternative
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"Second, a rejected candidate’s likelihood of leaving was cut in half if they were passed over in favor of an internal candidate, rather than an external candidate." So, basically, a internal candidate passed over for an internal

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