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by topkai22 7y ago
The median wage for attorneys in the US is $120k. For software engineers it is $103k. The difference isn’t that large overall, and given the additional education requirements to become an attorney it doesn’t appear to be a huge market failu
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by topkai22 7y ago
Not as much as you think. I couldn't quickly find the dataset where I looked at this before, but https://statisticalatlas.com/United-States/Household-Income has percentages of population earning more than $200k by
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by topkai22 7y ago
As someone who has actually managed to work remotely in a small city while employed by a major tech firm at normal pay rates, I can definitely say your scenario does not match my lived experience. 1) unless you move to a very small town, th
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by topkai22 7y ago
“Hi regulated utility, I’d like to pay more for a premium product that your government overseers will have no problem with your providing.” :) Less jokingly, actions like contacting a company (especially as a customer or as a potential cust
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by topkai22 7y ago
Once there is a place I’m supposed to go to work remotely, am I still working remotely? Complete Side note- I think there must be a market selling RVs to remote workers that work well as home offices. I converted a shed to a home office, bu
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by topkai22 7y ago
You are right that you aren’t the target market, $2400/year isn’t anywhere near the cost to provide the education- most states spend more than $10k/year on elementary school students. The cheapest working professional option I kno
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by topkai22 7y ago
I remember reading/hearing that blockbuster did that as their competitive advantage over other video stores- they’d build customer loyalty by definitely having the latest thing in stock, even if it was a loss leader.
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Only the high value suspicious ones. If a residence in a high value area is claimed as occupied, but no one put it on their drivers licenses/ID or any other existing government interaction then request additional documentation. Let nei
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Provide an exemption or inflation control for the standard parcel size in an area when used as a primary residence.
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It would, but it wouldn’t help with a lot of the scenarios in the article, which sound legal but potentially unreasonable. The property owner or owning entity does not have to suffer reputational damage for executing a legal but inhumane&#x
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by topkai22 7y ago
I disagree with the notion that large firms owning residential property is necessarily a bad thing. I remember it being surprisingly hard to find single family homes to rent in at least two metros I’ve lived in- you had a much larger variet
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by topkai22 7y ago
We have the same in the US (consumer reports) and the Casper hybrid mattress currently has the 2nd highest rating. Expensive is not necessarily better, but it is often correlated. It’s worth noting European sleep preferences are different t
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by topkai22 7y ago
Where did you get that resource industries are able to turn a profit in the park system from the article? The only thing I saw was the privatization of campgrounds, that’s not exactly the “purposeful rape of public land.” The public lands o
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by topkai22 7y ago
The US has a wide variety of public lands, of which the national park system represents relatively little- about 15% of total federal land. The National Park System might be getting underfunded and pressured to privatize certain aspects, bu
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by topkai22 7y ago
The streets are safe for car drivers who are following the law, it’s walkers and cyclists that are at risk. As for non compliance, that’s what speed bumps, speed cameras and other traffic calming measures are for. I just drove through multi
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by topkai22 7y ago
The article isn’t really about mass transit- is about lowering speed limits. Even though I’m not a huge mass transit fan, I do agree that speed limits are generally too high in the US on surface streets. In my area, very limited amounts of
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by topkai22 7y ago
Not really- non-compete agreements are very hard to enforce in many jurisdictions, and even where enforceable are limited in scope- you might be able to go from working on a check clearing system at one company to another company working on
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by topkai22 7y ago
Those unions evolved in pretty different- Professional athletes are typically in a monopsony (single buyer) situation, whereas the Hollywood situation evolved during the studio system era that was much more cartelish than tech today. It&#x2
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by topkai22 7y ago
I have contracted on the side a bit, but only for close friends and family. It's not really for the money, these are people I care about doing things I'm interested in, but at some point I found that having a formal paying relatio
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by topkai22 7y ago
My immediate reaction was “was the caterpillar drive in The Hunt for the Red October a pumpjet?” Answer, no, that was a Magnetohydrodynamic drive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive Pretty cool t
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by topkai22 7y ago
For the types of illegal activity measures here, the paper provides that in the figure measuring revision to nominal GDP. Basically, it peaks in the 70s around 4% of GDP and declines to around 1.67% today.
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by topkai22 7y ago
I said opiate use not Marijuana, which is around 5% monthly use. I'll easily concede Marijuana and alcohol use are major parts of youth culture, although again but as big as people using them think (which I didn't believe in high
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by topkai22 7y ago
The data isn't there- survey data is showing declining use of prescription drugs abuse, and even what it does show is around 15% of the 12th grade population having ever abused prescription drugs, with less than 5% having used in the l
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by topkai22 7y ago
The standard deduction doesn't help for social security and Medicare tax.
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by topkai22 7y ago
A couple reasons- 1) As the cost of feature creation goes down, the demand for features goes up- as others have mentioned, a lot of sites now have an enormous number of interactive features or cool rendering that just wasn't there in t
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by topkai22 7y ago
Can you share your reason to go it alone, or why you ruled out a traditional learning option? One of my favorite mentees came in to a software development job from a biochemistry background. She’s got a knack for it and did a great job self
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by topkai22 7y ago
I don’t the modularity is necessarily lost with a mega structure like this- interior remodeling of office, residential, and space happens all the time. As for the updating- East St. Louis had extremely out dated housing stuck in the 1980s w
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After reading that, I realized the US pentagon building is also a roughly similar concept, and is almost exactly the same diameter as Apple Park.
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My immediate thought was that Apple Park (the spaceship) looks like a miniaturized commercial space only decedent of this idea. Even the scale is roughly constant- Apple Park houses 12000 employees in roughly 1/10th the size of the Old
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’m always very conscious of the selection bias of the people writing these types of articles. They tend to have succeeded in a major city, but as the author says: > “It’s not casual. It’s not a place for a comfortable work/life bal

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