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by topkai22 5y ago
As a software engineer I've been paid to build a map of the world, improve how the peace corps recruits volunteers, built the systems the Census uses to count every person in the US, ingest terabytes of data an hour to improve surgical
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Uh, rental properties absolutely compete in price. That is in fact why prices are so relatively consistent- no sane tenant on the market is going to pick a more expensive apartment when the complex a couple blocks away costs less, so they
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> … turning the US into a nation of renters. The data doesn’t seem to support this, at least not yet. The owner occupancy of units has been increasing since 2016 and increased after 2020. The increase in housing prices has been extraordi
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by topkai22 5y ago
Not sure I get the argument here— federal enhanced unemployment benefits have been over since September, so there is no longer a monetary benefit to remaining on unemployment in almost all cases. Are you arguing people aren’t relocating or
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by topkai22 5y ago
I really like my company, have continuously advanced within it, and I’m at point in life that while I still care about money, the difference in my happiness of an extra $30-60k/year isn’t particularly material but a bad work environmen
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I was recently "poached" as an engineer myself. I really like working for the company I'm at, but was ready for a change and new challenges. A colleague I'd previously worked with was building a new team reached out to s
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GP appears to have been programming for quite some time and thier career predated Google. I remember programming before SO and Google- you had to be able to recall a lot more things from memory to get something working, although not hav
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Northern Nevada (Reno-Carson-Fernley-etc)
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I have in-laws in the independent ranching industry and the lack of slaughter house/packer capacity is a real problem. Around here at least supply and demand is working as there is a company trying to open up a new plant, but it is tak
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Full second payment, that’s why I was happy with it. Personally, I would have thought they’d have just not clawed back the money and then only paid/clawed back money at the of the year to adjust to exceeding/undershooting the targ
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by topkai22 5y ago
I had something similar happen to me- my compensation included a big incentive bonus based on an annual target, but half was paid out in advance in like June to smooth out the income a bit. One year somebody in payroll royally screwed up an
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by topkai22 5y ago
I’ve always wondered if Madden’s legacy as an announcer was tarnished a bit by the video games. It was magical having him dynamically announce the game you are playing, but the sophistication was limited, especially in XBox/PS2 era. I
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As covered elsewhere, John Madden’s partnership with EA created one of the most important (and profitable) video game franchises in history. He was/is literally the face of the “sports video game.” That’s relevant to this forum. As for
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One day in the late 90s or early 2000s a friend and I were playing Madden. My dad walked into the room and announced “huh, why are they playing football on a Friday.” He hadn’t noticed at a casual glance that it was a video game- John Madde
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by topkai22 5y ago
I’m currently involved in hiring at a rather large tech company and I assure you that the hiring manager would be highly displeased if someone left after just a year. In fact, that is true of every hiring manager I’ve ever worked with, beca
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by topkai22 5y ago
The over use of occupational licensing has some well documented negative effects, see https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/OccupationalLicensing.h... for some points about it. However, physical therapists already
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How you say what you perceive as the truth matters a lot. For example, saying “I believe this to be true” has a different effect then saying “ this is the truth.” Providing the reasoning behind conclusions can also help- “I believe that unl
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by topkai22 5y ago
Love to do? I volunteer to teach preschoolers how to ski on the weekends and then go skiing with my family and friends. It brings me great joy and the community that surrounds the organization I work with is absolutely incredible. The rest
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Don’t forget reenlistment bonuses- those can be quite substantial and, while formula driven, are complex enough to be opaque.
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In the US, we have reasonably good survey information at the occupation level, see https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm It’s big downsides are that it’s missing information about seniority/tenure, benefits and migh
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In the US, it’s only on a voluntary individual basis. For example, an HR employee that knows all employees pay information can be prohibited from sharing that information but cannot be prohibited from discussing their own pay.
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Depends on the on the exact political arrangements. I’ve seen a “low” level manager get the ear of a senior leader and get protection/empowerment that ended them to do something on par with this. It sounds like the author got the appro
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I totally relate to this. I didn’t take time off, but I am the stay at home parent/primary care giver. Having children also led me to volunteer teaching ski lessons to 4-5 year olds and occasionally help out in the classroom. The thing
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Staff/principal level here. I accelerate my team. Sometimes that involves writing code, sometimes that involves teaching/mentoring others, sometimes it means improving our tools and processes, sometimes it involves hammer out our
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by topkai22 5y ago
Facebook is not just a hosting platform, through the Facebook feed it exercises a great deal of editorial control over what posts/information is surfaced to users. So while Facebook might be giving everyone a megaphone, it doesn’t tur
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In my (giant) company, it appears there is a bit more room at the top for managers, but in general leveling up is more difficult as there is an expectation that the amount of headcount you manage is commiserate with the level, so the optima
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by topkai22 5y ago
I’ll follow up and say I think one place that the networked season passes might be driving on the real estate front is that I think they make it less attractive for “locals” to get started skiing and to stay local. The massive increase in d
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Interesting theory, but overall skier visits are at best flat for the last 20 years (see https://www.statista.com/statistics/206544/estimated-number-... . Also see the briefings I get at ski instructor meetings e
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I agree we should be skeptical of the WHO, but they are valuable as a coordination mechanism. I don’t see a scenario where we can restart a truly global health agency from scratch, and I don’t think a series of bilateral or multi-lateral ar
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by topkai22 5y ago
Point of order- The most stringent border lockdowns actually worked shockingly well, see New Zealand, for example. Also “you are either in a pandemic, or you aren’t” isn’t the important part of a response framework. The far more important

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