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by usaar333 7y ago
Really? I've rarely not gotten feedback on rejection - some companies outright issue it, though for most I have to ask. On accepts never because people worry about awkward future colleague relationships.
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by usaar333 7y ago
I've definitely interviewed green candidates and would be very happy to interview them again in a few years. (This is going to be more true in companies with more selective hiring bars) Regardless, brand matters as well. You want candi
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by usaar333 7y ago
Cash is not equivalent to stock. Stock has a higher expectation since you can invest unvested stock but not unvested cash. Hell, a stock offer is something like 30% more valuable than cash over 4 years, though obviously riskier. This is als
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by usaar333 7y ago
To my sibling point above, an $80/month gym is a really damn nice gym. Even a 24 hour fitness super sport is only $52. I agree that if you want to live on the high end, $300k might not be sufficiently high end. But it's still hi
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by usaar333 7y ago
Spending $14k/month is luxury living even in the Bay Area. 1. Your housing numbers are "luxury" prices. (those are generally numbers you see in say SOMA). 2. Having a car in SF in such premium neighborhoods is a further luxur
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That's actually a much better analogy. Companies at high scale can achieve higher productivity per developer every year. Not at high scale? (say a one-off consulting project). Sucks for you -- labor market is surging from the high sc
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Can you define what "risk premium" means here? I can't tell if the argument here is that the market isn't competitive or something else. It's not like FAANG pays high salaries because they are generous.
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This article effectively is saying that if the demand for developers falls that salaries would fall. Which is obvious to anyone who has taken econ 101, but I have no idea how this is anymore of a "risk premium" than anyone else w
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Certainly high ROI ones (say not building new coal power plants), but definitely not the lower ROI interventions. Nor is cost net negative if you use high discount rates and try lower co2 targets (e.g. 3 degrees warming by 2100 is much more
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We've solved plenty of problems at scale; think ozone layer depletion being reduced. The problem with climate change is that it is really expensive to fix with highly uncertain costs to do so.
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Or Dropbox Paper which has origins in Etherpad.
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I'm surprised that's surprising. I always figured most people rely on grandparents for at least occasional childcare.
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What will be the actual process by which things change? It's not obvious to me that say rents will drop if prop 13 is repealed.
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Well, economic situation is your income less expenses. For a lot of people the Bay Area is maximizing this. But we're taking a huge social loss (as a nation) by making it so expensive to live in the area that offers the greatest oppor
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by usaar333 7y ago
Well, sure you might get a home from your parents when you are in your late 50s or 60s. Doesn't do much good when you needed that larger home to raise your own family.
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by usaar333 7y ago
I personally use Waze over Google maps for navigation during commute times as it has the advantage of routing with HOV lanes. Does Apple maps support this? (I'm on Android)
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Who commutes on market Street?
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Acidifying literally just means dropping ph because you are introducing more acid. (increasing H+ ions)
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A law which itself has not yet been constitutionally tested and is the subject of lawsuits: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/01/653318005/california-becomes-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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That's not their pitch deck. That's a class or competition project. Source: was attending Berkeley with the people listed on the first slide when this was published.
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If I'm planning to live in a home forever, the short term price fluctuations of it are hardly relevant - it does nothing but inform me about the past (I got a great deal or bad deal when I bought.. in hindsight). They are relevant to a
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by usaar333 7y ago
Agreed in general, but there are some advantages. > It's taxed every year, regardless of whether you actually earn any money on it (aka: sell it) Property tax is generally lower than your imputed rent. In the US at least, there is
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They come out of your rent, yes, but at least in markets with low supply (think the Bay Area), your rent is not being set by the presence of property taxes and repairs. That is, if we raised everyone's property taxes by 0.2% or so, app
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A housing loan is far less risky than a 5x margin position as they are structurally different types of loans: * The housing loan is non-recourse (you can't lose more than your home), while brokerage is not. * A housing loan's coll
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by usaar333 7y ago
The more interesting question might be what percent of senior employees would quit Google if ordered to move. I have no direct evidence, but my sense is potentially much higher than the average: they could care less about living costs, don&
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Lots of discussion on ethics (important!), but little in actual metrics. What actually are the precision and recall of systems that search over faces of the entire national population? I would have thought enough people look similar that pr
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Those are pretty high ratios - and I agree detrimental to children and very hard on the caregivers. As we're talking about stem mothers, I was thinking more of ratios I've seen in the SF for more affluent parents: * Private nanny
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> Do we want Mothers to shape their young children's behavioral patterns, or low paid child care workers with no skin in the game I'm willing to bet that there are plenty of childcare workers more passionate about raising child
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Parent is presumably referring to RSU releases at IPO which are taxable. You are correct that options and shares are unaffected. https://www.amafinance.org/ipo/overview/
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by usaar333 7y ago
Eh, it generally can make sense if you can get QSBS, as that is so favorable. All said, the better companies offer partial recourse loans to early exercise.

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