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by vecinu 5y ago
Yeah the cognitive dissonance is fascinating in people all over the world. I hear the same responses from people here in California. "Why don't you stop renting? Just buy a house like I did 15 years ago, taxes are so low!" Ri
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by vecinu 5y ago
> Personally, I only started feeling safe when my savings edged up towards 1M.. but I may also be more anxious than most. I'm sure a lot of us feel this way because you need some psychological threshold where you realize that even i
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by vecinu 5y ago
> I'll never understand the American thirst for money for the sake of it. I hope I don't come off as abrasive but I don't think you've had enough money if you think this is American or applicable only to a small subse
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by vecinu 5y ago
HSA contributions and gains are taxable in California, so that won't help your taxes.
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by vecinu 5y ago
HSA contributions and gains are taxable in California, so that won't help your taxes.
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by vecinu 5y ago
You're right, that's where I got confused. Since I was married, everything was considered community property, so it's good to know California doesn't enforce community property on non-married couples, since it doesn&#x27
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by vecinu 5y ago
Right, I actually was in the exact situation you describe in the middle, moving to a new country with a non-working spouse, so marriage was a requirement and there was no way she would have come with me if I asked her to divorce after. That
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by vecinu 5y ago
Right, as your link details, I experienced a marriage bonus due to my partner earning a lot less than I did. So I suppose I was in the happy/lucky camp but I didn't realize it's a penalty for 2 high earners. TIL, thanks.
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by vecinu 5y ago
Can you expand on this? TurboTax always recommended filing joint for all the years I was married even though my wife earned a lot less than me. My tax rate went up a ton after the divorce.
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by vecinu 5y ago
> California is not a common law state. My apologies, you're absolutely correct. I have no idea why I thought CA was common law. Probably after the divorce I got bombarded with information and it was all soup in my brain. > I’m p
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by vecinu 5y ago
I don't disagree with you because I've gone through a divorce that halved my net worth but I don't think "don’t live in a common law state" is decent advice. If you ignore all of California, you miss out on higher c
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by vecinu 5y ago
SV engineers pay close to that for a 1 bedroom apartment. You'll have a higher quality of life in Ukraine with $3.7k than you would with $7.4k (after tax) in SV.
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by vecinu 5y ago
Serious question brought up in the article but say my Pixel phone died and I can't turn it on at all, how do I delete all my local data on it without being able to flash it or connect it to my PC?
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by vecinu 5y ago
My algo class was with Charles Rackoff who I believe was a co-author to the first paper ever written on "zero knowledge proofs" for which he won a Godel prize for in the 90's. I honestly can't remember much about the cla
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by vecinu 5y ago
Hey, small world, I'm from YYZ and spent quite some time in SFO and it looks like we even have a common friend :) I'll drop you an e-mail, I'm planning to be in SF next month. Thanks!
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by vecinu 5y ago
Hey, thanks, I appreciate that! Unfortunately we had moved to a brand new city last year during COVID and I'm pretty much alone here so it's definitely harder. I'm doing my best to break into social groups and clubs but it&#x
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by vecinu 5y ago
> I felt like I didn't actually know what happened in the past, so I didn't know who I was in the present, and the future I was working towards was gone. It was existentially disorienting. Right, I can relate to this, especial
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by vecinu 5y ago
As a recently (<1 month) divorced man without kids, I have to admit it really shakes you to your core. Especially after being more than a decade with a person you thought you could trust and go to the grave with, to have them end it all
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by vecinu 5y ago
Personal anecdote here but over the long term (decades) you'll regret not being passionate with each other if passion is important for you. I overlooked that aspect for the longest time based on how compatible we were on all other fron
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by vecinu 5y ago
Did you ever figure out a way to do so as an adult? Maybe meetup.com / local interest groups like cycling, tennis or board games?
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by vecinu 5y ago
Very cool, would have loved for this to happen around LA/San Diego. Thanks for setting this up!
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by vecinu 5y ago
I had a terrible experience renting from Klass Wagen in Romania this week. I think they're scamming their customers as much as they can before going bankrupt. I booked a SUV with my Sapphire Preferred card that has primary car insuranc
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by vecinu 5y ago
I agree with you, outside of SV I did see older folks at tech companies. > I am not the one who thought that a 50 year time horizon made any sense at all for this discussion, I'm just playing along. That's my bad, I thought you
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by vecinu 5y ago
> next 50 years (assuming they'd work that long...) I don't think this is reasonable, even if you started working at age 20 at a FAANG, you're not going to work until you're 70. Keep in mind this industry is very agei
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by vecinu 5y ago
> becomes to our friends on wall street. Perhaps I'm misremembering but domain squatting was an issue for the last 20 years. Before "wall street" got a hold, I'm sure regular people like you and me just bought domains
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by vecinu 5y ago
I think the serious issue is more around long COVID and the associated symptoms with something that could perhaps become a chronic issue down the line.
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by vecinu 5y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing your comment. You're saying prioritizing physical health is a net negative and you'd rather trade that for better mental health? Wouldn't bad physical health generally lead to a worse menta
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by vecinu 5y ago
You could extend this logic to other things that are forbidden. Some people want to slap women's butts on the street (very common in Eastern Europe) but if we outlaw that are we treating people like caged animals and increasing anxiety
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by vecinu 5y ago
I'm not sure how you feel, that's up to you to tell us. The EU has done a fantastic job of respecting worker rights, from the right to disconnect, to time off / vacation from work, worker's rights for employment and havi
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by vecinu 5y ago
You're literally talking across yourself, at least that's how I read it. Your first comment [1] > As long as everyone agrees i see absolutely no problem and now > Some agreed, others didn't...Consensus doesn't requ

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