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by vostok 4y ago
It depends on the food. I probably wouldn't want to do it for sushi or a salad, but I love eating ramen outside in the snow when it's around 32F / 0C. The same could go for poutine or hot chocolate or many other dishes. If th
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by vostok 4y ago
Thank you for sharing. I didn't realize that insurance wouldn't cover or reimburse you for out of network once you are over the out of pocket max.
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by vostok 4y ago
Would you be willing to share why you were charged $20k? I'm interested in projecting my health care expenses in retirement and I've heard of healthcare costs exceeding out of pocket max, but it's rare that I get to actually
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by vostok 4y ago
You might as well use emacs at that point.
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by vostok 4y ago
This isn't super relevant, but academia in the US pays very well. This is even more so the case for law, business, engineering, medicine, and a few other areas. Obviously not relevant in the context of $250 million.
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by vostok 4y ago
I can confirm that this kind of look is not at all atypical in the quantitative prop trading world and it's not contrived.
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by vostok 4y ago
This post doesn't assume that, but I have met urban public school teachers who could have been software engineers since you asked. My post does assume that the career would attract more highly qualified candidates if the pay was higher
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by vostok 4y ago
> Salaries in large urban districts are often well above area median Is the median the correct benchmark? The median household income in NYC was $67k in 2021 [0]. Why would someone choose to be a teacher making around the median [1] when
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by vostok 4y ago
> First of all, before Slack real-time chat in a company setting was a novel idea. AIM, Yahoo, Bloomberg, etc were very commonly used I'm finance before slack.
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by vostok 4y ago
I mostly use zinc oxide sunscreen and don't think I look awful, which I understand is both a personal opinion and also something that can vary from person to person based on skin tone.
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by vostok 4y ago
> Truffles are so aromatic, that just a sliver can infuse a small bottle. I don't know if I've only had low quality truffles, but basically all the truffles I've had in my life have been very mild and wouldn't be able
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by vostok 4y ago
That's great to know. Do you mind elaborating on the IP issues then? I feel like I don't fully understand them.
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by vostok 4y ago
That's a great point. I forgot to mention the IP issues. I hope you don't mind that I've edited my comment to include them.
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by vostok 4y ago
When I've talked to anti-GMO people in real life, they seem to (1) be anti-Roundup and similar pesticides more so than literally anti-GMO or (2) be anti-IP laws that won't allow farmers to use seeds from their last crop.
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by vostok 4y ago
I think New York means NYC in this context and NYC has incredibly low property taxes. I believe it's due to a cap on maximum annual increases. New York State tends to have high property taxes on the other hand. I'm less familiar w
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by vostok 4y ago
I'm an engineer at heart, but I do have bills to pay and I can become interested in basically any complex system. If EE paid better, I would be an EE. EE is interesting. Neither SWE nor my chosen career are sufficiently less interestin
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by vostok 4y ago
I don't care much for coffee, but I do indulge in luxury bread and butter. Any local sourdough and Kerrygold butter is a good start. It's not thr best or anything, but it's very nice if you've never tried fancy bread and
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by vostok 4y ago
> Similarly I also asked someone I know who wants to a do a PhD in economics what he thought about the current macroeconomic situation in the US and he had no thoughts at all. I understand your friend very well. I love meaningless specul
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by vostok 4y ago
The McDonald's story seems very reasonable even without any comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
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by vostok 4y ago
Density still has huge benefits unrelated to work. I don't know much about SF as I haven't lived there as an adult, but New York is an incredible place to live for lifestyle reasons too. It has great food, a very high concentratio
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by vostok 4y ago
What is the difference between MAID and government sanctioned suicide? As someone who doesn't follow the topic, government sanctioned suicide is how I've thought of it and I've never encountered the acronym MAID before this.
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by vostok 4y ago
Thank you. I should have just searched Twitter.
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by vostok 4y ago
Is there any indication of whether the problem was using the word "kill" or if the problem was sharing a potentially dangerous command (if it was correctly written)? That is, would sudo rm -rf / get you banned too?
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by vostok 4y ago
It might attract me. I work in a non tech role because, at the time I thought that tech paid less than my chosen industry. If I had known that I could make $750k in tech then the gap is small enough that the improved work life balance and l
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by vostok 4y ago
> We've ended up in a weird situation where inexpensive teaching-first institutions (Universities are really better set up for generating research) have, essentially, no prestige for some reason. A lot of situations where prestige m
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by vostok 4y ago
Just paying more seems viable too in a capitalist system.
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by vostok 4y ago
> We send some of our worst thinkers to educate children. I wonder if this is the sort of thing that could be fixed by paying teachers more. Why would a smart person become a teacher if a professional industry job will pay $300-500k and
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by vostok 5y ago
Do you have a source for this? Spying sounds like a pretty interesting job if you can make something similar to FANG.
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by vostok 5y ago
I'm installing heat pumps in the US. * I'm tired of tenants installing window air conditioners. * I pay for steam heat myself whereas tenants will pay for electricity used by their heat pump.
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by vostok 5y ago
Do software developers work longer hours? They seem to have the least work hours out of anyone in my upper middle class American peer group.

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