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by xenihn 5y ago
me i originally used it in 2017 for cryptokitties, now im using it again for degenerate
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by xenihn 5y ago
i'd put the age closer to 7 or 8 for a "quasi-adult conversation" instead of 15, but yeah
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by xenihn 5y ago
What's the worst case?
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by xenihn 5y ago
I've received roughly $3000 in rewards from my credit card usage over the past six years. Not a life-changing amount, but not completely insignificant, either. I think the biggest thing that I've lost is data privacy, but I would
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by xenihn 5y ago
I'm not sure what the point of your comment is. People would rather rent in NYC/SF than live in a city where buying a home is affordable. What exactly are you trying to say with your comment? "People who don't want to li
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by xenihn 5y ago
It paid significantly less than other engineering fields, and much, much less than specializations in finance, medicine and law (which artificially constrain supply through various gatekeeping mechanisms) up until recently, when the wage-fi
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by xenihn 5y ago
A ~$40,000 car is absolutely something that the 2021 American Middle Class can reasonably afford, thanks to the combination of 6+ year financing, and no reasonable hope of ever being able to afford home ownership, which means having more mo
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by xenihn 5y ago
>Similarly, I can't libel people as free speech, nor use a megaphone outside your house at 3am in most places. I can't demand a strip club accommodate a requirement I wear modest clothing as a dancer. etc. etc. etc. You can do
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by xenihn 5y ago
>there are Muslims of various different races I've noticed that most people have trouble understanding this, regardless of political affiliation. Islamophobia is a thing. "Racism against Muslims" is not.
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by xenihn 5y ago
All of those are predatory. So is academia.
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by xenihn 5y ago
>Stallman and open source helped drive a lot of paid software out of the market because they could not compete with free versions. >they “gave away” free software funded by ads Proprietary software isn't free software. Free doesn
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by xenihn 5y ago
One of the most valuable things you get from a degree in the US is access to internships.
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by xenihn 5y ago
>I guess they are paying $300k for the connections and access to the elites who go to these universities Can you expand on what you mean by "access to elites"
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by xenihn 5y ago
imo: yes, absolutely
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by xenihn 5y ago
what do you mean "especially FAANG"? software engineering is the most forgiving middle-class industry when it comes to education credentials and pedigree, and FAANG is even more forgiving than the industry norm. it's actually
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by xenihn 5y ago
My own father was a software engineer and he gave me and my siblings the same (bad) advice!
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by xenihn 5y ago
He easily makes way more than that. E5s can hit 500k with refreshers and stock appreciation. I would be shocked if he's making less than 2 million. Not that he even needs it.
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by xenihn 5y ago
eBay has miraculously become more trustworthy than Amazon for certain products
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by xenihn 5y ago
I'm going to respond to this question with one of my own: how much time have you spent on Blind in the past few weeks?
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by xenihn 5y ago
I'm definitely using FANG as FAANG without Amazon. So does everyone else that I've seen use it on HN, Reddit, and Blind.
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by xenihn 5y ago
Amazon is still a top 1% SWE employer. Note: I do not work for Amazon, and never plan to. I was considering it prior to making it into FANG. Unless they offered me a bunch of money, I guess. Like a million dollars year.
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by xenihn 5y ago
Pension funds tied to universities are also buying up homes in major cities throughout the country (often near universities), further harming the young people they were originally meant to serve.
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by xenihn 5y ago
you can make 300k at facebook or google without a degree at all
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by xenihn 5y ago
right now, I can reasonably afford a $1.3 million mortgage. i could do more if i was willing to lose the ability to save/invest, and also rent out multiple rooms to strangers there is nothing at that price point (or below) that i would
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by xenihn 5y ago
I don't know the term for this, but in-person contact is important for metagroups/in-groups at work. People who are coworkers, but also friends as well, to an extent. People that you trust more than others not part of the group, a
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by xenihn 5y ago
Does your interpretation of the golden rule involve browbeating with unfounded legal threats that wouldn't stand up in court?
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by xenihn 5y ago
>As a thought experiment, if you ran a business, and all your ex-employees released a free version of the same product, would you be cool with this? Could you hang out with them, smile and say everything is totally cool? I've actual
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by xenihn 5y ago
> But it's still arguably "morally wrong". According to who? You? Hundreds of people in this thread disagree with you. As does the law.
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by xenihn 5y ago
What is the ethical line that was crossed? There is no basis for this unless you think that Radon intends to monetize, and then become a direct competitor.
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by xenihn 5y ago
Why do you keep posting about non-competes when they are not a factor in California, which is where this occurred?

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