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by zhdc1 6y ago
With a couple of exceptions, how is housing inelastic sans government zoning and other policy restrictions? We're long past the point where the private sector can estimate housing demand on a long enough time scale for single and multi
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Compare and contrast with the latter part of Yergin & Stanislaw's The Commanding Heights, which goes into detail on the American origins of China's economic policy. Huntington's The Third Wave also applies, since China lo
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Assuming your annual expenses came to $50K, you had to have made $225K-$325K a year before tax to save up that much in eight years. Shave or add a couple tens of thousands in either direction. $225K is a high salary almost anywhere in the s
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by zhdc1 6y ago
There were a lot of companies that were remote work first before COVID. The issue is that this is only possible for companies in certain fields (tech being one of them) that have the right tools and management structures in place, and where
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by zhdc1 6y ago
"It depends" isn't a cop-out when it's true. Some situations benefit a lot from remote work. There's a reason why a lot of startups were going remote work first before COVID was even a thing. The issue is that IT is
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It's not the social isolation as much as it is being disconnected from your work environment. There's a very real benefit (that varies a lot on individual circumstances) to being close to the flagpole. This discussion reminds me o
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I think the OPs main point is that salary is as much a function of location as it is talent. Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to move to Silicon Valley.
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I would be more surprised if tech companies stick to remote work first. Remote work has been doable in tech for a long time. However, it comes with the same issues as off-shoring - in particular, how do you know that the person you hired is
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by zhdc1 6y ago
I received a 500 error when I went to GitHub, and the first thought on my mind was to check Hacker News. I wasn't disappointed. In all fairness, I GitHub has more or less been fairly reliable, minus whatever has been going on over the
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This. Prague was arguably another casualty.
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When the pandemic first hit, we started looking at Sina Weibo tweets to try to make sense of how people in China were dealing with the quarantine. People hated remote work with a passion. They hated not having set working hours and having t
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by zhdc1 6y ago
There's a rumor going around that a lot of published economic results the 1990's are invalid because of an issue in an old version of STATA (or a STATA plugin, idk). Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but it wouldn&
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by zhdc1 6y ago
I agree to a small extent, but this is very field dependent. Social sciences, where you're taking a bunch of data and running a Python, R, or Julia script against it? Sure. Require the PI to archive the data (or anonymized version wher
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by zhdc1 6y ago
I can't think of another library that has had as much of an impact on a niche field as GDAL.
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Open source GIS is awesome if you're able to go your own way and don't need someone to hold your hand through every step of the process. The sheer amount of functioning - and fast - code & data is pretty much unparalleled. It
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by zhdc1 6y ago
This COVID-19 induced remote work experiment has really been interesting. One of the unexpected outcomes of the IT/software revolution was just how much industry centralization (e.g., Silicon Valley, Seattle, and later San Francisco&#x
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Most universities don't let random students (foreign or domestic) come study for free. You either have to be really good or pay your way. In all seriousness though, I can only think of one or two occasions personally where citizenship
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by zhdc1 6y ago
My older X1 gets about 4-5 hours under relatively heavy use. It has an OLED screen though, which is part of the reason for the not so great battery life.
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The redesign also looks nice.
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She's getting a lot of flak on here, but I kind of sympathize with her. Multiday onboarding programs, unfamiliar (bad?) IT, and inflated expectations aren't particularly fun to deal with.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
The median study (according to a UNEP report I found after a quick Google search) puts global carrying capacity between 8 and 16 billion. Source: https://na.unep.net/geas/archive/pdfs/geas_jun_12_carrying_c...
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Government procurement is an opaque mess. He very well could have made an stupid but honest mistake at some point prior to coming over to his current position (it looks like he was hired last October), and it finally caught up to him.
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Their unit economics are fine. They have a gross margin of 6-7% after taking out attributable operating costs (so, IT + customer support + insurance + w/e). Unless if I'm looking at the wrong numbers, they're literally killin
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by zhdc1 6y ago
That's like saying Facebook shouldn't be profitable because anyone can come up with a social media platform. There are user costs to switching platforms, even if the platform is a ride sharing app. I get that the friction is less
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Here's the issue with that argument, though. Platforms win out because of user familiarity, not because they're necessarily the cheapest option. Uber had and still has a large lead on Lyft. They get free advertising all of the tim
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That can't be all there is to it. 23 billion is a crazy amount - way more than enough to basically lobby whatever you want through most western countries.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
How though. Their unit economics should be easy to manage. I understand spending money on customer acquisition, but why can't they just take 5-10% on top of whatever a driver wants to charge, and be done with it?
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Yeah, but how fancy is the fancy coffee though? Are we talking Starbucks or a three day roast sourced from a micro lot in Kenya? If it fits your budget, go for it, but let's not confuse convenience with enjoyment or quality.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Cutting down on the small stuff like has really helped us out over the long run. Coffee is about 4.5 USD where I'm at, which is part of the reason. The big expenses are still what matter though.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
We've pretty much given up. Waiting for N26 or another neobank to support CHF deposits (not likely going to happen though). Until then we've been using a mix of Excel and YNAB.

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