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by alex504 3y ago
You are doing what you are accusing the author of this piece of doing. Do you have anything to add about the total lack of evidence of the Bulstrode piece? Are you claiming that the 18% number the Museum of London piece is claiming is anyth
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by alex504 4y ago
A 100% salary boost is pretty large. If they are doubling your salary at the start up your compensation at your previous role is probably at about the bottom or even below the bottom of what you would make on the market if the startup goes
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by alex504 4y ago
Its funny because my experience has been the exact opposite. I have sold three cars to them in the past 2 years (long story) and all of them were several thousand above what other dealers in the area or carvana/shift/vroom were wi
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by alex504 4y ago
Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest players in history, and he was EXTREMELY paranoid.
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by alex504 4y ago
As soon as I see the JSX critique I roll my eyes. This has been around since reacts inception and it just doesn't hold any water for me. I remember interviewing with a company in 2019 that was still on Angular 1 because they didn'
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by alex504 4y ago
That's the thing about react, there basically are no edges or very very few edges left. There were edges in like 2018, but the team has made it relatively easy to do anything you want to do, while writing scalable and maintainable code
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by alex504 4y ago
So if these fields weren't highly regulated demanding personal projects from candidates would be a good approach for hiring?
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by alex504 4y ago
Its the drugs fault. If the drug causes negative effects on a large subset of the people who use them, that is a problem with the drug.
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by alex504 4y ago
This seems like it was more or less just a straight-up scam. They told customers that they were investing their funds in a diversified set of stablecoins. They promised the customers they could not lose money because the stablecoins were al
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by alex504 4y ago
In my experience none of what you are talking about is necessary to have a successful tech career. In my case I have an English degree, went to a boot camp, and worked fairly hard at medium sized companies for a few years. I work at a compa
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by alex504 4y ago
I am definitely not an expert, don't know about the data around shelters. My understanding of shelters is that they make it a lot harder to do drugs and that is why a lot of the homeless prefer camps. My understanding is that abuse, vi
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by alex504 4y ago
For those saying they should give these people services as well as housing - the problem is that they refuse services, but are given housing anyway. I just finished reading Sanfransicko by Michael Shellenberger, who is a critic of housing f
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by alex504 4y ago
Please kill me
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by alex504 4y ago
They can look at the ledger, and show up to your house, take ownership of your house and put you in jail.
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by alex504 4y ago
You have to hire people that don't have big egos, and are also high performers. Some people will obviously be higher performers than others but without egos communication works. If someone is not performing well, everyone should feel o
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by alex504 4y ago
To be honest (as you asked for), it does come off as egotistical and a bit condescending. I would remove the "Thank you and sorry" and "The bar is high because my word carries weight" sections. The tone of sentences like
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by alex504 4y ago
It seems like if they intended to offer the bonus to you that this is a mistake, or a company that you don't want to work for, so it should be pretty easy to ask them about it and see what happens. Any sane company wouldn't intent
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by alex504 5y ago
I'm at a company that is about one tier below FAANG and I'm making 250 total at a senior 1 role. Or I was before the stock market started tanking, now I'll be making about 220.
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by alex504 5y ago
The bank will only cover what it is appraised at. You have to split the difference with cash. Some banks might be willing to give you different terms (higher apr, more down) but that is generally how it works in my experience.
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Utah Lowered Its Drunken-Driving Threshold, and Fatal Crashes Dropped(wsj.com)
1 points by alex504 5y ago|0 comments
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by alex504 5y ago
itunes isnt p2p
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by alex504 5y ago
This reminds me of a joke Norm MacDonald did on his podcast: Did you see the Great Gatsby? Did you see it in 3D? It was almost like the sober examination of the unrestrained materialism and absent moral center of the roaring 20s jumped righ
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The Covid Vaccine We Need Now May Not Be a Shot(nytimes.com)
2 points by alex504 5y ago|1 comments
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by alex504 5y ago
Definitely not saying that. I would also argue that I am contributing less than a majority of my non tech friends, who all make less than me aside from a couple of doctors.
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by alex504 5y ago
When I initially quit, I thought I was going to do something similar to what the author here was trying to do, after taking a couple of years off. I had some fantasy of being an artist. I don't believe the notion that there is a positi
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by alex504 5y ago
There are many people who have conquered their fears, and are simply bad at whatever they are trying to do. Either that or they aren't really trying to do anything except enjoy themselves, and they don't care / are oblivious
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by alex504 5y ago
I agree with everything you are saying. I'd like to share my perspective. I quit my job for about 2 years, thinking I would never go back to full time. It was extremely liberating but also a somewhat scary experience. The reason for th
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by alex504 5y ago
Fine art and NFTs are not theoretically the same. With fine art there is only one object, which can only be picked up, looked at, and so forth, in one spot. People go to museums or private collections to go see these pieces because looking
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NYU is top-ranked in loans that alumni and parents struggle to repay(wsj.com)
134 points by alex504 5y ago|227 comments
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by alex504 5y ago
I've been using it for over 10 years, and there have been lots of small annoyances that have piled up in a way that no other software has. The most egregious and the one I can fathom the least is that the podcast feature with video pod

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