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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Pensions are notoriously under/unfunded, particularly in local governments. I wouldn't count that as a guaranteed benefit. It may retroactively be cut in the future. > Neither of those have to be properly accounted for in dolla
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I think many of these are inherently poweruser features though. Most non tech-savvy people will rarely have to turn off their phone or clear their open apps (really if the memory eviction system is good this shouldn't even be a concern
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Oh they certainly still do have some bureaucracy, but you will never see an L3 at Google being promoted to L5 in 1 year whereas that is a (very rare) possibility at FB.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Google has a big focus on technical excellence and complexity. Facebook is the one with the impact focused culture. You need to get your PRs approved by language experts at G, while at FB people frequently ship things that are terribly writ
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
1. Minecraft has a lot of kids playing it, particularly kids whose parents blame Microsoft for poor behavior rather than learning to parent. 2. California recently passed a bill which would fine companies which fail to prevent kids from acc
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Psychedelics are quite a bit different from heroin/meth/fentanyl. The problem is that SF tolerates the latter.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Not sure what you define to be a hellscape, but Market St definitely fits the bill especially after 8pm. I've never before had to worry about zombies but in SF you do. If you think SF is the norm then you should visit a city with compe
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Their strategy uniquely gives you the upside of internal R&D (pace, funding, and direction are set by you) with none of the downside (potential disruption by new technologies). Apple can drop a supplier on a dime if a disruptive technol
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Testosterone is a known causative factor for aggression and risk taking. Men have more testosterone than women.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Partner has agreed to make certain payments to the Company for (i) 95% of the approved capital expenditures Globalstar makes in connection with the new satellites described The real secret that will be studied in business school for de
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> thats why its hard to get into medical school, as it should be We literally have a shortage of doctors and this is your attitude? Someone who wants to make money is an equally good or better doctor than the person who wants to help peo
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I think you grossly overestimate the percentage of candidates at lower tier schools who would be qualified to pass a Jane Street (or really any HFT firm) interview. Even at the top schools the pass rate is incredibly low. In expectation you
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I would take a smart doctor motivated by money over a dumber one motivated by caring for people. The reality is all of the top surgeons, cardiologists, etc. didn't become those professions just because they were "well rounded&quot
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Probably because the people pushing for free college etc tend to be ones studying the humanities, which gives people a bad impression of the whole thing. People make fun of Fox News touting lesbian dance studies majors, but the reality is m
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Well, typically open book tests are designed with that ability to search in mind, so the problems are much harder and designed to test understanding rather than memorization. They often are also much longer, so you cannot just search for ev
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Gross receipts tax of 0.69% plus 1.5% payroll tax [1]. $20,000 trash cans [2] and arcane permitting processes for brick and mortar businesses. The city's leadership has their head so far up their ass about going after rich techies tha
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
A substantial amount of housing, especially on East and West Coast, was built prewar or only just postwar. That housing has the potential to have toxic chemicals like lead and asbestos, poor plumbing, lack of insulation, and poor ventilatio
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Unfortunately the author of this PR decided to include garbage like this [1] in it, so this PR is pretty useless. [1] https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion/pull/103/file...
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
You're not serious? DC looks pretty expensive for an average worker, from a quick look at apartments.com. Housing is cheap in the South and in rural areas for sure, but any West Coast/northern East Coast city is very expensive. Su
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Good. Find out how Walmart retail workers are doing. Plenty of other examples of well paid workers and US SWEs paid more than EU SWEs. UPS teamsters are unionized. AT&T technicians are unionized. Both pay their SWEs more than EU co
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> And non-FAANG type IT worker are also paid relatively high at the cost of other workers living perilous lives. Those workers live perilous lives because cities refuse to build enough housing, not because a few workers have it good. &gt
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Usually what happens is landlord offers the underwater tenant a cash payment to get them to agree to move out. Ends up cheaper than going through the courts. This is just supply and demand though, rents will hopefully be on the way down as
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I never said this organization is neutral. Merely that if you criticize this organization you should also criticize the ACLU for the same lack of neutrality.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
From the ACLU: "a reason to decline taking a free-speech case “the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values." In selecting speech cases to
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> I’d hope that any organization concerned with civil liberties would make the effort to act in a bipartisan, politically neutral way. Funny, because you could say the same about the ACLU, but swap progressive/conservative.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I've had Cherry switches fail right as the keyboard's warranty was up. The switch feels soft after wearing out, it gets dust in it and starts double typing, etc. Pacemakers need to be 100% reliable, not 99.9%.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Then the people working there aren't rational actors. Amazon is paying $15/h nationally, why would anyone work for $7.25? > even though they've had to cut hours and are now "drive-through-only" for big chunks of
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> That extreme turned out to be unsustainable in today's labor market--again, at least where I live--so "the market" and "the real world" seem to be moving on. Yes, the minimum possible being the minimum market w
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Chinese savings are dumped into housing because the stock market isn't trustworthy there, not because everyone decided housing is the most productive enterprise. Also, dumping your money into savings accounts is definitely better than
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Do I expect a burger flipper working at a hot grill to be just as safe in hour ten as hour eight or hour six of a given workday? No, I expect that burns, for example, are more likely at the end of long shifts than the beginning This is

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