goobynight

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by goobynight 7y ago
My family definitely got the short end of most of these factors in the midwest. * Very few high paying companies in the area and they were less likely to move due to owning. * They made about 3.3k/year in appreciation for 20 years. Tha
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by goobynight 7y ago
You're doubting what? That there are people doing this? It's not hard on a bay area L4+ salary to have a spare 40-50k several times a year (20% of a 200-250k property), especially if you are snowballing with profits from multiple
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by goobynight 7y ago
The problem isn't isolated though. We're at the point where people living in tech hubs are buying houses in Ohio every couple of months, simply because they can. (owning) housing also isn't necessarily cheap relative to the j
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by goobynight 7y ago
I'm also a cmd+l -> n -> enter guy
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by goobynight 7y ago
I'll go ahead and fire off a recommendation to find a muay thai gym that has dedicated conditioning classes and some cool people. I wish I would have discovered it 10 years earlier when I started running cross country. Running, for me,
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by goobynight 7y ago
Right. And most people are fully persuaded by much lesser sums.
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by goobynight 7y ago
If we're going to start counting 2nd and 3rd degree connections, why not count people that are home playing video games on a Microsoft console instead of driving somewhere?
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by goobynight 7y ago
I'll opt to ride in the street more often in a downtown area, since traffic is typically slow anyways. At minimum, I'll try to hit up the bike lane. It does help that my scooter can accelerate up to 20-30mph easily though.
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by goobynight 7y ago
The laws are coming faster in some places than others and the presence of rentals is actually bad in terms of keeping attention on scooters down. I figured I'd have 1-2 good summers in my current city before the laws caught up. So far
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by goobynight 7y ago
I bought from ehweels and Jason is awesome. They honored the 1 year warranty on my Dualtron Spider.
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by goobynight 7y ago
You 100% want something with dual motors. Look at the full lineup offered by Dualtron, if you'd like top of the line. I chose the Dualtron Spider, as it was made to be only 44lb while able to go 38mph, do wheelies, has full suspension
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by goobynight 7y ago
The nuisance -> regulation flow is precisely why I became an early adopter and dropped ~$2500 on a fast one . I wanted to have my fun before the hordes ruin it. If everyone had a scooter that could go over 35mph, it would be chaos. To th
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by goobynight 7y ago
How does something like a sound system help you more in India than the US?
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by goobynight 7y ago
I can only wish to not only be so attractive, but to meet these types of women.
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by goobynight 7y ago
I agree that it definitely shouldn't be that way. It's a cop out for the sales team to point and say "we made the sale, we're itemizing the value as ours when the whole possibility of the sale is made by the team. This i
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by goobynight 7y ago
Net displacement doesn't matter. Convenience and features do. We have to fully admit that, all else equal, being responsible for the security and maintenance of a scooter is worse than offloading that to Lime/Lyft/Bird. The o
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by goobynight 7y ago
RSUs are as good or better than cash as long as you can keep a job for the length of the cliff. That's typically just a year... The 4th year of an RSU grant is just as unavailable as my base salary 4 years away.
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by goobynight 7y ago
The interstates are great for truck delivery and one-off trips such as moving/vacation, but a job is a daily round trip. How far are software engineers really going to commute? If they don't commute, are they going to move to your
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by goobynight 7y ago
most* 25% of people are going to hit 0 again. 1-2 is huge for most people
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by goobynight 7y ago
While I agree the car theft is different, let's not pretend losing your window and several goods (potentially linked to your livelihood) is simple to deal with.
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by goobynight 7y ago
I personally like petty theft being criminalized.
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by goobynight 7y ago
I think the best model is to have your "devops/sre guy" embedded right on the team. I market myself in interviews as a software engineer (on the same team as the other SWEs) that just happens to focus on what actually getting
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by goobynight 7y ago
Which specific companies surprise you? Employees selling their RSUs is a drop in the bucket vs the market cap.
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by goobynight 7y ago
For reference, Bloomberg terminal costs $24,000 per year.
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by goobynight 7y ago
Making a high risk play and maybe going bankrupt at 18 might even be a dominant strategy. I never used credit from 18-25 aside from churning some credit cards.
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by goobynight 7y ago
Agreed. Going into a fit every 3-6 months doesn't do anything if quitting isn't on the table. This storyline is just hilarious to me now.
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by goobynight 7y ago
I'm try to respectfully decline them, but if they try to passive aggressively guilt me, I teeter on the cusp of countering by attacking back and trying to crack their self esteem. I haven't done it yet and wouldn't be proud o
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by goobynight 7y ago
You are appearing to confuse VC backed non-tech startups with tech. To talk about tech in general, look to the major players: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and so on.
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by goobynight 7y ago
Hasn't blown up for my uncle and he's nearly 50
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by goobynight 7y ago
Good question. Are we talking about sex workers globally or in countries where it is legalized and centralized? I'm comparing specifically to places like Hong Kong and Amsterdam that have this work legalized, which is the topic at hand

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