levelz

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   by levelz 2y ago

   Unless you've worked for a payment processing company, or for a major retailer that does a lot of payment processing, you have no idea how much fraud or attempted fraud happens in transactions (you can even see it as a small retailer i
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   by levelz 3y ago

   > Everything is outrageously expensive > Middle class gets crushed I moved out of New York City in 2020. The overriding reason was not this, it was just a fluke that I got a very compelling out of state job offer in 2019, and they re
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   by levelz 3y ago

   In New York City five years ago I was switching from one IT career to another (Unix sysadmin to programmer), and was working part-time for a very small startup that had run out out of seed money, while interviewing for more lucrative positi
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   by levelz 5y ago

   I live in a metro area of the USA, but not one of the 20th largest ones. I started making any kind of real salary (meaning over $2000 a month) in programming in the spring of 2019. I now make base over $130k a year, and bonus/stock w