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by pascalxus 4y ago
I assume this means that employee compensation is nearly half what was before, since almost half of the comp is just stock, right? With the astronomical COL over there, those employees in palo alto are probably gonna be hurting really bad n
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by pascalxus 4y ago
This will force you to log into every single web site that has commenting. So much for privacy. Privacy will go out the window. Discussion and commenting will go out the window. This bill is deeply undemocratic and very much against a f
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by pascalxus 4y ago
you don't have to do anything unless someone is holding a gun to your head. Is someone holding a gun to your head? well then they're not your friend and you should unfriend them. i go on facebook maybe once per month or 3 or 4
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by pascalxus 4y ago
just to throw out ideas: What if he decided to charge for each search?, say 1 cent or so. Users could purchase them in bulk, say 100 searches for a 1$. The world is getting more and more desperate for a better search engine. the day may c
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by pascalxus 4y ago
Hacker news commentations are usually more interesting and insightful than you're average article on the internet that garners enough SEO to be posted here. So, let's not pretend otherwise. Many of us, just read the comments her
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by pascalxus 4y ago
Bitcoin is a store of value, like gold. Not a currency. Yes, it's very volatile and no, just like gold, it doesn't protect you from inflation in the short run. but, it does protect from inflation in the long run. It doesn'
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by pascalxus 5y ago
yeah, it's pretty messed up that there's such extremely heavy penalties for merely playing a youtube video on a few screens whereas looting and stealing go completely unpunished. what kind of message is that sending to our youth?
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by pascalxus 5y ago
The article implies a lot of risk for having so much personal data circulating around without our control. but the article, and many others like it fail to show how all that risk can adversely affect us. I mean, so what if my neighbor gets
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by pascalxus 5y ago
And yet, with all this information about me, they still struggle to come up with even the slightest big of relevant advertising. 99.9% of the products I see advertised to me are either completely irrelevant to me or products I down right h
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by pascalxus 5y ago
the point of work is to provide value to someone, in exchange they give you cash. That someone, can be anyone in the world or any people except for one person, and that's you (the worker). the point of work is providing value to some
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by pascalxus 6y ago
i mostly invest in inflation protected assets. there's really only 4 categories of investments: equities (stocks), fixed income (bonds), real estate and commodities. And, one of those categories (bonds) has been eliminated by the gov
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by pascalxus 6y ago
that may be so but most people can't have a 30 year commitment so they buy ETFs. And ETFs need a buyer for that bond to have value. if those buyers don't exist then the bond could be worth a lot less than 1000$. this is what th
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by pascalxus 6y ago
What i find particularly scary is the run on the banks scenario the author outlines. this really smashes the idea that bonds are the safe thing to get your money back. I know a lot of bonds have been selling, that's why the fed needs
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by pascalxus 6y ago
bitcoin isn't just for speculators. It's also for longer term buy and hold investors. there's a very real demand for investments that will hold their value against inflation. can you name a single asset class that will do
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by pascalxus 6y ago
is it so hard to understand? the material wealth of the developed world has dropped by quite a large amount (at least for shelter, medical insurance, education). Don't trust those GDP per capita figures (even adjusted for PPP), they
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by pascalxus 6y ago
will a fridge filter, filter this stuff out? I've been drinking tap water from the fridge filter for a looong time now, so getting worried...
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by pascalxus 6y ago
this is a great idea, and I hope they adopt it. i think this was not possible before coronavirus because no one knew it could be done. but now we have proof that it works. >>> Apple CEO Tim Cook said Monday at a conference hosted
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by pascalxus 6y ago
it's not the invisible hand's fault when that hand is tied behind it's back. there's so many politicians that have been creating legislation that prevents new entrants from coming into the market with regulatory capture
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by pascalxus 6y ago
Where are you located? I've worked for over half a dozen software companies in the bay area and we never had problems finding highly qualified candidates. I was part of the hiring process durring a period of rapid growth. I noticed t
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by pascalxus 6y ago
i totally agree. I haven't seen a single apartment complex with a community compost area, even here in supposedly green california. It should be a standard thing that's everywhere, like parks. and whoever's stopping by can
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Ask HN: Are there any other broadband providers I can use in the east bay?
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by pascalxus 6y ago
I totally agree. Personally, I'd like to grow as much food as I can in my own backyard and supplement it with grocery stores for things I can't produce myself.
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by pascalxus 6y ago
I've been using NewRelic for a while now, and it's a great product. But, I don't see many moats around the business model. There's nothing preventing other competitors from popping up and taking market share. The cost
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by pascalxus 6y ago
It's not so bad. I'd gladdly take a 33% pay cut to save over a million dollars on a house. Plus many of your other COL will be half too. Plus, you'll pay less in taxes too. Earning a decent income in a high COL area can b
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by pascalxus 6y ago
concerning point #5, the voting public is beyond greedy. they'll sue the sh out of any builder that wants to build anything, and there's soo many zoning laws and so many restrictions and taxes. At the end of the day, people wh
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by pascalxus 6y ago
So far it seems this has not yet affected housing sales much more than the typical seasonal: https://www.movoto.com/san-francisco-ca/market-trends/ Look at the 5 year chart. it basically shows inventories are sti
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by pascalxus 6y ago
I find it scary that so many companies are asserting their political will so aggressively. I don't think this will end well.
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by pascalxus 6y ago
You can't blame teachers if the students don't do well on standardized tests. If you want to know why students don't do well on these tests, just spend a week or two substituting for teachers (or go there as a student) in on
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by pascalxus 6y ago
Why is everyone so convinced that we're getting "low quality education"? I've grown up here and went to "bad schools" and "good schools" and I have not seen any quality problem in education other th
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by pascalxus 6y ago
Why are people so quick to always blame teachers? What makes you think throwing even more money at the problem will make things better? Growing up in a poor area, I went to some of the "worst" schools you can imagine (one even ha

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