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by pheug 6y ago
School is free in the US. For university, why not send them to the EU? So you can have both tons of bay area cash and a (nearly) free university for your kids. Strangely though, this kind of education arbitrage doesn't seem popular amo
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by pheug 6y ago
The swiss right in the center of europe can very well imagine https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/2500-franken-fuer-62-kilomet...
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by pheug 6y ago
Working for tech in the Bay Area you have a pretty reasonable and predictable path to financial independence in maybe a decade or so of work (so, early 30s if you start right after school). After which you can have any wlb you want for the
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by pheug 6y ago
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook avoid touching AGPL software with a ten foot pole. Choosing AGPL is a great way to isolate yourself from any collaboration with that community
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by pheug 6y ago
I'd actually consider browser pdf viewers safer than a standalone native app. Firefox uses pdfjs, a pure javascript pdf implementation running inside a battle-tested browser javascript sandbox. No unsafe native pdf code with countles
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by pheug 6y ago
It is actually plausible that there could be billions of pages with apple on the internet. The 447 results you paged through are just the most relevant docs for your particular query ("apple" + country) and Google doesn't bot
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by pheug 6y ago
Google like all other web search engines never scan their whole index when searching, it's way too expensive. All sorts of tricks are used to aggressively prune matching results at every opportunity during retrieval until maybe a few h
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by pheug 6y ago
> Bonus is not guaranteed so why take that into account? Bonus is not guaranteed only if you're about to get fired. Even lowest ok performance grade at google (CME) will get you 15+% bonus. But it's not a whole lot of money any
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by pheug 6y ago
Sorry for stating the obvious, but money is a pretty big reason to continue doing leetcode style interviews. Most high paying employers ask them. Out of curiosity, how much does your no-leetcode job pay? Is it at least $200k? > If it com
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by pheug 6y ago
https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en/pricing.html You need your own domain and set up GSuite Business account on it or a subdomain. Included in the offer: Google Drive - Unlimited cloud storage. The "or 1TB per
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by pheug 6y ago
There's https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/
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by pheug 6y ago
Actually for 10 bucks a month you get unlimited google drive via gsuite. 10TB over here and counting. Unbeatable value proposition for hoarders On the thread's subject, I use rclone to access it - works great.
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by pheug 6y ago
rclone uses google drive's APIs to talk to them
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by pheug 6y ago
Also Hungary and Myanmar if wikipedia to be trusted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation And there are talks in the air that other countries might follow the suit to buff up their state coffers - https
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by pheug 6y ago
> You can make money any time But big SV money? I wouldn't be so sure. Ageism is rampant in tech. FAANGs love their coders young, in 20's-30's. Also the dollar saved earlier in life is worth exponentially more later thanks
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by pheug 6y ago
Tried HP z27q for a month under Linux with Cinnamon, didn't like it. Being a DP 1.2 monitor, 5K resolution is implemented as an ugly hack using MST and two displayport connections. The system views it essentially as two independent mon
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by pheug 6y ago
yes, but he wouldn't find a lot of clients interested in paying him 2 & 20 for such a simple strategy Also, just so little companies is very risky. E.g. if Tesla flopped you'd probably underperform
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by pheug 6y ago
Yeah, what happened to all those 3d optical storage startups that promised us petabyte sized things by now?
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by pheug 6y ago
Very useful for storing medium/large-scale crawls. Common Crawl is 200TB+ per month ( http://commoncrawl.org/connect/blog/ ). Uncompressed, if compressed it'd probably go through one such disk every 1-2 mo
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by pheug 6y ago
Helps only until a certain point and then becomes counterproductive if they don't really like the work but can't quit due to these golden handcuffs you put them in. It could even make them disgruntled, the opposite of what you wan
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by pheug 6y ago
I ran the numbers and I don't think it's as amazing as you describe: From what I could quickly find online (correct me if I'm wrong), the theoretical maximum pension you can get today is 3034 EUR/month, starting from the
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by pheug 6y ago
> 1. our retirement systems is based on a generational contract, not capital You mean that people pop kids so that those kids would feel obliged to take care of them when they're old? Yeah, that's one legitimate retirement str
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by pheug 6y ago
You get 401k match and health insurance at any good employer in the US too. As well as much lower taxes. German taxes are just batshit crazy, second only to Belgium. How people can afford to FI/RE with these taxes and pay is beyond me.
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by pheug 6y ago
The spirit of the legislation may have been that L1B is for a temporary stay, but in practice today it's one of the major paths for high skilled foreign workers to permanently immigrate into the US, since H1B got extremely crowded late
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by pheug 6y ago
DDG is not in the index-all-the-web business. For the most part they are just serving Bing's results, that's the only reason why they operate with so little funding - it doesn't take much to operate a glorified proxy. Microso
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by pheug 6y ago
They already dropped by 20% from peak. Are you saying they should drop by all 50%? That doesn't make sense. Market is forward looking. Assuming a fast recovery, a couple bad quarters would even hardly matter in the long term. You can
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by pheug 6y ago
> What about the massive increase in views from people being stuck at home ? wouldn't that lead to a higher ROI when people eventually spend ? That would lead to lower ROI as operating costs are increased to serve those extra users.
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by pheug 6y ago
Security through obscurity. Pretty sure Blind did this just to piss off scrapers. I mean I've been scraping them for some time until they pulled this encryption trick about a year ago. I didn't have time to reverse engineer their
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by pheug 7y ago
Most big companies that I know with equity-based compensation typically forbid any hedging of their stock, especially through puts. But assuming hypothetically this is not an issue, you could sell short your company's stock to reduce e
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by pheug 7y ago
Put options writers need to post cash collateral to cover their obligations or go on equivalent margin (which will be monitored and enforced by their broker) in order to sell you a put. If this fails, there's still Options Clearing Cor

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