throwaway729

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by throwaway729 9y ago
FWIW my experience is closer to 200k minimum. Especially if you want to be in one of the 1 or 2 best school districts in the area. But yeah, right ballpark. Definitely cheaper than CA. you can also go way south of 150k if you're not in
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> So you were born 20+ years ago? And left less than 3 years ago. Not much had changed. In some ways, it got a lot worse. My perceptions aren't stuck in the past. Again, don't believe me? Go person-by-person down your general
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> It sounds like you lived in one location Also not true. Try again. > That's not well-informed, it's just an anecdote about a crappy time spent somewhere in the country. Multiple decades across several states. Both in c
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> Kansas City, MO...Bay Area counties This isn't even close to an Apples-to-Apples comparison. You should at least include Clay, Lafayette, Johnson if you're going to look at the entire Bay area. And then looks at who's
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> The myth that Republican areas are hostile wastelands with poor quality of life for minorities has much more to do with confirmation bias and a desire to justify high cost of living than anything else, IMO. If only that were true, I&
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by throwaway729 9y ago
Since some people feel I'm being unfair to the midwest, I'll mention: * Chicago has a pretty decent public transit systems. * MSP and St. Louis both have decent light rail systems for their size. Still pitiful compared to most of
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> This assumes that one's politics align with the politics and hostile culture in California. I intentionally avoid living in CA due to its culture/politics and have turned down multiple bona fide relocation offers to CA. Thi
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by throwaway729 9y ago
I'm not saying "all midwesterners are racist and believe in crazy shit". I'm saying it's more common and harder to avoid in the midwest. I think that claim is both true and demonstrable. I even suggested one empiric
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> There are so many things wrong with this comment. I feel strongly about the midwest. I hated living there. There are serious down-sides, and if people move to Tulsa thinking it's "NZ in the USA", they're going to
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> For the most part, this is all true in, say, Tulsa. Especially if you stay off Facebook. Really only the cost of living. > Commuting is less wearying Not really. There's a near zero percent chance your commute involves anyt
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by throwaway729 9y ago
This off-hand comment sent me on a hilarious wiki tangent. At some point you'll be able to say your Calculus lecturer was the Queen's father. Just think how different his life would've been if his daughter didn't meet th
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by throwaway729 9y ago
A Joel List is a quick-and-dirty list you can use to assess the competence of an organization. I don't think this list achieves that goal. #1 and #2 (CICD) are fair additions to Joel's list, but I'd argue are already encapsul
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> It's not the same as making a "fake steve jobs" twitter account where everybody knows you're not really steve jobs First, let's dispel the absurdity that "ICE official with a critical Twitter account&quo
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by throwaway729 9y ago
Yeah, nothing says "claiming authority" like explicitly calling yourself "Alt". /s
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by throwaway729 9y ago
1 is bullshit. Anonymity is baked into first amendment protections. The political nature of govt's request is blatant.
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> The events happened in the early 1990's, just prior to the advent of the internet Ah, makes a lot more sense. I was assuming some time in the early naughts given the school's timeline, and was disappointed I couldn't f
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by throwaway729 9y ago
The respect goes both ways. I call people with doctoral degrees "Dr." unless I'm invited otherwise or we're in a non-professional setting. Doctoral degrees usually aren't mere pieces of paper; going out of one'
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by throwaway729 9y ago
Fascinating. To this day, it's nearly impossible to find any account of these events. It's really hard to imagine that someone could commit such outright blatant theft and get away without so much as a hit on Google. Was the con a
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by throwaway729 9y ago
Check out fig 1 (page 4).
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> Heck, I worked with someone with a mathematical PhD for years wondering how he'd never heard of Banach-Tarsky. Not that it's a specifically useful or necessary thing, just that you'd think a math-interested person would
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by throwaway729 9y ago
I've worked for employers who were 100% convinced this is theft, even without some intent to use that information, and even discussed very similar hypotehticals in on boarding.
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by throwaway729 9y ago
Right, things are a bit confused at the moment because the parent's hypothetical is so close to the case at hand. I'm addressing parent's concrete hypothetical -- where the person accused of theft is the ceo of the company.
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by throwaway729 9y ago
https://github.com/commaai/openpilot Not self driving, but ACC
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> I think I see: You were comparing the GP to someone in Kalanick's position, not to Levandowski. I am considering GP's situation directly -- leaving a company to create a start up and then being sued. If he didn't steal
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by throwaway729 9y ago
My assumption is that intentionally copying IP onto a personal device and removing that device from the office -- regardless of any actual intent to use that data -- is still theft. Which would make the former employer's claims truthfu
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by throwaway729 9y ago
I agree in principle and understand your point. But I have a hard time imagining a specific scenario where you're accused of IP theft and a lawyer can't find a way to say "my client is not guilty of IP theft" without com
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by throwaway729 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I.e., the fifth itself doesn't protect you from negative inference in civil cases, but some jurisdictions provide that protection? In any case, I stand by my lesson: avoid actions that lead to situations
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> What is the clear benefit to denying rather than pleading the fifth? Avoiding an injunction against your business.
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by throwaway729 9y ago
And if your lawyer tells you to plead the fifth and clam up, don't be surprised when your business receives an injunction. I'm not a lawyer, but Alsup is, and he states as much in an abundantly clear tongue lashing of Uber's
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by throwaway729 9y ago
> Actually, you shouldn't say anything and get a lawyer Which is exactly what Levandowski did. And then, under advice from his lawyer, he plead the fifth. > Pleading the fifth is expressly not an admission of guilt In crimina

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