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Pensions are notoriously under/unfunded, particularly in local governments. I wouldn't count that as a guaranteed benefit. It may retroactively be cut in the future. > Neither of t…

I think many of these are inherently poweruser features though. Most non tech-savvy people will rarely have to turn off their phone or clear their open apps (really if the memory e…

Oh they certainly still do have some bureaucracy, but you will never see an L3 at Google being promoted to L5 in 1 year whereas that is a (very rare) possibility at FB.

Google has a big focus on technical excellence and complexity. Facebook is the one with the impact focused culture. You need to get your PRs approved by language experts at G, whil…

1. Minecraft has a lot of kids playing it, particularly kids whose parents blame Microsoft for poor behavior rather than learning to parent. 2. California recently passed a bill wh…

Psychedelics are quite a bit different from heroin/meth/fentanyl. The problem is that SF tolerates the latter.

Not sure what you define to be a hellscape, but Market St definitely fits the bill especially after 8pm. I've never before had to worry about zombies but in SF you do. If you think…

Their strategy uniquely gives you the upside of internal R&D (pace, funding, and direction are set by you) with none of the downside (potential disruption by new technologies). App…

Testosterone is a known causative factor for aggression and risk taking. Men have more testosterone than women.

> Partner has agreed to make certain payments to the Company for (i) 95% of the approved capital expenditures Globalstar makes in connection with the new satellites described The r…

> thats why its hard to get into medical school, as it should be We literally have a shortage of doctors and this is your attitude? Someone who wants to make money is an equally go…

I think you grossly overestimate the percentage of candidates at lower tier schools who would be qualified to pass a Jane Street (or really any HFT firm) interview. Even at the top…

I would take a smart doctor motivated by money over a dumber one motivated by caring for people. The reality is all of the top surgeons, cardiologists, etc. didn't become those pro…

Probably because the people pushing for free college etc tend to be ones studying the humanities, which gives people a bad impression of the whole thing. People make fun of Fox New…

Well, typically open book tests are designed with that ability to search in mind, so the problems are much harder and designed to test understanding rather than memorization. They …

Gross receipts tax of 0.69% plus 1.5% payroll tax [1]. $20,000 trash cans [2] and arcane permitting processes for brick and mortar businesses. The city's leadership has their head …

A substantial amount of housing, especially on East and West Coast, was built prewar or only just postwar. That housing has the potential to have toxic chemicals like lead and asbe…

Unfortunately the author of this PR decided to include garbage like this [1] in it, so this PR is pretty useless. [1] https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion/pull/103/file..…

You're not serious? DC looks pretty expensive for an average worker, from a quick look at apartments.com. Housing is cheap in the South and in rural areas for sure, but any West Co…

> Good. Find out how Walmart retail workers are doing. Plenty of other examples of well paid workers and US SWEs paid more than EU SWEs. UPS teamsters are unionized. AT&T technicia…

> And non-FAANG type IT worker are also paid relatively high at the cost of other workers living perilous lives. Those workers live perilous lives because cities refuse to build en…

Usually what happens is landlord offers the underwater tenant a cash payment to get them to agree to move out. Ends up cheaper than going through the courts. This is just supply an…

I never said this organization is neutral. Merely that if you criticize this organization you should also criticize the ACLU for the same lack of neutrality.

From the ACLU: "a reason to decline taking a free-speech case “the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are cont…

> I’d hope that any organization concerned with civil liberties would make the effort to act in a bipartisan, politically neutral way. Funny, because you could say the same about t…