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> This is why the marginal difference between your median engineer and your P99 engineer is comp is substantial, while the marginal comp difference between your median pick and pac…

6k a month mortgage for a family of four seems low. It's at least double that in any major metro area.

How do you ensure the same user always gets the same treatment, even on subsequent visits to the site? You need the bucket sizes to be consistent for consistent hashing.

> Marxists, after having removed all of the bullshit from Marxism, discovered that there was nothing left but liberalism. This is not true. Marxism deals with much more metaphysica…

"Just be yourself and the right person will come along!"

Yea this is a good point. Same with "lean forward" during skiing. It's only really helpful for someone who already knows why you need to lean forward (and is able to do so) but jus…

Something I've come to realize is when someone gives advice, especially career related, it's usually directed at a young version of themselves rather than to anyone else. The motiv…

Yea this was more accurate for me too, at least for the one route I checked (NYC-LON)

I'm not sure if you would call it 'agency' but the host is following it's own specific door-picking policy - a policy which will never result in a car being revealed. It is precise…

I swear this problem only ever causes confusion because the original wording is ambiguous about what the host's motivations are. Once you realize the host is trying to get you to l…

The issue isn't how Google achieved its search engine dominance - it's what it is doing with that dominance. No one denies Google became the search platform of choice because it is…

And people 'chose' to have a Microsoft operating system in the late 90s. What's your point?

> Case in point, DuckDuckGo etc You're missing the point. The anti-competitive behaviour isn't harmful against other search engines - it's against companies in the other domains wh…