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ryanwaggoner

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About ryanwaggoner

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    I also run a B2B SaaS and I could have written this word for word. The only exception is that I do get a decent amount of word of mouth because many of my customers are individual …

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    Comment #45169482

    From my perspective, it's more that he used to be competent , but something has changed over the last 5-10 years, and now he's essentially coasting (or more nefarious things) off t…

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    Comment #45169361

    We're decades away from no one being allowed to drive manually, but people don't actually like driving. They like the autonomy of a car. That's not the same thing. If there's a but…

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    Comment #45169294

    We've all been reading this exact comment for years now. Maybe it's actually different this time, I don't know. What I do know is that I took multiple Waymo rides last week where t…

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    Comment #44280454

    OK, I rarely comment here anymore, but your post caught my eye so I spent a few mins checking out the site. Here are my honest thoughts: 1. I really admire you posting here looking…

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    Comment #42659392

    Every completed project was at one point a few weeks away from being done.

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    Comment #42550206

    There is no perfect place to live. Everywhere has trade-offs, and I bet we could both come up with 100 things more important to our quality of life than whether you need to lock yo…

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    Comment #42545267

    ”They haven’t made an argument as to why we should do that just for them…” What “we”? They’ve already raised billions, and I suspect they’re about to succeed at raising tens of bil…

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    Comment #42531910

    And yet somehow tens of millions of us manage to live in them.

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    Comment #41466221

    Suits ruin everything.

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    Comment #40618643

    Initiatives like this haven’t seemed to work in Sweden, among other countries. I don’t know if any countries have successfully reversed a plummeting birth rate, but it doesn’t seem…

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    Comment #40618596

    There is simply zero evidence that microplastics are killing people at higher rates than obesity. If they were, it would be very obvious in the data.

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    Comment #40617051

    Fair point, but SD in particular also has some of the highest electricity costs in the US. This BLS data seems to be the actual cost to consumers, and the average is $0.17: https:/…

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    Comment #40615055

    What? Lots of states have cheaper rates than that: https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/ And none of them are anywhere near 40-80c, so maybe that commenter is…

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    Comment #40558224

    This is a wonderful response, both non-judgmental and wise.

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    Comment #40550411

    Ideology?

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    Comment #40541496

    I work at one that is definitely not megacap, nor do we pay at the top of the market, and that’s below our range for senior, which is more like $300k-500k, depending on specialty a…

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    Comment #40538339

    They almost certainly don’t have that data. Levels.fyi is the only semi-accurate source for TC that I’ve found, at least it’s pretty accurate for the public tech company I work for…

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    Comment #40538158

    The public tech companies (and hot private ones) all pay $250-300k and up for senior devs who can pass the interview process.

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    Comment #40467357

    This is a critical detail. GPT-4 is much better than 3.5 for programming, in my experience.

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    Comment #40459233

    I live in NYC and travel semi-regularly to both CA and WA, and this is completely overblown. You might catch a faint whiff every once in awhile, but it’s very far down on the list …