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We've seen the same uptick in reckless driving in CO since Covid. Reddit Denver complains about it all the time. I think it's happening everywhere, and it's not clear why.

I'm seeing similar dynamics occurring with Denver/Boulder. These smaller tech cities have been hit hard by the tech recession.

It’s hard to know if this most recent move will be more permanent. The irony with Amsterdam was that they had a hell of a time hiring. They had to import 80-90% of their labor from…

I can confirm this. Former Senior Manager from Big Tech Co here (I just resigned 2 weeks ago). When I left, we were in the middle of offshoring all of my groups to Amsterdam. No st…

+100 to this. There's no better successful enterprise than becoming a guru - assuming you have the personality to pull it off.

1978. In reality the worst months are $300+ and the others are less, so the average isn’t really $300 - probably more like $200 or $250. But yes, this is another reason I want to m…

Xcel Energy. I'm usually at $300/month for electricity from November-March. A comparably sized house with an efficient furnace would be $100/month in this area (or so I've been tol…

I live in Colorado, so I'm in one of the colder climates with a decent amount of time spent below freezing each year. I've had a Mitsubishi Hyper Heat mini-split system with 2 outd…

Both at the time. In retrospect, I was extremely naive, and I was building something I thought was "cool" instead of something that people would really want.

Yep. I did the exact same thing ~10ish years ago - leaving my job at Google to run my own startup for 2.5 years. I burned through most of my savings. In the meantime, I watched as …

I definitely fell into this category. None of my messages ever seemed to go through. I tried everything to fix it. The only thing that worked was getting a new phone, new number, a…

Given that 2/3rds of the employees are now gone, doesn’t this mean that the business is still viable?

For me, it's been more useful to look at these relationships through the lens of reciprocity. Am I in a reciprocal relationship with this friend/coworker or not? In my friendships,…

Some of the people on my team had to switch back to Comcast after trying it for a few months. Video calls were laggy and would drop packets constantly. This was in Colorado fwiw.

Looks like you’re right. This https://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how... claims it’s only 7%. I’ve updated the original comment. You still have the problem of …

You might be thinking for the non hyper heat modules. The ones I’ve got still heat down to -13 F. I remember thinking the same when I was originally pricing out the units. But when…

Ugh, I think this is a terrible idea for heating. I've installed 2 Mitsubishi hyper heat pumps in the past 5 years with 3 indoor heads totaling ~48,000 BTUs of heat capacity. I don…

I did this for a couple of years as well. I think the experience was invaluable, and I don't regret it, but I arrived at the conclusion that doing a startup is largely overrated. W…

Lol, not on the same team, just the same company.

I'll add another cautionary tale.... At the start of my career, I worked as a SWE at one of the FAANGs. After 3 years, I couldn't take it anymore. I hated everything I worked on, n…

Huge +1 to this. Don't get me wrong, I've been in my house for 10 years, and I probably won't go back to renting, but I think most people wildly underestimate these things. In the …

Yikes. Say what you will about package.json files and all their associated problems, but Make? Really? I've written multi-thousand line Makefile build systems across multiple direc…

I have a knee jerk reaction against posts like this, mostly because of the reference to $4 cups of coffee. While the point is true, I think your time is best spent worrying about o…

In a word, it's time. If I want to drive somewhere in my town, it takes at most 15 minutes. A bus is easily 30-45. I think over long distances rail allows you to save time, or at l…

Early employees who cash out are a bit different than the rank and file.