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alot of people are saying it's just a dead cat bounce. REalVision presented that in most of the past drops of this magnitude, you typically see this type of rebound before it goes …

not only that but in highly competitive markets like the bay area, they may even hold out for buyers that use one of their own agents (and try not to sell to others). That way, the…

As a consumer of Zillow and Redfin, I like their website. But, as a house buyer, I really dislike the fact that they always try to push their buyers Agents on you.

well, it depends on whether your in a high margin or low margin business or and whether or not your a monopoly business. Amazon, entertained many offers from many cities to find th…

To get people to move somewhere, you mainly just need jobs. Everybody wants jobs. There's no choice, people have to go where jobs are because employers have much more bargaining po…

If you're looking for the best ROI where there are the highest SE salaries per living cost, check out: https://skilldime.com/blog/see-which-cities-pay-the-highest-... There's many …

There are many examples where that's not true: places like the beautiful college town of madison, Houston, Chicago, etc. High living costs are a self imposed problem: housing regul…

It's important to remember a simple fact about artificial sugars: they're about 10 times less dense than sugar (at least the one i use, which is a combo of maltodextrin and sucralo…

are there unemployment statistics for software engineers? The overall unemployment statistics are probably way off from the subset of professionals and or software engineers.

It's to keep fear of lay offs high thus making people work harder. this is especially effective with H1Bs. However, some well qualified engineers won't be bullied by such routines:…

i think it's just standard hire/lay off routine. It's not about the employees that get laid off. The purpose of the lay offs is to keep everyone else working even harder. People wi…

For 2019 I see the following: Less than 5 years 41% 5-10 years 27% 10-15 years 14% As you can see, there has been a massive supply increase of junior engineers (probably entering t…

no, data analysts as in the ones who take data exports and excel files and turn them into meaningful insights. Analyzing retention for various cohorts, analyzing revenue, engagemen…

I don't get why it's been downvoted so much. I'd expect a much warmer reception from the HN crowd.

In the bay area, Non-engineers, like product managers, MBA types and data analysts, etc are having a really hard time finding work (sometimes taking 1 to 3 years to find their next…

The real problem is that the people who decide to use the software are not the ones actually using it. This is the problem with top down decision making. And this is why enterprise…

We already have way too many people on the planet. if no one died, it would cause all our environmental problems, lack of wealth problems to multiply. Actually, I think we need to …

i've seen the 1500/1300$ figure thrown around a couple of times by tesla owners: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/door-handle-replacem... As, for the drive unit, I thought i…

Yup. I absolutely agree. this is exactly why tesla is not on the top of my to buy list. it's about total cost of ownership. All it takes is a couple of bad door handles (1500$ each…

It's misleading because the rich that they're talking about already paid a much higher rate when they originally got the money in earnings. It's just the 2nd round of taxation: the…

That's actually a very good point. That's kinda why Housing will always return 0 (real return - not including all the costs, like property taxes, repairs, HOA, insurance, etc) in t…

This is key: "The goal of Son, and increasingly most large financiers in private equity and venture capital, is to find big markets and then dump capital into one player in such a …

If Facebook working conditions are so terrible as to make suicide the only viable option, then why don't they just unionize? With collective bargaining power, they could get much b…

Your not the only one. MBA majors have it just as hard if not harder. For the majority of professional jobs out there, there's a vast oversupply of labor, and thus the unemployment…

Here, even in super expensive CA, In college I got by with less than 2-3$ per day on rolled oats (70c per lb), Onions, potatoes, flax seeds, green peppers, bananas, whole wheat flo…