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Where? A town of 50,000 with 100 restaurants, many bars, and multiple theaters and festivals would be a highly desirable place to live for many, many people.

What area were you referring to?

Considering cost of living, what salary would someone need to maintain a similar lifestyle as a senior engineer making ~$170-230k while living in a major U.S. city?

Some of the jobs on that site have salary ranges below 9 million Yen, which seems to equate to about $67k. Given that consumer goods are generally pricier in Japan, and that cost of living is generally quite high in Japan, that salary seems quite low.

What is the legality of scraping those sites?

I moved to NYC earlier this year, and particulate matter from roads and cars was a serious concern.

I did significant research into relative pollutants and health outcomes in NYC, and found almost zero correlation. Lung cancer was a particular concern, but it seems occurrences aren't higher in the city by any statistically significant amount. I found that to be strange; cars are everywhere in the city and most individuals live within a dozen meters of a heavily trafficked road.

If anyone has competing evidence, I'd love to read it.

I've given this advice elsewhere, and I'll give it here. Go look at the small business initiatives by each branch of the U.S. military; many are now posting lists of open contracts that you can bid on for an incredible array of things.

Browse through those lists and find something you can build.

I really believe the U.S. military is in the midst of a large scale transfer of military spending from traditional large defense contractors to smaller, innovative companies. The Air Force has even opened its own venture capital arm and is actively investing in small businesses. Most, if not every, branch in the military publicly posts contracts for small businesses to bid on.

I think Anduril is a great example of the possibilities in the "new" defense space.

What's interesting is this shift is very reminiscent of military manufacturing in Japan during World War 2; much of the manufacturing was actually done by small businesses of < 30 employees in "garages" scattered around the country instead of very large factories. That was one of the reasons American bombing by Superfortresses was so ineffective at first, and one of the reasons incendiary bombs began being used.

Happy to provide more detail on this. I've been thinking about this space for awhile.

These seem like one of the best investments to make right now, considering the current inflationary environment. How does one purchase these bonds?

How does a VPN protect from security vulnerabilities if the router/hotspot itself is compromised or untrustworthy?

Who here is originally from the U.S. but migrated to another country since remote jobs became commonplace?

I've got a great remote job for a U.S. company and about $60k available for a downpayment; I'd love to be able to buy a place abroad (and hopefully obtain residency/citizenship).

Unfortunately, places like Italy or Spain seem to require foreign nationals to have much more initial cash and prevent mortgage loans for more than 50/60% of the purchase price. I can afford a decent mortgage, but I just don't have a lot of liquid cash at the moment.

Has anyone here done anything like that?

> Meanwhile, the effects of perpetual masking are obvious- harmful to deaf people, harmful to the development of speech and socialization in children, asthmatics and more.

There's a ton more. I now have tons of facial scars due to continuous breakouts over the past two years due to masks (and, yes, I've spent about $2k trying all sorts of silk and other supposedly "comfortable" masks).

Another thing that hasn't been talked about is cartilage deformities in young children due to the pressure of masks on developing features. My sister is a plastic surgeon and she has talked about this quite a bit, but it hasn't gotten much media attention. The pressure caused by elastic loops around the ear is quite harmful to the correct development of the ear by permanently modifying the cartilage of the concha in growing children[0].

She also mentioned that there may be affects on the shape of the nose if a mask is worn tight enough. A "celestial" nose is a nose shape with an upturned tip, stereotypically considered a sign of attractiveness in many cultures and a common feature of celebrities. It's the most requested shape for those interested in rhinoplasties.

Forcing young children to wear tight masks is quite literally deforming them.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302120

For a very long time I've held a theory that the general pandemonium due to the mischaracterization of the media regarding the danger of the virus to the average person resulted in substantially more voluntary hospital admissions than would have otherwise occurred, thus reducing availability for those who actually needed to be hospitalized, thus increasing deaths.

I, and nearly every colleague in the downtown San Francisco office I worked at, contracted Covid in early January 2020. There should be no doubt that there was already widespread community transmission in California in late 2019. Yet, strangely, "hospital capacity" did not become a concern until right after the U.S. declared a nationwide state of emergency in March.

Why was it not a problem in the nearly 4 months prior? I believe many people were convinced that the virus was far more dangerous than it was, and voluntarily began seeking hospitalization when none was actually needed.

It's seems clear the Fed is going to raise rates at some point, but the question is "by how much".

I doubt the market will be affected too much if rates are increased yet stay below 4%. Many houses in my local market are selling in under a day; a small increase in mortgage rates won't tamper that demand to any great degree.

Many folks here are talking about the CEO and how the termination process was carried out, but I'd like to know if this is any sort of indicator for where the housing market is going.

Zillow was just in the news for suddenly laying off about %25 of its employees and taking a ~$500m loss.

Do any of you believe these companies have insight into the near feature that indicates a notable downturn in the market?

Where in South Carolina are you?

Your numbers are incorrect. The ~40,000,000 number represents cases confirmed through administered tests. The true number is probably somewhere closer to ~150,000,000[0]. Your comment is based on an incorrect assumption.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd... (the estimates here do not account for infections before February 2020 or after May 2021, which means all early infections as well as the "delta surge" are unaccounted for).

The ongoing eviction moratorium comes up quite a bit in real estate circles as one of the many reasons for current prices.

Of course, the very low rates, high construction costs, demand to leave cities, and various other factors also come into play. However, yesterday I was very surprised to learn that the eviction moratorium that is preventing landlords from selling their properties is actually an order from the Centers for Disease Control. When and why did that organization get that sort of power?

It looks like the same thing has now occurred to this thread as well.

What happened to the other thread?

There was a thread with way more comments and more points, and it just disappeared from the front page.

In summary: A.) Pfizer is raking in over $33 billion from vaccine sales. B.) Due to the PREP Act, they are completely immune from lawsuits arising from any form of complications arising from those vaccines. C.) If you don't take this vaccine, you may lose your job[0]. D.) If you don't take this vaccine, you may be barred from normal everyday social activities[1][2].

I can't be the only one who is incredibly uncomfortable about society going down this path.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27986160 [1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-widens-green-pass... [2]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/San-Fra...

Ugg, why doesn't anybody, whether it be government officials, employers, whatever, ever consider those with natural immunity?

It's like some weird joke. The official CDC estimates over 115 MILLION natural infections in the U.S. alone, and that only accounts for February 2020-March 2021. It doesn't account for all the infections before February 2020 (I and most of my coworkers in downtown SF got it in January) nor any of the infections of the last 4 months, so that number should probably be at 130-140 million or more.

Yet, for some unknown reason, natural infection is NEVER talked about anywhere. Why? There's an absolute ton of natural immunity that isn't being talked about or considered and it's very, very, strange. Many people have no intention of taking the vaccine because they prefer natural immunity.

Very cool, thanks for the link.

One of the things I came to enjoy regarding React was that the router was separate and kept the core React API small. I had hoped that something similar was the norm for Svelte, but it was quite clear that the official recommendation was to use SvelteKit.

Have you built production apps with just Svelte? Is the tooling and feature set good enough to use Svelte alone in an actual app?

This post [0] sums up my general feeling toward SvelteKit. It seemed very opinionated and very restrictive, two qualities which seemed opposite the philosophy of core Svelte.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/ni9g5d/svelte_vs_...

Do you have concerns with using SvelteKit in production? It's still in Beta last I checked.

So, what do you use for something like a router?

I believe the grant stipulates that the board must approve share sales, so leaving the company would not enable the possibility of a sale.

I spent part of last Saturday going through the Svelte tutorial, and I really liked the framework.

I then was looking at recommendations for building fully functional web apps, and the official recommendation was to use "Svelte Kit". I began the tutorial for that, and was surprised at how the philosophy of that framework seemed to completely contradict the core Svelte framework. It was extremely odd and unappealing, and killed my newly gained enthusiasm for Svelte.

Has anyone built full web apps without Svelte Kit (previously Sapper)?

Unfortunately many companies have clauses in their options grants that prohibit employees from selling shares to any investor not approved by the company board (e.g. EquityZen).

I dislike when my own comments within a discussion are not considered in good faith, so I'll extend you the courtesy I often wish was extended to me:

Why do you believe that confirming suspected immunity response and subsequent protection, as is the case with so many other diseases, is in any way connected to the belief that COVID is a hoax?

> Now we have data for about 5 months on that.

What do you mean? Immunity of naturally infected individuals has been tracked far longer than five months, with both empirical evidence of lasting immunity along with obvious community evidence.

Do you know why the infection rate in San Francisco was so low? There was already a ton of natural immunity due to community spread. The majority of my office in downtown SF caught COVID in January 2020, which was confirmed by negative influenza A & B tests followed by positive antibody tests once they were made available.

What is particular disturbing to me is that, despite the fact that the CDC estimates total infections to be over a third of the U.S. population (and that estimate only accounts for February 2020 onward and doesn't include last two months), natural immunity is never, ever discussed by policy makers. Why? That's a massive amount of natural immunity that continues to be purposely ignored.