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dragonzooordon Ask HN: Are people lying about their salaries?

Salaries are pre-tax in the US as well. People do earn $200k - it is just much much more rare in the UK than in the Bay Area - especially with the pound as weak as it is nowadays.

However, glassdoor does put the total comp of a Senior Software Engineer at google at £181k - https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-En...

dragonzooordon Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting

The EO is cruel and irrational and is something I'm firmly against. It makes sense to not host your conference in the USA for moral reasons.

But, on the other hand, a lot of Americans don't have passports or their employment contracts will only reimburse a number of domestic (non-international) conferences a year. The set of those people who would be excluded probably exceeds the set of attendees from the 7 countries in question. So I'm not convinced it makes sense to do this just from a conference attendance standpoint.

dragonzooordon Shopify is processing over $260k per minute right now

Shopify is a public company. You don't need to speculate on their revenue or expenses, you can just look it up. They earned $99.6 million in Q3. They expect revenues in the range of $379 million to $381 million for 2016. And they are still losing money, although getting close to break even. Their market cap is 3.86B, so 10 times revenue, so the market is expecting them to continue to grow rapidly.

https://investors.shopify.com/events/Events-Presentations/de...

dragonzooordon Why 30 is the decade friends disappear

One solution to the 'getting friends' problem is to just live with roommates (And change roommates if you don't get along with them). Even if you can afford to live by yourself.

This works a bit better if you're single and in major cities like New York or London (where no one will think it is odd that a person in their 30s lives with roommates)

dragonzooordon Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

Reykjavik is amazing, but I would get depressed by dealing with 21 hours of darkness in the winter.

dragonzooordon The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice

The key is that 'higher status', in this context, doesn't mean what it normally means. It took me a long time to figure that out. 'Higher status' means 'building muscle, confidence, ability to speak calmly and confidently, dressing better than average, treating women as humans, not as princesses.'

Being a multimillionaire is not 'higher status' when it comes to meeting women (unless you make it to the hundred-millionaire state')

Being a founder or a corporate exec is not 'higher status' when it comes to meeting women (unless you are C-suite at a fortune-500)