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I'd imagine the documents aren't worth anything since they don't correspond to any database entry. Just a way to scam people for fees.

I expect my lights to turn on when it's dark or cloudy outside. Fusion facilitates that, solar doesn't (unless we also get breakthroughs in battery tech).

The route to the ferry is only ~10 minutes faster by car, and the Bay Bridge is (infuriatingly) not passable to bicycles.

I'm looking into motorcycling.

Yeah, it's the Bay Area. East Bay to SF. There are things other than roommates I could compromise on in order to live closer or go faster (standing on crowded, lurching public transit vehicles, sqft, building quality, neighborhood safety, savings %, entertainment and travel spend), but my current situation (90 minutes each way, but by pleasant means - bicycle and ferry) seems to be the least bad option for my tastes.

You might be interested in the Treasury blacklist: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/...

I find it really depressing to live with roommates. I spend 8+ hours a day in an open office subject to other people's opinions (and carelessness) about what should enter my ears. To endure that and then come home to someone watching TV or on the phone is literally hell.

I've traded away 3+ hours/day of free time to the commute so that in the little free time I have left, I get to choose the ambient noise.

At least in college, the library was a short walk and open late. There are no quiet indoor public spaces open after work, sadly.

People who stop living with their parents are quite likely to move to California (and New York).

Perhaps because while most people don't own cars, they do depend on them (even if only in special circumstances) in the form of cabs.

Redundant Array of Independent Trucks?

The interviewer is most certainly looking at your computer screen if you are using it during the interview.

I will probably never be in a situation that comes close to the staggering power asymmetry of someone deciding whether or not I will have a job. Even if I'm charged with a crime the court has less power over me than an interviewer, in that its decisions are subject to juries and appeals and I get to watch the proceedings.

The information is analyzed unscientifically according to the personal biases and tastes of the interviewer to form an emotional impression he may not even be conscious of. "Not enough eye contact, I don't like this guy." I'd much rather it be judged by an algorithm trained on actual job performance years in.

Ever heard of Greenhouse? Your interview performance (as reported by the interviewer) is absolutely stored indefinitely in some 3rd party's database subject to unspecified controls.

Amazon has piloted a program to make offers solely on the basis of the test, not just to put a gate in front of the onsite. They should be making it at least as resilient to fraud as an onsite, which is why I think these measures are appropriate.

All of this information is available to an interviewer in person.

Nope, that is the problem that mounts and shared volumes solve.

At that point you can argue there is no point in using a container, but your statement is false.

That'd be nice, but I see it going in the opposite direction: the internet becomes too hostile for casual operators. The only way for an average company to survive is to hole up inside the datacenters and on top of the walled-garden platforms of the bid cloud providers, using locked-down and mostly immutable thin clients (i.e. Chromebooks). Already the only way to withstand a DDoS if you are small is to wrap yourself in someone bigger (Cloudflare, Amazon).

An apartment lease is functionally the same thing as a loan: you need to pay $x every month. The landlord has a legitimate interest in how likely you are to do so.

Yes. Credit scores measure the extent to which you repay your debt. China is talking about measuring your loyalty to the state.

You protect existing tenants from new tenants. Existing units leave the equation for people moving or coming of age, who face much higher prices than they would if they were allowed to compete with existing residents.

"Oversupply" at $3000+/mo, haha.

We can start talking about oversupply when they're more like $700.

Rent control still leaves people who want apartments without them, it simply changes the allocation strategy from "willing to pay market price" to "was here first" or, in the case of designated affordable housing, lottery.

Increasing density limits, or improving transportation to allow wider sprawl, actually add housing supply in a way that might keep up with demand.

If you subscribe to the notion that a gift should be something that will bring the recipient joy, but that the recipient wouldn't buy for themselves, I'd say VR headsets, drones, and 3D printers.

If it's an Apple household with a pair of speakers somewhere, an Airplay target (Raspberry Pi or otherwise) is also pretty nice.

In general, the effort is not wasted if competition drives the products to be better and/or cheaper in the end.

Uselessly duplicated efforts due to secrecy are the problem patents were supposed to solve, btw.

Personally, quiet train with comfortable seat > driving > nearly everything else > standing on a loud, packed train.

>it is near impossible to use it for anything worth while if you're stuck driving

It's also impossible if you're stuck standing on a public transit vehicle. You need one arm for the overhead rail and another for the backpack there isn't room to wear, and most of your attention to keep from falling over when the bus or train accelerates and brakes.

BART for me is a 15 minute bike ride + 10 minute transfer + 25 minute train + 10 minute walk, for a total of a little over an hour. The AC Transit transbay bus is more like 50 minutes, given that have to transfer from transbay terminal to Muni, but it's unreliable and the chances of getting a seat are zero instead of slim.

I now accept a 75 minute commute split between my car, the Oakland/Alameda ferry, and Muni because traffic within the East Bay is reasonably pleasant to drive in and the ferry feels reasonably civilized (no quick jerky movements, not crowded, reasonably clean).

In clear traffic, like if I go in on a Saturday, the drive straight to my office takes 18 minutes. Our public transit system is horrifically dysfunctional.

If you want volumes that can be dynamically attached to any machine, you're not buying a SAN, and you're not in a cloud provider with a portable block storage abstraction, what do you propose?

About the only thing I can think of is Ceph, and it stands to reason there is a lot more NFS than Ceph expertise on the job market.

Exactly. It's a doable workaround, but doesn't make sense when "just buy a Pixel instead" is an option.

I have almost $1000 invested in over-the-ear Sennheisers and custom fitted in-ear Shures.

I don't think I'm going back to the audiologist to spend more hundreds of dollars a second pair that only works with iPhones and not my Mac or any pro audio equipment. Or depending on any battery device (like wireless headphones) that can't be plugged in while operating. Or having a device in my pocket that I can't plug in to a real PA system to test. Or paying what I currently pay for headphones that are iOS XOR Android.

Apple may be right for the millions who only ever use the included headphones, but in a world with compelling iOS alternatives that still have headphone jacks, I'm not throwing away the rest of my equipment or carrying adapters everywhere.

It also matches San Francisco in terms of "insane housing prices."

You can't win.

>I don't see what San Francisco's appeal is

People in tech want to be in the Bay Area because the most intellectually, emotionally, and financially rewarding tech jobs are concentrated here.

Although some are also scattered around the country and the world, the job-hopping nature of our industry makes it a really bad idea to put down roots in a one-company town. Places (Seattle, Portland, Denver, etc) which begin to mirror the Bay Area in terms of tech employment opportunities start to look like it in terms of housing and traffic, too.

I'd wager that almost no SF tech worker choose it for the city first and job market second. Personally, I'd love to try being rural and remote, but I've yet to hear of a remote job that I'd be similarly interested in and passionate about, much less one that would pay comparably.

"It's just economics" will make sense when there is by-right authority to build arbitrarily dense housing everywhere in the city.

As it stands, existing residents can't afford to buy out all potential high-density development, but are asserting their right to preserve low-density neighborhood character all the same.

It shouldn't be a right to live where you choose, but it is something society should optimize for. It shouldn't be a right to block urbanization either. If we took away the capability to block urbanization, a lot more people would get to live where they choose.

It's extremely risky if you are laid off in an economic downturn (when you are most likely to need an emergency fund).

He advocates using a HELOC as your emergency fund, but that only works if you have home equity.

>moving bits does require physical materials which are limited

Physical materials limit concurrent throughput, not monthly transfer. ISPs oversell their throughput and then hope that monthly transfer limits will dissuade users from actually saturating "their" bandwidth too often.

The honest strategy here is to sell much lower throughput links such that everyone gets to saturate theirs 24x7 without causing problems for anyone else.

Such an option might make BitTorrent users happy, but we live in a streaming world now - most consumers seem to want bursts of extremely high bandwidth followed by hours of nothing.

VPS providers have substantially the same problem with RAM, and for a time their approach was to state the baseline and "burstable" RAM of a given price point separately.