I regularly have recruiters coming to me with jobs in the Bay Area. I tell them that my salary requirement is double for up there versus Los Angeles. A few of the big players will always be able to afford that, but I…
I've seen plenty of "coders" with 15+ years experience maintaining and changing other peoples code that couldn't write code from scratch to save their lives. You see it mostly from people who've spent a lot of time…
I applied for an analytics position that unexpectedly had me take a Python coding test like this (I know a bit of PHP and Java but no Python) and I was able to google everything I needed to pass the test in the time…
My tactic is always to pretend to be an assistant doing it for my boss so I have no authority to do anything but cancel/downgrade etc.
It's actually more dangerous as it forces other cars to change lanes to get around you.
They buy the info from massive data brokers, who buy data from other large and small data brokers, who buy the data from app makers, services, etc. User123@gmail.com expressed interest in buying kitty litter isn't…
IP address, or if you have any shared accounts you could have a cookie identifying you as the same user. Ads also target connections of people who're interested in a product so you could get the ad from being…
Main use of HSR is going to be getting to and from peripheral cities. Fresno to SF and Bakersfield to LA in under an hour would be HUGE. That's going to get used more than the full SF to LA trip.
Orion designs really only work if you're evacuating the planet. Massive fallout and radiation would be caused by each launch.
The bar exam has very little to do with actually practicing law.
The machine that reads the quantum entagled particles will still occasionally break or have coding errors.
It has nothing to do with that. It's because the person making the purchase decision isn't the person paying. Usually the doctor and the patient will have no idea how much money is actually changing hands behind the…
My point is that if you consider their total compensation LAUSD teachers make great money and it's still an abysmally bad school district. In other districts where teachers are worse paid there's always people saying…
I downloaded the 2016 LAUSD dataset from transparentcalifornia.com and filtered by full time employees with the job title "Teacher". Including the benefits is key, the pension costs are gigantic. *Edit: Actually it was…
The prison guards union in California is insanely powerful. The guards probably make 3x as much as guards in some other states. This will explain a lot: http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=correcti...
I've heard people in the same breath complain that a housing development will ruin home values and cause gentrification.
It's actually similar to a cryptocurrency in a lot of ways. Decentralized, based on a common algorithm (the design of the 1000 Shilling note), with a price eventually stabilizing on the mining (counterfeiting) cost.
They just have to stay afloat until they can cut out the drivers entirely.
How the heck do people buy clothes online? Fit is incredibly important and sizes are usually useless as they vary so much even within the same brand. Even something like Indochino where they "custom tailor" it, the…
FYI this map is based on 26 year old data.
Try reading a 50 year old book vs reading a 50 year old reel of magnetic data tape.
The argument isn't that using knowledge and skill gained working at DOJ/SEC in private industry is bad. The argument is that while working at DOJ/SEC you go soft on your adversaries because you know you'll need them to…
I'm basing those numbers on this: http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2015/09/23... I'm obviously not making an argument that technology hasn't advanced since the 1950s. Don't be silly.
From what I've seen (I live in LA) it's much more driven by Silicon Valley companies opening up offices down here than by locally originated start-ups, though there are of course many exceptions.
Unsinkable!
I regularly have recruiters coming to me with jobs in the Bay Area. I tell them that my salary requirement is double for up there versus Los Angeles. A few of the big players will always be able to afford that, but I…
I've seen plenty of "coders" with 15+ years experience maintaining and changing other peoples code that couldn't write code from scratch to save their lives. You see it mostly from people who've spent a lot of time…
I applied for an analytics position that unexpectedly had me take a Python coding test like this (I know a bit of PHP and Java but no Python) and I was able to google everything I needed to pass the test in the time…
My tactic is always to pretend to be an assistant doing it for my boss so I have no authority to do anything but cancel/downgrade etc.
It's actually more dangerous as it forces other cars to change lanes to get around you.
They buy the info from massive data brokers, who buy data from other large and small data brokers, who buy the data from app makers, services, etc. User123@gmail.com expressed interest in buying kitty litter isn't…
IP address, or if you have any shared accounts you could have a cookie identifying you as the same user. Ads also target connections of people who're interested in a product so you could get the ad from being…
Main use of HSR is going to be getting to and from peripheral cities. Fresno to SF and Bakersfield to LA in under an hour would be HUGE. That's going to get used more than the full SF to LA trip.
Orion designs really only work if you're evacuating the planet. Massive fallout and radiation would be caused by each launch.
The bar exam has very little to do with actually practicing law.
The machine that reads the quantum entagled particles will still occasionally break or have coding errors.
It has nothing to do with that. It's because the person making the purchase decision isn't the person paying. Usually the doctor and the patient will have no idea how much money is actually changing hands behind the…
My point is that if you consider their total compensation LAUSD teachers make great money and it's still an abysmally bad school district. In other districts where teachers are worse paid there's always people saying…
I downloaded the 2016 LAUSD dataset from transparentcalifornia.com and filtered by full time employees with the job title "Teacher". Including the benefits is key, the pension costs are gigantic. *Edit: Actually it was…
The prison guards union in California is insanely powerful. The guards probably make 3x as much as guards in some other states. This will explain a lot: http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=correcti...
I've heard people in the same breath complain that a housing development will ruin home values and cause gentrification.
It's actually similar to a cryptocurrency in a lot of ways. Decentralized, based on a common algorithm (the design of the 1000 Shilling note), with a price eventually stabilizing on the mining (counterfeiting) cost.
They just have to stay afloat until they can cut out the drivers entirely.
How the heck do people buy clothes online? Fit is incredibly important and sizes are usually useless as they vary so much even within the same brand. Even something like Indochino where they "custom tailor" it, the…
FYI this map is based on 26 year old data.
Try reading a 50 year old book vs reading a 50 year old reel of magnetic data tape.
The argument isn't that using knowledge and skill gained working at DOJ/SEC in private industry is bad. The argument is that while working at DOJ/SEC you go soft on your adversaries because you know you'll need them to…
I'm basing those numbers on this: http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2015/09/23... I'm obviously not making an argument that technology hasn't advanced since the 1950s. Don't be silly.
From what I've seen (I live in LA) it's much more driven by Silicon Valley companies opening up offices down here than by locally originated start-ups, though there are of course many exceptions.
Unsinkable!