School is free in the US. For university, why not send them to the EU? So you can have both tons of bay area cash and a (nearly) free university for your kids. Strangely though, this kind of education arbitrage doesn't…
The swiss right in the center of europe can very well imagine https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/2500-franken-fuer-62-kilomet...
Working for tech in the Bay Area you have a pretty reasonable and predictable path to financial independence in maybe a decade or so of work (so, early 30s if you start right after school). After which you can have any…
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook avoid touching AGPL software with a ten foot pole. Choosing AGPL is a great way to isolate yourself from any collaboration with that community
I'd actually consider browser pdf viewers safer than a standalone native app. Firefox uses pdfjs, a pure javascript pdf implementation running inside a battle-tested browser javascript sandbox. No unsafe native pdf code…
It is actually plausible that there could be billions of pages with apple on the internet. The 447 results you paged through are just the most relevant docs for your particular query ("apple" + country) and Google…
Google like all other web search engines never scan their whole index when searching, it's way too expensive. All sorts of tricks are used to aggressively prune matching results at every opportunity during retrieval…
> Bonus is not guaranteed so why take that into account? Bonus is not guaranteed only if you're about to get fired. Even lowest ok performance grade at google (CME) will get you 15+% bonus. But it's not a whole lot of…
Sorry for stating the obvious, but money is a pretty big reason to continue doing leetcode style interviews. Most high paying employers ask them. Out of curiosity, how much does your no-leetcode job pay? Is it at least…
https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en/pricing.html You need your own domain and set up GSuite Business account on it or a subdomain. Included in the offer: Google Drive - Unlimited cloud storage. The "or 1TB per user if…
There's https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/
Actually for 10 bucks a month you get unlimited google drive via gsuite. 10TB over here and counting. Unbeatable value proposition for hoarders On the thread's subject, I use rclone to access it - works great.
rclone uses google drive's APIs to talk to them
Also Hungary and Myanmar if wikipedia to be trusted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation And there are talks in the air that other countries might follow the suit to buff up their state coffers -…
> You can make money any time But big SV money? I wouldn't be so sure. Ageism is rampant in tech. FAANGs love their coders young, in 20's-30's. Also the dollar saved earlier in life is worth exponentially more later…
Tried HP z27q for a month under Linux with Cinnamon, didn't like it. Being a DP 1.2 monitor, 5K resolution is implemented as an ugly hack using MST and two displayport connections. The system views it essentially as two…
yes, but he wouldn't find a lot of clients interested in paying him 2 & 20 for such a simple strategy Also, just so little companies is very risky. E.g. if Tesla flopped you'd probably underperform
Yeah, what happened to all those 3d optical storage startups that promised us petabyte sized things by now?
Very useful for storing medium/large-scale crawls. Common Crawl is 200TB+ per month (http://commoncrawl.org/connect/blog/). Uncompressed, if compressed it'd probably go through one such disk every 1-2 months. My own…
Helps only until a certain point and then becomes counterproductive if they don't really like the work but can't quit due to these golden handcuffs you put them in. It could even make them disgruntled, the opposite of…
I ran the numbers and I don't think it's as amazing as you describe: From what I could quickly find online (correct me if I'm wrong), the theoretical maximum pension you can get today is 3034 EUR/month, starting from…
> 1. our retirement systems is based on a generational contract, not capital You mean that people pop kids so that those kids would feel obliged to take care of them when they're old? Yeah, that's one legitimate…
You get 401k match and health insurance at any good employer in the US too. As well as much lower taxes. German taxes are just batshit crazy, second only to Belgium. How people can afford to FI/RE with these taxes and…
The spirit of the legislation may have been that L1B is for a temporary stay, but in practice today it's one of the major paths for high skilled foreign workers to permanently immigrate into the US, since H1B got…
DDG is not in the index-all-the-web business. For the most part they are just serving Bing's results, that's the only reason why they operate with so little funding - it doesn't take much to operate a glorified proxy.…
School is free in the US. For university, why not send them to the EU? So you can have both tons of bay area cash and a (nearly) free university for your kids. Strangely though, this kind of education arbitrage doesn't…
The swiss right in the center of europe can very well imagine https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/2500-franken-fuer-62-kilomet...
Working for tech in the Bay Area you have a pretty reasonable and predictable path to financial independence in maybe a decade or so of work (so, early 30s if you start right after school). After which you can have any…
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook avoid touching AGPL software with a ten foot pole. Choosing AGPL is a great way to isolate yourself from any collaboration with that community
I'd actually consider browser pdf viewers safer than a standalone native app. Firefox uses pdfjs, a pure javascript pdf implementation running inside a battle-tested browser javascript sandbox. No unsafe native pdf code…
It is actually plausible that there could be billions of pages with apple on the internet. The 447 results you paged through are just the most relevant docs for your particular query ("apple" + country) and Google…
Google like all other web search engines never scan their whole index when searching, it's way too expensive. All sorts of tricks are used to aggressively prune matching results at every opportunity during retrieval…
> Bonus is not guaranteed so why take that into account? Bonus is not guaranteed only if you're about to get fired. Even lowest ok performance grade at google (CME) will get you 15+% bonus. But it's not a whole lot of…
Sorry for stating the obvious, but money is a pretty big reason to continue doing leetcode style interviews. Most high paying employers ask them. Out of curiosity, how much does your no-leetcode job pay? Is it at least…
https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en/pricing.html You need your own domain and set up GSuite Business account on it or a subdomain. Included in the offer: Google Drive - Unlimited cloud storage. The "or 1TB per user if…
There's https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/
Actually for 10 bucks a month you get unlimited google drive via gsuite. 10TB over here and counting. Unbeatable value proposition for hoarders On the thread's subject, I use rclone to access it - works great.
rclone uses google drive's APIs to talk to them
Also Hungary and Myanmar if wikipedia to be trusted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation And there are talks in the air that other countries might follow the suit to buff up their state coffers -…
> You can make money any time But big SV money? I wouldn't be so sure. Ageism is rampant in tech. FAANGs love their coders young, in 20's-30's. Also the dollar saved earlier in life is worth exponentially more later…
Tried HP z27q for a month under Linux with Cinnamon, didn't like it. Being a DP 1.2 monitor, 5K resolution is implemented as an ugly hack using MST and two displayport connections. The system views it essentially as two…
yes, but he wouldn't find a lot of clients interested in paying him 2 & 20 for such a simple strategy Also, just so little companies is very risky. E.g. if Tesla flopped you'd probably underperform
Yeah, what happened to all those 3d optical storage startups that promised us petabyte sized things by now?
Very useful for storing medium/large-scale crawls. Common Crawl is 200TB+ per month (http://commoncrawl.org/connect/blog/). Uncompressed, if compressed it'd probably go through one such disk every 1-2 months. My own…
Helps only until a certain point and then becomes counterproductive if they don't really like the work but can't quit due to these golden handcuffs you put them in. It could even make them disgruntled, the opposite of…
I ran the numbers and I don't think it's as amazing as you describe: From what I could quickly find online (correct me if I'm wrong), the theoretical maximum pension you can get today is 3034 EUR/month, starting from…
> 1. our retirement systems is based on a generational contract, not capital You mean that people pop kids so that those kids would feel obliged to take care of them when they're old? Yeah, that's one legitimate…
You get 401k match and health insurance at any good employer in the US too. As well as much lower taxes. German taxes are just batshit crazy, second only to Belgium. How people can afford to FI/RE with these taxes and…
The spirit of the legislation may have been that L1B is for a temporary stay, but in practice today it's one of the major paths for high skilled foreign workers to permanently immigrate into the US, since H1B got…
DDG is not in the index-all-the-web business. For the most part they are just serving Bing's results, that's the only reason why they operate with so little funding - it doesn't take much to operate a glorified proxy.…