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jackmodern··on Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (1981)
All of those places are desirable and do have pent up demand though. If I could cheaply buy a house in SF, Seattle, or Boulder... you bet I would!!! But I can't, so I rent as cheaply as possible in SF.
jackmodern··on Product manager responsibilities
waiting for an engineer to jump in here and tell everyone how useless PMs are.
jackmodern··on Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (2017)
me too on both the diagnosis and "I forget I need to take care of myself."

It's really a struggle to maintain normalcy in the professional world and take care of myself.

jackmodern··on Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival
It was forced down the company's throat by the CEO. 0 testing was done by Snap before rolling it out, and he was 100% behind it. All of product design/management said no, he over ruled them. This is what I was told by a snap employee.
jackmodern··on ‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System
I really enjoyed this description. Very colorful.
jackmodern··on MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month
Stubs A-List through AMC.
jackmodern··on MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month
Stubs A-List is leaps and bounds better than moviepass, the extra $10 is really negligible as well. Being able to book seats days in advance through an app that isn't actively trying to screw you over with GPS limitations is just so nice. The cost of one imax ticket at the metreon more than covers A-List too. It's really a great deal.
jackmodern··on To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget
bingo^

short/longterm memories will be shot full of holes when on benzos for a while. even one night of benzo usage and you will forget most of the night, mix in a beer by accident and the whole night will be erased.

jackmodern··on Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless
seeing the arctic from above was truly a treat for me as well. it's so foreign looking relative to other landmasses.
jackmodern··on Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
Love reddit. Don't understand why it took this long to pass FB.
jackmodern··on DoorDash raises $535M, now valued at $1.4B
every time I order from food dash I overpay and the food is cold. won't order from them ever again.
jackmodern··on Facebook Has Got an Instagram Problem
totally logged into my account for the first time in like 16-17 years. can't believe the service is still up and running, and that I haven't changed my default password since then... lol

73117649 :D

jackmodern··on BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Starting with Bitcoin Cash
#3 is how I have allocated my bets as well.
jackmodern··on The Bitcoin Flaw: Monero Rising
store of value adds very little value to the rest of the world yet to adopt it. buying bitcoin/sending it is more expensive than a wire transfer. this isn't what bitcoin was meant to be.

I no longer use bitcoin for anything other than HODLing, LTC has completely displaced it for as a means of exchange. That seems like the more important problem to solve for mass adoption. Can't have people paying for food/goods with bitcoin, it just won't work for that any more.

jackmodern··on 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
to me this implies you don't travel or go out much. so what do you do for fun then?
jackmodern··on New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
the new law stipulates disclosure of a pay range? that's fantastic! probably only for base though not total comp?
jackmodern··on Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
But why would you want Amazon in Colorado? Rent there is already increasing, Amazon there would make everything unaffordable.
jackmodern··on A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
You sound pretty ("I am so smart") and condescending. Must be pretty hard living life as a poor lonely tortured genius.
jackmodern··on A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating
5k, how? I don't see any less than 8k on autotrader.
jackmodern··on James Damore has an above decent chance of winning his legal case against Google
Why is what he wrote a manifesto? It reads more like a research paper to me?
jackmodern··on Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content
This isn't for you, this is for parents looking for a cheap babysitter.
jackmodern··on SoundCloud's Collapse
not much. when I interviewed with them the PM director told me the radio listeners were near break even, if they gave people free trials then it was 100% a loss that was costing them money.
jackmodern··on Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users
something in India actually I think.
jackmodern··on My own private basic income
couldn't you just incorporate and pay yourself a salary as well as unemployment premiums / disability premiums and other such benefits?

At least that is kind of a safety net? albeit a crappy one.

jackmodern··on Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users
they crossed 3 months ago when I still worked there but didn't want to share it broadly because they thought it was a temporary spike due to some political unrest in SE Asia. Safe to assume they are over the hump by now.
jackmodern··on Uber is imploding, but does anyone really care?
It's funny watching the public perception of uber changing over time. At first it seemed like it was just techies that didn't like them, then this whole PR mess started happening and now I am seeing non techie friends getting on the anti uber band wagon. Out in public the default expression for a ride is let's grab a lyft now, and even the drivers that talk about driving say they drive for lyft now rather than uber (in reality they almost all drive for both). As if saying they drive for uber will cause them to be judged. It's amazing how fast it happened.
jackmodern··on Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV
yeah, when I'm out backpacking I drink trader joe's chocolate protein powder, costs less, same nutrition facts on the label, no strange gas.

Soylent is just very good at marketing to people unfamiliar with protein powder.

jackmodern··on Uber’s Anthony Levandowski Invokes Fifth Amendment Rights in Waymo Suit
You're completely wrong, lawyers and interrogators will twist your words against you to make themselves more successful regardless of guilt. The YouTube video posted above is a good example of the how, but there are many more beyond that.
jackmodern··on What Is the Highest Salary Can a Programmer Make?
E5 at Facebook all make north of 250 total comp... mány make far more than that due to discretionary equity. Even e4 total comp is at or just below 250.
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More of what they post is clickbait garbage than isn't recently.
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