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It depends on the food. I probably wouldn't want to do it for sushi or a salad, but I love eating ramen outside in the snow when it's around 32F / 0C. The same could go for poutine or hot chocolate or many other dishes.

If there's some sort of covered space or a heater then even colder temperatures might be nice.

Thank you for sharing. I didn't realize that insurance wouldn't cover or reimburse you for out of network once you are over the out of pocket max.

Would you be willing to share why you were charged $20k?

I'm interested in projecting my health care expenses in retirement and I've heard of healthcare costs exceeding out of pocket max, but it's rare that I get to actually ask!

You might as well use emacs at that point.

This isn't super relevant, but academia in the US pays very well. This is even more so the case for law, business, engineering, medicine, and a few other areas.

Obviously not relevant in the context of $250 million.

I can confirm that this kind of look is not at all atypical in the quantitative prop trading world and it's not contrived.

This post doesn't assume that, but I have met urban public school teachers who could have been software engineers since you asked.

My post does assume that the career would attract more highly qualified candidates if the pay was higher.

> Salaries in large urban districts are often well above area median

Is the median the correct benchmark? The median household income in NYC was $67k in 2021 [0]. Why would someone choose to be a teacher making around the median [1] when you could be a software engineer and make 3x as much?

It's not just a matter of trinkets and baubles. That difference allows you to comfortably afford a nice family sized apartment [2] in a safe area with a convenient commute.

[0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...

[1] https://teachnyc.net/about-our-schools/salary-and-benefits

[2] https://streeteasy.com/building/15-gates-avenue-brooklyn/h

> First of all, before Slack real-time chat in a company setting was a novel idea.

AIM, Yahoo, Bloomberg, etc were very commonly used I'm finance before slack.

I mostly use zinc oxide sunscreen and don't think I look awful, which I understand is both a personal opinion and also something that can vary from person to person based on skin tone.

> Truffles are so aromatic, that just a sliver can infuse a small bottle.

I don't know if I've only had low quality truffles, but basically all the truffles I've had in my life have been very mild and wouldn't be able to flavor a small bottle of oil.

That's great to know. Do you mind elaborating on the IP issues then? I feel like I don't fully understand them.

That's a great point. I forgot to mention the IP issues. I hope you don't mind that I've edited my comment to include them.

When I've talked to anti-GMO people in real life, they seem to (1) be anti-Roundup and similar pesticides more so than literally anti-GMO or (2) be anti-IP laws that won't allow farmers to use seeds from their last crop.

I think New York means NYC in this context and NYC has incredibly low property taxes. I believe it's due to a cap on maximum annual increases. New York State tends to have high property taxes on the other hand.

I'm less familiar with San Francisco, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had low property taxes due to Prop 13.

I'm an engineer at heart, but I do have bills to pay and I can become interested in basically any complex system.

If EE paid better, I would be an EE. EE is interesting. Neither SWE nor my chosen career are sufficiently less interesting than EE though so it's not like I picked an uninteresting career for financial reasons.

At the end of the day it's all just problem solving. If the puzzles are all fun and don't go against my principles, I might as well go work for the highest bidder.

I don't care much for coffee, but I do indulge in luxury bread and butter.

Any local sourdough and Kerrygold butter is a good start. It's not thr best or anything, but it's very nice if you've never tried fancy bread and butter.

> Similarly I also asked someone I know who wants to a do a PhD in economics what he thought about the current macroeconomic situation in the US and he had no thoughts at all.

I understand your friend very well. I love meaningless speculation about topics that are unrelated to my area of expertise, but topics that are remotely close to my area of knowledge are off limits for me.

I know exactly how much I don't know and feel uncomfortable speculating without inserting caveats between every other word.

The McDonald's story seems very reasonable even without any comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

Density still has huge benefits unrelated to work.

I don't know much about SF as I haven't lived there as an adult, but New York is an incredible place to live for lifestyle reasons too.

It has great food, a very high concentration of smart and highly educated people, great museums, great performance arts, etc. It's also an incredibly walkable city, which is rare in the US.

Hands down it would be my choice of city if I was a remote worker.

What is the difference between MAID and government sanctioned suicide? As someone who doesn't follow the topic, government sanctioned suicide is how I've thought of it and I've never encountered the acronym MAID before this.

Government sanctioned homicide is weird phrasing because the patient has agency and is the one making the decision.

Thank you. I should have just searched Twitter.

Is there any indication of whether the problem was using the word "kill" or if the problem was sharing a potentially dangerous command (if it was correctly written)?

That is, would sudo rm -rf / get you banned too?

It might attract me. I work in a non tech role because, at the time I thought that tech paid less than my chosen industry.

If I had known that I could make $750k in tech then the gap is small enough that the improved work life balance and lower stress might have tipped me to tech.

> We've ended up in a weird situation where inexpensive teaching-first institutions (Universities are really better set up for generating research) have, essentially, no prestige for some reason.

A lot of situations where prestige matters don't place any value on the knowledge learned in college anyway.

As luxury consumption, universities are far superior to community colleges. It's so incredibly cool to learn math from celebrities who literally wrote the book on the topic.

Just paying more seems viable too in a capitalist system.

> We send some of our worst thinkers to educate children.

I wonder if this is the sort of thing that could be fixed by paying teachers more. Why would a smart person become a teacher if a professional industry job will pay $300-500k and a teaching job will pay $100k? Is paying teachers so much even palatable to the general public?

Do you have a source for this? Spying sounds like a pretty interesting job if you can make something similar to FANG.

I'm installing heat pumps in the US.

* I'm tired of tenants installing window air conditioners.

* I pay for steam heat myself whereas tenants will pay for electricity used by their heat pump.

Do software developers work longer hours? They seem to have the least work hours out of anyone in my upper middle class American peer group.