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I have a friend who works at Modular. FWIU, the employees got shafted by the acquisition financially.

Are you familiar with Miyake's work? He did a lot of innovative design with synthetics, including the entire Pleats Please line.

This is how parking tickets work in NYC. FedEx, etc negotiate down the total amount they have to pay because they have so many tickets.

Is there anyone making full wool underwear? Everything is a blend, which is good for durability.

What is a non-opinionated critique?

If you had invested the 83k in the S&P500, you'd be slightly ahead I think if you include maintenance and property taxes.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/stocks/s-p-500/1997?amount=...

Never heard it pronounced that way in my life. Either "Tech" or "GT".

Not NY, NY:

"in fact I own three houses: A fixer-upper starter home in a rust belt upstate New York university city, and a patch of beautiful remote rural land with 2 pretty humble and simple cabins on it an hour from the city house"

Source? NYC chronically under builds. It's ranked #35 in new housing construction: https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-investing-m...

The flight doesn’t include the time to get to and from the airport plus TSA screening.

I greatly prefer taking a train because I can just show up and go.

Do you pronounce it as Wed-nes-day?

I've never heard it as anything but Wends-day, but maybe everyone else is wrong.

Can you give your salary (or a range)?

Seems shocking that a SV swe would make what a mech eng makes after 4 years.

Does anyone have advice for how to balance air purification with CO2 levels? My apartment will sit at around 1200 PPM if the windows are closed, but if they are open I would think running a purifier does nothing.

What is bad about overcast?

The mosquito-nets-as-fishing-nets story is covered in the video.

A majority doesn't mean much these days. A supermajority is necessary to get things passed that the other side doesn't agree with [1].

The democrats haven't had a supermajority since 2011 [2].

[1] https://www.governing.com/context/how-did-the-senate-end-up-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress

No, the author of the tweet states it is fake in the following tweet. It's just a hypothetical.

Wikipedia says otherwise:

"On September 8, 2011, the company was acquired by Google for more than $150 million, the 10th largest acquisition by Google as of that date, at the championing of Marissa Mayer, its Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location Services."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagat

Generally in the US, you don’t get unemployment if you are fired for cause.

Cloudfare is trying to make it seems like it’s termination for cause instead of a layoff.

In the US, that does not happen. The expectation is someone only gets terminated in the first year if they are terrible. Unless it’s a tiny startup, such a stint would raise concerns.

If I had to guess, it's because it's been reposted every month for the last several "Who's hiring" threads.

That fee would just be passed from the scalper to the buyer of the reservation.

Most people are against tipping [1], but we are forced to because of societal pressure.

[1]https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/tipping-survey/

I posted this over the weekend, but I didn't get many answers. Trying again during the work week.