virtual_adam

virtual_adam t1_jaztxxw wrote

That wasn’t great TC for summer 2022, very different world now, and generally devs have a great life that this is considered on the lower end. Just as an example that’s within the range J.Crew are advertising for NYC devs, and I would categorize them (retail) as even below banking. Generally “tech in a non tech company” means less money

A Meta new grad 0 experience would be making just under $200k in NYC

400k is almost imaginary in the tech in a non tech company world

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virtual_adam t1_jaxmh3u wrote

100% chance your home town has better finds than NYC.

The rent alone means just getting donations and selling them for $10 doesn’t work. If you’re looking for $100 t shirts you’re in luck

There are plenty of cheap thrift stores but it’s all just a bunch of h&m and next

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virtual_adam t1_jae9bv2 wrote

The same people who are outraged Google will pay them less in Alabama have no problem paying Indians or Romanians a fraction

The more fully remote becomes palatable, the easier it becomes for companies to partially off shore work

And this isn’t even shitting on offshore workers, I’m sure there are plenty that are smarter than my coworkers

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virtual_adam t1_j92s28k wrote

That ended more than a decade ago. Probably closer to 2 decades. Outlet stores sell stuff that’s made for outlet, many times without any connection to the original company who is licensing their logo

this article is a pretty good summary

It was always easy to identify the real leftover stuff at C21, there was usually a single rack for the entire store, stuff had extra protections on it for theft

The rest of the store was just licensed crap tourists thought was “good quality” because of the logo

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virtual_adam t1_j6gamth wrote

The difference between someone here for 6 months and here for a decade has always been the ability to navigate your life towards the good places

Sounds like you’re self inflicting this on yourself by going to the places you feel are scams

Not all markets are like that, not all bodegas are like that. be a regular at some places and they’ll actually give you better than average treatment. And don’t tip if you don’t want to. Most people don’t tip on a cup of coffee.

leave the custom tip at restaurants, how many even have that mobile machine? Not that many (Maman is the only one I can think off

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virtual_adam t1_j5xa3z8 wrote

He’s obviously just pandering to both sides, but in such a dumb way

  • he’s the one signing off paying for all these extra shelters

  • let’s say it’s deemed that migrants aren’t allowe in NYC homeless shelters. How do you enforce? SSN + photo ids to get a bed in a homeless shelter? What if someone’s ID is from another state? Are we obligated to shelter them?

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virtual_adam t1_j1ajjn2 wrote

I think this is actually a great sign on how our accessible hospitals are pretty great. I would imagine a billionaire has access to all sorts of publicly known (like Sollis) and stuff the public doesn’t know about, private ER services. And yet they choose to share the hospital with the rest of the city. That’s a great sign

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