Taking Vegetation of North America instead of Physics 2, as a science elective, was one of my worst college choices. Forestry students had multiple classes that overlapped while the handful of us CS majors simply had to wonder if the TA was messing with us when they picked up a twig in class and asked "what tree is this from".

Agree. I have a soda stream and it's great. I do buy the syrups occasionally (sugar free) but there are plenty of other ways to add flavor.

Those numbers are accurate . I really don't understand how more people I work with haven't retired. I made sure to avoid too much lifestyle creep but I can imagine it's addicting for some. I'm 40 and making the switch out of tech soon. I couldn't imagine doing this another 10-20 years.

How is it easy to get banned?

Turned 40 last week, just got mine. Definite WTF moment for me

I wish every company would adopt quarterly vesting. Yearly vesting schedules are obnoxious and can really screw people over.

Depends. I have worked at publicly traded large tech companies and RSUs have been very lucrative for me. Some years my total compensation has been 60-80% from RSUs.

Check levels.fyi. 400-500k+ isn't unusual for senior and above positions in US HCOL areas at competitive tech companies. Often this includes RSUs which can have downsides but are usually ok

I had the same "well technically" thought at first but destroying that much infrastructure will result in some immediate deaths and mass casualties later. So maybe not technically genocide but in reality it's close.

Rookie numbers.

mpcfill is pretty widely used

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