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Shock me with up to 20 percent over what you believe i expect to pay. Not any more.

therefore if you're an engineer and the typical job is 100 thousand, ask me for 120 if you want to play this game. It is unlikely this would shut down the conversation though it may send up a warning flag.

Anything over that and I don't see a point to continue the conversation. I wonder if you are clueless about your value or if you are a diva who will cause too many headaches later. You can't take it back either.

If the product was the ad space, Google would be out of business.

The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers.

People tend to forget we are Google's product. Not their customers. Advertisers are their customers.

Plenty of tech companies don't sell souls for a living, therefore by working there you may not be required to also sacrifice yours for a paycheck.

Flip side; there are those who believe ads aren't evil. Google builds a lot of interesting tech. It's probably a great place for engineers. But one look at their financial reporting and it's still evident that advertising pays the bills.

Yes, you are SO enlightened.

Gosh I hate when this happens. An American goes overseas, and suddenly thinks they've discovered nirvana and that everyone back home is now inferior. There's gotta be a name for this syndrome.

Every culture has good stuff and bad stuff. There's no need to scream in all caps about the USA because people in a major city center recommend one doesn't leave $3k worth of gear unattended in a busy coffee shop.

Problem is the overtime and pensions.

Salary is in the ballpark.

Yes absolutely. I don't think these salaries are completely over the top (though a little high for a first job).

The problem I have is with the retirement/pensions. I'm happy to put up with pensions if someone makes $50k a year for 20 years as a teacher. But if you want to make the market rate comparable to the private sector, you live with the private sector benefits.

Can't have it both ways.

Wasn't intended as venomous, just maybe a little bit of a reality check. And offering an opinion (with real examples) to counter your opinion isn't trollism. Plus your comment never said that any restaurants opened in the past 5 years weren't eligible for consideration (?).

I was on SOMA from '04-'06, then again from '08-present. There were some good places back then too. Some failed. Some are still here but aren't as good as they once were. If you haven't been here in 4 years, why are you spending your time claiming you know the SOMA foodie scene? And then getting all angst-y when countered?

This is true. There's a perception that 20/30-somethings are the hot thing in tech because they're building the kind of consumer apps that techCrunch likes to cover.

But there are a ton of startups/developers building really cool tech - in SF and beyond - and they end to be older and more interested in real technology vs cashing out their options.

These stories are starting to wear thin.

The people in SF/SV building apps are mostly in their 20s-30s.

The people building cool technology are mostly in their 40s-50s.

You're speaking of SOMA like you're familiar with the restaurants here. I'm guessing you're not. Perhaps you live here but are too busy coding to make it past the Creamery?

At the "everyday eating level", try Darwin, Little Skillet, Garaje, American Grilled Cheese, Source, Butler and Chef, La Briciola, Coco500, Zuppa, Holy Grill etc.

Want to go a little more upscale? Saisan. Alexanders. 25 Lusk. Prospect. Town Hall. Benu.

C'mon, don't make such broad generalizations unless you can back them up.

I absolutely think a fire theory would be valid, after all the plane was carrying a large load of lithium batteries.

However, that's precisely the factor that calls Goodfellow's fire theory into question (for me). If a fire broke out that was strong enough to disable comms and/or knock out pilots, then it was strong enough to set off those batteries.

No way the plane flew seven more hours in that scenario. Even if the fire was contained to the cabin and there wasn't a pilot left to fly the plane, someone at some point in those seven hours would've found a cell signal to call for help.

Unless, of course, there was no 7 hours and that satellite ping was for another plane. In that case, I'm thinking is the plane would've gone down soon after the transponder went off and the wreckage would've been found by now.

Personally, I have no clue what happened to this plane.

No. There are plenty of services where your pw is encrypted locally, so your service provider CAN'T access your account to fix something without your password.

Many of the cloud storage providers do this. You want your files recovered, you'll have to hand over your pw (or not have the problem fixed).