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by GreaterFool 8y ago
At the same time that kinda cripples the ability to hire highly-skilled foreigners, isn't it? It's artificially limiting the pool of viable candidates. Just imagine a PhD (or even a Master's degree holder) from Europe, a lead
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
> This is also what a lot of other countries do As an expat for the bigger part of my life I can't think of a country that would prioritize their own institutions when applying for a visa. Generally there's simply a category fo
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
While I think allocating more visas to advanced degree holders is a good idea, why restrict it to US institutions? Weird.
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
Would be an incentive for the city or state to enact policies for making housing more affordable. From what I've seen a lot of housing issues are coming from not-in-my-backyard-ism and zoning.
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
Huh? Renting is bad economic behavior? What's your alternative? Become a slave for 30 years to maybe afford to buy a house? If you could deduce rent (or mortgage for that matter) then more money would stay in the hands of ordinary peop
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
> But the 2017 tax cut legislation reduced the tax rate on corporate profits to 21 percent, from 35 percent. So if taxes on capital gains and dividends were raised by those 14 percentage points, we capitalists would be no worse off — and
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
Sadly, too often GitLab is overlooked for a terrible GitHub+JIRA combo :-(
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
There are too many with added sugar, presumably to make it "taste better" for sugar addicted populace. You can find some with low sugar content, generally ginger flavored. But its the same with everything. Cucumber juice, watermel
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
Also, there's good food and there's bad food. It's hard to find something that you could label 'keto' that's downright terrible (once big food catches on I'm sure there's gonna be a ton of awful &#x27
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
Yes, but you have nothing to suggest that this would be the case. The connection to lending and borrowing is tenuous. There are many things on the books that can't be used to borrow against! The article just says "assets". Wh
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
> have shifted at least £800 billion ($1 trillion) worth of assets out of the country And what's the significance of that? Suppose I had $100 in a bank in UK and I moved it to a bank in Germany. Neither country is better or worse be
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
Nobody really is. However, a "democracy" where the intellectual/media/political elites decide what is good for the unwashed masses to hear or see yet they become corrupted by wrong ideology rubs me wrong way. Too many fo
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
It could be one of those "off the shelf" companies. Rather than incorporating one's own company one can buy an already existing company and change the name. Given how easy it is to incorporate in Hong Kong I wouldn't rec
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
If anyone uses Juul in my proximity I get very jumpy. The amount of nicotine this is delivering must be staggering. I’d stay away from this stuff.
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
IANAL but I imagine that the donations are in brave tokens and it may or may not be treated as cash (even though the eventual payout is cash) which may or may not be legal depending on a lot of stuff that's beyond my area of expertise.
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
It does indeed sound like a mess. Keybase had a better idea: tie various identities to something stronger (private key). That way you can say: I'm X on reddit, Y on HN, Z on YouTube, etc. I think Brave could follow the same model, just
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
Yeah. It's just bad writing in the opening paragraph. WhatsApp doesn't provide search but groups can be joined via links. Third-party apps and sites use the links to index groups. Some groups share illegal content. WhatsApp should
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
> WhatsApp chat groups are being used to spread illegal child pornography, cloaked by the app’s end-to-end encryption. Without the necessary number of human moderators, the disturbing content is slipping by WhatsApp’s automated systems.
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
I also hear arb is doing fine. I wonder how it works though. Most exchange APIs are terrible and it is simply not technically feasible to do anything using those APIs. Also prices at too many exchanges move in absolute lockstep. Must be pri
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
I think this is just the straw that broke the camel's back. This sort of thing has been happening for a while. I recall a story where someone's account somewhere was closed because Visa or MasterCard (credit card company!) complai
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
> If I could invest in SpaceX, I would. So true! I would love to invest in SpaceX
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
I suppose one source of risk is that if enough miners exit then it becomes viable for a bad actor to purchase enough computing power to mount an attack. IIRC 51% attack happened on one of the bitcoin forks.
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
From what I've read about starving yourself vs fasting and my own experience 800-calories sounds like HELL. I can fast for 2 weeks no problem (although that's kinda long and I wouldn't do it if I didn't have enough body
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
Universities are not the same and a bad American university is probably no better than a bad foreign university. Most countries with sensible work visas have a point system. Make candidates self-asses and file the application, bucket them i
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
I won't be flying 737-MAX. Hell no.
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
MacBook Air looks dope. The killer feature? No touchbar
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
How is repl.it different from a bunch of other web IDEs that came and went without leaving a mark?
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
It is just chocolate. Personally, Strawberry Pocky > KitKat.
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
At my last gig I was paid ~30% less than the person I worked with on the project. They joined a bit earlier and negotiated a better deal, that's all. All this talk about being promoted and receiving pay raises is funny to me. Never in
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by GreaterFool 8y ago
(Good) Public transport is better than (shared) personal transport which is better than individual car ownership. But from what I've observed about US culture, public transport is never going to happen :) So if you take that off the

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