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by NTDF9 8y ago
> lnkmails 6 hours ago | parent | on: Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet –... I live in USA but I am of Indian origin. My parents' apartment in India now has Fiber Internet with 80Mbps at 1000INR (15USD)/month.
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No. We can tax corporate profits. More and more profits come from automation and outsourcing. Just tax it.
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> The IRA won’t make anyone rich. A calculator on the site estimates that if you’re 22 years old and making $14 an hour–saving around $120 a month–you could end up with around $230,000 by the time you’re 65 So no room for 2 years of edu
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> Americans can be found. But obviously if your company can’t find any, then the compensation you offer isn’t competitive and Americans have better opportunities elsewhere. So you have better opportunities elsewhere. Whats your problem w
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> People once had this same degree of faith in the technology corridor of New Jersey. Or a more sinister example: Detroit
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>> Cash is king. Anything else shifts the risks away from the better capitalized corporation to the less capitalized potential employee. And this kind of over-generalization and over-rationalization is exactly the reason why Americans
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New grad? Where? The only 2 other places are Seattle and NYC, both facing the same employee crunch.
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>> Well, big companies abusing the system certainly doesn't help. They already have a legal requirement to pay prevailing wage before they can get a visa. That means at least six figures in the bay area. There are a few reasons A
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You have no idea how this administration is systematically pushing family oriented tech people away by creating gridlocks in the legal immigration process.
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Honestly, that was a toungue in cheek question. This was encountered more recently here: https://www.imf.org/external/about/histdebt.htm The answer last time was global recession. Mainly because there was no alter
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> Coupled with the flooding of capital back to US via the reduced expatriation tax rate, US is firing on all cylinders. What happens when all the money is repatriated and no more dollars left for other countries to import from US?
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Has anyone in the US considered flying overseas to get treatment done? Many hospitals in third world countries are cheaper and more humane. Sure, you lose out on the ability to sue them if things go awry but where is the tradeoff between si
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>> The differences are mostly psychological perceptions where you are bored and want to feel something different. Only if you have a shallow perception of differences. You need to engage. This is what your idea of traveling looks lik
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>> Traveling is so overrated it's insane. No it is not. It is only overrated for folks who are trying to "gain" something from it. >> Okay let's be honest for a second what does most traveling boil down to? T
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Personally, as a moderate, I'm not going to accuse him of being a traitor until proven. But I demand that he proves he doesn't have any dubious ties and how much his properties have earned under his Presidency. If there was so muc
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I've lived in SF downtown (right by Mission and 5th) for a few years and know some of this first hand. Some of the reasons I've heard directly are: 1. The only city with so many shelters for homeless. Other cities would just let p
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I have taken an education loan from a bank in another country. They literally only approved me for a maximum of $30,000 loan. Let me explain how that worked. I had to pay first 15% from my account, they would pay the remaining 85%. Every se
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> People call for X to be more affordable > government subsidizes X > X absorbs all subsidies and becomes even more expensive > people call for X to be socialized. The problem is that government subsidizes loans. It doesn't
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> Edit: I'll give you a concrete example - let's say my ex-wife decides to marry the systems engineer she is dating, who is also a high-earner. In that case, she can sue for more child support because it will move her up a tax
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> After the divorce, I have about $20K left after having to split it with my ex-wife, who had saved a grand total of $2.00 during our marriage. Wow, that is brutal. I'm guessing common law state? Even then, shouldn't you have 5
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>> It is amazing that the median is under $20k and the average is nearly $70k. This means there are some folks with very large retirement savings that are pulling the average up a lot. I am 30 and I have about $140k in 401k. EDIT: Why
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I genuinely don't understand the constant push for population growth. Why does population need to keep growing? GDP? Paying taxes for some social benefits for the old? How is this sustainable? When does the ever increasing growth end?
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> Do the people downvoting this disagree that America has too much of a racism problem for a first world country, or what's going on here? Unfortunately, that has been my experience. A lot of seemingly well-intentioned Americans ref
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Well, the question is specifically discrimination on the basis of race, so apples to apples there. Maybe other countries score lower in sexism. (btw America does too, we all know that :) ) However, it still doesn't take away the fact t
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Would you be ok is an islamic terrorist group threatens the west using Microsoft's services?
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Man, I grew up in a third world country where race was a complete non-issue (unless your color made you stick out like a sore thumb, in which case, you'd be a celebrity, not get picked on). Coming to the US is what made me encounter ra
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Americans probably don't even realize how evil current administration is towards legal immigrants. They are actively pushing away legal immigrants who contribute to society. I don't see the following people wanting to live in a ra
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Cisco follows a survival of the fittest strategy without really saying it or pushing teams/acquisitions to the death. They provide all the resources you need, are very ethical and help your newly acquired team do your best. If your tea
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I've worked with plenty of competent developers who don't have degrees. Most crud jobs don't need degrees anymore. But, any serious business that's going to churn a lot of data, needs fast pipelines, needs to invent enti
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The government doesn't keep its promises because it is not required by law that they are held accountable for dubious lawmaking. Put simply, representatives need to be on a personal financial hook (or penalty) for laws, rules and polic

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