aianus

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811.
by aianus 10y ago
Millions of dollars in lifetime earnings for most of my friends. And they're not even from poor countries, they're from Canada :/
812.
by aianus 10y ago
You see exploitation, I see a market signal to high schoolers and undergraduates telling them we have enough graduate-level geographers, encouraging them to pursue something else and eventually making us all more prosperous in the future.
813.
by aianus 10y ago
Netflix provides many times more hours of entertainment than the WSJ could ever hope to.
814.
by aianus 10y ago
You would prefer that Trump, a lifelong civilian, should ignore and override his experienced military advisors instead?
815.
by aianus 10y ago
> they are what society has deemed worthy of forbidding. Only if by 'society' you mean rich old rentseeking stay-at-home busybodies with nothing better to do than complain at town council meetings. Edit: less snarkily put, the
816.
by aianus 10y ago
Paying transferwise ~$100 to move some bits around like you did is what's scammy, not Norbert's gambit.
817.
by aianus 10y ago
You obviously have to be in a field like software engineering where there's a shortage of employees and employers can't get too picky about things like that. I did it myself for years modulo the health insurance part (we have univ
818.
by aianus 10y ago
I spent three years making the other choice and working remotely from various beaches. I had to stop because of how lonely and isolating it was and how I couldn't maintain any relationships with my girlfriends and the 99% of my peers t
819.
by aianus 10y ago
There's full time and then there's full time. You can certainly choose to work for a 40h company instead of a 60h company but the latter type of company doesn't seem to have any problems recruiting.
820.
by aianus 10y ago
Most tech workers could easily work fewer hours for less money in second-year cities or take months-long sabbaticals but choose to do the opposite. When given a choice between more money and more free time everyone around me chooses money a
821.
by aianus 10y ago
The relevant law is the one where you need a certain visa or a greencard to get a job in the US.
822.
by aianus 10y ago
> Essentially, your statement singlehandedly destroys minimum wage arguments. "If I could pay less, then I could be profitable, otherwise I am not profitable and thus won't hire anyone." Yes, it does. Minimum wage laws are
823.
by aianus 10y ago
I don't think they do -- it's pretty basic economics that price fixing and/or supply shocks can result in smaller net economic output. For a thought experiment: imagine if the price of a haircut was fixed by law at $500 (or t
824.
by aianus 10y ago
> what purpose does the H1B system serve I assume the purpose is to select only those who are going to be employed securely enough at a high enough salary that they're extremely unlikely to ever go on welfare or otherwise be a net b
825.
by aianus 10y ago
> It sucks, but that's the way it works. But in this case it doesn't suck for the rich management and shareholders (they'll manage just fine without doing the project at all) it mostly just sucks for the taxpayers who get
826.
by aianus 10y ago
If I have some work that is profitable at a cost of labour of $100k/year and no American wants to work for less than $120k then I can either hire an H1B for $100k or abandon the project. It doesn't benefit anyone to have the latte
827.
by aianus 10y ago
There are 6,799 federally insured banks in the US; it's an extremely competitive market compared to anywhere else in the world. They're also constantly competing against non-bank lenders and P2P lending marketplaces. If you have a
828.
by aianus 10y ago
You can't time the market and sell the house if there's a tenant living in it. (I'm guessing that's the thought process)
829.
by aianus 10y ago
> The lifetime cost of your mortgage could be $20,000 higher than it need be due to your use of Facebook. Or it could be $20,000 cheaper if you're actually low-risk and their algorithms are better than the status quo... > Maybe y
830.
by aianus 10y ago
There is a whitelist of occupations that qualify for TN visas. Investment banking, for example, is not on that list so my i-banking friends had to get H1B's.
831.
by aianus 10y ago
$38k to support a whole household sounds pretty poor to me.
832.
by aianus 10y ago
Snapchat doesn't have earnings (they lost $514 million dollars in 2016) so they really need to demonstrate ongoing growth in either number of users or revenue per user.
833.
by aianus 10y ago
I have family in Europe and driving 25,000 km a year and eating takeout 2x a day alone would probably bankrupt them.
834.
by aianus 10y ago
Assets minus liabilities doesn't capture the full picture. If a poor person in the US has a $3000 car they might be poorer on paper than a middle class Singaporean who takes the bus but the latter would have to spend $100k to enjoy the
835.
by aianus 10y ago
The US is one of the very few countries in the world where its possible to roll up a bankroll, quit your job, try to do a startup and fail, and subsequently still be able to get another good job. And a huge part of that is how cheap and fri
836.
by aianus 10y ago
> History teaches us what happens without any labour protection, so that's not an option. What, you become the richest, most powerful country in the world? (I think America has the weakest labour laws in the developed world).
837.
by aianus 10y ago
Are you not going to allow me to skydive, scuba dive, ski, or ride my motorcycle either? I already pay more in taxes than the average person earns in gross income, I don't owe you or society jack shit.
838.
by aianus 10y ago
San Francisco doesn't allow new construction. Toronto, on the other hand, is filled with glass 40+ story condos constructed in the last 10 years and there are many more being constructed all the time. We can keep building and exporting
839.
by aianus 10y ago
It's not. Maybe he's assuming a stay at home wife and/or children which would be a stretch on $130k, it's true. You can live well and have savings as a single guy on $130k in both those areas.
840.
by aianus 10y ago
Maybe it depends on the city but in Toronto and SF the rate is guaranteed unless you tell the driver to take a longer route or make stopovers or you change the destination mid trip. (I'm a part time Uber driver and I'm familiar wi

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