aiisahik

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by aiisahik 3y ago
Only a feature if you believe in the per country limit. The alternative is to just score everyone based on point based system and admit the highest scorers regardless of national origin.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
You can google this fact very easy. Look at this article https://www.deel.com/blog/foreign-independent-contractor-tax... Scroll over to the title "You live and perform all the work in your country" | Form W-
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by aiisahik 3y ago
It's not. It's just a WIN WIN for the company and the individual. But this is what the US is encouraging with its immigration policy so you reap what you sow.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
I'm no different from the many dozens of contractors we already pay who are located in other countries. The IRS does not require tax contributions from company or the contractor if the contractor's domicile is outside the US and d
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by aiisahik 3y ago
I hire a ton of engineers in LATAM who have no interest in migrating to US. They get paid well in USD, they live in kings and queens in their respective low cost countries. In fact, looking at their live inspired me to make the decision to
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by aiisahik 3y ago
Oh the US has been amazing to me! I love the US! It gave me degrees (funded by American donors), it gave me work experience, it provided me with capital markets to raise $$ and build companies. I love it all. However, since the US doesn&#x2
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by aiisahik 3y ago
Australian immigration process is a breeze! I'm am Immigrant to Australia too.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
I'm an Australian citizen who has lived in the US for over 20 years, gotten degrees from Yale and Berkeley. I've worked as a software engineer for over 10 years and am currently a cofounder. I'm so put off by the immigration
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by aiisahik 3y ago
The author here has clearly never been to an EDM concern with lasers.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
It's hard to measure the actual impact of LATAM remote or other types remote on US salaries. It is possible that if US companies didn't have the ability to hire remote engineers, the US salary would be 2x as much. The US hires a H
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by aiisahik 3y ago
> If you are a US citizen software developer and ever wondered why you are not able to earn more money you can thank the special interests that flung the doors open with the H1B program to reduce worker costs. You would be right if most
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by aiisahik 3y ago
> "you don't want old people on fixed income forced to sell their homes because property values are going up rapidly" Yes you do. It's called downsizing and relocating. This allows for large houses near good schools a
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by aiisahik 3y ago
Making games and movies are clearly as hard if not harder than making SaaS. I never understood why devs who work for game and movie studios don't quit and work for companies that pay 2-3x as much - other than for the pure love of what
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by aiisahik 3y ago
100% except for one minor correction - Harvard is a brand for prestige. Wealth is just one factor. They will continue to admit student cohorts that will maximize that prestige. That will include wealthy alumni, athletes, smart kids, and min
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by aiisahik 3y ago
Do you allow your customers to hold the customer access tokens for the sub-aggregators (Plaid, Finicity) or do you hold them?
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by aiisahik 3y ago
how about they start earning their keep and start hunting the 5M rats out there.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
What office?
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by aiisahik 3y ago
I hired 20 of them. Trust me they exist.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
LOL what world do you live in? What do you think half of startups do these days?
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by aiisahik 3y ago
American college graduates can absolutely find jobs. Unemployment at record lows. They just need to be competitive in terms of their salary and role expectations vs others in the market. BTW the real competition here for American tech worke
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by aiisahik 3y ago
Oh citizens can get jobs, alright. Record low unemployment. Wage inflation through the roof. We need citizens to get off their butts and take the jobs that are out there.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
I would love a Telly and put tape over the bottom screen (or put some decorations in front of it) so i don't have to look at the ads.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
who was your domain broker? My company really needs to find one.
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by aiisahik 3y ago
Google Search got to be a pretty successful business and probably still the single most popular information retrieval tool on earth - it was done using with a single input box.
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by aiisahik 4y ago
I actually agree that it should be attractive housing management companies to own and manage property. If they do a good job they should see a good risk adjusted reward in their business. What they should NOT be doing is have a business mod
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Firstly let's be clear that the supply of land is fixed. The only limitation is that of the housing that goes on top of the land - the amount, density and quality. Housing should be a highly financially attractive to build. The land un
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by aiisahik 4y ago
There are two very simple policy strategies for ensuring housing is affordable: (1) make it easier to build high density housing (2) make housing an unattractive financial asset Many have already talked about (1) but few understand (2) and
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by aiisahik 4y ago
There is always going to be financial incentives to do User-Hostile stuff. Collecting user data to market to them and increase LTV is a no brainer for most product / general managers. There is a market solution to counter the financial
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by aiisahik 4y ago
I think there are industries with - good conditions and bad pay (government) - bad conditions and good pay (finance, law, medicine) Over the past 10 years big tech has provided good conditions for very good pay. In my opinion that is going
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by aiisahik 4y ago
As an engineer who used to be a lawyer, I can assure you that most big law firm partners (1) have families and (2) rarely see them. 10 hours days are normal. 12-14 hour days are hardcore. Some associates used to have portable beds in their

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