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by aiisahik 4y ago
Love George Carlin. RIP. The most pathetic thing about the American discourse about Affirmative Action is that everyone has an opinion on what the admissions standards SHOULD be from their perspective on how society should operate. Some thi
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Many people have given answers to this very good question. But I'm going to ask another: WHY does the admission process need to take into account the social class of the student? - Fairness? College admissions at Ivy Leagues are not a
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Americans can't seem to tell the difference.
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by aiisahik 4y ago
And why is the Economist mainstream? It's a British publication.
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Agree but for purposes of this specific article, the Economist is a British publication. The largest owner is a Dutch holding company.
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Why are you calling it "demise"? Having $200M of ARR and selling for $20B - it's a tremendous achievement that should be celebrated. If all it took to build a figma was to plug in web assembly, I'm pretty sure Adobe woul
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Oh I totally agree they bought Figma because they couldn't figure it out themselves and to protect the products / revenue streams they already have. At some point in the future after designers have gotten tired of Adobe Figma, som
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by aiisahik 4y ago
I agree that most features don't require a lot of money to build. But building enough features to make Sketch come close to rivaling Figma in terms of design department wallet share is going to require some $$$. Also I think the multip
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by aiisahik 4y ago
There are bigger differences between Sketch and Figma than collaboration / web native. According to Crunchbase, Sketch has received 20M of venture funding and has less than 50 employees. This is a rare company that has been largely pro
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Thank you! And as the employer, I'm the importer of the labor so I don't care. If my contractor didn't pay their taxes that is not really my problem - they will just have to do deal with that themselves. What's very impo
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Already had that happen. Employee moved out of NY to FL. Did nothing except categorizing him as a FL resident in our HR system. Did not have to form a new business in FL or register as a foreign entity there. Employee lowered his taxes beca
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by aiisahik 4y ago
How do the tax offices of other countries "target me" exactly? What legal options do they have against a US based company with no business/customer in that country? They can go after my contractors but then my contractors wou
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by aiisahik 4y ago
You don't need to worry about the government on the other side either unless your company actually does business in that jurisdiction in such a way that they can sanction you. Local governments are usually trying to attract digital nom
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by aiisahik 4y ago
This is trash. I hire engineers all over LATAM. I could not care less if they pay their taxes. I do not pay any taxes in LATAM. My company does no business in LATAM. What are they going to do? Sue my company? LOL. P.S. I used to be a lawyer
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by aiisahik 4y ago
It may but mostly likely won't unless you're a huge company. I hired a bunch of people outside the US and it's not a problem. Use Deel and hire them as contractors. Make the contractors fill out W8BENs. Don't let the HR
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by aiisahik 4y ago
Why would european formula need to be inspected by US officials if it was good enough for the European parents? Shouldn't parents be able to make their own decisions here rather than be beholden by government rules?
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by aiisahik 5y ago
This guy has a degree in "Comparative Philosophy" and thus this blog article should be viewed as such: philosophical rant
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by aiisahik 5y ago
Think of the payoff for the engineer per hour of work. Truly insane and impressive. Kudos!
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by aiisahik 5y ago
The blog post conflates several issues together: (1) why is the blockchain still so inefficient? (2) why is the blockchain still so lacking in practical use cases with widespread adoption? I think she is totally fair in complaining about (1
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by aiisahik 5y ago
So many people complaining about web3 being: - more centralized - more controlled by VCs - less performant / reliable / secure than web2 These are probably all true for now. They failed to see the key features web3: 1. the possibi
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by aiisahik 5y ago
The sad reality is that 32 hour work week only makes sense for certain intellectual and creative workers where 1. productive output doesn't have a strong correlation with input hours 2. have the competitive labor market to have any pr
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by aiisahik 5y ago
I'm CTO for a Series A startup. We have 4 engineers who are making $200k - $300k in cash (excluding options). They are all referrals with 10+ years of experience (in some cases 15+) and they also have deep technical expertise in specif
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by aiisahik 5y ago
this is the podcast from the Economist that goes into a little further detail about the failures of the SF gov including the corruption issues and the anti-liberal housing policies: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast
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by aiisahik 5y ago
I'm not a fan of VC either but this is unfair. (1) VCs have mostly funded the employment of well educated white collar workers. How else do computer science graduates get paid $120-150k 2 years out of college in the US? (2) There are h
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by aiisahik 5y ago
absolutely agree with your gripes with the Economist app. I use it every day. Confuses the hell out of me. The old android app was terrible too because of frequent crashes.
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by aiisahik 5y ago
pointing a livestreaming camera at the victim of every assualt or robbery is not providing any benefit to society I do not agree. Assuming we provide privacy to the victim, this is absolutely a net benefit for society. To say otherw
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by aiisahik 5y ago
Oh totally agree that they are bating you into being a frightened animal holed up in your house. So i turn off the notifications and only go on the app if i am bored or if there's something happening locally i want to know more about.
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by aiisahik 5y ago
Hate to break it to you but "nobody is forcing you" is kinda the standard in the US from vaccines to social media to guns. Everything is a choice here. There are plenty of countries out there which would have chosen to ban Citizen
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by aiisahik 5y ago
Yeah their whole mentality of vigilantism is weird but we should be encouraging citizens to take out their phones and document things. Otherwise George Floyd would be another statistic and nobody would know his name. The encouragement of ce
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by aiisahik 5y ago
Yes it's anxiety inducing but doesn't it just tell us the truth of who we are? If you can't handle the anxiety, nobody is forcing you to have it on your phone nor are they forcing you to be part of it. In other countries, the

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