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by amf12 6y ago
> How about 2,300 vehicular deaths a month? Or 2,300 gun deaths a month? Because those numbers have been consistent for decades. Those are 'real' accidents; and if some are not, like DUI, there are laws against them that are en
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by amf12 6y ago
> Governments are both not doing widespread testing to see how many people have the virus, and taking draconian measures to contain its spread. I don't have any sources for this, but living in Switzerland, and from what I am hearing
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by amf12 6y ago
> How is this even legal? FB signed contract to pay X amount of dollars and now it can lower that amount unilaterally and without any kind of warning? I think it works the same in Europe right? If you work for a company in Zurich and the
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by amf12 6y ago
> And this is a group of people that would be largely well suited to working from home during the pandemic (young, no kids, etc). This is the group of people that largely prefers working from the office, IMO.
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by amf12 6y ago
I find your rebuttal short sighted and frankly immature, no offense. > In my experience wage offers were significantly lower in Europe when I was potentially looking about a year ago. They are. But the median wages are good enough to rai
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by amf12 6y ago
> What sort of vehicles will those deliverers and caregivers use? The one they already have. How were they buying groceries and making deliveries before the pandemic? I understand where you are going with this, but that's not a good
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by amf12 6y ago
I don't mean to challenge you, I don't believe in technical trading too. But I don't think its equivalent to astrology, which IMO is completely bogus. Technical patterns work somewhat better than a coin toss in the short term
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by amf12 6y ago
> Stock markets are also priced according to _expectations_ about the future, That does not mean they are the right expectations and market is correct. Market could be over optimistic in this situation or just right. I know you don'
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by amf12 6y ago
Another alternative also is investors fleeing from emerging markets. With Fed's backing the US stock market is a better bet than some others as compared with moving to cash, bonds, Gold, etc.
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by amf12 7y ago
> Is the situation the same now? There is some difference in the current situation, however I am not sure how much it factors into this decision. Hiring and onboarding people is logistically very difficult when travel has been affected w
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by amf12 7y ago
If Bezos tries to acquire USPS, Donald Trump will save USPS. Simple.
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by amf12 7y ago
Some employees had it installed on corp devices, maybe to connect with their friends and families. Google has banned even installing that app on corp devices. Nobody used it for corp work.
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by amf12 7y ago
> Europe spread the virus to the rest of the world, acting as the seed infection for half the planet. This was because of their incompetent and slow response time, poor crisis preparation Well why didn't the US* demonstrate competen
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by amf12 7y ago
No because the money will also be paid to middle class + people who still have jobs and who can WFH or have paid sick leave.
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by amf12 7y ago
Or payroll tax reduction. While it might help some deserving people, it's also going to benefit people who don't need any help.
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by amf12 7y ago
Not unless they are outside the US. As long as they are in the US they can stay on an expired visa. The visa is just a travel document.
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by amf12 7y ago
That comment was about the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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by amf12 7y ago
I agree with your sentiment, and feel that YouTube should add a language tag rather than uploaders having to do this.
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by amf12 7y ago
For some people in India, it is difficult to read Hindi because it is not their first language. They can understand spoken Hindi. So some of these videos add English title so that everyone can read the title and listen to Hindi video.
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by amf12 7y ago
> Would companies have to worry about their proprietary code being seen and used in a not-so-obvious way? Does that happen when you use AWS or Azure? Enterprise is a completely different ball game, be it Microsoft, Google or Amazon. The
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by amf12 7y ago
> than be considered a "blue collar engineer" as I currently am considered by my peers. I might be completely wrong about this, but I feel you have low-self esteem and you are tying your sense of self-worth to where you work. W
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by amf12 7y ago
HN is still tame. Blind is cancer about comp related dick swinging.
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by amf12 7y ago
> I am an immigrant (a lucky one, to obtain GC lottery). > Yes I can say there is definitely a selection bias I think this is an anecdote. You might certainly be ambitious, intelligent and overall successful. But I quite don't un
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by amf12 7y ago
> I am not sure why employees would message and email more if they can just turn their chair around to chat about something they are working on. I have observed two main reasons for this. 1. More people now have headphones on to keep the
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by amf12 7y ago
> I noticed that all the position requires the "Microsoft Cloud Background Check" Nope, you don't need to be a citizen for this. >however it seems like it requires to be an US citizen. Where did you read that? That is o
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by amf12 7y ago
Ah, I thought you can only apply after 5 years and show that you were physically present for 3 years. But I guess not.
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by amf12 7y ago
The average tax rate for a single person making 250K in Sunnyvale is 32.93% [1] The average tax rate for a single person making 250K in Ontario is 39.80% [2] But with the extra taxes you also get some better benefits like healthcare, cheape
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by amf12 7y ago
> They will all eventually will migrate to US once the policies are relaxed. It takes at least 5 years to get Canadian citizenship. 5 years is a long time to build a life somewhere that people wouldn't want to migrate to the US. You
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by amf12 7y ago
Regardless, I fail to see how storing each update is more invasive than just storing the last update when the same number of requests are sent to Amazon.
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by amf12 7y ago
That is not the south polar region though.

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