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by amf12 7y ago
Did you read the article? It's talking about the new modern open living plans with no walls between kitchen and the living room.
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by amf12 7y ago
Majority Indians don't give a shit about this or understand it enough to influence elections.
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by amf12 7y ago
iPhone has the Google keyboard in the app store. I use Swype keyboard though.
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by amf12 8y ago
> what I can say is that lot of high skilled immigrants here in Denmark don't feel welcome [0]. Whereas, in the USA Unfortunately, immigration in the US is not a meritocracy. It chooses for diversity rather than skill. Having been t
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by amf12 8y ago
Or that person might just "save" it for generations, keeping the money from circulating in the local economy.
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by amf12 8y ago
> fragmented languages and cultures This is what people forget when they compare USA and Europe, because it's not really easy for Americans to grasp this until they come live in Europe. I feel this is an understatement, and the dif
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by amf12 8y ago
> It is pointless to compare richest subset of Europe to the entire US. If you want to do a fair comparison, compare entire Europe to the entire US. I don't think that's really a fair comparison. Every city from NYC to a small
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by amf12 8y ago
> I disagree. Anything a corporation does they do because it directly benefits them, I don't understand why people want corporations to behave like non-profits. It's a corporation whose sole aim is make profit. But that doesn&#
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by amf12 8y ago
We use OneNote at work. I don't really like it as a Wiki tool. Its a superfast solution to get the work done, but the search sucks. Its difficult to get it organized if there is a lot of documentation. Its amazing to use as a personal
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by amf12 8y ago
Yeah bad example. A better example would have been this: > Sol Smith, chair of liberal arts at a Southern California college, said he landed his job after earning three degrees. But with four daughters and mounting health care costs, he
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by amf12 8y ago
> Financial shocks exceeding savings The point that person is making is, if a person who makes more than the minimum wage is to reduce spending to 90% of the current spending they would be better able to absorb these unforeseen financial
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by amf12 8y ago
India has gone a step ahead with their UPI based payment system. You don't even need to transfer money between your bank account and your mobile wallet. With the UPI interface you can use your cellphone to transfer money to another per
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by amf12 8y ago
> photo ID with address that matches billing address Please don't do this. There are people who move often to not have their current address on their photo id.
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by amf12 8y ago
> I keep hearing about Indian tech talents but I haven't met one in real life yet. Then you need to work at a better place :) Unfortunately, its very easy to form a bad opinion about Indian tech talent by working at places which hir
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by amf12 8y ago
> Indian IT workers will simply drive down wages in the IT sector, and the quality of work received will not be world-class. But unlike the US they are not randomly selecting immigrants based on a lottery. They have a point based system
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by amf12 8y ago
Thanks! I'll start here.
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by amf12 8y ago
> rename "power hours" to "hackathons". The key word here is "pressured". There is no pressure to perform or participate in a hackathon. You can work on your own pace, or choose to dropout. Almost all of the
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by amf12 8y ago
> I highly recommend you read a little about economics Can you suggest some resources?
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by amf12 8y ago
Well this is immigration we are talking about. Generally people without college degrees don't even get a H1 visa to come and work in the US. So its not really a problem with the merit based system. Infact a merit based system which doe
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by amf12 8y ago
> if you want to bring in someone to teach a rare foreign language at a University All public universities are non-profit and thus are exempt from the lottery. I get your point, but regardless of the occupation if its a for-profit instit
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by amf12 8y ago
And to be fair Microsoft only includes Office365 revenue which consists of storage, active directory support and not standalone office that you can download.
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by amf12 8y ago
> Well, to be fair, NONE of the big clouds have any presence in China. They are "in China" in name only. Azure has a region in China which is not a baby version of its public cloud offering. It might not have some new SaaS p
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by amf12 8y ago
> My landlord and the owner of the company I work for both came to the US from Iran For one example of success there are 100s if not 1000s of examples where they failed and relied on government handouts. Also, how did "diversity vis
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by amf12 8y ago
Absolutely, but isn't that the case for SQL too? My point being, noSQL is not worse than SQL if all you care about is storing and retrieving documents vs joins, etc.
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by amf12 8y ago
> What about the solution where the quota is filled after ordering by salaries? Employers in California will win, employers in say Tennessee will lose out. If comp is being considered, then they should also consider the COL.
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by amf12 8y ago
> There are about 4 billion people waiting in line to enter the US if they could. Honestly, you are over estimating the number of people who would like to come to the US. There are other wealthy countries which have a revamped immigratio
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by amf12 8y ago
> Any replacement visa needs to be like the diversity lottery (or the Olympics) by rewarding applicants from smaller countries Why? So you are okay with a guy who does not speak English, doesn't have moderate-high skills, will proba
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by amf12 8y ago
Actually, L1 is the visa which is also responsible for keeping wages low. Generally it doesn't get a lot of attention. The employees on L1 cannot switch jobs. So a lot of the people coming on L1 accept any wage they can get. Of course,
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by amf12 8y ago
This is incredibly racist. This is exactly like the stupid Muslim ban by Trump. "Some x are/do y, so lets ban all x".
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by amf12 8y ago
> MongoDB just had to stay up for more than 5 minutes and not lose your data. Do they even do that yet? What are you implying? Do you have any source for that? Some of the top tech companies out there use non-traditional databases, inclu

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