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by cldellow 12y ago
Good point! As I think about it, the IRS agent mentioned that there was in fact a first contact by mail in my case. I had moved and didn't receive the letter.
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by cldellow 12y ago
Who is saying they would?
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by cldellow 12y ago
Except the article is wrong. In 2010, I received a call from the IRS. Agent 0199475 wanted me to go to http://pay1040.com and pay my taxes. Unsolicited call? Check. Asking me to use a 3rd party website? Check. Was curt with me w
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by cldellow 12y ago
Those are the successful extortions. The article doesn't say how many other people sensibly decided "Fuck this blackmail" and refused to pay up.
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by cldellow 12y ago
People may be confusing the requirements for an H1B and those for a green card, specifically the PERM. The H1B program may have its flaws, but I guarantee you that the people who get jobs at Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Amazon&#
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by cldellow 12y ago
For the companies listed (Amazon, Apple, FB, Google, MS), salary is only a portion of compensation. Stock grants and bonuses, which aren't reflected on the H1B application, can easily add another 30%-100% depending on company and role.
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by cldellow 12y ago
You still tell that to the company. Then they think that you are scrupulous and honest. If they tell you the clause is not enforceable, you can still say, "That's interesting, but I'm still not comfortable. Perhaps you'd
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by cldellow 12y ago
Generous severances (of the sort that might accompany the dirt) usually come with a generous non-disclosure agreement, so that makes sense.
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pcpartpicker monetizes via affiliate links, i.e. they get 2-8% of the sale depending on the merchant you use.
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by cldellow 12y ago
I disliked that element of the reporting too. Your use of "they" is funny, too--SpaceX and NASA would say that CRS-5 was a complete success from the point of view of the mission. The reporter's not being disingenuous, she&#x2
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by cldellow 12y ago
They do specify that it's for sorting numbers, as opposed to say, text. Do some locales sort numbers differently?
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Just to clarify, if given the choice between two hospitals: "St. Joseph's Hospital" and "John Smith's Hospital" and you hear that the former has a statistically significant advantage in the area of care that yo
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by cldellow 12y ago
> salaries rise to the levels enjoyed by doctors and lawyers The BLS says the median salary for a lawyer is $112k. Median salary for a software developer is $93k. The $19k difference is not that big when you consider that lawyers have a
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by cldellow 12y ago
As a Canadian tech worker who graduated in 2008, I've thought to myself that a sizable chunk of my university cohort dipped our toes in the US and then decided permanent immigration wasn't worth it. It's great to see an anal
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by cldellow 12y ago
I can see how this comes off as an insular group sticking it to the government, but that's not the case. If I gave the impression that we didn't create good APIs or good docs, I apologize. We did, but that's not what the gove
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by cldellow 12y ago
"Very well" is a euphemism here, I assume? I worked in Windows Server when Microsoft was under the US DOJ consent decree and had to document every thing that looked at all like an API--even internal things that were just APIfied f
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by cldellow 12y ago
...most of whom are from the Nokia acquisition, a.k.a. not US employees.
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by cldellow 12y ago
Follow up question: are internet chat rooms / websites different from, say, your mailbox or your phone? e.g. should it be OK for me to crapflood you with postcards that say 'today is your last day on earth, I will rape and kill yo
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by cldellow 12y ago
> There are plenty of services in place to ignore these trolls. I'm curious - what do you mean? e.g. if I'm receiving threatening emails / tweets / comments on my blog / reddit DMs, there are services that will f
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by cldellow 12y ago
More nuance, please! I think most women have thought about abortion to some degree and formed an opinion on whether it's the right choice for them, or under what conditions they would entertain the idea of an abortion versus keeping th
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by cldellow 12y ago
Photographers are also open to alternative domains. Our company had to change its name early in its existence. When we were explaining it to some photographers we work with, they were surprised that we didn't go with .co or .photograph
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by cldellow 12y ago
Better might be to provide links to the cases where he feels hard done by. Re: the app framework naming, there's some partial conversation involving Brian Foy at https://www.mail-archive.com/modules@perl.org/msg345
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by cldellow 12y ago
The university of Waterloo publishes the salary ranges and averages for its students [1]. You want math or engineering, work terms 4 or higher. The ranges cover mom and pop shops in small towns as well as big tech companies in Silicon Valle
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> selling it [..] can introduce additional taxes Hmm, can you provide an example? The deferment programs are only available on one's principal residence. Sale of principal residences are exempt from capital gains in Canada. > it&
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Most seniors are on a fixed income -- the ones on GIS, certainly. It's not clear to me why anyone over age 55 should be eligible, when the retirement age in Canada is 67. The government is effectively paying them to live in their house
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by cldellow 12y ago
My favourite bugbear: deferred property tax for seniors. I've always thought that age was a fascinating element in these programs. Why not just have programs for low-income people, full stop -- why make it low-income seniors? And then
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by cldellow 12y ago
It's also worth clarifying that while Waterloo has a low _hard_ cut off, it still tends to take academically qualified students. e.g. for engineering 2012, 66% of students had averages over 90% and the average ... average was 91% [1].
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Big telcos lobby for laws to make it illegal, e.g. Louisiana 844.42 [1]: "To ensure that cable television services and telecommunications and advanced services are provided through fair competition [...]" Advanced services are def
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by cldellow 12y ago
To be fair, that one salary is likely $100-150K/year. The median household income in SF is $72K, so you're probably going to be OK. Plus, the partner who's not working has some very real imputed salary value. In fact, the eco
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by cldellow 12y ago
Web users are fairly naive. Most don't recognize ads in Google results, at least as of 2012. I wouldn't even say that it's a function of maximizing ad revenue. If you wanted to maximize ad revenue, you'd run Google Ad Ex

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