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Foursquare Is Bringing Back Mayorships(engadget.com)
2 points by dataker 11y ago|1 comments
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by dataker 11y ago
Interestingly, no matter how rich your family is, you're still worse off in the West.
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by dataker 11y ago
If one thinks he will never excel because there's nothing to be excelled, I doubt anyone would wanna do that.
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by dataker 11y ago
One the main issues with such collectivist argument is that programming is more than solely 'programming'. A great developer innovates, organizes, leads and motivates other programmers in a way others are not able to do. Kaplan-Mo
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by dataker 11y ago
With all due respect, if you're a MBA, you've just followed such stereotype. So what I didn't even graduate college? I'm proud to have built a company whose employees are happy and treated with dignity. Diligence, respec
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by dataker 11y ago
MBAs with technical background usually have a BS in STEM and go work to a bank/corporation in finance/management positions. Hence, they are not actual engineers actively building a product. Please do build a company, but not a mon
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by dataker 11y ago
Becomes hard to turn down a compensation that could be 1.5-2x larger than others.
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by dataker 11y ago
The problem comes when MBAs, generally without technical background, build companies without real value and expand an already existing bubble.
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by dataker 11y ago
>And I think it’s interesting to explore how unusual that is relative to many other areas of technology, because there are so many innovations that were good for society but the people who came up with them ended up with very little. Oka
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Ask HN: Assuming there's a bubble, how do we mitigate its damages?
6 points by dataker 11y ago|2 comments
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by dataker 11y ago
Problem is that you're only considering base salary. If you get into IB/PE your annual bonus can be a lot more than that. And yes, many overlook at the fact most MBAs already had considerable previous work experience.
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by dataker 11y ago
Good reference http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/WSJ_MBA...
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by dataker 11y ago
No, that only applies to PhDs.
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by dataker 11y ago
Indeed, even Detroit has a considerable startup scene: http://www.fastcompany.com/3014543/detroit-is-going-bankrupt...
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by dataker 11y ago
I see boomers yelling 'the bubble is bursting'.
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by dataker 11y ago
My argument is not about Catholicism, but religion and social organization itself. Most of these countries have either a homogeneous population or a common gathering element(Catholicism for Hispanics) Most non-Hispanic Americans end up not
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by dataker 11y ago
>remove friction from the patent market and improve the landscape The question really is: whose landscape is that?
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by dataker 11y ago
One of the overlooked factors is religion. South Americans are predominantly Catholic and less prone to drinking/smoking and end up fostering a community
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by dataker 11y ago
I hope legislators, if anything, become more careful with foreign intelligence, not innocent citizens. This unfortunate announcement is one of those things lawmakers love to use to justify exploitative and unethical policies. Let's hop
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by dataker 11y ago
Google is gradually becoming the IBM of the 2010s
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Mark Zuckerberg coding profile – (2002)(topcoder.com)
11 points by dataker 11y ago|0 comments
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by dataker 11y ago
Reside in the U.S and was born in Chile, so it's probably a bit harder if one is outside the EU
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by dataker 11y ago
For my own experience, it helps if you are physically 'applying' and, even so, trying regions that are 'more efficient'. I'd given up on foreign consulates and southern Italian comunes before finally getting it.
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by dataker 11y ago
Wow. Do they count UK population as unclaimed UK citizens(sons, grandsons,...) ? I had no idea there was such a massive diaspora going on.
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by dataker 11y ago
> Italy makes it remarkably easy for descendants of Italian emigrants to claim citizenship, for example Hm... No. It took me 4 years to obtain my Italian citizenship(from my mother). We almost had a court battle for them to accept a miss
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Show HN: A Survival Guide for Liberty(github.com)
3 points by dataker 11y ago|0 comments
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by dataker 11y ago
White collars have always had better salary growth than others. Generally, blue-collars rely largely on 'manual labor' and, therefore, after its peak productivity, they hit a depreciative tendency(younger employees/outsourcin
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by dataker 11y ago
Maybe, EU is coming to SV, not the other way around. Although startups have a great culture, big tech companies are being filled with executives and acquiring any disruptive micro-startup. Analogously, many employees often feel like 'f
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by dataker 11y ago
The article should be named' Why Blue-Collar Workers Are Being Hammered'. The matter of the fact is that in most blue-collar jobs, salaries stagnate after years of experience. Having an education only do 2 things: - Gives one the
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Countries and Uncertainty Avoidance(clearlycultural.com)
1 points by dataker 11y ago|0 comments

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