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by dmode 8y ago
That's not quite true. US legislating branch gives the Executive branch significant power to "interpret" legislation and Trump admin has taken full advantage of that in order to screw legal immigrants. For reference look at t
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by dmode 8y ago
At this point, salary stocks doesn't matter. We have made enough living in the Bay Area. I can personally weather the low salary for a few years
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by dmode 8y ago
I am in the same boat. Planning to move to Canada next year. I have worked in the Valley for 10 years. Had a great time, but unfortunately the wait for GC is over 20 years now and the administration has signaled that we are not welcome (my
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by dmode 8y ago
It has. My H1 was denied, although I have worked here for 10 years, and work for a FAANG company.
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by dmode 8y ago
The problem with Tenderloin is it is located in the heart of SF. Every city has its squalor. For example, Skid Row in DT LA or south side of Chicago. But tourists wouldn’t stumble upon them
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by dmode 8y ago
Interviewing is a game of numbers and luck. I know it is slim consolation. But I did 15 onsites, before landing on my dream job. Was rejected from all these onsites, even though I thought I did fairly well in most of them. It was depressing
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by dmode 8y ago
Of all the things you can blame, diversity of race is not. SV is majority Indians and Asians in engineering roles. Of course it could do better to have more white, black and Hispanic engineers
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by dmode 8y ago
Audi, Porsche compete with Toyota ?
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by dmode 8y ago
This is almost sounds eerily like "Blackberry will release a phone that will kill Apple". If it were that easy to just crank out an EV, all manufacturers had a 2 year window to release one and capture the Model 3 backlog. But nobo
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by dmode 8y ago
VW is the largest car manufacturer in the world
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by dmode 8y ago
Tesla has basically won
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by dmode 8y ago
Let's admit it. You would never be happy regardless of what Tesla does. Goalposts will always move. Tesla sold only 100 cars in 2011. It is nothing short of a miracle that they are on track to produce and sell >200k cars in 7 years
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by dmode 8y ago
Disagree. Left leaning companies constantly get hit by legislation from left leaning politicians. See Amazon and BEZOS act for example. Airbnb and city legislations is another example.
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by dmode 8y ago
Why is it an atrocious area to raise a family ? I have kids and I think it is an amazing area to raise children. Great diversity, getting to know people from all over the world, year round hiking and outdoors fun, endless nature, trails, pa
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by dmode 8y ago
Solid advice (runs counter to most HN posts). But young people taking this advice will truly benefit for it. I can personally attest to it, as my income went up 8x just moving from Arizona.
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by dmode 8y ago
Your examples are very few. May be to balance you can post some other companies, like Uber: https://www.uber.com/careers/list/?team=engineering Here is twitter, with 95 openings in SF: https://careers.t
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by dmode 8y ago
This is exactly right. A statewide housing adjustment doesn't make any sense. Bay Area housing cost doesn't impact the poorest regions of the state which are in Mojave desert, Sierra Nevada foothills, far north towards Oregon bord
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by dmode 8y ago
Oh no, not another "Silicon Valley is dying"article. Here's the numbers for VC investment in 2018, if anyone is interested. [1] California companies raised $12B and $12.7B in Q2 and Q1 of this year. Almost 90% of this is in t
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by dmode 8y ago
Not really surprised. I pay for a lot of freemium apps, but never paid for Evernote. It's hard to create value for "Note Taking". Alternative is capturing notes in a free google doc or use paper and pen.
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by dmode 8y ago
If you include all DoD spend include VA, it is well over 20%. Why this portion ? Because it is mostly unnecessary and just needed to foster faux nationalism
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by dmode 8y ago
Sorry, it took me a while to get back. Why would stock based comp be included in gross margin ? That is not part of Cost of Goods sold. That is reflected in net income. I have no idea what your last statement means. There is US Accounting d
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by dmode 8y ago
Finally someone realizes that there is a problem. There is no justification in the biggest economy of the world to have this much poverty and homelessness. I am amazed every time I travel to Europe, how few homeless people there are, despit
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by dmode 8y ago
We probably need some of that to balance the torrent of anti Tesla article
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by dmode 8y ago
The way I see it is that in the Tim Cook era, Apple releases good, solid products. And I buy them religiously. But they don't really make great, exciting, ground breaking products anymore (perhaps Face Id is the exception). I wasn&#x27
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by dmode 8y ago
Gosh Baby Boomers. Spends all day in Nextdoor and City council meetings and comes with ridiculous proposals like banning 5g or stopping housing projects. City councils are also extremely responsive to their bogus movements, like preserving
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by dmode 8y ago
Can you point to a source ? I am looking at Q2 statement and gross margin before ZEV is 20%. With ZEV it is 21%. It's on page 2 here http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/7235e525-db16-470c-8dce-9ec... Also, gross marg
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by dmode 8y ago
Who cares if they offer equity ? Would anybody remember that 5 years from now ? I have no recollection of when they raised equity in the past.
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by dmode 8y ago
Not sure what your point is. If you are growinig like crazy in a capital intense industry, you are bound to grow your loses. Tesla could have chosen to sell zero cars and have zero losses. What matters is demand and profitable unit economic
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by dmode 8y ago
VP = head of a function or business unit. Director = head of a very large team. For Tesla, engineering head would be a VP, but head of Autopilot will most likely be a director. Doesn't always hold up though.
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by dmode 8y ago
Deepak Ahuja has been CFO forever with a brief break in between. What are you talking about ?

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