elindbe2

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by elindbe2 8y ago
I recently saw the design of my employer's new office. Looks modern and trendy. And yet I'm told they're taking away all of our desktops and laptops, replacing them with thin clients connected to VMs (running on crappy serv
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by elindbe2 8y ago
Well of course it's abused but I would argue that if H1Bs are paid less, they should raise the rates of H1Bs and discourage their use as cheap labor. We shouldn't be adjusting for it in the data here.
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by elindbe2 8y ago
Why would it adjust for that? It's ok to pay H1Bs less? H1B isn't supposed to be cheap labor even though it is often abused.
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by elindbe2 8y ago
Being able to pay higher costs shows you are wealthier. Living in California is a luxury good which no one is required to purchase. If I suddenly decide to trade my Toyota in for a Porsche that doesn't lower my taxable income.
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by elindbe2 8y ago
Brb, taking out a second mortgage.
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by elindbe2 8y ago
UBI doesn't really make sense as a replacement to almost any traditional welfare programs for the simple reason that by limiting the money to only those who qualify for it, you can give more. Yet unfortunately UBI is often presented a
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by elindbe2 8y ago
I'm not claiming ghosting and rejection are synonymous. Rather, I'm saying ghosting is a useful way of rejecting someone in certain circumstances. I'm also not claiming that one can completely eliminate ghosting by acceptin
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by elindbe2 8y ago
I personally find ghosting to be a quite useful strategy in a limited range of scenarios. The scenario is basically whenever you need to reject someone but rejecting them directly would lead to significant costs to you (e.g. having to list
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by elindbe2 8y ago
Luckily climate change will give us plenty of trauma over the next few decades.
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Cats of all kinds would be a good example.
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by elindbe2 8y ago
6 weeks is a long vacation, not a sabbatical. Those would be 6 months plus. I say this not to be pedantic but because I worry about the concept of a sabbatical being watered down before it becomes more commonplace.
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by elindbe2 8y ago
It kind of blows my mind that people actually get attached to their work like that. I have friends to are like this but I just don't get it. Personally I just have never cared nor even been able to care about company problems beyon
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by elindbe2 8y ago
I have to disagree here. If a job causes soul crushing misery, it just shouldn't be allowed, period. If the people of Denmark can't stomach slaughtering animals for a living without being coerced into it then the people of Denma
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by elindbe2 9y ago
That is sometimes also called "enlightened hedonism" in opposition to "naive hedonism"
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by elindbe2 10y ago
NYC is more the equity side of finance, Wall St. and all that. Chicago is home to the largest futures exchange in the world, the CME and the largest options exchange, the CBOE.
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by elindbe2 10y ago
If that's the case then why do married women not change their responses? If it's just a matter of "training" then why would getting married affect the answers? A simpler explanation is that single women realize that th