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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Thanks, good to know. What are the options for banking and card processing for a HK company? Why did you choose HK?
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
If I was setting up a SaaS company outside of the US, I'd be concerned with tax rates, acquiring a bank account and processing credit cards. It is worth noting that you don't necessarily have to have your bank account in the same
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
It's not like getting a cervical exam isn't totally sensible for women having unprotected sex, which is often an of those taking birth control pills.
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
A lot of the minimum income people are also for open borders and I rather doubt you can have both.
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Does this statement risk a tortious interference with business relationship suit? You have published a statement that could reasonably interpreted as Jason Calacanis mistreats founders by bullying them, changing offers, sharing their confid
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
The largest users of H1Bs, the big outsourcing firms like Tata and Infosys, don't sponsor permanent residency. The two largest ones had something like 13,000 new H1Bs in 2013 and sponsored 7 people for permanent residency that year.
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
"These 44 companies, the study says, are collectively valued at $168 billion and create an average of roughly 760 jobs per company." Firstly, that's 33,000 jobs or about 0.0003% of the US workforce, so hardly the backbone of
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Does my landscaper deserve his job when I'd rather hire a peasant from the Congo to do the job for a handful of rice?
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Is having and enforcing immigration laws prejudiced and hostile to Mexicans? If it is prejudiced and hostile at all, then every country is prejudiced and hostile to almost every other country. That includes Mexico to central American countr
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Roy Philipose
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
"Nobody really has the power to do this" The State of California has the power to fix this and, presumably, the motivation to lift this albatross from the neck of the economy.
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Yes, of course, but you knew that already. I also asked a supermodel out, but in the end we both agreed it wouldn't be a good fit. edit: Just to be clear, my point is that it's correct, rational decision on the part of the hypothe
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Approximately 30% of all women in Africa use birth control, although over half of all African women would like to use birth control if it were available. Many cannot afford contraception in any case.
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
"You could spend spend 1000 or whatever it costs on this thing that vacuumes up paint and put the job in the red or you could spend 10 bucks on some paint scrapers and get shit done in the same amount of time." Ideally, you would
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
This is a common misconception. Only 20% of state and federal prisoners (those serving more than a one year sentence) have drug crimes as their most serious conviction. 80% of prisoners are serving time for violent (47.7%), property (17.1%)
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
"Coders" just write instructions for computers. What use are they? Other people do the real work. What do truck drivers do? They just move the wheel. Other people do the real work of building the truck and designing it and tellin
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Okay, have fun building a profitable social media business serving subsistence farmers.
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
"Should an accident of birth(place) be the most import decider?" There is a school of though that it shouldn't. Many countries confer citizenship jus sanguinis (by descent). Is that system easier for you to understand? Citi
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Do Americans "deserve" to write laws for their benefit? Do you "deserve" whatever wealth you have when it could be liquidated and save one live for every $3,500 [1]? It's easy to be generous with other people's
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
" tech is very very white " Sure tech is generally non-black, but there are load of East Asians and South Asians. It's not exactly the Augusta National Golf Club. There are a lot of places in corporate information technology
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Is working as a computer programmer economically rational for high performing black and hispanic students in the United States? Black and hispanic students benefit from preferential admissions standards to medical, law, business and other g
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
That doesn't preclude Harvey Mudd from lowering admissions standards for women and they did not state admission standards were not lowered. It is an obvious approach that Harvey Mudd would be foolish to not consider if their aim is to
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Here is some context that all of these discussions about life as a software developer in San Francisco need. There are about 243k software developers/programmers in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area: ~12% of the workforce. The
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Like everything in life, it is a matter of supply and demand. At the height of the Iraq war, there was a suddenly increased demand for the services of private military contractors relative to their supply. Now, the demand is reduced and the
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
$10. http://www.corp.delaware.gov/Dissolution%20-%20274%20BIS%20S...
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Some believe that Saudi Arabia has an agreement with Pakistan to provide nuclear weapons [1]. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia has intermediate range nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that were purchased from China. [1] http://www.bbc.
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Most H1B visas go to average or below average developers working via large H1B sponsors like Tata, Infosys, Wipro and IBM ultimately working for IT departments of large corporations like banks and insurance companies. Only a small minority
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Not enough words. Here are more words: During the 110th Congress, the Democratic leadership of the Senate specifically blocked Republican President George W. Bush from making any recess appointments with the use of pro forma sessions. In 20
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
Many European countries extend citizenship to distant descendants like Hungary and Italy. Spain naturalizes nationals of Iberoamerica, Philippines, and Equatorial Guinea after only two years residence rather than ten for nationals of other
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by falsestprophet 11y ago
One would store a commodity if one thought it could be sold at a higher price in the future. Companies across the globe are storing oil including on parked tankers. Here is some data for US storage: https://www.eia.gov/petro

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