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by flexie 9y ago
Thanks!
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if you have stayed abroad for a few years, and you wish to stay abroad and you don't mind losing the greencard, do you have to file anything to renounce it or is it enough that you just 'overstayed' abroad?
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by flexie 9y ago
On the contrary, in the other thread I see people mainly being supportive of the decision to fine Google for the abuse of its dominant position.
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by flexie 9y ago
This is not about Google having a monopoly but about Google abusing a dominant position. And even if it were about monopoly, whether or not you are forced to use a product or a service is not what determines if it constitutes a monopoly.
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by flexie 9y ago
Absolutely. Next up, the Adsense and Android antitrust cases. How do I know? I googled it: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust-idUSKB...
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Business is what is stopping Google from not servicing Europe. Google makes huge part of its profit on search in Europe and pays almost no tax in Europe. If Google stopped servicing Europe, one or more European competitors would emerge in d
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by flexie 9y ago
Yes, but your employer pays you some $100,000 for what is most people's best 8 hours daily. In most cases, whatever an employer did code in his spare time, which is related to the employer's business, would be inspired by or downr
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by flexie 9y ago
'Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job' Because it's really difficult to define which IPR is inside or outside the scope of your employer's business an
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by flexie 9y ago
I get it - it's tempting to solve the Harvard Business School issue by sending the MBA students to prison before they wreck havoc on the economy. But I'm not sure their dads would pay the exceeding tuition. Also, there is the whol
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Funny, I remember coming to NYC from Scandinavia thinking it was so humid and warm and impossible to get anything done during the summer months. Guess it really depends on what you are used to. Then, in the winter, the old NYC apartments we
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by flexie 9y ago
The US is leading noone if nobody follows. Who do you think will follow? Thousands of treaties, conventions, agreements, and other arrangements are negotiated all the time. The Paris accord is just one, but a major one. The belief that the
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You might as well argue that it's impossible to distribute beer to a country of 320M people, yet inhabitants of large countries don't go thirsty. Whether we talk about a union of 320M as the US or a union of 510M as the EU, or whe
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by flexie 9y ago
He didn't acquire a single bargaining chip. If anything, he handed Europe, China, India bargaining chips. Trump is in for a rough time next time he tries to negotiate anything internationally, now when he has shown that he backs out of
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by flexie 9y ago
Let's see. Taxes take around 1/3 of it. Rent takes 1/6. Schools, kindergarten, nannies takes 1/6. That leaves around 1/3 for food, clothes, insurance, phones, cable, heat etc. for a NYC family. A family I know in th
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by flexie 9y ago
The article says top 20 percent consists of the households making $112,000 or more. Many of those families live in places like New York or California where $112,000 is not much. The families I know in New York City making around $2-300,000
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by flexie 9y ago
It has become ridiculous with these booking sites. When you google a small hotel, often the first many results are hotels.com, bookings.com, tripadvisor.com etc. and the hotel itself is down to spot 3, 4, 5 or even lower. There is a place f
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by flexie 9y ago
The premise of the article is wrong. From 2009 and until 2015, the number of CS grads almost doubled and any of those economics majors could have seen that in the graph, even if their essays are "basically bullet points" and thei
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by flexie 9y ago
Would it? 18 years ago? I doubt it. Google itself is really not as good in other languages as in English, even today. Could French google in 1999 have become world class in a non-native language?
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by flexie 9y ago
All but a handful of EU countries. Lived in DK, ES and BG. I can tell you that very few teenagers speak English well enough to learn to program so they can start a Facebook at 18 year.
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The US has one thing that Europeans cannot compete with: One language spoken by close to all 320M Americans as a native language and spoken by More than a billion worldwide as first or second language and which also happens to be the langua
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by flexie 9y ago
Why people would downvote that I don't know. https://www.recode.net/2015/7/15/11614684/ai-conspiracy-the-... I would say that grenerally it doesn't matter much where ideas come from but since t
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by flexie 9y ago
And if everybody did that society would quickly spiral down into chaos.
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by flexie 9y ago
Note how the conditions for invoking the castle doctrine are set by society, not by the property owner. It's not a method defined within the class. It's a method inherited from the superclass.
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by flexie 9y ago
Law is full of regulations and court precedents that restrict what people can do to their private property. Here on HN people seem to think that private property is like a subclass in python where the owner is free to define whatever method
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by flexie 9y ago
> And you seem to miss the fact that with UBI you have no incentive to live and stay in an expensive area. Like many people here on HN, I can work from anywhere with electricity, Internet and decent cell phone coverage. But I still stron
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by flexie 9y ago
Please, start regulating and taxing these multinational advertising companies much more aggressively. Once advertising companies like Facebook or Google reach a certain size, they should be required to pay taxes where the ads are shown to u
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by flexie 9y ago
It beats me why they don't just update their MacBook Air. This is the computer that serve most people's needs. It's by far the sleekest (the MacBook and MacBook Pro being thicker and heavier), it's not exactly cheap but
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by flexie 9y ago
I don't know you any better than your co-founders and in general I would say that those who either 1) continue to finance or 2) continue to work should have much more of the equity than those who quit. If one or both of your co-founder
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by flexie 9y ago
To imagine that a 20 year old college kid from Akron Colorado can reasonably expect to outlive most people just born a few hours drive away in South Dakota...
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by flexie 9y ago
Actually, she's been imprisoned for 7 years (3 years before she was convicted).

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