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by friedButter 9y ago
> I imagine that even the most racist HR person in the world would know to show more discretion Only cause you mentioned "world", its pretty common for only women, or even women who have taken breaks to raise a child to be elig
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by friedButter 9y ago
Employees moving to other companies which may pay less with better working conditions?
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by friedButter 9y ago
>The free market can't solve all problems. No, the "free market" has decided that the workers have a value below minimum wage to the company employing them. Remove the minimum wage and the workers will get more breaks, but
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by friedButter 9y ago
https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-firing-of-diversity-memo-a... >Google didn't break the law when it fired James Damore over a memo that criticized the company's diversity policies and claimed tech's
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by friedButter 9y ago
> but maybe, men and women are different Umm.. even US courts have disagreed with you in the James Damore case, saying that Google was right to fire him for suggesting this... I agree with you, however when the govt, judiciary and priv
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by friedButter 9y ago
Thats most cause there arent any underlying fundamentals to measure.. even in the stock market, yes there is an underlying company, but metrics such as P/E ratio's for specific industries are fairly arbitrary.. Similarly the sto
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by friedButter 9y ago
Well, you dont use your insurance for maintenance, you use it for accidents.. Compare accidental repair prices to medical prices, since you do use insurance for regular doc visits, comparable with maintenance
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by friedButter 9y ago
>My local mechanic is required by law to tell me how much something is going to cost me before they start work. Why is my doctor not held to the same standard. Ever tried calling a provider to find out how much something is going to cost
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by friedButter 9y ago
> If unforeseen complications arose during or after the procedure, the Surgery Center would cover those costs Doesnt this expose the facility to additional risk? Overall healthy patients and those with sufficient insurance coverage do no
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by friedButter 9y ago
My bad, missed that. Yes, that risk is increased quite a bit, but I thought the main selling point of Bitcoin is that govt can't control your spending, which would stay
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by friedButter 9y ago
Pretty much how Uber is not regulated, but they wouldn't have any physical presence for the govt to try and force rules on them
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by friedButter 9y ago
As long as this system is run online,it would be free of regulations,so the govt would not be able to impose it's will on your assets...
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by friedButter 9y ago
Haha. Kind of,but not nearly as heavily regulated.. just like older banking systems were banks backed by gold,this would be a bank,but backed by Bitcoin. And not subject to regulations that banks are subject to (such as restrictions on cr
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by friedButter 9y ago
Someone should open a company which provides tokens in exchange for depositing BTC with them. People can trade these tokens which are notional representations of the BTC holdings in an instantaneous manner. Then when someone actually wants
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by friedButter 9y ago
TBH, another factor to be kept in mind is that most foreign students are doing a MS in US only for the work visa.. if the possibility of working in US went away (say OPT extension gets terminated and everything else remains the same, or Tr
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by friedButter 9y ago
>How is it not bad that when two people are equally qualified but one of them is treated poorly based on gender/ethnicity/orientation? "equally qualified" is not an objective, measurable quantity, which is the whole c
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by friedButter 9y ago
The general opinion online is that women being promoted slower than men is a problem, and in high paying white collar professions, women being underrepresented at any level is a "bad thing". Make sure you dont use your real identi
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by friedButter 9y ago
>(1) how much of these people's education or experience was subsidized by the American economy I suspect that US actually profits off of foreign students, atleast thats what I've heard informally (since we have to pay much high
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by friedButter 9y ago
> Out west here Dont have a lot of experience with US, but Seattle and Redmond (which are on the west coast) had pretty awesome public transport.. I was able to navigate it pretty easily even though it was my first time in US, and it we
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by friedButter 9y ago
Isnt checking for cross state border tax evasion considered probable cause? Just like how customs inspects packages coming from outside the country or even Americans returning from a foreign visit (Not an American, just curious.. since appa
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by friedButter 9y ago
> These taxes currently only drive purchases out of your jurisdiction Or you can use it as an employment generation exercise by setting up checkpoints at state borders to avoid import from other states, applying a higher tax on fuel loca
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by friedButter 9y ago
I dont know the ground reality, however as per documentation for SDE jobs paying above 50k EUR or so you get it with a labour market check alone. While in US, you also have a 20 to infinite year waitlist for getting a green card (Indians, E
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by friedButter 9y ago
> Competition pressure could make a company's new product worse than (in this case, less stable than) their previous products Well, that depends on the specific attributes on which there is competitive pressure. When its on time to
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by friedButter 9y ago
For Indians , Europe is much easier than US, but pays less
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by friedButter 9y ago
It's touching 20+ years for EB3 Indians and Chinese today
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by friedButter 9y ago
Well the other POV is that if a comment contributed positively to a thread, it would have a positive score. A negative score means that the thread would be better without the comment
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by friedButter 9y ago
> Would be great to be able to 'upvote' classic films and have them play at a local house, and watch along with others who like it enough to be there, place and time A theater chain in India is trying something similar, though
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by friedButter 9y ago
The article considers being "offended" equivalent to harassment >Made remarks that some might consider sexist or offensive?
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by friedButter 9y ago
Yeah, looks like it was a bad decision. I'm not too active here,but HN seems quite intolerant to uncomfortable questions in comments, will stick to just reading posts here.
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by friedButter 9y ago
Is it inherently bad to pay for sex in your opinion?

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