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by friedButter 9y ago
No, but whats more significant is that the industry went from YoY growth to flat\shrunk. Thats the scary part
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by friedButter 9y ago
> Then I spoke to a few IT outsourcing/consulting companies You get what you pay for. The quality of low level employees in IT outsourcing companies (not just the Indian ones) is at par with (or lower than) American minimum wage wor
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by friedButter 9y ago
> In most of the US outside of the major cities it can be a struggle for experienced engineers to break 80K A senior dev can make 80k USD in India (before taxes) working for American, non IT services companies
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by friedButter 9y ago
>If you ate at a restaurant which had a 'no cash' policy, I'm not sure how you would resolve a situation with a client who was willing to pay in cash only. Would the restaurant be able to refuse your cash and say you ate w
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by friedButter 9y ago
http://trak.in/tags/business/2017/12/22/amazon-pay-wallet-ch... Amazon Pay is targeting this issue specifically in India, though yes, its an overall generic wallet as well
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by friedButter 9y ago
UFO = Unidentified Flying Object Its fair to say that some flying objects would be unidentified after all
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by friedButter 9y ago
Isnt there a very large tax Norway applies to other cars that doesnt apply to Tesla?
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by friedButter 9y ago
Interesting. This sort of resentment is not showing up in India (yet). Perhaps a generation or 2 later it might since the N-2 today still has govt funded pensions and the N-1 generation again either has pensions or stocked up on wealth thro
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by friedButter 9y ago
> federal judge agreed that McDonnell-Douglas had illegally considered the pensions in its decision to close the plant. The employees case, presented by attorneys Joe Farris and Mike Mulder, showed that the company had tracked pension s
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by friedButter 9y ago
Is retirement planning (Live "below your means" and put in 20-30% or more of your salary towards long term investments), and family support (you fund your kids education and parents post retirement needs, and your kids fund your p
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by friedButter 9y ago
When I post less than once a month, it pops up at the top of everyones feed. If I'm posting daily, it doesnt...
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by friedButter 9y ago
Then there should be provisions in the copyright law to allow the govt to suspend copyright when entertainment becomes part of the culture, similar to how some patent protections are suspended in India when a medicine is determined to be es
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by friedButter 9y ago
It's entertainment. Why should anything other than being good for shareholders matter? It's not an essential goods company like say food or medicine
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by friedButter 9y ago
Or maybe just checks HN once in a while,vs every 5 minutes?
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by friedButter 9y ago
Fair enough,and I'll take your word on that being true.(still they could have given an example or 2 rather than a ban on a whole bunch of subreddit) Anyways, I misinterpreted the HN thread as asking the question whereas it was meant to
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by friedButter 9y ago
My comment wasn't even about equal pay. It was about equal representation..
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by friedButter 9y ago
>The thing that really drives me crazy is how _so much_ food is sweetened, even things where it makes no sense. Yeah.. thats restricted to US :) Visiting US from India, I ended up throwing away a loaf of bread cause it was as sweet as
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by friedButter 9y ago
They make you validate your work email, which is then linked to every post you make on the platform :) This will blow up one day.
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by friedButter 9y ago
>What is preventing, or perhaps more likely - disincentivizing, people of even moderate means from doing this? Its more of a lack of incentive than disincentive. When making profit is essentially outlawed ( https://www.thegua
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by friedButter 9y ago
How can inflation be so rampant when the army enforces price control? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/venezuela-army...
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by friedButter 9y ago
Well, the real problem with burning witches was that they were actually Human! I dont see whats the problem with a market illogically choosing to boycott a product, if the market wants a less efficient solution, so be it!
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by friedButter 9y ago
I guess the one loud and clear message here is that companies prefer for exploits to be sold on the black market\given to the public anonymously than for the companies to be alerted to exploits
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by friedButter 9y ago
>Also as a "fun" fact, residence cards features the logo of the ministry of justice. Just like if all foreigners were criminal with such a high probability that this minister handle the matter from the beginning. No different t
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by friedButter 9y ago
I think 5-9 words is much more than 7 bits of information...
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by friedButter 9y ago
>What exactly is a human supposed to do differently in that situation? Attempt to continue driving straight and potentially end up being t-boned by the truck instead? Honk
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by friedButter 9y ago
>I actually think that's part of why they have such a big problem with counterfeits. If someone complains about a counterfeit some low paid employee who doesn't really understand the problem just presses "refund order,&quo
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by friedButter 9y ago
Interesting.. I'll look up project implicit. The 2 situations which came to mind were the github conference that was cancelled for not being diverse enough after a blind review process and the study done by masking the gender of the a
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by friedButter 9y ago
The problem with IRC is, if diverse participants realize their inputs arent as valued when viewed without bias, they will cause PR issues. On media like Twitter, you can always pay special attention to diverse folks so they dont feel left o
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by friedButter 9y ago
>The alternative of an H1B is not an American. It's off shoring the entire project to a team that doesn't live in the US in the first place. This is fairly obvious, but do Americans not realize this? Or are they consciously say
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by friedButter 9y ago
I feel the real issue is that Americans are comfy with their quality of life, and spend a lot of money on luxury educationm ending up with loans. People in India for instance are used to a massively lower level of material comforts during e

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