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by geomark 11y ago
US citizens need not apply, right? I mean, due to FATCA a US citizen can't open a bank account in Switzerland. Makes it hard to cash that fat paycheck. Or do you have a way around that?
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by geomark 11y ago
I speak a couple languages and also noticed imprecision in each of them. What is interesting is where in the languages the imprecision occurs. It often seems to be a reflection of cultural values. In some Asian languages there is great impo
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by geomark 11y ago
I frequently donate directly to needy children. Other worthy causes as well. I don't have a choice when it comes to taxes - a large fraction of them are used for highly immoral purposes. As a moral person I do not support paying more t
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by geomark 11y ago
What's the ratio of new roads to drone strikes that kill civilians? Cost of pervasive surveillance versus cost of quality schools? Etc, etc. My opinion is that, given the vast and expanding evil of an already huge and highly immoral go
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by geomark 11y ago
Sure, but the problem is that if the employer is really bad they will strongly deny any abusive behavior and insist the employee simply refused to follow reasonable orders. Does the employee have to sue to get that overturned, and how would
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by geomark 11y ago
Terminated for insubordination is actually what I meant. I seem to recall that that was one of the "for cause" criterion, but not absolutely sure. Regardless, at the companies where I worked it meant involuntary termination withou
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by geomark 11y ago
Correct. You'll get a PIP and, given that management are such a-holes, you will soon be terminated for cause. Not a great thing to have following you if you are early in your career.
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by geomark 11y ago
The "Hadley Wickham Universe", yeah, his stuff is awesome. magrittr and rvest are more awesomeness from Hadley that make web scraping a pleasure. [1] [1] http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/11/24/rvest-easy
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by geomark 11y ago
I used it when I was taking the John Hopkins data science series on Coursera. I thought it was very basic and didn't learn much from it. That was middle of last year. Don't know if it is more challenging now.
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by geomark 11y ago
Same for me with tonal language. At first I couldn't even hear the tones when given examples of 3 Thai words with the same spelling but different tones and hence different meanings. Eventually I got it and do pretty well now.
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by geomark 11y ago
My son is growing up bilingual. It's natural since mother and father have different first languages. I've been amazed since age 4 how easily he switches between the two languages. I'll be talking to him in English and he will
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by geomark 11y ago
It's a terrible disservice to people to cultivate that feeling in them. A language is an extremely valuable tool, and it must evolve to remain valuable or it will die.
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by geomark 11y ago
Depends a lot on where you live. Live in a lower class Hispanic neighborhood? Both English and Spanish would be pretty essential.
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by geomark 11y ago
Single data point anecdote: an acquaintance from Kansas met and married a Thai woman there and they moved to Thailand. Unlikely that he would have previously ever considered learning Thai as a second language, but he's trying hard to l
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by geomark 11y ago
A lot of researchers would disagree with the statement "That’s not how science works: You don’t sign a contract to not change anything in your protocol as the research evolves" You've got to complete the test using the protoc
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by geomark 11y ago
IMHO it isn't "direction". PG just put various arguing methods into a sensible framework. Other people have done the same. I only referenced PG's because it seemed pertinent given his relationship to this forum. And I wa
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by geomark 11y ago
I will also add that many (most?) US banks will not provide banking services for you if they know you live overseas. You have to maintain a US address. Even then, if they discover that despite having a US mailing address you actually reside
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by geomark 11y ago
So you get can't paid at all because they don't issues checks, they direct deposit to your bank account, which you no longer have thanks to FATCA.
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by geomark 11y ago
I think this thread might need a refresher on how to disagree [1]. Already a few DH0 offenses. [1] http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by geomark 11y ago
So Free Basics has been in India for about a year already. Are any of the grand claims about it supported by the data ? I like data.
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by geomark 11y ago
For many people it isn't about taxes. It's the fact that due to FATCA they can't even have a bank account in the country where they have lived and worked for many years. Banks in some countries have closed the accounts of US
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by geomark 11y ago
It's the failure to file a FBAR every year that has meant some people have paid outrageous fines. That's separate from the income tax return.
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by geomark 11y ago
Nope. You must file FBAR for all of your accounts only if the sum of them ever exceeded US$10,000 during the year. That requirement has been around for many years. The IRS rules concerning FBAR are here: https://www.irs.gov/
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by geomark 11y ago
For many years I worked in a big tech company that had 2 and 3 person offices grouped into bays of 6 offices around a small common area where a secretary had a desk and files, printers and coffee machine were kept. The grouping usually corr
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by geomark 11y ago
From the syllabus: "Lectures and projects can only be accessed by clients with a CMU IP address."
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by geomark 11y ago
Yes, this is the problem at my registrar if I setup a redirect there. Everything gets redirected to www.foo.com instead of www.foo.com/bar.
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by geomark 11y ago
Where is the best place to do that? A redirect at the domain registrar, in my webserver (e.g. Apache), or in my app?
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by geomark 11y ago
Isn't that the majority of them? I don't know the numbers. That's why I'm asking.
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by geomark 11y ago
How do you do that? Isn't it true that with the way teachers are organized you pay everyone the same based on some blanket criteria like seniority? So you can't pay the good ones handsomely without also paying the bad ones well, w
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by geomark 11y ago
Is dysbiosis being considered as a possible contributor to colorectal cancer? It's a big killer in the US. Lists of risk factors only include eating processed meats, type 2 diabetes, alcohol consumption and being overweight.

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