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by hash872 5y ago
>the US immigration system ties visas to a single employer While this is true for the L1 and one other (I believe J1), I don't understand why people believes this to be true for H1Bs. It's simply false- H1Bs can transfer employ
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by hash872 5y ago
Most of this comment is untrue & unnecessarily hyperbolic. This is an updating of the old Soviet FOBS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment... ) with a glider, not a brand new technology and
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by hash872 5y ago
Here's an alternate piece by the same author with some fairly different numbers? https://insights.dice.com/2021/02/12/20-highest-paying-h-1b-...
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by hash872 5y ago
This is utterly untrue, tons & tons of H1Bs are making over $100k, and I personally know one making $180k (to the OP's example). Also contrary to popular belief it's not that difficult to switch jobs as an H1B, so if one was u
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by hash872 5y ago
I don't mean to be curt, but if you really feel that way, nothing's stopping you from renouncing your US citizenship and moving to a developing country with vastly less government (and taxes) such as Afghanistan, the Central Afric
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by hash872 5y ago
It does not necessarily include a profit margin for the owners, because houses & condos are simultaneously purchased by non-landlords who aren't trying to generate a return- so that's who sets the prices. And in practice real
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by hash872 5y ago
Well many, many rentals were originally owner-occupied SFHs or condos. So they weren't purchased to be profitable. From my experience at a commercial real estate brokerage, forming a personal relationship with dozens & dozens of la
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by hash872 5y ago
Going to court over this in California, New York or Massachusetts: You: Here are 3 emails I sent documenting the problem and asking for it to be fixed, here's a 4th email stating I would be hiring the handyman myself if it wasn't
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by hash872 5y ago
Other than not renewing your lease, they literally can't do any of those things. (Your credit? You have to be a certified financial institution to be able to report things to your credit report. Fun fact, small claims court judgements
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by hash872 5y ago
I basically agree with Bruenig. To put what I said in a couple of comments in one place: The idea is that if renting is cheaper than owning in your city, you pocket the difference you would've spent on owning and put it in the market.
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by hash872 5y ago
>Time and energy are not free and I have better things to do with my time than try to claw back what I'm owed from a scummy landlord in small claims court or similar I think you missed what I said. No courts are involved- if your re
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by hash872 5y ago
But the point is that renting is significantly cheaper than owning a home- so you take the difference and put it in the market every month. That's the key point- that the monies invested in the market over time will beat however much
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by hash872 5y ago
But then you have to subtract all of the costs of owning the physical property over a long time span- everything that broke. Plus the taxes, insurance, water & sewer etc., as Bruenig notes. I previously worked in a commercial real estat
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by hash872 5y ago
I'm a little confused. If you owned the home or condo, you'd have to handle getting anything fixed yourself, including your water seeping example. So you have to pay out of pocket for it, plus handle dealing with the contractor, e
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by hash872 5y ago
> With this stunt, the US gets Australia to abandon its former policy of independence from the US, but basically sets back its efforts to mobilize Europe against the Chinese by at least 5 years I think the US is pretty reasonably conclud
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by hash872 5y ago
France was reportedly stumbling on their end of actually delivering the modified Barracudas though. Here, this is an excellent, very very detailed blog post on the whole topic https://corporalfrisk.com/2021/09/17&#
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by hash872 5y ago
The US spends under 10% of its federal budget on the military. In 2020 it spent more just on healthcare for the elderly than the entire military budget . Here, please take a look at the numbers straight from the CBO! https://www
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by hash872 5y ago
Do you really honestly believe that anyone that became addicted really listened intently to Purdue Company marketing and made an informed decision based on that? That if the marketing was more cautious, they would have made a rational decis
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by hash872 5y ago
I can basically agree with this, and I was being slightly provocative. On the other hand, it's become accepted wisdom that the Sacklers are Literally Hitler, and I guess I don't think puffery in marketing is really that horrendous
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by hash872 5y ago
And it continues to be a medicine. If God forbid you broke a limb, burned yourself, shocked yourself, were bitten by something.... you'd want a painkiller stat. I just watched an older relative cautiously take an opioid for pain relief
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by hash872 5y ago
Maybe this isn't constructive or will get downvoted, but I'd be interested to see the overlap between HN commenters who are very outraged by this/doing lots of emotive moralizing, and also the typical HN libertarian who think
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by hash872 5y ago
No, because if the party you're messaging has iCloud backup on (a good chance), or is on Android, or has their device physically accessed somehow- a third party can read all of the messages that you sent them. There is no 'true pr
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by hash872 5y ago
I basically agree with everything you've said here, but one nitpick: >In the Bay Area, they at one time had "Sit/Lie" laws prohibiting loitering -- but the locals condemned them as cruel and inhumane. Instead, they ad
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by hash872 5y ago
I also have a SLAP tear and would love to use BPC or something else to fix it, as I'm not going to have surgery. However, injecting a grey market research chemical I bought off the Internet into my body is just way, way outside my risk
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by hash872 5y ago
The United States spends more on healthcare just for the elderly as it does its entire, famous military budget. The spends 70% more on Medicare & Medicaid combined, than the entire military budget. It spends more than three times as
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by hash872 5y ago
Apparently unpopular opinion- there was/is no coordinated super-effective thing that a united humanity could have done to stop the spread of Covid once it emerged. There's no One Weird Old Trick that prevents a new, deadly disease
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by hash872 5y ago
I don't see what's the complex externality here- they can't raise prices significantly because they're legally prevented from doing so. 'The people with the guns & the legal monopoly on force forbid it' is
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by hash872 5y ago
As Ben Thompson of Stratechery explains, Uber is a two-sided market- it has sufficient liquidity of both riders & drivers. Any new app would have to sign up tens of thousands of drivers to be even remotely competitive, and that would co
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by hash872 5y ago
They are very close to being a monopoly in the US, and are certainly a duopoly. Predatory pricing for a decade to establish market share, and then raising prices once in duopoly status, would be a slamdunk antitrust case. That's the le
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by hash872 5y ago
The issue is that 'Krav Maga' or 'dirty techniques' are not immediately, 100% effective. This is fallacious/magical thinking. So is 'learning how to deal with attackers with knives, guns'. Just because a K

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