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by hwstar 11y ago
That is wonderful, but regrettable it would never happen. There are too many employees living paycheck to paycheck.
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by hwstar 11y ago
You have just described the weakness of the American populace. They deliberately don't teach people in public schools to work towards financial independence, that would be bad for the oligarchy.
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by hwstar 11y ago
H1B employees are "at-will", and even in a more precarious situation with a sword of Damocles hanging by a thread over their heads. If they quit, they get sent back to their home country unless they arranged in advance for a diffe
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by hwstar 11y ago
I would have given two weeks notice as soon as they tried to pull this off. If they escorted me out the door as soon as I gave notice, so be it. In America, the land of "employment at will", the only way to stack the deck in your
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by hwstar 11y ago
1. You can't raise the minimum wage without also having rent control or more public (section 8) housing. People on minimum wage usually have little negotiating power. Landlords servo the rents to what the market will bear. The market i
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by hwstar 11y ago
When everyone has a Master's, employers will start stating Phd as the minimum. In San Diego, most large companies won't even talk to you if you only have a Bachelor's Degree. Upskilling: A pox on America. What about hiring fo
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by hwstar 11y ago
A pre and post Ad is probably OK if it can be skipped like on Youtube. I actually watch more stuff on Youtube as it is more intellectually stimulating. The only reason we keep Netflix is my wife likes some of the shows. If they make the pre
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by hwstar 11y ago
There is another segment of the population which I am a part of. The "Early Retirees". We left the workforce by choice because of the following: 1. We don't want to spend 3 hours of our day in traffic jams. 2. We don't l
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by hwstar 11y ago
I'm financially independent. I don't have to work to pay the bills, but I do like working on interesting and challenging projects. I just want to be able to pick and choose what I work on. I have a large network on the leading bus
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Show HN: 6 Volt 5 Watt Solar Charge Controller for Solar Powered Projects(github.com)
1 points by hwstar 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are there job sites with good filtering?
1 points by hwstar 11y ago|2 comments
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by hwstar 11y ago
I respectfully disagree with this line of thinking. The goal of a society is to eliminate as many people from needing government benefits as possible, and to ensure that only those who are truly unemployable receive government benefits. Emp
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by hwstar 11y ago
I hear this "What if the minimum wage was raised to some ridiculous amount" argument from conservative people all the time. (I think they parrot it from conservative AM radio talk show hosts) That is a loaded question. The minimum
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by hwstar 11y ago
Great except for the noncompete contract shoved down your throat be Texas employers. I won't work for any employer who won't waive a noncompete contract. This means California or a couple of other states. More states need to make
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by hwstar 11y ago
Things I would have done differently: 1. I should have started earlier. I didn't start working towards financial independence till my second job. 2. I should have bought more rental properties. Regarding startups: For hardware products
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by hwstar 11y ago
I have been passionate about electronics since I was 6 years old. In my senior year in high school, I landed a part time job as an electronics technician. When I graduated, I worked full time for that company for 10 years as a self-taught e
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by hwstar 11y ago
I'm older (54), live in San Diego, CA. San Diego is also high cost with a 440K median house price. I was employed as an electrical hardware engineer for a computer peripherals company until November 2014. The job market for electrical
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by hwstar 11y ago
That last paragraph is spot on.
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by hwstar 11y ago
It will be interesting to see how the utilities react to this. Right now the utilities in California are phasing in a $10.00 per month base rate which is fixed regardless of the amount of energy you use. I would think that this base rate co
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Open Source Hardware ESP8266 MQTT Appliance Node(github.com)
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by hwstar 12y ago
The EU has the working time directive which limits the number of hours to an average of 48 per week over 6 week intervals. The US "exempt" employee has no restriction on working time, and neither do hourly employees have any rest
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by hwstar 12y ago
If you live in California, non-competes are not allowed under section 16600 of the Business and Professions code. They could file a lawsuit, but it would be thrown out by the California courts. Lawyers have a term for this tactic: "in
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CFPB is looking to reform pre-dispute arbitration agreements(ocregister.com)
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by hwstar 12y ago
Noncompetes should be banned at the federal level using California Law as a model.
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by hwstar 12y ago
The inverse of opportunistic upskilling is a readjustment of skill levels to reality. There are only so many "Purple Squirrels" to go around, and in a tighter labor market, these individuals will work for the highest bidder. This
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by hwstar 12y ago
If these AT&T shenanigans is the way very large businesses are run in America, than there needs to be legislative reform, as those ways of running a business are parasitic. I believe that the incentives need to change for corporations.
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by hwstar 12y ago
Hysteresis will solve this over time. This only works to a maximum extreme, then it snaps back and there is nothing the minority party can do to retain power other than a physical coup 'd e tat.
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by hwstar 12y ago
Looks like you want something for nothing. No job is going to EVER give enough free time for you to pursue your interests to the fullest. I'm afraid you'll have to go about this in another way: Live below your means and work tow
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by hwstar 12y ago
By filing suit in an out of state court first.