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by hwstar 11y ago
Yes, the amount of debt was much larger in WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_p...
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I agree. Sometimes a nudge is all it takes to start things going it a positive direction. Employers have been stuck in a rut when it comes to the minimum wage. If the supply of labour becomes more expensive, maybe this will change their min
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Getting a promotion to a good position requires all of the following: 1. The company must be growing non-linearly and be strong financially. 2. You must have enough value to the company where if you leave you'll be difficult to replace
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Another argument for making medical insurance and healthcare companies Public Benefit Companies which have more than the profit motive as their highest priority.
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American employers like H-1B because of employment-at-will. The author mentions that companies will open remote offices in other countries if the H-1B program is severely curtailed. Most other countries in the world do not have employment-a
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First, National Semiconductor buys Fairchild Semiconductor, then spits then out before they are acquired by TI, now On Semiconductor wants to work them over. These mergers and acquisitions tell me that the epoch of non-linear growth is over
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I agree. Reforms are necessary. The USA has some of the worst worker protections in the developed world. We are a nation controlled by wealthy bankers and businesspersons. They do the nominating of our elected officials and we vote for one
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The way it was explained to me by law enforcement people is that law enforcement has a right to know if you have ever been arrested so that they can take safety precautions if you are ever arrested again. IMHO, that's a weak argument.
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Here's another interesting fact. Once the arrested bit is set, it is immutable in the eyes of the State of California. Law enforcement knows if you have been arrested in the past even if the specific reasons are expunged at the request
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When 0.05% of the electorate does the nominating of elected officials, and you only get to vote for who was nominated, you have corruption plain and simple. Go view Lawrence Lessig's TEDx talk on this issue. https://www.ted
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by hwstar 11y ago
I dumped Windows when they clamped down on licensing when they released Windows XP. I've been running Linux ever since. Whoever solves the Linux program packaging issues is going to make the best contribution to Linux in years. When yo
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This is a good start, but it doesn't address the root of the problem with H-1B visas. The only way to fix the H-1B visa is to switch from a lottery system to a bidding system where employers bid up the wages of the H-1B employees.
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We the People (2013)(ted.com)
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This gem: "Once, technology meant stuff that went to the moon…cured fatal diseases…extended the human lifespan […] miraculous breakthroughs that altered lives […] Now, “tech” means something very different: apps that…hails taxis…summon
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If the government gets to carried away with this, then jury nullification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification will come into play.
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This is why I dumped cable in 2008. "Hour long" American TV shows are some of the shortest in the world, and are filled with redundancy as viewers "forget" where they are in the show after a stack of ads every 6-8 minute
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All I can say is that is good. Ads (mostly) try to sell you something you really don't need. Additionally products which advertise can be 10-35% more expensive than products which don't.
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My theory why this is not happening is the US at-will employment laws. Opening offices in foreign countries has a few downsides. In addition to the extra recurring costs to rent a building, most (if not all) first and second world countries
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This money will go to some fancy consultants, and their paper reports will be the only tangible deliverable. It costs billions to build a maglev train, 28.7M is just a drop in the bucket.
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This could be especially good in the summertime if you have one of those ice-based storage air conditioners.
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3. Squirrel away as much as possible while you have that high paying job and retire early. When retired, work on open source hardware and software.
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I had to get to the article using google. Well, I suppose India won't be sending that many engineers to the US on an H-1B once the Indian companies lobby the Indian Government cut off the export of their local talent. The only losers h
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What's stopping someone from Filing BK (bankruptcy) to wipe the jail debt clean?
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Most likely. He probably sits at his desk and watches a bunch of CCTV monitors or the time clock management server making sure no one leaves early
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In Canada, employers can't fire as easily as the US, (just-cause vs. at-will employment) they actually have to document a nonperforming employee's performance to a much higher standard than necessary in the US. So even though they
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The financiers are in control instead of the builders and engineers, and this paragraph sums it up nicely: What America does have, however, is a very ripe population of vulnerable people that some shitbrains are thinking could help them tur
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No savings and a large amount of debt keeps a lot of people from switching jobs due to the risk of an interruption in debt payments. Maybe their algorithm tries to determine the assets an employee owns and avoid those with large savings and
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Some people are subject to temptation. By eliminating as much advertising and phone spam as possible, these people may have a better chance of getting ahead. The world would be a very different place if people didn't succumb to adverti
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This mostly sounds like a sales pitch for the book to me as it does not disclose any of the methods to get from active to passive income. The key to getting out of the active income trap is to do the following: 1. Persue education to get a
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So the pesky US constitution got in the way of a "fallow land tax"? It seems to me if land is being left fallow, then that's something which ought to be discouraged. If land is in service, then the property taxes should be no

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