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by jogjayr 9y ago
The ultimate goal is 25x your annual spending, including a tax-sheltered retirement account - that's f-you money. Until you get there, 6 months to a year. Or for maximum safety, however much you'd need to pay for expenses and max
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Figure out what matters to you personally and frame exercise in terms of a means to achieving or aiding you in that matter. For example, if family is important to you, being strong and fit makes it easier to take care of a young family. If
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A bit of both. There's nothing here specific to WeWork itself. You could say a lot of these things about practically anyone who works their day job at any kind of co-working space. It feels like a bunch of anecdotes about freelancers a
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Out of the major, popular sports, racquet sports (tennis, badminton, table tennis) and golf are the only ones that don't carry significant risk of horrific injuries (head injury or compound fractures). Most contact sports and non-conta
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I'm not disagreeing there's an issue, I'm just not sure that it's deliberate. People refer who they know socially or have worked with in the past - your friends will tell you they're looking for a new job, but your
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> But also in 20 years I’ve never once seen a Chinese colleague refer a non-Chinese National (or even Chinese-American) for an open req. What you're describing is a feature/bug of referral-based hiring and has nothing to do wi
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> What's going to happen if you switch the job on a pending I-140? And an I-140 could be pending for years in case you are not aware. The I-140 can be premium processed. How could it be pending for years? Your new employer restarts
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Can you elaborate? It's always been my understanding that the visa can be extended past 6 years in 1-3 year increments if you have an approved I-140. Without losing your "place" in the green card line.
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They may have meant naturalized US citizens.
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> In practice, though, H1-B becomes indentured servitude, since they cannot freely move between companies. This hasn't been true for at least 10 years (maybe more). It is entirely possible to change jobs on an H-1B. The new company
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I hardly ever write comments for code I write. My philosophy, which I took from Uncle Bob, is if code is so complex it needs commenting at a statement or method level then it's too complex. Simplify the logic, put complex clauses or st
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I read a while ago that it's actually going well for them. Couldn't find the article I read then but here's another: http://www.digitaljournal.com/business/guardian-newspaper-av... The key point to note
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We also wouldn't have very much environmental pollution without automation. Humanity wouldn't have left much of a permanent mark on the Earth if we had gone extinct before industrialization. Barring the desertification of the Fert
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No one's seriously suggesting going back to horses. Many are advocating mass-transit or bike-friendliness.
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> That’s why if someone who knows a language never speaks it again after age 7, there’s a good chance they’ll forget most of it. But if you yank them away around age 12 or older and reintroduce them to it 30 years later, there’s a good c
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I stand corrected.
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The laws of thermodynamics alone lead me to suspect that that's probably not the case.
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Ethanol has never made much sense to me. Drill and pump petroleum, process into gasoline (for tractors), and fertilizers, grow corn, turn into ethanol., It's the equivalent of getting a crisp new $100 bill from the bank, recycling it i
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Once you join a company and start working full-time, aggressively volunteer to take on tasks that aren't your specialty. In any company there's always something that needs to be done but no one has the time to do - setting up re
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I think you can have a bit of column A, a bit of column B. My home city is Mumbai (technically, the suburban city of Thane, north of Mumbai) one of the most dense large cities in the world. Public transportation in Mumbai, in terms of frequ
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Don't use shrinkwrap - this comes directly from Laurie Voss, COO of NPM Inc. In my own experience using npm shrinkwrap has been pretty bad. NPM has its own lockfiles now, similar to yarn. > It has a few problems of its own, notably
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We self-host Artifactory. If our internal instance goes down, it's always possible to fall back to the public registry of language (NPM, Maven, pip etc). It's far more unlikely for our Artifactory and the public registry to go dow
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In my org, we use Artifactory as a cache between us and external sources. They have a free version too. I'd encourage everyone to use it, or something like it. Stop pointing your package managers to the public registry.
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0xcafecafe is right. I think the confusion you're having is "place in line" vs "length of green card process". Your Indian friends have been waiting 8 years because their turn in line hasn't come yet. The place
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> They also can’t apply for another job nor switch jobs because of it, As someone who's switched jobs on an H1 twice, I can tell you it's simply not true. It's a common misconception because earlier you couldn't chang
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> Lets talk of the Indian 1% when somebody in a Indian university writes some thing the equivalent of a Linux, Perl or FreeBSD. Easy-peasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_B._Shah He didn't even go to IIT -
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Doesn't the efficient market theory ensure that any outsized future returns are already reflected in the price?
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Should people who aren't naturally gifted at interpersonal interaction simply accept their reduced prospects of social, romantic, career and business success? Try applying that logic to any other skill that doesn't come naturally.
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> because they want to pad their CV in order to get a job completely unrelated to free software. I don't consider that to be a bad reason to be involved in open-source. People do similar things in other fields all the time. Serving
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Because skills gained from reading fiction transfer relatively easily into more productive pursuits: studying, programming, writing. Not to mention that reading isn't "consuming stories passively". You need to develop an imag

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