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by jogjayr 9y ago
I thought the B1/B2 was a business/tourist visa. You can't check email if you enter on a business visa? Business does seem to be the purpose of GP's trip.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Sitting on property and collecting rent is clearly not working. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about that. Even landlords have to work (and I say this as a tenant). There's tenants to screen, repairs to manage, regul
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Certainly some investment can be classed as "gambling". But not all, maybe not even most. Starting, owning, and/or running a business is working. Only it's working with no guarantee of any reward. Again, we can argue a
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by jogjayr 9y ago
"Unearned income includes investment-type income such as taxable interest, ordinary dividends, and capital gain distributions."[1] "Unearned income includes things like annuity payments, pension income, distributions from ret
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by jogjayr 9y ago
OTOH passive investment will only track the market and return an average of 7-10%. Compared to that small-time landlording (which I define as 1-10 units), a popular side-income stream for many working professionals, returns 10-20% in return
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by jogjayr 9y ago
If you lose a job, you just lose the income stream and 2 weeks of salary at most (+ whatever time it takes to find a new job). With an investment there's a risk of losing the asset entirely. Rental property gets buried in a landslide,
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> The tax system seems to prefer this to actually earning money for some reason. The tax system favors unearned income over earned income to adjust for risk. If you work a job you're guaranteed to be paid for the hours you worked (a
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by jogjayr 9y ago
What if it turns out that research suggests gun control is effective in reducing gun violence? Note, I'm not saying that it is effective; I have no dog in this fight and don't know enough. But the law effectively says to the CDC &
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> HBO is hamstrung by its lucrative cable tv deals in the US, which prevents it from competing effectively with Netflix in the streaming market. HBO's library is far smaller than Netflix's (though average quality of titles is h
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Given the number of people I've seen step away from their desks without locking their machines (in the tech industry, no less)...I don't think "hack relies on physical access to the machine wontfix" is an entirely reason
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Why did they stop all work after that? I didn't have any knowledge of this before now but apparently the answer might be "fear". The CDC (or more accurately the researchers there) think any gun violence research is a sur
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> I'm reading that companies are going to do better in the future and will see a rise in stock price, and it makes sense, so I sometimes buy them. I think that way about my index funds too. But then it's impossible to know the
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by jogjayr 9y ago
OTOH if you live below your means, the outsized salaries make wealth accumulation far easier than anywhere else.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Maybe they felt the cost of fighting fraud there would be too high? Scammer signs up as a patron to his own account with stolen credit card, gets paid, Patreon can't charge the (now-cancelled) card at the end of the month? They could d
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Great concept and website (and kudos on the witty domain name!). The questions (at least the ones I could see) are useful and it's great there are explanations of what you might want to pay attention to in the answer. The only negative
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Every job has its difficult days, but none has ever felt like "eating sh*t" (and I've also tried starting my own company). So I can't relate to that unfortunately. If any job ever felt like it wasn't meeting my need
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by jogjayr 9y ago
You lose the ability to differentiate your product or offerings and become a commodity supplier to the actual distributor. If the customer comes to your restaurant or calls you to order tacos, it's because they want your tacos (or th
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Look into the financial independence/retire early (FIRE) communities. Here's a good starting point. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... It's important to note that (
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by jogjayr 9y ago
"You Can Negotiate Anything" by Herb Cohen. While not a sales book per se (like the title implies, it's about negotiating) it gets you into the "sales" mindset. The sales mindset is about figuring out what matters m
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Beg to disagree. If you have money in India you can get water supply. Even if you're located in a remote village with no plumbing, water trucks will deliver weekly and fill up your domestic water tank. So...the analogy to healthcare in
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Anyone not earning an income in the US gets 'free' healthcare and has for decades. It's anything but free, it's very expensive. My impression was that the only way it's "free" is if you walk into an e
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> It used to be you had to stay together no matter what. It is not that people inthe past would miraculously solve marital problems - they often just had to stay despite violence, abuse or simply sever partners disregard. True story. My
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by jogjayr 9y ago
In Mountain View, just off Castro street, AFAIK. Their name isn't even on the building. Super low-key. An external shot of the building was used in the show Silicon Valley as a stand-in for the Pied Pier office in season 2 or 3 (wher
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> I don't understand why people feel they have a right to move to a particular place and live there at a particular price. I don't understand why people feel they should have the right to decide what their neighbors do with the
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> But they also don't really have a good alternative that wouldn't lose them a lot of money in a time where, if they're not in the class that owns multiple houses, they're already struggling. That's not true at a
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by jogjayr 9y ago
The linked image you shared is one I've seen before that was a Louisiana state voter literacy test used for voter suppression. It was disproportionately administered to black voters[1] I'm not saying that IQ tests are useful measu
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> because they are not allowed to use IQ tests There's actual employment law that prohibits using IQ tests? I'd never heard that before
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by jogjayr 9y ago
That's not necessarily true, especially if you work in tech.
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Save money now so you can afford to take career risks later.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
It's not so great for the staff either. Instead of waiting an extra 10 minutes for a parent that's 10 minutes late, they now have to wait 30 minutes because the parent had to make a 20 minute detour to the grocery store to buy mil

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