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by jogjayr 9y ago
Honestly I don't know the legal field that well. How common is it to get a legal apprenticeship without any sort of degree? (because we're talking about avoiding all college debt, not just law school debt). If you don't get a
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Except that all the top law firms hire exclusively from top law schools. And the legal field is generally oversupplied with lawyers so if you don't work at a top law firm you won't be making a great living for a long time.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
There's a big difference between having the skills for doing the job and having the credentials for getting the job.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Downvoters care to comment and tell me why I'm wrong? I'm talking plain numbers based on personal experience. This is not a matter of opinion.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Like I mentioned in my reply to the child comment there are also many deductions apart from the standard deduction. There's no way someone with a $100k salary is paying > 30% effective tax rate even after taking into account state t
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Who said anything about saving in the US to spend in India? Saving in the Bay Area to spend in rural Montana is an equally valid comparison, cost-of-living wise. The point I was making is that some things cost the same no matter where you l
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by jogjayr 9y ago
FICA contributions top out at $127k gross income. Someone earning $300k/year is paying the same amount in FICA as someone earning $127k. Which I actually think is unfair, but that's another topic entirely. The standard deduction i
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Except that even in the Bay Area you're paying a marginal tax rate of 30-40%, not an effective rate. They're different things. If you're actually paying > 30% effective federal tax rate you'd have to be earning > $
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Kinda-sorta. With a higher salary, living a below-average lifestyle for the area can lead to staggering savings rates and savings in absolute terms. For instance, saving even 23% of 120k is better than saving 30% of 90k. And of course a lot
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I've had some success using the first 5 digits of a 6-digit Indian postal code.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
That article is a classic but I don't really understand how it applies in this case. Smart companies commoditize their products' complements (something that needs to be bought with the product) so that whoever wants buy their prod
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I can assure you the healthcare industry in India is by-and-large for-profit. It doesn't mean everything has to be more expensive.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Strangely though, the US enjoys lower prices for consumer goods like fashion brands, and consumer electronics. Nike shoes and a Sony TV will be more expensive in India than the US. That's not strange at all. India has import dutie
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Also, why aren't plunderer Spain and Portugal super-wealthy? Well they're not exactly poor either. They're still considered first-world, advanced nations. And they've had some "bad ideas" like, military ru
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Plunder is a silly excuse. It's really isn't. "Colonial plunder" isn't a horde of soldiers rampaging through your country taking your gold and women. Colonial plunder is generations upon generations of domestic
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by jogjayr 9y ago
It's hard to compare India to any other country except for China. No other nation is of a comparable size. It's all well and good to say "well Japan, South Korea, Singapore did great after being devastated by war and depress
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> India, Russia and China had close to the same landmass for several hundred to thousand years prior but they didn't achieve what U.S. did despite a huge head start. Uh they did. "The Mughal Empire began a period of proto-indus
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by jogjayr 9y ago
And, all things considered, India's hardly done "terribly". It's a remarkable achievement to maintain a united, democratic, mostly peaceful nation for 70 years straight (and counting). Most former colonies collapsed into
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by jogjayr 9y ago
But someone with no connections would presumably not have that much capital to move either, right? They'd not move much volume even if they bypassed capital controls.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible [1][2]. They use a different script and slightly different vocabularies [3]. But because of exposure via Bollywood and other media (my personal experience) most people who speak one can understand th
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I'm fairly certain the word is of either Persian or Arabic origin. It probably came to the subcontinent during one of the numerous invasions by Arabic or Turco-Persian conquerors in the Middle Ages [1]. You'd be surprised how many
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by jogjayr 9y ago
In a Google doc. While you may say a Google doc is a suboptimal environment for coding, it was literally fizzbuzz.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I failed fizzbuzz once in a phone interview. I was really nervous. I've since gone on to have a reasonably successful career in software. It can happen.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
What was wrong with the language and tone? Apart from it being informal and casual? It's Medium, not an industry whitepaper. There's no expectation of Serious Business Writing™ here.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
And in fact it's the 15th most-spoken language worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Typically in Indian private schools the students are responsible for purchasing textbooks at the start of the school year, not the schools (I don't know how it works at public schools). And they won't change their textbook mid-yea
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by jogjayr 9y ago
In the context of poor students in India trying to learn skills that will get them a well-paying job, computer science knowledge without knowing how to program is effectively useless.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
That's fair but their serving utensils don't need to make any contact with your tupperware. As long as it looks clean enough to sit on their counter while they convey the food into it, that should be sufficient right? EDIT: The &q
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by jogjayr 9y ago
You should probably avoid eating that much tuna because of the mercury anyway. https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/mroussell5.htm In addition to whey protein, brown rice protein, pea protein or hemp protein work great too
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> I know that sounds weird but I feel immensely guilty throwing away plastic and styrofoam every day just to have a bit of lunch, That doesn't sound weird at all. Seems perfectly normal to me. > but it's not like you can sh

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