jogjayr

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by jogjayr 6y ago
I was 2 months into my first job in the US when I worked out that my manager used "How are you?" as a greeting, no different from "Hello". No answer was actually expected. It felt odd not to answer a question asked of me
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Although the Google Guaranteed program is paid, it's specific to certain types of businesses (service providers like plumbers and locksmiths). Google performs a background check and verifies the business's license and insurance. I
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by jogjayr 6y ago
I don't think it's possible to generalize about all IP law. There's a reason different categories of IP, with varying protections and terms, exist. It's possible for some IP law to be useful and some other to be useless
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> should the Beatles not be able to defend their name being used to sell it? Wouldn't trademark law apply there? And not copyright law?
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Nah. Mumbai has stock exchanges (BSE and NSE), banks and financial institutions, ports, the TV, music, and fashion industries. It's far more similar to NYC than New Delhi is.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
The intent isn't to make it softer though. "PTSD" is more accurate than "shell shock". In WWI they thought that the accumulated shockwave exposure from constant shelling caused mental issues in soldiers. Today we kn
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Not quite so crazy now that everyone's working from home, right? Unless you also use a VPN?
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Is it random they're into basketball or that they're into a foreign league? People follow lots of foreign soccer leagues, this is the same thing. Basketball is a quite popular sport internationally, unlike the 2 other big American
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Thanks. r/savedyouaclick
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I just saw it.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Maybe the end goal of paper straw advocates really is that. If the only straws available are shitty ones, more people might prefer to go strawless.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> You're trying to portray these requirements as transparent and easy I said "transparent and straightforward" not "easy". Every single one of the attributes that Canada likes (other than age) is something you ca
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Steve Jobs wouldn't have existed in the first place without his biological father. He certainly wouldn't have been born in the US, gotten adopted into the particular family that he was, and received the opportunities that he did h
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Not at all. Canada is very welcoming to people and particularly values the following attributes: young, well-educated especially in hot disciplines such as software, fluent in English or French (bonus for both), Canada-educated, previously
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Steve Jobs' biological father was an immigrant. So were Eduardo Saverin and Sergey Brin.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Is it possible you were on the H-1B when transferring the visa between employers wasn't easy? It's gotten better in the past 10 years (and worse again in the past 4). I've switched jobs 4 times, gotten a nice raise every sing
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
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by jogjayr 6y ago
I think that's outdated information. ToS violations aren't prosecutable under CFAA since April.[1] 1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/federal-judge-rules-it...
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by jogjayr 6y ago
What about appointed judges with a long term? 10 or 12 years - that's longer than legislators or executive branch people. It gives them more independence but also ensures a turnover of people and ideas. Do it on a rolling basis so that
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Wage garnishment, collections agents, bankruptcy.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Garnish their wages? Seize their assets? That's what we do for other forms of debt, it's not that hard of a question, honestly.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> there is a direct line between Roy's insights, as expressed in ReST, and functional programming and the immutability revolution, and also the CAP theorem. I know (at least superficially) what these things are, but I don't qui
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by jogjayr 6y ago
We also need to buy less clothing overall. But this doesn't invalidate GP's assertion that natural fibers are more desirable.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
I don't understand this "leetcoders produce bad code" meme. Is there something about being good at whiteboard interviews that makes you bad at writing clean code? Outside Google, I've seen plenty of terrible code by peop
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> if you move to a major Canadian city from a major American one with purely financial motivations, you will be sorely disappointed. I think I've already acknowledged this. > If you want to move to Canada I encourage you to do so
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Ok, then Burnaby[1]. I visited Vancouver last year, and stayed there. It's quite nice, also a suburb, and a short train ride into Vancouver. You can have a 2-bedroom for CAD 2900. I think you're underestimating how insanely expens
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Even though I'm young and relatively healthy, I'm not interested in acquiring the virus in the service of "herd immunity". Especially after hearing reports of it causing lung and organ damage even in asymptomatic patient
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> moving to a major Canadian city from a major American as a way to save money is a foolish idea. Please read my entire comment again. I did write "I'm not saying you'll end up with more money if you live in Canada."
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> mortgage deductions, Agreed. This is a huge tax break. > In 2018, I took my total $$$ paid to Fed + CA and divided over total income and effective rate was only 28% Do you mind plugging in the same income to https://simpl
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Marginal tax rates can be misleading, especially because (as the linked article itself states) they apply to different levels of income. Effective tax rates provide a clearer picture. Let's take one example. I plugged in $200k (CAD 270

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