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by jogjayr 6y ago
> Anything you save on rent you're spending on income tax. Have you seen California state tax rates? The SALT deduction limits from the 2018 "tax cut" bill have only made the calculus worse. And anything you save on income
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by jogjayr 7y ago
The difference is that for regular flu we have vaccines, herd immunity, and medicines that work. We have none of those things for COVID-19. The effect of that is to drive up hospitalization rates to the point that it's a DDoS on the he
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by jogjayr 7y ago
I think they got their analogy slightly wrong but it makes sense. If you want a career in research, a Bachelor's or Master's degree is like enlisting. You won't progress beyond a certain level. Whereas going to grad school fo
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by jogjayr 7y ago
As long as the population and number of new households keeps increasing, there will always be demand for new appliances. The analogy to the Saturn V doesn't really hold up. There's also a ton of unmet demand in developing countr
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by jogjayr 7y ago
For Indians it doesn't matter that the new employer has to file a new application. Indians starting the employment-based GC process face a 40+ year wait to get a GC. If this company doesn't file, the next one you work at will. Or
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by jogjayr 7y ago
It largely depends on the actual visa your colleague is one. I suggest you learn more about his situation - it might be informative in understanding his worldview. If he's on an H-1B there's only one thing you can do for this pa
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by jogjayr 7y ago
You can switch employers 6 months after the I-140 is approved, which may take 6-18 months start to finish. A new employer will have to file a new application but can reuse the priority date (the "place in line") from the previous
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by jogjayr 7y ago
I don't know about that. My milk pretty consistently goes bad within a day or 2 of the date on the can. OTOH I've cooked and eaten eggs 3 weeks after the date, with no noticeable difference in taste or texture.
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> “No, you should know this.” As an active interviewer at Google, I think that person shouldn't be allowed to conduct any more interviews without proper training. That's inexcusable. What even happened next, did you just end t
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> A VP of content should be focused on the quality of shows There are many definitions of quality. For Netflix's purpose, quality is probably defined in terms of viewership and stickiness. They have to build a content library from s
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Right? I've had Netflix for nearly 10 years. Not once have I not found new, interesting stuff to watch.
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by jogjayr 7y ago
You only need one participant in the market to start advertising and seeing profits, and then everyone else has to follow suit. Collectively the money may still be wasted because no one's relative market position changes very much.
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by jogjayr 7y ago
I would like this, but in Excel or Google Sheets. Realized my CSV exports don't go as far back as Mint does though :-(
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> I was trying to logically explain the reality So was I. My logic is simple to explain: Pre-CRA - 100% of employers (small businesses, large businesses, medium business, non-profits, governments) could discriminate, and many did. Post-C
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> The CRA increased the incentives to discriminate for small businesses as I am trying to illustrate above and below. And as I showed, small businesses make up a minority of employment opportunities. The CRA increased employment opportun
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> Just because a law makes it illegal to discriminate does not eliminate discrimination. It increases the cost of doing so, which is really the point. People and businesses respond to incentives. > small businesses account for the mos
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> civil rights act of 1964 which has screwed every minority applicant at a small business....The worst thing to happen to minorites in the US was the civil Rights Act of 1964. That's an...interesting perspective on what most conside
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by jogjayr 7y ago
What makes it a lie? Even Lincoln's Wikipedia page notes that that was his party in his final election. It was a separate party, as noted in the Wikipedia article for it: "The National Union Party was created prior to the General
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Upon expanding the answer, this is the explanation I saw. "The National Union Party was the temporary name used by the Republican Party for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election that was held during the Civil War."
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by jogjayr 7y ago
I'm shocked it's only 25. I would have expected an order of magnitude more given the number of features and sheer reach of Twitter. That can't possibly be right. Not sarcasm btw. I think you're underestimating how much w
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Cool idea, but I don't completely understand the interface. It's not clear what the 1-5 buttons up top are: does clicking on it record my rating of the claim? What are the numbers next to each of the links in Pros and Cons? They l
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> Does that include taxing employee equity based on how it is valued based on each round of funding? This already happens, except as a tax on income rather than wealth. Exercising options in a private company that has increased in value
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Because the policy doesn't just cover a diversified investment portfolio where a loss on one transaction offsets other gains. Small business owners put a significant chunk of savings and all their time into their business. What gains a
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> charging lower tax rates on capital gains than ordinary income I don't have a problem with the idea. It recognizes that income derived from investments is riskier than income from a paycheck, and applies a discount. The problem is
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Existing homeowners don't care about new housing because their property taxes don't rise due to a constricted supply. If they did, I'd bet you those zoning laws would change pretty darned quickly.
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by jogjayr 7y ago
The Bay Area's problem isn't absolute tax rates. It's that taxes aren't calculated on current property value, but on original sale price. This keeps effective tax rates low if you bought earlier. It also discourages rede
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Higher tax rates, but fairer than California. Your neighbor isn't paying lower taxes than you just because they bought 10 years ago when the property was cheaper.
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Turns out India and China will be more affected by climate change than the US so they're actually doing something about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164816
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by jogjayr 7y ago
India is already doing plenty. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164816
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by jogjayr 7y ago
I'm going to copy-paste a comment I wrote a year ago because I get tired of hearing this BS. As far as I can tell, "on board" is just code for "remain poor while we keep the status quo". India and China both have le

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