markonthewall

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by markonthewall 9y ago
Good man.
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by markonthewall 9y ago
It's actually trivial to dodge US taxes. The most basic and effective way to accomplish that is to establish fiscal residency in a friendly european country. It becomes /really/ easy when you have dual citizenship. Same appli
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Yes, salaries in SV are high. But, you can bet your ass that that sample set is made of students who for the most part come from a handful top-notch schools.
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by markonthewall 10y ago
>Drumpf Are you 12?
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by markonthewall 10y ago
That's my experience as well. Considered opening an office in Bangalore as I was thoroughly impressed by some candidates I had interviewed. Performance on the job was significantly different... like by several orders of magnitude. Taug
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by markonthewall 10y ago
You link a Wikipedia article about a highly contentious issue among economists and expect to be taken seriously? It is almost universally the case that when someone says "economists think X" they actually refer to a group of acade
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Because those companies are US companies, their very existence is a byproduct of this political community's stability, of the infrastructure that was paid with taxpayer money, sometimes of the direct subsidies of the US states and thei
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by markonthewall 10y ago
I always enjoy a leppo after a good workout!
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Sometimes I wonder if software engineers are half as smart as they think they are. I can't think of any precedent or similar situation: a corps of highly skilled workers pro-actively sabotaging themselves in order to share the fate of
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H.R.414 – Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act(congress.gov)
3 points by markonthewall 10y ago|0 comments
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by markonthewall 10y ago
A remarkable mind and a keen and joyful lad, I hope Peter finds rest at last.
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Your assumption is that it is a problem, it isn't.
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by markonthewall 10y ago
>The success of many companies, and probably all of the unicorns, has nothing to do with technology. Most of the unicorns are founded with engineering talent coming straight from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, UCB, Waterloo etc. you name it. Ma
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Stealth startup | San Francisco, Waterloo, Hong-Kong| Full time, REMOTE, INTERNS, VISA - Stealth startup w/ founded by two former early employees at large tech companies and and a MIT PhD; we all have success exits under our belts and
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Except the diversity quotas, or EEOs as they call it now, almost never allow for truly norm-bending individuals to access those roles. Having a different skin colour does not make or break group thinking. It's a mirage, at best, and a
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Those are candy-bars to make you happy, just like the EHRC is keeping the leftists in line while we slowly shift toward an ordoliberal paradigm at the european level. For countries like France, Italy and even Germany, that means social regr
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Another thing Rousseau "predicted": "Défiez-vous de ces cosmopolites qui vont chercher loin dans leurs livres des devoirs qu’ils dédaignent de remplir autour d’eux. Tel philosophe aime les Tartares, pour être dispensé d’aimer
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Afaik the folks at F8 started the trend, I heard them use that idiom back in 2009 (F8 didn't exist yet)
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by markonthewall 10y ago
I tend to ignore any comment that starts with "you misunderstand basic economics". That's not so much the arrogant tone but rather the crass dogmatism that pervade those comments. Change the set of axioms and the initial para
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Most professions you are referring to are unionized and defend their interests as a group, if you wait for C-execs to increase salaries of its information workers you might wait a long... long time. They have a board of shareholders to resp
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by markonthewall 10y ago
Sorry but the above poster does not handle parallel operations yet, come back for v2.
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by markonthewall 10y ago
I love the US and California, the tech scene is amazing and I was lucky to met such talented and friendly people in about every place I worked... from very large tech cos to "garage" startups. Which is why it pains me to see that
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by markonthewall 10y ago
>Now that the whole world is my neighbor, my immediate Internet neighbor, do I make any concessions at all, or do I uphold the ancient tradition of satire at all costs? And again, is a culture that takes mortal offense when an image it h
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Evidence of an alleged voter fraud in Minnesota(medium.com)
7 points by markonthewall 11y ago|0 comments
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Turn off the Internet(turnofftheinternet.com)
2 points by markonthewall 11y ago|0 comments
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by markonthewall 11y ago
Quora is down for me. Pretty surprising given their impressive uptime statistics.
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by markonthewall 11y ago
I suggest you take a look at Elixir, it's an incredibly well designed and powerful languages. FWIW, I am pretty sure that it will take off exponentially in the coming years... the support for concurrency is amazing , and it also allow
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by markonthewall 11y ago
> the lack of passion from the cleaners I doubt cleaning other people's shit is anyone's passion.
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by markonthewall 11y ago
I believe the parent comment was referring to the numerous hospitals or other critical services who rely on these infrastructures.
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by markonthewall 11y ago
Meh. I am a bit disappointed, there is potential, but I think you could do a better job. For example, it sounds like you are really just trying to demonize Fixpoint and their members, it's not very original. Note that I am not saying t

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