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that is the whole reason he walked away from the company. Jobs refused to fill out all the paperwork to form a corporation. They were running the company as a partnership which left all the members liable for everything the business did. It
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they are basically gangsters at this point and they know it. They are protected by law from any recourse, worst that can happen is the victim sues the city or county and tax payer foot the bill. The actual police officer or even department
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11y ago
h1b requirements are a joke. companies can make any requirements they want. The easiest way to hire a foreigner on an h1b is put a language requirement in the job description that would be nearly impossible for any to have that the candidat
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11y ago
this is more the result of past failed policies and law enforcement racism not on the part of the newly formed marijuana industry. The new marijuana industry would be happy to hire convicted marijuana growers, they have proven experience th
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11y ago
the real problem is that options are meant to be given with a strike price so low they are basically given to you like RSUs, like 1 cent. Instead companies make the price much higher for no good reason other than to force you to be unable t
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11y ago
it cant, the first company that gets asked to comply with this law will challenge it and it will be struck down. Past eaves dropping laws have only required that companies give the Feds access but they provide their own man power and resour
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11y ago
there is if he is told the downgrade is for a critical safety bug that needs to be rolled back. Then he has shown criminal negligence for not allowing his car to be fixed
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etsy is clear case of poor management, just taking a brief look at their financial statements it is clear they are doing something clearly wrong. Their revenue is growing but their expenses are growing at the same rate so they remain unprof
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11y ago
FYI google maps in china is wrong because the chinese government wont let them fix it. You need special licenses and permission to display updated and corrected maps which the chinese government refuses to grant to google because google ref
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11y ago
I disagree with the statement that you should not buy individual stocks because others know more than you. This is only true if you buy stocks for companies outside of your area of expertise. If you work in tech you know more than the avera
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11y ago
this seems good but bigger businesses will just abuse it. It was a good idea to limit the dollar amount to 500k. Now all corporations are going to write off 500k of equipment every year. Possibly even writing off 1 million as they just buy
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11y ago
Didi Kuaidi is only competitive in china because of homefield advantage. They have used bribes and other tactics to hinder uber. Uber has had to fight with the government to even allow them to operate while didi kuaidi was granted a license
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i am wondering what kind of evidence other than this information they had against them. Because if it is that easy just to link a username to a person and convict based on that it seems way too easy to just make an account linking to someon
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11y ago
Uber is only a household name for younger people in cities. I just recently had to explain to my mother what uber was because she had never heard of it. For people over 50 living in suburbs they never hear about all this companies that many
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11y ago
The bayview and glen park places you posted are literally blocks from the SF city limits and only technically count as being in the city most people would not realistically call that in the city. The twin peaks place is in the city and i do
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11y ago
please tell me where i can find a 2 bedroom in san francisco for $3350. I will sign a lease right now. I doubt you could even find a place in the tenderloin for that price. This article is almost 2 years old, why is it being posted now?
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11y ago
we need both what you suggest and tax reform around options. It is crazy that you have to pay tax on stock you cant sell. It would be incredibly easy for the IRS to just say when you execute an option that stock will always be treated as re
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It is not difficult be qualified as an 'angel investor' to the eyes of the SEC, which really means you met the qualifications of an accredited investor. All you need to qualify is a salary of 200k per year, as the OP said he was m
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11y ago
it has already started in the tech sector. There are dozens of coding schools that teach you to get a developer positions in less than a year. It is the equivalent of a trade school for developers. It will be interesting to see how the indu
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Another big thing with china is that they consider all maps and satellite pics to be state secrets that require strict approval before being published. If you ever look on google maps, the satellite pics dont match up up the maps pics. Most
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11y ago
it is valid but it is just being used to run them out of business. The actual patent violator is Dorco but they are a foreign company and it would be pointless to sue them. Dollar shave club is merely importing patent infringing razors into
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look how many people get suckered into multi level marketing aka pyramid schemes. Imagine if those schemes were allowed to get their members to just "invest" money with promised returns for getting other "investors". It
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11y ago
when you get laid off like this it is normal to get between 2 to 3 months salary as severance. if you quit you get nothing, i have seen people stick around in companies after mergers for weeks knowing they are going to be laid off but just
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IQ tests are not only politically incorrect they are illegal in the US. It is illegal discrimination to make hiring decisions based on IQ scores. You can only use a test that shows those with higher scores perform better at the job. A gener
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11y ago
The big difference between this and communist living of their parents generation could be summed up in one word "hope". They live in crappy communal living nearly identical to what their parents had but for them it is temporary ju
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china has some of the most strict currency controls in the world and actively manipulates the exchange rate of their currency to help boost exports. if the IMF allows the RMB to join the SDR basket it will make it a joke. I am sure there is
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11y ago
combination of low demand and the fact that for an airlines to have only a single flight at this time it means keeping desk and gate staff for only 1 or 2 flights that probably wont ever be full except peak travel season
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showing a paper loss when you are actually profitable means you are overspending short term. It is not healthy for a business. It is no different than a person with a good job and salary who is hundreds of thousands in debit. You are basica
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this is not even the first time the russian/soviet military has been involved in shooting down a civilian airliner. The last time it was even more blatant and no one did anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea
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11y ago
yes there are many sites that show flight plans. Here is flight plan for MH19 this the flight number that now replaces MH17 http://info.flightmapper.net/flight/Malaysia_Airlines_MH_19
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