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by matwood 5mo ago
> Turns out this absolute Chad is a mobile dev the client asked to interview candidates for the MLE role. Until this line I assumed this was a screening by HR.
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by matwood 5mo ago
> nothing like Ferrari IDK, if you look at the other modern Ferraris it fits in with their design, other than the weird front.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Mine was also free range in an older neighborhood/suburb with a highway on two sides and river on the other two. The only rule I had was not to cross the highway, but even that rule was eventually relaxed as there were better fishing p
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by matwood 5mo ago
I didn't mean to imply you did support the status quo. And you're right about GC holders as they tend to make good money and fall into the worst spot tax wise - having a large w2 income.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Side note...I hate this stat because it makes it sound like the rich are paying their share of taxes. The reality is that people who make large w2 income pay a large part of federal taxes, and while they would be considered rich they are no
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by matwood 5mo ago
Correct and it's a typical process for many countries. You get a visa so you can stay past the tourist time (often 90 days and with an intent to apply for residency), and then while in country you apply for residency (the green card).
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by matwood 5mo ago
> The requirement of being permanently obligated to pay us taxes on global income Many countries have higher rates than the US and have reciprocal treaties to avoid double taxation. In practice it means many people end up paying zero tax
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by matwood 5mo ago
> There are already far too many US college grads who can’t get jobs. Recent college grads have had a harder time, but is slowly improving again [1]. All college grads are around 3% which is usually considered full employment. It was so
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by matwood 5mo ago
> so overtly racist about it Racism is literally the point.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Japan has struggled economically for decades. One of the fixes being put forth is to greatly increase immigration.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Don't forget the blatant corruption at a scale we've never seen. Literal crypto scams are being run out of the Whitehouse, and no one seems to care. Complaining about Hunter Biden being on the board of some company seems so quaint
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by matwood 5mo ago
> Genuinely curious, what does taxes have to do with it? It's popular trope from the GOP that immigrants are an economic drain on the US. They get free <insert whatever you want>, so the US must throw them out to save money.
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by matwood 5mo ago
It's not a dumb thing to say. The US is built on immigration. Making immigration harder will lead to the next big industries not having a focal point in the US. It's also not as simple as letting college grads get green cards. It&
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by matwood 5mo ago
The US's strength is/was in part because of immigration. The best and brightest want to come to the US to go to school and then they often stay for the enormous opportunities only available in the US. I want any immigrant that wan
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by matwood 5mo ago
This right here. Big companies laying off engineers are basically saying our backlogs are empty and we're out of ideas. This should represent opportunity for small/mid companies to finally compete with the large competitors as so
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by matwood 5mo ago
Companies aren’t charities. If those 3k employees were important to the revenue or profit, we’ll find out in the next couple quarters.
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by matwood 5mo ago
I’ve used the Magic Mouse for years and love it. I have no doubt that it is bad for you, but it’s also fine for many.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Jobs did pretty well with Pixar and Next. So it seems he was able to do things outside of Apple.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Per GAAP you are correct, but many of these ARRs are qualified as non-GAAP. So yes, a real analysis should do what you're saying but are they is the question. Also, if they are buying tokens with no time limit, that will complicate t
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by matwood 5mo ago
It's certainly not a perfect number, but what else are you going to do for a fast growing business? If it does 1B month 1, 5B month 2 and 10B month 3, how does an investor extrapolate the next 12 months? Obviously it's a forecast
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by matwood 5mo ago
Whether or not they are making a profit yet is a different question from whether they sell. The amount of revenue and growth clearly shows they sell. It remains to be seen if they end up like airlines - an industry providing enormous value,
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by matwood 5mo ago
Yeah, people are letting their biases get in the way of seeing the reality.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Families pay double that or more for a week at Disney.
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by matwood 5mo ago
GME had already acquired ~5% of Ebay shares ahead of the offer.
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by matwood 5mo ago
It was a clown-show interview, but also likely on purpose from the CEO. The CEO does not like CNBC (their history of reporting on GME as a meme stock), and his schtick plays to retail investors. The problem is to get a deal like this done h
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by matwood 5mo ago
Sure, but it's typically less than a DUI conviction and doesn't show up on your record as a DUI and you can avoid insurance increases. If the police decide to have you exit the car and do the field tests, the odds are high they ha
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by matwood 5mo ago
It's also an offense in most (all?) of the US. Even then, if someone is pulled over for DUI, at that point the officers are just collecting evidence. If someone has had anything to drink, it's in their best interest to say they wa
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by matwood 6mo ago
> I genuinely don't understand why so many developers are willing to compromise so much for a thin laptop. Because many developers never run into these issues? A Mac has been my primary development machine since the G4 PB days. I’ve
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by matwood 6mo ago
> EU is more and more resembling North Korea. The problem with hyperbolic comparisons is they tend to shut down the conversation. Yes this law is stupid and should be stopped. No, the EU is nothing like NK.
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by matwood 6mo ago
Same. My first paid programming job while I was in college was for writing VB 5 software for local businesses. The GUI builder was the obvious star, but you could also write sophisticated programs.

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