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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> Accounting firms are not competing with tech firms necessarily, they are competing with the market for accountants Yes, I'm not disagreeing with this. However if you put ALL H1Bs in a single pool, and they go to the highest bidder
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Applications for an H1B open up in April, IIRC are accepted for a short period of time, and are not actually granted until October. That is 6 months, plus a couple thousand dollars minimum, to try to get an H1B status for someone you want t
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
The problem with this is that H1Bs are not just for software engineering jobs. Other professions that qualify are things like accountants, or health care workers. If it was a straight up "who pays the most", then the software indu
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> there is a reason you can press 2 for Spanish on nearly every single companies help line 1. If you're trying to imply that the majority of people who speak spanish in the US are illegal immigrants from Mexico, I suspect that you&#
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I'll give you that, but it seems like a much simpler solution would have just been improving the flexibility for an H1B worker to be allowed to work at any employer for the term of their status. If an employer used an H1B in order to h
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
They do not. What I pay an ISP is a monthly fee for them providing a service. I paid Apple/Google/manufacturer a fee when I purchased a device. My ISP does not receive more/less in fees each month based on how much online sho
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> agreements like employment contracts, set the rules. Yes, however as far as I know employment contracts for both Google and Facebook would both prohibit having a full-time job at a competitor. Between that and IP ownership concerns, I
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> if they don't pay well someone else will and crush their business I think you just agreed with what I said? They pay well in order to hang on to their talent to prevent their competitors from hiring them.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
In defense of this hypothetical employee (who may or may not exist) I would give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't go in to this thinking "I'm going to work 2 jobs" but rather: - Interviewed at the other com
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Just because something is "perfectly legal" does not mean that it's not cheating. I typically wouldn't have an issue with someone working 2 jobs, but I do take slight issue if this situation is true. These aren't ju
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For sure. I'm not saying that they should do this, and I'm definitely not saying that I would be self-less enough to do it, but it would be a pretty strong gesture if those in that position were to turn around and donate their sev
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
What you (Edit: not _you_ in particular, but what a country does by making self-isolation opt-in) are doing here is shifting the blame of who is responsible. If the government says that you must stay home for public health, then it is reaso
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I know that this will greatly help a few who are legitimately disturbed by the recent post and feel they either can't work at, or aren't excited by, Coinbase any more. But at the level of severance discussed in the post (4 (or 6)
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I'm going to focus on just one example from this report. Seven Springs is a very large properly that he purchased, and claims and reports as an investment property. This allows deductions of all loan interest, upkeep/maintenance,
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> Well yes. Strong disagree. If Facebook tried this against anyone with a moderate following there would be a Tortious interference and/or fraud lawsuit filed _immediately_. When Trump's twitter account was deleted by a rogue e
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To be fair in that situation, despite the fact that it turned out that Apple didn't actually do the thing in question, it was explicitly in their developer agreement that they were entitled to. Something is less of a "conspiracy t
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Sometimes the HN support attention army is the only way to draw attention to issues that should be addressed anyways.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
And yet, that rule is stupid. But your logic instagram could just give @kyliejenner to some random person, and you think she would have no recourse? You think it would be acceptable for someone at instagram to do Kylie Jenner a personal fav
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I don't think many people are against prohibiting and/or restricting the use of dark patterns, and trying to push back on absolutely horrific user experiences. I don't think anyone is arguing that apps should be able to targe
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This type of misleading behaviour and false-representation is called astroturfing.
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Your point about not offering unnecessary information is, unfortunately, good advice. In my situation it felt as if the officer was going to every possible length to find a reason to reject my application. I was explicitly asked why I was n
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> Do people here know that even this 60-day grace window was only put into place relatively recently by the Obama administration? My worst situation dealing with this was a TN status rather than an H1B, where I was told at a border that
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Even if it is the "legal reality", Apple wrote that "reality" in a way to use its market position in one vertical to control people's actions in other. I'm not sure the point you're trying to make with you
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My understanding is that there are quite a few perceived threats, but all of them apply to large US corporations as well. If you collect enough information on people, they can be manipulated to certain beliefs or actions. This is the same i
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The Apple-defense being pushed here seems to be that all Apple agreements are one Apple agreement. Ie, if you have an issue with Apple in one are of business, that Apple-as-a-company can retaliate in any other area of business. It will get
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> one that violated the rules of the App Store, not Apple This is an invalid comparison because Apple cannot, by definition of them writing the rules with the ability to change them whenever they want, violate the "rules" of th
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The statement "Apple is preventing Epic from signing games and patches for distribution" is 100% a falsifiable factual question. Because your argument seems to be "well Epic made them do it", you don't seem to disag
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I think your general point is valid, but the first line of this is literally: > Apple is preventing Epic from signing games and patches for distribution on Mac, which ends our ability to develop and offer Fortnite: Save the World for the
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With real estate prices in some of those areas going up %10+ per year, and the 6-8% transaction cost of selling a property, buying something that you may not need for 10 years starts seeming more rational. It's a risk, because things c
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
My understanding is that most organizations that operate this way start off effectively as a consultancy. They do paid work for others in order to fund day-to-day operations, and support work on the projects that they "own" (want

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