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by ojbyrne 8y ago
This isn’t correct. Once you have an H1B it’s yours for 3 years (plus a 3 year extension). If you lose your job you can use the remaining eligibility for another job, though you may have to do your job search from outside the country. In ad
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
The 2nd graph on that page shows the 95th percenctile as $153k. The calculator returns a similar result.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Actually it isn’t. “The prevailing wage rate is defined as the average wage paid to similarly employed workers in a specific occupation in the area of intended employment.“ https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/pwscreens.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Arbitrage == information asymmetry. It gets reduced over time (this post and comment will help).
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It’s interesting that all the grocery stores with automated checkouts I’ve been to have single lines for multiple automated checkouts, but multiple lines/single servers for human checkouts.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
“It’s VC arbitrage.” The problem with arbitrage is that everyone wants to capture it, since it’s basically free money. Not in SV? You only need 1/4 the funding.
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Maybe we have a different idea of “older” people, but my experience is that older people actually still read newspapers (ie dead trees).
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Possibly it is only in the summer - I traveled from Hamburg to Copenhagen in November 2017 and there was actually a bus segment from Hamburg to Puttgarden. Then we got on a train which was driven at most 0.25 km onto the ferry. I tied to bo
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Its mentioned in the paper: "However, recruitment to and retention in cognitive ageing studies is also affected by self selection to volunteer among better educated individuals who are ageing well, which is also true of our study. Thus
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
This is a cohort study conducted over 15 years. You can't really criticize it only based on those numbers, at least not without looking at similar numbers from other cohort studies with the same length. I tend to ascribe some value to
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
I assumed it was satire.
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I don’t think anybody questions the fact that the “elite” (i.e the wealthy) are conservative. The 1% generally are. But the rest of the population of Silicon Valley generally aren’t.
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Pretty hard argument to make after the US decided Canadian steel is a threat to national security.
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Short term capital gains are taxed at the same rate as ordinary income. Long term capital gains (greater than 1 year) get taxed at a lower rate.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Isn’t the projected number of jobs 25,000?
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Good summary here: https://priceonomics.com/toilets/
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
This is a street view of SmugMug's office: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3907386,-122.0674312,3a,75y,... Maybe you can make a case for "small business" greed, but "corporate" just seems like
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
That page references John Boehner and Mitt Romney, who don’t have any influence in Republican policy anymore. The current administration has repeatedly demonstrated their antipathy to legal immigration.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
There is already a “prevailing wage” thing you have to meet, that varies by region, so it could be done as percentage above the prevailing wage.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Reread the comment. It says the only complaint based on truth is that it smells bad. Once you decode the double negative.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Saying the federal government "subsidizes" contributions seems backwards to me. The state takes its cut (being more local, they provide more services, etc, they should get first off the top). Then the Federal system takes their cu
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Nope. Those same states have high state taxes, which the tax package made non-deductible.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
I don't think they miss the point - the role of journalism in things like this is to detail in depth the failure of the ruse, thereby exposing the real motive.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
DC is a pretty fun city. And if we’re comparing to Virginia suburbs, Silicon Valley isn’t exactly exciting.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
If you're a Canadian its a choice between not being an immigrant and being an immigrant.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
At the peak of the fracking boom, Williston, North Dakota had the highest rents in the country: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/community-divide...
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Good book about the attacks: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003XT604U/
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
Accounting is useful. Everything else is social sciences dumbed down. Who knew that was even possible?
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
It reminded me of the article - which is about having asymmetry of founder power. Another one that comes to mind is founder age - younger is better.
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by ojbyrne 8y ago
It reminds me of a class I took in B-School called "Organizational Theory" which was a essentially a long pointless discussion on whether the top level of the corporate hierarchy should be split by product (you make 3 widgets, eac

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