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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I tried ordering from doordash about 30 minutes ago (approximately 7:20pm PST) and my card got declined, which was presumably because of this outage.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I'm curious about gambling while on a work visa. It seems obvious that spending your vacation in Vegas is acceptable, but what if I think I'm good enough to become a professional poker player and decide to pursue that part-time wh
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I am curious about the approach YC takes for foreign founders who are accepted into YC. How do they come to the US for the initial incubation period? What happens after demo day?
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Bret Easton Ellis on Living in the Cult of Likability(nytimes.com)
2 points by ojbyrne 11y ago|0 comments
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
As someone a few miles from Google HQ, this doesn't mean very much. Mountain View has been on the "potential" list for at least 2 years, with no movement whatsoever.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Or, more specifically, the cost of gasoline has gone down.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Not across the entire US, but in many places there are few or zero practical competitors. And where there are competitors, they're most likely AT&T or Time-Warner, which have similar shitty practices.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
It has to be posted in 2 visible places in the place of work (typically a bulletin board). I believe the rationale behind this is to allow other employees to ask about applying for the job. As people below mentioned, it is anonymized and ty
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Also, there are couples where both are on H-1B or other visas.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I've transferred several times, and I've never been asked for more than 2 check stubs (i.e. 4 weeks). Also companies have to advertise your salary publicly (at least around the office) for H1B.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Walk away, and be thankful you're not (some part of) $10k in debt. The words "menial tasks" to me suggest you're not really seeing her contribution properly, and as far as I can tell, all you did was give up some of you
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Honestly, that was the best anecdote they could come up with? Whatever PR person approved that should be fired. I'm pretty sure 90% of 10 year old boys would pass that test.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
The Power of Nightmares [1] is a really scary series of movies about how extremists on both sides use each other to further their agenda. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I think even if you ask "should the US use nuclear weapons in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan," a large number of americans would say yes.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Citation needed. The US and Israel are 2 rather successful examples of countries born out of terrorism.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I don't think that argument holds up under examination. If you define safety as the risk of your car getting damaged, then maybe you reduce the probability of any kind of accident, without reference to severity. But you define safety a
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Sure, I understand that lack of enforcement is the issue, but technically that is not a loophole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loophole : "In a loophole, a law addressing a certain issue exists, but the law can b
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
The article isn't quite as positive as the headline makes it sound - it includes the statement that "it's not all going to be built." But it's still good.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I think "argued" is more correct than "explained." Not everything sama says is guaranteed to be correct. What I found interesting about this article is that these are mutual funds - i.e. public markets. I had not realize
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Which is not actually a loophole, it's illegal. If a job is substantially different from what it was supposed to be, you're supposed to get it reclassified.
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Snapchat stake marked down by investor Fidelity(ft.com)
3 points by ojbyrne 11y ago|0 comments
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I wish that they had more detail on that "loophole" - every H-1B application I've seen has to meet the prevailing wage determination for the place where the person will be employed. Perhaps they use a rural location.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I suspect that due to the well known creative accounting in Hollywood, Avatar returned significantly more than 11x. Top line costs are inflated.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
It's a Canadian company. Gun laws make that much less likely.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/104914/... says "In 2010, Mexican officials estimated that cannabis now provides the cartels with as much as half of their revenue."
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
The Babadook.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
So I've always had a penchant for lying on my stomach with a laptop in front of me. I think it's because that's how I did homework when I was a kid - lying on the floor in front of the TV.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I think you misread the AWS growth paragraph, it is 78% year over year: "Amazon reported net AWS sales of $2.085 billion, up from $1.169 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. That’s a 78% jump in net sales for the company’s AWS b

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