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by readhn 8y ago
perhaps the loopholes should be exposed to the general public then so that we can hold the public officials accountable to fix them.
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by readhn 8y ago
Why wont government taxation agencies have tax bounty programs? If you, as a tax professional, find a taxation loophole that allows big businesses to lower their taxes - you get a $$$ compensation and the loophole gets publicized and "
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by readhn 8y ago
Quote from Mendeleev himself: "I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper." This is fascinating to me -- Our brains continue working duri
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by readhn 8y ago
"Storonsky also responded to the Telegraph story with a blog post that denies any wrongdoing. He claimed Revolut suspended the use of “a more advanced sanctions screening system” and instead reverted to a previous one." haha they
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by readhn 8y ago
RIP RevolutApp with such CEO leadership you are doomed to fail. Nikolay Storonsky - you will lose your best people and drive RevolutApp into the ground. EDIT: just read a wiki on Nikolay. It all makes sense - his dad is a high up in Putin&#
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by readhn 8y ago
>VCs didn't bother traveling and funded mostly local companies. Has that changed? VCs will travel for a great opportunity. If they cant recognize it then they are not good at their job :) (like a lot of VCs)
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by readhn 8y ago
Amazing story! Congrats to founder!
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by readhn 8y ago
open plan offices don’t live up to the hype–in fact, the idea that they promote interaction is dead wrong.
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by readhn 8y ago
H1 Absolutely DOES lower power of an employee. You are basically a "slave" to a company until you get your green card and are free to quit. Especially in today's socio-political environment.
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by readhn 8y ago
H1-B's are not an issue. The issue is the "consulting" IT companies abusing the H1-B system. Make it illegal for these labor arbitrage companies to exist and at least this problem will be solved.
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by readhn 8y ago
The world is global. There is no "local" anymore especially in IT.
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by readhn 8y ago
I feel like that was the case here. Even though they said he was "recommended".
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by readhn 8y ago
What i find amusing is that he only asked for $100,000 to build the network. To risk his life and his entire family for 100K ... even in mexico this is not a lot of money it seems. The number should have been closer to at least 5-10 million
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by readhn 8y ago
> I know Google has X-labs or whatever, but I don't really know about the politics behind it or how free their engineers are allowed to be. i think one of the echoes from this idea at google is the "20% of your time you work on
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by readhn 8y ago
>> Also keep in mind non-compete are often extremely difficult to enforce as we'll, another thing people sometimes get hung up on. haha right... a colleague of mine just was sued for attempting to join a company considered a comp
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by readhn 8y ago
its not about attending a funeral ... its about not being there with your loved ones. you cant buy that time back...for a million or a billion..time is the most precious asset we own.
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by readhn 8y ago
you cant put a price on time behind prison bars and away from your family. what if during that time his father died? was 100million "worth it"?
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by readhn 8y ago
pretty typical. look at Snowden. The guy ruined his own life and nobody still gives a damn. Was it worth it? i dont think so. He definitely should have kept quiet even if it was against his own personal beliefs. It sucks but it is what it i
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by readhn 8y ago
RIP Aaron :(
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by readhn 8y ago
"Still working on it but, I'm not sure how you resolve some of these issues ..." i can recommend two books that discuss exactly these issues and go even deeper: "The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Lead
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by readhn 8y ago
"The one shown here, was found in 2018 in a forgotten cache in a West European country. Based on the manufacturing codes on some of the components, it was probably manufactured in 1962. " "forgotten" it was not - KGB doe
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by readhn 8y ago
Why would someone pay for this with a debit card? Pay with a credit card, then you are at least protected if anything goes wrong.
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by readhn 8y ago
How about some rabbis trafficking body parts? https://slate.com/human-interest/2009/07/the-arrests-of-rabb... "three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen and five rabbis were among more than 40 peopl
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by readhn 8y ago
battery replacement on an iphone from what i have seen is a 30-50$ part and 30min of your time with a screwdriver.
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by readhn 8y ago
all i know is when people start to get cocky and complacent mr. market usually does not take too long to serve a lesson. nothing. goes. up. forever.
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by readhn 8y ago
>> You can’t time the market, What about these 4 guys just before 2008? • Economist A. Gary Shilling warned his newsletter subscribers about a housing bust and wholesale deleveraging of household debt that would hobble the economy for
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by readhn 8y ago
3million for 2, so 1.5mil each and thats in 10-15-20 years, so think inflation on top of price appreciation. i dont know where you live but 1million really does not buy anything extravagant these days in a major city hub. just a regular hou
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by readhn 8y ago
this is probably some sort of contra-indicator when average joe off the internet recommends Putting most of your money in the stock market. We must be near the Top of this bull run. This bull market is almost 10 years old. We are overdue fo
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by readhn 8y ago
Realistically 8M (is this after taxes??) is not much money these days. Considering rising health care costs, real estate, college fees (you have 2 kids) this is "nothing". Example: If you want your kids to be college debt/mor
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by readhn 8y ago
> Make a safe investment there are no safe "investments", everything is a speculation. that said, yes one could try and keep it conservative.

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