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by riantogo 8y ago
Do you know how many H1Bs are issued per year? Do you know how many jobs are lost per year? Do you know how many jobs are created by immigrants (and their kids) who started out on H1B? Do you know how much tax revenue comes in from H1Bs and
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Historically US and its economy has benefited tremendously from immigration. In the modern world it continues to be a big edge. Anti-immigration mindset is also anti-American mindset. How about we revoke the citizenship of folks with such m
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Why did we end up like this? I returned last week from Dubai to San Francisco, and have been trying to mentally rationalize why this place can’t be a tenth as good (in terms of infrastructure).
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The infrastructural humiliation of America(techcrunch.com)
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I haven’t seen a sample report, but doesn’t this mean the outcome could be, “you may or may-not be predisposed to xxx disease”. We need to spend $99 to know that?
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by riantogo 8y ago
Artwork is not a good comparison here because those are tangible investments which appreciates in value. There is a market for art. If you bought one for a million you are going to likely sell for more than that.
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by riantogo 8y ago
#4 starts happening almost magically when you reach a level of “maturity” where you are okay to cede control. You can visualize it as a Venn diagram where you have your bubble of what you think is the perfect system/product. Now every
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by riantogo 8y ago
Impressive. I tested it for a case where Visa was required except for some edge case. And indeed the exception (which applies to me) was shown prominently in a "tips" card.
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You are being condescending based on the type of content that other people care about. Maybe this will help you better understand: consider HN starts banning your comments and someone chimes in, "oh dear, how will yters survive without
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by riantogo 8y ago
This is great. Thanks!
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by riantogo 8y ago
Does Flutter have easy modules for standard things like login, comments, payments etc. or does that involve writing separate server side code?
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And you have people walk up to you and point their phone at a specific part of your body, stare at the screen and away from you while they wait for the info to load, and then say, “Hi Ted”?
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by riantogo 8y ago
What is with the H1B bashing? Have you met a representative sample of people in H1B? How is your prejudice any different from being a racist or sexist? Just because visa type is not a protected class? I highly recommend talking to many more
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by riantogo 8y ago
I bought last year's iPhone X and it was $999 for the cheaper version + $200 for apple care + $160 for airpods + $20 for case + Taxes.
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There was a large number of fake new bills in circulation within 3 months. So the answer is, no, it had almost no impact in curtailing the menace. But hey look, the fruit vendor is accepting PayTM wallet (a large chunk of which is owned by
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by riantogo 8y ago
Do you feel govt intervention was needed at such massive scale, causing widespread inconvenience to the people that didn't ask for it, so that everyone could move to digital wallets? Or is it that convince of digital wallets is simply
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by riantogo 8y ago
One tip that is not covered: If the user already has the app installed, right on top show some message like, "you can only read 2 more exclusive articles this month", which expands to some marketing speak and option to pay $50. Th
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by riantogo 8y ago
We are already there. I pay a small amount each month as legal insurance via my employer for personal legal coverage. Corporate attorneys help navigate govt bureaucracy around immigration. Plenty of corporate resources to help navigate taxe
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by riantogo 8y ago
It need not be. But almost always is. As your ability to take risks diminish you live an "ordinary" life. To provide stability for your family you almost always take that route. Sure there are exceptions, but those are just that.
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Not true. Doesn’t apply to television and internet.
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by riantogo 8y ago
It’s not cool anymore but I use PHP and MySQL with a $5/mo inmotionhosting account. This is after I decided to not take on the overhead of native with multiple code base and App Store deployments. Good ol’ webapp it is. However every s
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by riantogo 8y ago
I recommend you continue reading. It is an insightful comment and might just broden your horizon on this topic.
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Based on jdietrich's input, it is then a waste processing problem and not a plastic problem. Tackling the symptom in this case seems net more harmful.
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Monthly credit card payments. So money flows from my employer to my checking account to my credit cards. Also of course to my 401K, IRA, Mortgage account, Saving account etc. Which means I don't encounter money much and I like it this
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by riantogo 8y ago
Can someone also share the actual steps of going about angel investing? If through my network I hear about a team in say, Africa, looking for investment, do I then ask them to list their project on AngelList? Do I then pay via credit card a
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Yes, they did. Which involved humans walking over the blood sample to a regular lab setup where they would dilute it and use regular machines to output wrong results. Now all they had to do was find a solution to replace the humans, not hav
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For your Friday drive home here is the recent Jason Calacanis interview of the WSJ reporter who broke the story. Great listen. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-startups-au...
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Is there a way to have both? Innovation (that matters) plus localized wellbeing? Regulation could force the second to certain extent but I would prefer a market solution.
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Right. But I'm thinking if there is a way to solve this systemically (including US).
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Somewhere along the way I have come to appreciate that as a society we need to optimize better for psychological, financial and physical wellbeing of people prioritized by proximity: employees, community, humanity. It will definitely slow d

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