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by rmk 6y ago
Companies are required to know where you live for tax purposes.
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by rmk 6y ago
If you are in the United States, particularly CA, just don’t give more than 2 weeks’ notice. You aren’t required to give any notice but it’s professional courtesy to give this much notice. Make sure that your manager is willing to give you
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by rmk 6y ago
"Backward" has negative connotations here, in the west. But generally, the abbreviation "OBC" (Other Backward Castes) is used. From my personal observation, SC/ST/OBC folks are as caste-conscious as anyone else
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by rmk 6y ago
Inner city kids would be considered poor, particularly time-poor (parents/caregivers have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet). There are the rich, the poor and the (majority) middling sort. For the majority, wouldn't water po
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by rmk 6y ago
This is fairly common in India in private institutions, especially professional schools such as for Engineering, Medicine, Dentistry and Business Administration. A certain percentage of places are designated 'Management Quota', i.
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by rmk 6y ago
I bet you see this in non-native speakers' writing. Non-native speakers tend to subconsciously translate things from their native language to English (I'm one, and I find myself doing this now and then), and native speakers tend t
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by rmk 6y ago
There are several plaintiffs of many races, including past residents of Palo Alto who have moved away. But one of the arguments being made in the complaint is that minorities are specifically affected. The NAACP is also either a party or he
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by rmk 6y ago
The complaint is here. You can read it to understand the basis of the filing: https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Final_Complaint_f... In a nutshell, the basis is: - Restricts right of travel, which is
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by rmk 6y ago
Foothill park is located miles away from urban Palo Alto, in the midst of many other open-space preserves, which are all open to the public. Except this one. In fact, there is a guard house where you are asked for proof of Palo Alto residen
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by rmk 6y ago
Not everyone can live with roommates --- folks with growing families for instance. I think the concerns about the poisonous air and electricity scarcity are way overblown. The air is bad because the whole region is on fire, and that's
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by rmk 6y ago
Sadly, when voting with your ballot fails to make any meaningful difference, you must choose to vote with your feet. I read something about the results (or perhaps projected results) of the US Census, wherein the major metro areas of TX we
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by rmk 6y ago
CA is a first-world country (comparable), whose politics and governance are closer to a third-world populist state (India comes to mind). Insane giveaways and voter-mandated initiatives that take budgetary decisions out of elected represent
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by rmk 6y ago
These figures are a few years old. You can't seriously consider 2020-2021 figures, considering how all economic activity has essentially been shut down for a solid 3-6 months. Revenue has plummeted. Revenue numbers I quoted included th
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by rmk 6y ago
CA has an AMT. Until Trump's tax reform, you would have paid federal and CA AMT if you had a big payday (a payday of appreciable size typically happens once or twice to SV folks; they are not 'rich' by any stretch of the im
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by rmk 6y ago
CA has a capital gains tax, also an AMT. And it's generally not possible to escape much of CA taxes (most SV founders/CEOs anticipating a big payday shift domicile to FL and similar tax-free jurisdictions for this reason). The sta
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by rmk 6y ago
That's true. Unbelievable though it is, FAANG guys/gals are comfortably in the top 2-3%
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by rmk 6y ago
California revenues are about $425 billion. Medi-Cal covers 1 in 3 residents. $100 Billion per year program (or about 23% of the revenues). $25 Billion a year for government employees' pensions and retiree health (note that this is
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by rmk 6y ago
New Hampshire has no State Income Tax, nor any Sales Tax. Not entirely sure whether they have their own version of a Capital Gains Tax (CA sure does). Karp will reap the benefits of moving to NH. Not sure if he will escape CA Tax Authoritie
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by rmk 6y ago
Plenty of useful software is written in Java. It's not going away. But if you want to move away from Java, then I'd suggest staying in programming, but learning Go. Plenty of enterprise software is now beginning to be written in G
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by rmk 6y ago
The alarming aspect of this bill is that it extends to government contracts as well. Reading the wikipedia article for this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Assembly_Constituti... , I see that one of the prim
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by rmk 6y ago
* hires all candidates who pass the coding interview I agree on this one in particular. It is quite transparently a process that has morphed into a way to reject older candidates. The older you are (relative to a fresh college graduate), th
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by rmk 6y ago
A lot of the expenses in flying arise out of regulatory requirements. Want to carry passengers? Pilot needs a license that take several hundred hours minimum to obtain. Want to use a part in an airplane? Getting it through the FAA certifica
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by rmk 6y ago
World trade is denominated in USD, no? A small percentage is Euro and smaller percentage in Yen, perhaps. A negligible percentage of world trade is in Yuan, I believe.
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by rmk 6y ago
PyCharm community ed is free. Sublime Text is very good (it's nagware).
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by rmk 7y ago
RSUs get taxed pretty much like normal income when they vest; you pay capital gains on them when you sell (assuming they are worth more than what they cost at the time of vesting). But, if the company is private, there may not be a market
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by rmk 8y ago
H1B is classified as a dual-intent visa; as such it explicitly acknowledges that people who obtain this visa may have be allowed to immigrate into the country subject to certain conditions. http://www.americanlaw.com/dintent
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by rmk 8y ago
My suggestion: don't. From personal experience, the founding team is given an 'earn-out', i.e., they get cash for sticking around for a fixed number of years (~2 yrs). Executives get set stiff targets in revenue growth, DAUs&
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by rmk 8y ago
Have you considered the possibility that the company may not be doing well, which may be the reason they have brought in a Project Manager who happens to have the VP title? If you suspect that this is the case, then your job may be in jeopa
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by rmk 8y ago
How is this legal? Let's take a hypothetical example: Joe is employee #2 FoolzRUs, at a Sequoia-backed startup, in CA. The company is small, having 10 employees total, and maybe 6 engineers. Joe is interviewing to get another job, beca
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by rmk 8y ago
Similar to John Chambers, who used to run Cisco. He bought a tiny switching company called Kalpana (and a few others) for ~200MM back in 1994. Cisco dominated the switching market for a long, long, time as a result. It still accounts for ne

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