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1. 31.▲
   by scottjg 4y ago

   also consider that we issued more than 350k student visas this year. if the h1-b cap is 85k then we are giving immigrants some of best college-level education in the world and then refusing to hire >75% of them. this has never made sense
2. 32.▲
   by scottjg 4y ago

   how old are you?
3. 33.▲
   by scottjg 5y ago

   Paul is famous for his essay about Lisp - arguing that his startup beat other startups because Lisp is such a better language than C++ or Java which his competitors were using. Unclear to me if this is really the meaningful reason that Paul
4. 34.▲
   by scottjg 5y ago

   given interest rates are at a historic low, i would be shocked if they are using actual cash to buy these houses. presumably they are buying with mortgages?
5. 35.▲
   by scottjg 5y ago

   San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers has at least one. They don't bloom extremely often. Most recent time to smell it was a two day period in August 2020. https://sfrichmondreview.com/2020/09/02/rare-cor
6. 36.▲
   by scottjg 6y ago

   i don't work for a FAANG company but if i did, the reason would be primarily pay. if you're making 500k$/year in california, you can take home around 280k after taxes. no small/medium tech business i'm aware of is p
7. 37.▲
   by scottjg 6y ago

   is that legal? if they issued you options... you have the "option" to purchase them?
8. 38.▲
   by scottjg 6y ago

   i think the reason consultancies (legal firms, accounting firms, etc) do it, and not traditional software companies, is because the worker hours translate directly into billable hours. Partners are incentivized to bring in more business, wh
9. 39.▲
   Show HN: Remote – Slide remote that works anywhere. No more 'next slide please'(remote.rewatch.tv)

   13 points by scottjg 6y ago|0 comments
10. 40.▲
    by scottjg 6y ago

    i was hoping someone would bring this up. it happens to me all the time.
11. 41.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    perhaps it's possible through enough layers of indirection to create plausible deniability... but generally this type of transaction would be considered self-dealing, which is illegal.
12. 42.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    i think this oversimplification may obfuscate the issue in a way that's a little misleading. in reality, the two choices are not only taking a tax hit or reinvesting in the business. there are a pretty wide array of tax avoidance schem
13. 43.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    my understanding was that the appreciated value of short-term capital gains aren't deductible as a donation. only the cost basis. that said, donating stock that has a long-term capital gain is still extremely tax advantageous.
14. 44.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    I don't think I disagree with you in principle, but since you are linking in the windows socket library already, isn't there built in support for SSL (`WSASetSocketSecurity()`, etc)?
15. 45.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    there are quite a few similar services so i don't think they're very strict about it
16. 46.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    i run https://zeromac.com , a hosting service for Mac VMs. i charge by the hour. the margins aren't as lucrative as a traditional software startup. i'm considering two new offerings: 1. lower-priced option where the se
17. 47.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    FreeDOS, like MSDOS, relies on BIOS calls to control the hardware. Most PCs aren't pure EFI-only and can still boot with some BIOS compatibility, but of course not all of the BIOS implementations are bug-free. When legacy BIOS compatib
18. 48.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    I run it alongside my regular consulting work, so I suppose it's not my full time job. It's also a fairly new business so I'm not too sure how successful it will be yet.
19. 49.▲
    by scottjg 7y ago

    I offer a service that provides you with your own macOS VM, running on real Mac hardware. https://zeromac.com It's billed by the hour, so if you just need to quickly test something, it's pretty cheap. Buying an older m
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    by scottjg 9y ago

    admittedly not exactly the same product, but certainly in the same ballpark (server consolidation/management), compare the price to VMware vSphere, a hypervisor for servers. Standard edition starts at 995$/year (83$/mo) per p
21. 51.▲
    Show HN: Native Mac Client for Dell Remote Access Console(getsystemscope.com)

    3 points by scottjg 9y ago|0 comments
22. 52.▲
    Five new undisclosed Xen vulnerabilities(xenbits.xen.org)

    133 points by scottjg 12y ago|46 comments