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by serge2k 10y ago
> Worse yet, by exercising options you owe tax immediately on money that you never made. Your options have a strike price and private companies generally have a 409A valuation to determine their fair market value. You owe tax on the diff
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by serge2k 10y ago
> That's why phrases like "enhanced interrogation techniques" are employed, to make a distinction between that and torture, for example. I'm not sure what you are saying here. Using a euphemism doesn't make tortu
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by serge2k 10y ago
The democratic candidate obviously. Cause he wouldn't win the primary.
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> Only in the wet dreams of California ultra liberals why would they want Zuckerberg?
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by serge2k 10y ago
I hate those self checkout machines. They are slow and constantly try to error out and alert a human to help me. I'm capable of bagging groceries, just let me do it. still, there is rarely a line.
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by serge2k 10y ago
2 disgraced journalists from 13 years ago is hardly indicative of a problem with the NYT now.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> but that was in an age where every citizen didn't have an internet connected phone with a camera in their pocket If you want 10 shallow disconnected sources of information from the fringes then that works. If you want someone who
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by serge2k 10y ago
> If coming out of a CS program with internships and I still don't have the skills maybe these companies should invest in training me as an entry level worker. I came out of an unknown school with no internships and got a big compan
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Those are the federal waivers handed out to highly trained workers in fields such as technology who don’t plan to immigrate here. Actually large numbers of people on the H-1B do immigrate. It's a dual intent visa, you can start th
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by serge2k 10y ago
> At a different company, he noticed that a team of white engineers from affluent backgrounds chose to delay shipping an Android version of the product because they believed they would make less money on the platform. But it turned out t
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by serge2k 10y ago
Really? Has someone forced you to start using it? Oh wait, you mean that someone made a personal choice to use it. A choice that has exactly nothing to do with you, but you see an opportunity to oppress their freedom to choose so you are go
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by serge2k 10y ago
No, paychecks are compensation given by you to them in exchange for work performed. Health care benefits are also part of that compensation. Why should you have any say in how your employee uses that compensation. Your employees use of thei
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by serge2k 10y ago
Do you also place restrictions on what they can buy with their paychecks?
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by serge2k 10y ago
So "highly skilled" just means a bachelors degree in a specific set of fields. People seem to be implying that it requires skills well beyond that.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> an extremely highly skilled worker for which there is no local supply People keep saying this. Where is that documented?
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by serge2k 10y ago
> What if you, one day, bite into an apple that has a worm in? You'll probably feel different about apples after that and you calibration data is now useless. More likely, what if you think about an apple while hungry. While in a mo
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by serge2k 10y ago
It's about trying to impose your faith on others. Do you not realize how awful that is? How much of a hypocrite it makes you to hide behind freedom of religion as a means to try to force your religious beliefs on others? Especially via
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by serge2k 10y ago
> because most Republicans seem to think the poor are poor out of choice and should suffer the consequences of being poor Of course. What part of > but damnit kid, get a job. Do something with yourself did you not understand.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> but damnit kid, get a job. Do something with yourself. I graduated just before 25, and my first job didn't have benefits because although I was working 40 hours they called it casual. > Birth Control, yes and no. We should be a
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by serge2k 10y ago
Wasn't there more fixes in the initial version of the legislation that would have dealt with this? I'm sick of these stupid names in general.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Trump does it and it's a problem That's cause he goes on 3am rants that sound like they were written by a 10 year old.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Announcing it like this is the political move. Trump can keep campaigning on it (he seems bizarrely intent on continuing to act like he's still trying to get the job) and Jeff gets some points with the President.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Adding an example of recent Firefox innovation I think this is a poor example, this does nothing to make the browser better at browsing the web. It's just a feature no one asked for, that has loads of alternatives already. Why do
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by serge2k 10y ago
You can do some very nice things with that sort of syntax. Being able to assign values based on an if statement is one example that just makes life a little better. Just a tiny bit. :)
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by serge2k 10y ago
These are just minor syntax complaints though. You get used to it, and start to appreciate some of this stuff quickly IMO. I spent far too much time trying to figure out how to use string and str. That's where it becomes absurd. I&#x27
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by serge2k 10y ago
> I have discovered that Rust is not, or not yet, a language suitable for long-term infrastructure work because it's missing an API and you can't write your concurrency the way you want. I don't think that's a very st
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Washington Compost will stop pooping on Trump at every opportunity So stop reporting the things he actually says and does then?
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by serge2k 10y ago
> you can't blankly hate everything Trump does Watch me. ;) > In a call with reporters on Thursday Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said his boss was happy to play a part in Amazon’s decision Did he actually though? > You have a go
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by serge2k 10y ago
When they are actively trying to murder people, yes. It's not right, but neither is sending in suicide bombers.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> doesn't armed resistance make sense Not when stopping likely means your enemy is willing to help.

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