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by smm2000 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re... 7.6 per 1 billion km in US against 6.3 per 1 billion km in France. I would say very comparable especially if you consider that more older/younger peo
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by smm2000 12y ago
As I said it's better to be located outside of country where majority of your users are. If your service targets american market, you can minimize risk to majority of your users by locating service outside of US. Dissident disappearing
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by smm2000 12y ago
If you are working on US based consumer web site, spying by NSA could be much more harmful than spying by China or Russia for vast majority of users. NSA is known to provide leads to police that then reconstructed evidence to exclude any li
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by smm2000 12y ago
The fact that insurance companies are fine with entrusting 80000 pounds truck to somebody who got CDL after six weeks tells me that it's adequate training and accident rate of new drivers is not much higher than accident rate of experi
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by smm2000 12y ago
I doubt security guard is really required, at least in US, Europe and most other developed countries. Container is closed and it's easy to install device that calls police in case it's opened mid-way. Also most trucks transport go
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by smm2000 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_Un... and http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/rb/RB_905DRRB.pdf Asian American (mostly first or second generation immigrants) have
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by smm2000 12y ago
You also should consider that self-selection of immigrants depends on the country they are from. Most immigrants from Asia (China, Japan, Vietnam, India) have drive, determination and often skills to succeed in US in first or second generat
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by smm2000 12y ago
I seriously doubt anyone outside of military refers to their bosses as sir/ma'am. At least I never heard it and in many situation it will sound extremely sarcastic. People like to talk about their achievments whether it's gra
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by smm2000 12y ago
Technically if you get married or plan to get married you are supposed to leave the country and get either fiancee visa or immigrant visa by applying at the consulate abroad. Many (most) people ignore this rule because there is no penalty a
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by smm2000 12y ago
You may loose your job at start up at the most unfortunate moment. In 2000 you can find 10 jobs in about an hour, in 2001 you could not find one job if you life dependent on it. Big companies do layoffs too of cause - but probability to be
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by smm2000 12y ago
Around 40% of illegal immigrants in US had valid visa when they initially entered the country but overstayed. Also significant number of people came into US on tourist visa but then exploited the system to change status through genuine or f
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by smm2000 12y ago
15 million illegal immigrants are a damn good reason to perceive foreigners as unwashed masses seeking to abuse the system.
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by smm2000 12y ago
It's pretty easy to figure out looking at her LinkedIn and story. She was on F1/J1 visa to study English for two years (2009-2010) and then attended Foothill College (2010-2012). I am surprised that they allowed her to go to commu
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by smm2000 12y ago
There are several issues with her story that make me much less sympathetic to her 1. She thinks about herself as some special snowflake and thinks that denying her entry to US for one year is a huge loss to US. It's not. She is not spe
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by smm2000 12y ago
Better analogy is that classical musician is given sheet music to pop song and is told to play it on his favorite instrument. If he is good musician, he should be able to play it reasonably well even without practicing. There are musician w
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by smm2000 12y ago
Perks are at least 60% free because company pays for them with pre-tax money (no income tax/payroll taxes).
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by smm2000 12y ago
To be fair, Poland is at a pretty low base - it's at less than half of Germany GDP per person. I would not be surprised if some companies moved work to Poland to save on labour instead of moving to China/Asia as most cost-cutting
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by smm2000 12y ago
Looking at pre-tax saving rate for high income individuals in California is useless - top marginal tax rate is ~53% so often it's mathematically impossible to save 50% pre tax. Looking at saving rate post tax makes much more sense. Tho
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by smm2000 12y ago
There is zero reason to tell close personal friend that you have more than $1M in assets unless your friend have comparable assets. People are jealous and telling somebody that you have much higher salary (especially if are in the same indu
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by smm2000 12y ago
Best and brightest at 8-15 usually do not end up best and brightest in later career. You can see it even in the fact that average salary of that cohort is only 80k/year - only slightly better than average for ALL college graduates. Non
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by smm2000 12y ago
If they could not afford to do custom-tailored program for average student, why should they do it for gifted? Results of the survey shows that gifted kids do alright in life, make more than average, get Ph.Ds, etc. Should schools (and avera
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by smm2000 12y ago
The expensive part is to have crew (A/C, food, cook, doctor, etc) not to have one more person on the crew.
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by smm2000 12y ago
You do not need water filtration, sewer treatment and HVAC on fully automated ship - you can eliminate a lot of stuff that supports humans.
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by smm2000 12y ago
I would not be surprised that you can make engine so reliable that it basically never breaks and just need routine maintenance in ports. Also if you have two independent engines and one breaks, you can just use second engine to get to the c
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by smm2000 12y ago
Pirates usually do not have capacity to offload ship - they use small fishing boats and speedboats that won't hold even one container. Cargo in most containers is not very valuable (who need container of t-shirts 600 miles away from cl
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by smm2000 12y ago
I do not think it's just 10 minutes. It's technically impossible to interview 8*6=48 teams a day (10 minutes a team for 8 hours). I think realistic number is 15-20 teams/day because they also need to discuss each team and com
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by smm2000 12y ago
You can mail him a check - zero transaction fee and works every single time. No easy way to do it electronically though. Also you could not really do it with random strangers - risk of fraud is fairly high.
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by smm2000 12y ago
The pool of qualified applicants is not as deep as you think. I am doing a lot of college recruiting interviews and students at Harvard, MIT, Berkley are pretty good but the quality goes down very quickly after top 10. We consistently make
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by smm2000 12y ago
People in a booming tech scene are not sleeping on the streets and are insulated (by walls) from the city itself.
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by smm2000 12y ago
In two companies I worked at it was completely automated. You go to some web page, change status and click Submit. Your manager gets email (no signing/confirmation required) and that's it - no manual steps. You can see how much va

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