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by tarikjn 12y ago
> In my experience at many tech companies in the Bay Area, H1B Visas exist for one reason, and one reason only - to get skilled engineering/STEM labor -- and to exploit connections (primarily Indian/Pakistani) among these worke
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by tarikjn 12y ago
H1-B workers can only be paid at or above prevailing wages in the area per Department of Labor stats. This is set in the law as to avoid displacing US workers.
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by tarikjn 12y ago
Would love to try this, but allowing access to all mail on my account is a deal breaker. The "It all takes just a few clicks. We never have access to your password." isn't enough for me to go past that fact -- who needs your
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by tarikjn 12y ago
My bad, I am confusing with the Federal Reserve Act, which was drafted in secret meetings and passed into law three days before Christmas. Yet, one cannot ignore that when the 16th amendment was passed, federal income tax was 2% and require
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by tarikjn 12y ago
Also, to support my point regarding wastefulness, look at this article from the Washington Post that cite a report made that found that out of $1.3 trillion collected, $616B was found to be wasteful, that's 47%! http://www.w
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by tarikjn 12y ago
LLCs allow owners to declare personal/corporate taxes under the same umbrella. Same for sole proprietorship and other structures.
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by tarikjn 12y ago
You make a very good point. Maybe the solution then is to eliminate income tax altogether? We didn't have Federal income tax until 1913, and I am surprised at why we need to pay so much in Federal taxes when the state/local govern
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by tarikjn 12y ago
Actually, for steam solar plants, this problem has been addressed for a couple years already using molten sands: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-use-solar-e...
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NameTerrific shutting down for new customers, selling its software(nameterrific.com)
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by tarikjn 13y ago
this is the trap with Chinese, starting is easy but once you've reached a beginner level, progression is extremely hard and slow
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by tarikjn 13y ago
keep in mind Chinese people themselves start forgetting a lot of the characters after living a couple years abroad
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by tarikjn 13y ago
I just made a separate post for discussion on it as it goes a little out of scope of the subject of H1-Bs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7550560
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Draft proposal for skilled US Immigration Reform(drive.google.com)
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by tarikjn 13y ago
This is one of the things I proposed in a comprehensive high-skilled visa reform proposal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_yEsHOtzN3yZ3JoYXlTdDh0R0k... Never really got around finishing it and pushing it out to
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by tarikjn 13y ago
Do you live on this planet? It's about competitiveness. It's not just about being able to be a founder, if there is a foreigner doing the same product with more success, the American's startup will eventually die. So foreign
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The Outsiders(prometheussociety.org)
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by tarikjn 13y ago
PS: the only way I would see feasible would be if that person made a monetary donation to you (that money legitimately becomes your), and then you had a private contract with that person to give them shares in the company, but 1. this may r
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by tarikjn 13y ago
Thank you!
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by tarikjn 13y ago
That's incorrect as far as I know, but if you find information that says otherwise, I would be very interested to hear about it.
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by tarikjn 13y ago
I am the author of the movie mentioned in the article. One precision with the E-2 visa is that the funds must come from your own pocket and you must be able to prove the source of the funds is legitimate (how you earned the money). So it is
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by tarikjn 13y ago
Here is another completing argument: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-mexico-man-sues... (this guy -actually- had nothing to hide)
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by tarikjn 13y ago
Ditto, did you consider Java to Javascript? It may make sense to you given that you are using AngularJS on the front-end as well as for consolidating skills. I am a Ruby/Rails dev that switched to using Clojure and Node.js, depending o
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by tarikjn 13y ago
Maybe Lua would be a good candidate? From the usages I have seen of Lua, it could match the use case.
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by tarikjn 13y ago
I believe what is described is that nicotine is a potent agent for habit-forming, so you don't get as much addicted to the nicotine itself as the habit you have formed while taking nicotine, ie. smoking. The article describe utilizing
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by tarikjn 13y ago
There are also a lot of bad kind of regulations, that support corporate cronyism. In fact big corporations know that and spend large amounts lobbying for their interests. It's about the right regulations and removing the wrong regulati
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by tarikjn 13y ago
What's wrong with the title of your article is that it boxes Libertarianism into a single movement or general attitude, which it is not. What you really meant to say is "How I grew up and started to give a shit about less fortunat
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WebSocket API draft not consistent with RFC 6455(w3.org)
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by tarikjn 13y ago
I agree, and when making the conscious decision to get a entry-level private insurance, I made the calculation that what I save on a lower price insurance I could use to spend more on healthier food, in addition of me being physically activ
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by tarikjn 13y ago
I actually do have a minor chronic condition, causing inflammation of my sinuses and a subsequent poor sleep/fatigue. I can permanently cure it by opting for a nasal surgery which my private insurance is willing to pay most of the cost
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by tarikjn 13y ago
I am from France and moved to the US over five years ago. I have been altering between working for an employer and taking time off to work on my projects. Within the first 2 years, I realized how cumbersome it was to switch healthcare and b

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