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by tn13 11y ago
Not sure about the above comment but here are my 2c. I belong to Brahmin caste. I always thought caste did not matter in USA until I recently attended a seminar by a self proclaimed India expert Christian priest. The Christian missionaries
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by tn13 11y ago
I am a brahmin and my father was a poor farmer in India. The kind of poor you read in newspapers. I completed my education mostly on borrowed money from friends and relatives and through community scholarships. Now that I am in USA I realiz
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by tn13 11y ago
As an Indian immigrant when I see people complaining about Privilege and Inequality in SV (and in America) I feel like laughing. I lived in a society where everyone was almost the same, similar economic status, similar privilege etc. etc. L
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by tn13 11y ago
No one else has an obligation to fix the world for others. People can only pick between choices they have. 10 people working at night can pool in money and rent a space just to sleep during day time. I have done that in past and it worked w
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by tn13 11y ago
Everyone ends up disappointing is a bad characterization. I am surprised that a company as big as Amazon even bothers to hire homeless people. If the people prefer night shelter over night work they could perhaps stay in the shelter. I thin
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by tn13 11y ago
Yes and that redefinition very often comes from a drastic change in top management. Ballmar was different from Gates and Satya is different from Ballmar.
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by tn13 11y ago
There was a brilliant essay by an Indian politician few years back after his party lost the elections. Later in lecture he explain why political parties and large companies have so much in common when it comes to failing. His basic logic wa
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by tn13 11y ago
My respect for Iceland went up because of "Iceland refused to bail out the banks."
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by tn13 11y ago
Any organization where bosses care about results will discriminate far less than others. I am not surprised about NASA because you either send a rocket to moon or you do not. But local DMV office might discriminant without impunity. But giv
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by tn13 11y ago
I am always opposed to government interfering into private businesses and I don't like think "I will break up big banks" attitude. I would support a legislation that says no bailout money to any private company ever. If somet
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by tn13 11y ago
The Iran deal has probably saved a lot of money for Americans. What matters here is if Iran honors this deal in letter if not in spirit. While the Iranian regime is going to hate all things non-muslim the population with good access to othe
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by tn13 11y ago
And interestingly almost all politicians of all hue and color and with capacity to do something seem to be siding with them.
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by tn13 11y ago
Government as customer and near monopoly means you dont have to worry so much about job security.
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by tn13 11y ago
It is not locally produced...
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by tn13 11y ago
At this point I am even scared of posting something against CIA, Palantir and NSA on public forums. Yeah, and Snowden like possibilities are 0 now, they probably track every single employee and the person might just disappear or come under
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by tn13 11y ago
When I was teaching assistant at University for Real Time Safety Critical Systems class this was one of the star assignments in the class. Instead of writing just a dummy program we built an actual elevator using servo motors and asked stu
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by tn13 11y ago
I was raised in India. I walked half a mile till 4th grade and 2 miles from 5th grade to 10th grade. I remember I had to deal with a madman on the way who would keep running after the kids and throw stones on them. I remember once I slipped
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by tn13 11y ago
Also life span was much shorter, productive years of life were much lesser and there was little incentive to spend time in things such as "learning". It made sense to prepare children of life's hard work right from the beginn
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by tn13 11y ago
I feel that the battle is kind of lost when you have ventured into this level of detail. If you have to discuss "legitimate way to give permission" to a child it has reached outside the realms of parenting common sense. I think lo
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by tn13 11y ago
I am happy with T-Mobile's Binge On. Irrespective of what T-Mobile is doing I would like to keep that service.
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by tn13 11y ago
Yes and it would be good thing. I don't agree that there is anything moral coercing people to part with 50% of their hard earned wealth so government could fund losing wars, foodstamps for bums and lobster fight clubs.
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by tn13 11y ago
I don't understand your point. If there is a loophole I can exploit to pay 0 tax I would and recommend everyone else to do so.
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by tn13 11y ago
I said in "ideal case" and not in general case and I was only emphasizing why the government attitude that Apple owes US government something is wrong. As far as public infrastructure etc. is concerned only a minuscule portion of
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by tn13 11y ago
There is nothing moral about paying taxes. What Apple has earned belongs to Apple and in ideal world it should pay nothing to US government. US government should probably think of simplifying and lowering the tax to the extent that avoiding
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by tn13 11y ago
Corporations are trying to keep their own money. Hiring top notch lawyers is economical because they actually help them save more than what the lawyers get paid. I dont see how fault lies with the corporations.
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by tn13 11y ago
It is illegal but most large companies encourage these small illegal companies that take the legal liability while providing cheap labor. If the small company shuts down does not matter it will come up again with a different name. It does n
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by tn13 11y ago
IT/CS industry is the major consumer of H1B visas. IT/CS is also the industry that relies mostly on outsourcing. Guess how healthy this industry is, guess which computer major pays the most salary in USA today and so on and also t
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by tn13 11y ago
There are lot of illegal things that happen with H1B that prevent the above. For example H4 spouse can not work but then some company agrees to sponsor H1B under the condition that no payslips will be given and hence you can not transfer th
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by tn13 11y ago
I have a simple solution. Let H1Bs enter based on the salary their employee is paying them than anything else. Forget about degree, job description etc. Also this is how the bidding system would work. 1. Let salaries be classified in tiers.
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by tn13 11y ago
Most superstars become superstars after coming to USA. O1 is for those who are already superstars in other countries. Countries like India do not offer the same freedom that US does and hence a lot many potential superstars can not enter US

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