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by tomaha 8y ago
IB has US and UK accounts (and likely more). For Switzerland (and Europe) you'll get a UK account and you will not have W-8BEN problems.
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by tomaha 9y ago
Yes. It's pretty much always a sign that they don't understand engineering and it's more like a Kindergarten that discovered putting together code constructs makes lights blink.
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by tomaha 9y ago
Nothing passes in the Bay Area with todays attitude. There will never be good transportation here because too many don't want anything to change near them (which is ironic living in SV).
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by tomaha 9y ago
Yes. That could be a problem. But in for most areas customers will be annoyed with Comcast and blame them for poor performance and switch. Still there are lots of areas in the US where you don't have a choice. But they would also loose
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by tomaha 9y ago
The problem is that if you're big enough business-wise you don't care that much about NN. It's like in Germany when Google has to pay for content in Google News and they just tell the publishers they will not include them if
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by tomaha 9y ago
Pretty much all software engineers have Linux on their main desktop computer. On their laptops it's mostly MacOS or ChromeOS.
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by tomaha 9y ago
The article you cite is a month old.
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by tomaha 9y ago
Proof of stake will solve this for Ethereum by not burning processing power to secure the network. We'll likely end up with several of these methods and even if proof of work is still part of this it's likely much more specialized
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by tomaha 9y ago
Start doing interships at companies that look good on your cv and pay well enough (Google, Facebook, etc). Get hired at one of these companies after you finished studying (or if you can see it catch one of the up and comming companies at th
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by tomaha 9y ago
32 bit vs 64 bit
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by tomaha 9y ago
Or the $500k+ you can earn. Most of the people in that region have at least a masters degree and likely more.
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by tomaha 9y ago
That's what I'm working on right now. It's just that I can use all this expertise around me to do it. Everything repeats in technology and what you learned can and will be applied to new trends like Ethereum. I don't rec
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by tomaha 9y ago
The resources you can have are so limited in comparison what you can do if you are on the right project with the right people at for example Google. You will not find a free or open project that will be able to compete with the data, resour
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by tomaha 9y ago
Because mostly only big companies choose their destination. For the rest it's where they live when they found the company. So if more people in Chicago found tech companies you'll get more tech companies. That's the reason SV
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by tomaha 9y ago
I agree that there are nice options in the US and you'll have a much more comfortable life. But if you want to learn as much as you can, if you want to have as many options as you could possible have, and quiet frankly earn as much as
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by tomaha 9y ago
The problem is with social networks that the network itself is the valuable basis. It doesn't really matter if we compare it to last mile or long distance. It's all about how much coverage you have. If you don't have enough y
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by tomaha 9y ago
Facebook really is exactly the same kind of monopoly as AT&T. You could see the network and even data related to it as the last mile. Technologies like blockchain could make this possible and give the user back control over their own d
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by tomaha 9y ago
I don't know anyone involved in this but based on the data given this is really just an acqui-hire so it's expected that they do that. They just buy the tech to be on the safe-side and will just store the source code somewhere and
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by tomaha 9y ago
They should make sure they have the seats for their personnel and not sell them to customers. In every other business if you sell the same thing to two people I would call it fraud.
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by tomaha 10y ago
One of the first things I noticed after moving to Silicon Valley was that internet access here is surprisingly bad and expensive. You'll likely only have one choice and have to live with it. Most areas in Europe will give you faster, c
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by tomaha 10y ago
The median house price for Palo Alto is $2.6M. For SV it's much lower (~$1M). You can't just count the top location to get the median. But you'll likely get much nicer (bigger,better structure,etc) median houses in other area
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by tomaha 10y ago
I think it's also good if salaries are more transparent. I see too many people selling themselves short and thus getting lower salaries because they just don't know. If you're lucky you still get a nice salary but it's s
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by tomaha 10y ago
Most salaries I see look accurate. E.g. at Google your stock vests over 4 years but at the same time you get refreshers every year. So after starting and getting each successive year refreshers you start having all the amounts of 4 years ve
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by tomaha 10y ago
If you want to earn more you should still move. In Germany base salary is pretty much your salary as the variable part is pretty limited. Here in SV it is just about half of your salary if you work for a while here. It will also pay with ex
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by tomaha 10y ago
The country you're looking for is Delaware.
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by tomaha 11y ago
Especially if they want to keep parts like Splitter and Joiner and just copy them over. I just ran into too many libraries that copied Guava into their own namespace and now your project depends on x different copies of Guava indirectly. Be
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by tomaha 13y ago
H1B is just too limited and you need a lot of luck and good timing to get it. So I would choose another way (besides trying to win the Greencard lottery, which you can try once a year): 1. Apply for Google in Zurich (or for that matter any