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by uiri 9y ago
Seriously? You're saying that condos in downtown San Francisco can be had for under $500k? You can most likely find a condo in downtown Toronto for that price. Housing prices in Toronto are nowhere near the SF Bay Area. Geography const
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The salaries for the US also look weird to me. Canadian new grads tend towards $60-70k with larger American companies paying closer to $80-90k in the same location. My sampling is heavily biased towards Ontario. I expect Greater Vancouver t
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The problem with the phrase "identity theft" is that it puts the onus of security onto the consumer to secure their personal details instead of onto the bank/telcos/etc to secure their systems. We should call it what it
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Satya was also more accessible than his predecessor and would meet with anyone in his division for 10 minutes on Fridays. I imagine Satya no longer has this policy as CEO. Are there any division head level or higher execs in Microsoft whi
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It looks like more of a contest with a minimum prize of $15k for complete entries. It is limited to residents of Queensland; the state in the northeastern portion of Australia.
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This is much less impressive with 10 or 11 foot ceilings than with 7 or 8 foot ceilings. That said, even with more space, I think that effective use of space is a much better strategy than upgrading to a larger space. Stuff tends to have a
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by uiri 9y ago
Conventionally, when bond yields go down, stocks go up. Interest rates (and, consequently, bond yields) have been very low for a number of years now. This has led to a lot of capital being deployed in the stock market instead. So that expla
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Go travel in SE Asia for 6 months. If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it. The problem with travel is either having the money but not enough time, or having the time but not enough money. You have both so you should se
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by uiri 9y ago
fix the tax rate once and for all Do you mean fix as in "repair" or as in "hold in place"? This usage is ambiguous. The ruling class already, by definition, determines the taxation amounts. Society is surviving like th
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There are seven layers according to the OSI model. The TCP/IP model simplifies this into "above layer 4", layer 4, layer 3, and "below layer 3". In practice, TLS/SSL is an implementation of the session layer (l
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by uiri 9y ago
Yes, Inbox, Maps, Search, etc. are all in one repo in a specialized version control system. Android, Chromium, and Linux (among others, I'm sure) are different in that they use git for version control so they are in their own separate
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My experience with short regional jumps operated by a subsidiary or third-party under a larger airline brand has been that they do cash-only while the medium- and long-haul flights actually operated by the large airline have been card-only.
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According to his comment history he bought them back in 2011 when they were super cheap and did partial cash outs.
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Yes, if he had to match the author of the post in terms of financial commitment (or even throw in a non-trivial-to-him sum of money), he would have taken the startup more seriously and have been less likely to just walk away. The issue wasn
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Clemency covers both pardons and commutations of sentences.
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Next time start with vesting (which a lot of people are mentioning) so that the other founders continue to earn shares and dilute the departed co-founder's stake over time. Ideally, founder ownership in the company is compensation in l
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There is a third option - take out a loan secured by the property. In the case of real estate, this is a mortgage or "reverse" mortgage.
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It has an ARM CPU. Intel AMT is an x86(-64) technology. ARM and x86 are two different CPU architectures with incompatible instruction sets. AMT isn't available on an ARM chip.
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LLCs get to choose their tax treatment. They can be taxed as a pass-through entity (e.g. like an S corporation) or they can be taxed like a C corporation. Pass-through taxation is often cheaper because LLCs are often used to wrap limited li
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Salaries and living expenses have become really disconnected. These are inherently disconnected. Salary is related to the value of an employee's labour. In the contemporary US, the value of a software developer is high. In that same
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Is there any logging of which ssh key is used? I don't think that I would be comfortable having access to work material from a personal machine, assuming the company is large enough to issue work desktops/laptops.
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Out of curiosity: which parts of v3 do you believe to be unenforceable? I think that, given the time, effort, and professional expertise which went into drafting it, that the entire thing should be enforceable.
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The fifth amendment applies to both criminal and civil cases, if the testimony could be used in a criminal prosecution. The judge has already referred this for criminal prosecution, so Levandowski's apprehension about self-incriminatio
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Limited Liability Company . An LLC is not a corporation although it may choose to be taxed as one. Chances are Waymo, as a wholly owned subsidiary is a single member LLC and a disregarded entity for tax purposes.
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There is also https://gratipay.com/ where you can donate a set amount every month instead of paying bug bounties. I feel like there is a lot more glue code (that is, interfaces connecting core technologies) than there is co
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Someone who has $8.5M of assets and wants $750k of liquidity. Interest rates are so low that it makes sense to take out a mortgage to invest the cash elsewhere.
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Their livelihood is already gone. They have nothing productive to do. It is far more ethical to let them go and secure productive employment elsewhere so that they may have some dignity rather than to pay them to do nothing.
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non US citizens/permanent residents Why not just apply to it to non-resident aliens (a federal income tax status) rather than to people who aren't US citizens or permanent residents (which is related to nationality/immigrat
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Wouldn't going from Hawai'i -> Canada/Mexico -> US solve this? Similarly for Puerto Rico, wouldn't Florida -> The Bahamas -> Puerto Rico solve some of the issues? The only issue with adding foreign stops is t

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