vaishaksuresh

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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
I can't say I understand this argument. Say an American company X outsources to a foreign company Y. Y abuses the system and hires a bunch of H1B and pays them pennies to the dollar. X is still paying Y dollars and not pennies right? S
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
They are not low wages but are getting below market salaries. If that was what you're hinting at. I'm guessing most people working for IT consultancies and services companies are paid way below market wages. Sure, the company hiri
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
I'm not saying H1B is not abused, I'm saying not everybody on H1B is abusing the system or is getting paid below market wages.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
Whenever someone brings up H1B, everybody goes to abuse issue, but a lot of us got here as students and we still have to use H1B to work. It is unfair to just lump everybody on an H1B as a low wage, unqualified person.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
You're right! i just skimmed over the article and missed the important thing in the box on top :)
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
Maybe I'm too old for this, but I read the title as "Dropbox discontinues photo galleries" I still can't get used to the fact that drop means release.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
>if an interviewee does not know how to answer a question, they don't know why that question is important or where that type of problem is applied I would argue that not knowing answer and not knowing question are two different thin
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
Yup they do. That is what I use it for.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
$90 is the most expensive plan. Their basic plan start from $30 or $3 a month. I'll downgrade to a cheaper plan in the future, but $90 a year for something I use on a daily basis does not seem excessive to me. That is about ¢25 a day.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
Google Photos. I'm talking about Google in general, not Gmail in particular.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
I can talk about myself and the reason I think Gmail is not working for me. I'm less worried about the security part of the email and more about the tracking aspect. I don't need encrypted emails, however I don't want someo
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
No particular reason, I just knew fastmail from many years ago and liked them.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
I very recently switched to fastmail and couldn't be happier. For $90 a year, I don't have to deal with people snooping and tracking me around for ads. I know google is trying to give me value with all their facial recognition and
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
I am happy about this acquisition at least for deliveries. I've used Instacart extensively and they don't seem honest at all. Prices/fees are not transparent, I don't know who I'm tipping and how much of the tip the
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
What browser do you use? Chrome?
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
If you have a raspberry pi lying around (probably other *nix machines would work too), you can setup https://pi-hole.net I run it at home and it blocks the ads on my entire network. Work exactly like your method.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
There are many ways to track you, ad-blocking prevents just a tiny little thing. There are things like pixel tracking that is not very easy to detect/block.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
I would agree with you if Trump did not make super sensitive decisions and meet with other heads of state there.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
If we're giving anecdotal evidence, I have about 4 Dell notebooks from 2011 to 2016, all of them are either broken or cannot function normally. So should i go ahead and generalize that all the machines in this period are bad? I said th
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
Eh! I meant it needs tinkering once in a while. It is probably more like 99%. Windows and Linux on the other hand require way more work. I just want my dad to browse the internet and not mess with registry or device drivers.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
This is purely personal, but I don't buy laptop solely for its form-factor. What sells the MBP to me is the operating system and frankly that is what keeps me from buying a windows laptop too. In the end I'm ok with paying a premi
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
I don't think /u/tmd83 said MBPs were not expensive or was even comparing the two.
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
When ordinary people take a job and fail, even when the job itself is impossible, they don't get rewarded. CEOs shouldn't be treated differently is my point. If it was impossible and the company couldn't be salvaged, there wa
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
Or, it could just be your confirmation bias. I'm not saying women aren't treated harshly, but plenty of male CEOs also get flak (uber, Adobe etc). IMHO, women are treated unfairly at lower levels of work, it is hard to sympathize
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by vaishaksuresh 9y ago
>I guess its just as well so no one will feel bad not hiring her again for anything, ever That seems counterintuitive to me. As a CEO, she was responsible for the company's direction. If Yahoo failed, she is responsible and that sho
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by vaishaksuresh 10y ago
>public or well-known figures you're equating two unrelated issues. Nobody needs or is entitled to a private company's CEO's tax returns. However, it is totally reasonable to see the tax returns of a politician who makes d
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by vaishaksuresh 10y ago
I like how you see positive in this move, but all I can think of is this. Google will enable ads from google and block everything else. This is their way of killing the competition. I think it is unfair and risky. I don't want google o
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by vaishaksuresh 10y ago
Right, so make my cost $15 and pay the driver $25 and Uber still loses $15. I'm okay with that if that means I and the driver don't have to stress out about the tip before each ride. I don't want to be responsible for the dri
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by vaishaksuresh 10y ago
The article is talking about a different thing. If the trip costs me $10, the driver keeps ~$7 and Uber gets $3. If the driver thinks he needs $9 for this to be viable, then Uber should either take $1 or charge the customer $12 and pay the
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by vaishaksuresh 10y ago
They are subsidizing the passenger's trip, but taking a cut from the driver's fare. There is a difference.

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