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by zimzam 9y ago
Why should Apple pay any taxes to the US government for things it sells overseas? They already paid (or in this case, avoided) EU taxes on the sales in EU countries. If we're arguing about 'fairness', the EU should be getting
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by zimzam 9y ago
I've been a developer for years and worked for multiple companies: the most stressful professional situations I've ever have been in have been maybe a 4 out of 10 stress-wise, whereas interviews range from 7 to 9 out of 10. Interv
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by zimzam 9y ago
Sure, but extradition treaties make the list of viable country hops limited. You also can only pull this trick once: after you are a known flight risk the next country to come after you will be careful to make sure your detainment comes as
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by zimzam 9y ago
We do have low-cost carriers like Spirit & Frontier airlines. I know somebody who was in a long-distance Washington DC - Florida relationship and was able to get $20-$40 round-trip flights for weekend trips pretty regularly.
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by zimzam 9y ago
That's not an abusive worker, that's just a bad worker. In the current system bosses are sometimes hesitant to fire people if they know they have a family to support. Knowing people have UBI to lean on there's much less guilt
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by zimzam 9y ago
Your numbers are way off. In the US a young, single developer who follows a budget should be able to save at least $2k/month. $80k/year income less 25% for payroll & income taxes leaves $60k/year. $1.5k/month in hou
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by zimzam 9y ago
Having always flown economy I recently took advantage of a cheap, domestic upgrade to business class. I had to work while on the plane and I was noticeably more productive on the flight and less fatigued than I normally would be in economy.
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by zimzam 9y ago
You misunderstood: the phrase would be more accurately stated as "don't use code to solve internal process problems that are driven by corporate politics". For example: when a bank's retail locations are using different
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by zimzam 9y ago
I find that if there are enough conversations in an open-plan office the conversations blend together and I can tune them out (similarly to a coffee shop). At the cube-farm I worked at there would often be exactly one conversation happening
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by zimzam 9y ago
Do you know that or are you just being cynical? Chase's program saves them money that would have been spent on on boarding and off boarding employees. I also know people who have gotten new internal jobs via Wells Fargo's program.
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by zimzam 9y ago
Because if you are growing 1 acre of lettuce across 10 floors of a building (1/10th acre per floor) now you need to collect 1 acre of sunlight from a 1/10th acre sized roof. Where do you get the other 9/10th of an acre of sun
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by zimzam 9y ago
Indeed, grocery stores in NYC generally have terrible produce. However most of the costs for urban farms have to do with replicating things that rural farms have for free. Instead of using the sun urban farms have to pay for electricity, li
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by zimzam 9y ago
Nope: some companies, such as Chase, have programs to retain employees and find them other roles within the company when there are layoffs. Chase specifically gives their employees 6 months notice before eliminating the position to give peo
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by zimzam 9y ago
Economics has been evolving from a field dominated by navel-gazing theorists to being more behavioral and research-based. Try letting go of the 70 year old theories and read some modern research.
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by zimzam 9y ago
This assumes that the primary reason to start a company is to become fantastically wealthy, which I would contest. Sure, most founders want to get rich, but I'd assert most would be just as happy to end up in the 8 figure range ($10&#x
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by zimzam 9y ago
Is there really much practical difference between a police officer demanding a bribe and being robbed? (I've never been to Zimbabwe: if there is a difference between cops "coercing" a bribe and what I'm assuming you mean
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by zimzam 9y ago
That is generally sub-optimal. Domestic violence is rarely a one-time event, rather it is a pattern of the relationship (and often the violence is reciprocal, so arresting just one of the two doesn't make sense). Some form of social se
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by zimzam 10y ago
Isn't the point of the save-the-date so people can book travel in advance though?
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by zimzam 10y ago
Unfortunately there are employers in NYC who do call previous employers to verify salary. Remember that most white-collar employees are in much less demand than developers and have to deal with far more employer bullshit.
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by zimzam 10y ago
Not sure if you're trying to be ironic but that's exactly how it worked for many hundreds of years: remember that historically speaking, outside the Church most people couldn't read. One source estimates that in 1300 CE only
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by zimzam 10y ago
Data from satellites is used in a variety of ways to improve crop yields. (And like most infrastructure, improves people's lives in dozens of other unappreciated ways) The reasons for people starving in 2017 aren't due to food pro
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by zimzam 10y ago
I think you misunderstood. The poster is saying that if the prices are as follows: Sticker price (uninsured people pay this): $5000 Insurance A in-network price: $2100 Insurance B in-network price: $2300 Insurance C in-network price: $1800
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by zimzam 10y ago
What's cheesy about that line? Hell's Kitchen is a real neighborhood in NYC.
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by zimzam 10y ago
It doesn't require being in the top 10% of a top 10 school to be able to recognize bad ideas though. The standard you are describing is what I would call "qualified" or "competent" not "elite" or "top
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by zimzam 10y ago
See, here's the thing about coastal types: they are obsessed with getting the "top" talent, as if every project or startup requires it. What if most startups only need "good" developers to develop their mostly CRUD
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by zimzam 10y ago
1. "Visit Boxouse $40" sounds like you are charging money for tours, which almost made me leave the site immediately: tweak the copy to say "Stay in a Boxouse $40" or "Try a Boxouse $40" 2. Your presentation ne
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by zimzam 10y ago
They dropped the price by $70
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by zimzam 10y ago
This episode of the "Science Vs" podcast goes over a lot of research on immigration including what I mentioned about job creation: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/immigration/
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by zimzam 10y ago
That also seems like the stress & anxiety could be causing the other symptoms: crying alleviates stress, which would then ease the symptoms.
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by zimzam 10y ago
Nope: you forget that immigrants (legal or otherwise) increase demand for goods in their local economy which creates demand for jobs to fulfill these goods. Research shows that this demand creates more jobs than the immigrants "consume

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