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Good man.

It's actually trivial to dodge US taxes. The most basic and effective way to accomplish that is to establish fiscal residency in a friendly european country. It becomes /really/ ea…

Yes, salaries in SV are high. But, you can bet your ass that that sample set is made of students who for the most part come from a handful top-notch schools.

>Drumpf Are you 12?

That's my experience as well. Considered opening an office in Bangalore as I was thoroughly impressed by some candidates I had interviewed. Performance on the job was significantly…

You link a Wikipedia article about a highly contentious issue among economists and expect to be taken seriously? It is almost universally the case that when someone says "economist…

Because those companies are US companies, their very existence is a byproduct of this political community's stability, of the infrastructure that was paid with taxpayer money, some…

I always enjoy a leppo after a good workout!

Sometimes I wonder if software engineers are half as smart as they think they are. I can't think of any precedent or similar situation: a corps of highly skilled workers pro-active…

A remarkable mind and a keen and joyful lad, I hope Peter finds rest at last.

Your assumption is that it is a problem, it isn't.

>The success of many companies, and probably all of the unicorns, has nothing to do with technology. Most of the unicorns are founded with engineering talent coming straight from S…

Stealth startup | San Francisco, Waterloo, Hong-Kong| Full time, REMOTE, INTERNS, VISA - Stealth startup w/ founded by two former early employees at large tech companies and and a …

Except the diversity quotas, or EEOs as they call it now, almost never allow for truly norm-bending individuals to access those roles. Having a different skin colour does not make …

I am left speechless before this comment. I cannot believe some people here unironically believe that because they hired someone with a particular skin colour or heritage this will…

Those are candy-bars to make you happy, just like the EHRC is keeping the leftists in line while we slowly shift toward an ordoliberal paradigm at the european level. For countries…

Another thing Rousseau "predicted": "Défiez-vous de ces cosmopolites qui vont chercher loin dans leurs livres des devoirs qu’ils dédaignent de remplir autour d’eux. Tel philosophe …

Afaik the folks at F8 started the trend, I heard them use that idiom back in 2009 (F8 didn't exist yet)

I tend to ignore any comment that starts with "you misunderstand basic economics". That's not so much the arrogant tone but rather the crass dogmatism that pervade those comments. …

Most professions you are referring to are unionized and defend their interests as a group, if you wait for C-execs to increase salaries of its information workers you might wait a …

Sorry but the above poster does not handle parallel operations yet, come back for v2.

I love the US and California, the tech scene is amazing and I was lucky to met such talented and friendly people in about every place I worked... from very large tech cos to "garag…

>Now that the whole world is my neighbor, my immediate Internet neighbor, do I make any concessions at all, or do I uphold the ancient tradition of satire at all costs? And again, …