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probablynish
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About probablynish
www.ntharani.com
https://github.com/NishantTharani
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Comment #45494988
> None of the gear in this article is particularly cheap. The $4 baseball cap isn't bad :) Darn Tough socks are also arguably also pretty cheap over a lifetime of use since the com…
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Comment #40018413
Hi Peter - a followup question if I may. Do you think that this kind of "solo entrepreneur" business model would be a good fit for the E2 visa? In particular, where the individual …
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Comment #40018354
Thank you!
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Comment #40016245
Hi Peter - I understand that it's possible for recent STEM graduates to be self-employed, or a 1-man C-Corp, for the first year of their post-completion OPT. But in the 2 year STEM…
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Comment #39845127
This is not really a fair comparison - even without a congestion toll, people have to pay to drive on a road. They need to buy the car, pay for its maintenance, fill it with gas, p…
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Comment #39772314
What if some AI generated content is...good?
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Comment #39609736
Oops. Didn't mean to push so strongly then. Sorry grecy!
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Comment #39608124
Depending on your background and circumstances, there are ways to opt out of the race to a greater/lesser degree. Moving to a cheaper city in your country, or a cheaper country alt…
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Comment #39608063
Ah, I see - same question though, I'm curious which citizenship you eventually acquired without stepping foot in the country? BTW I spent the last 15 mins enjoying your blog, parti…
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Comment #39607864
> I continued to do so because I was working towards permanent residency in another country. I'm curious, what country let you work towards permanent residency without you being ph…
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Comment #39607790
Most individuals like being able to acquire more goods and services. A lot follows from there
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Comment #38827421
If induced demand for housing were accepted, it might expose how weak an argument it is against road use. 'Lets not build more roads because it allows more people to make journeys …
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Comment #38798419
> Every foreign employee getting that tech job is a US citizen from the Midwest not getting it. This concentration of high paid tech jobs would not exist in the first place if it w…
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Comment #38798391
I interned at a company that can hire H1Bs. They do so often. My manager and several coworkers were not US citizens. I received the hourly equivalent of more than $78k/yr, with a g…
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Comment #38798382
The article says that most of these approvals are going to tech entrepreneurs / startup founders. The effect of this seems to be to create new companies that otherwise wouldn't hav…
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Comment #38770372
NY has a lot of finance/law/consulting businesses that California doesn’t have as much of. It’s possible that the effect of banning non competes would be different for different in…
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Comment #38718262
Ha yeah I was looking for the explanation of how he just leaves with the persons phone after they hand it to him to swap socials.
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Comment #38605730
If you're considering not just tech, but the general mindset of being somewhere that builds/produces things that other people use, as opposed to just industries of middlemen who sk…
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Comment #38605689
It's tempting to read just the headline and see an opportunity to express your views on the great Europe vs US online debate (everyone has a take), but the article does have an int…
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Comment #38425478
Do you think there's a better way to do this than spending some time playing around with the latest releases of different tools?
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Comment #38198856
Yep, probably true, but the government redistributing income is in itself kind of part of our economic system.
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Comment #38198847
> So you trust in what you already have faith in? That's not a source that inspires confidence in our discourse. I trust central bankers to not straight up make up or lie about fac…
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Comment #38183781
I agree that a lot of the net wealth increase came from asset prices going up, but your original comment said "don't actually own the assets they utilize" which is not the case as …