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vikascoder

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    Comment #22242558

    Green card processes are also not without caveats these days. Every visa extensions with or without I140s can be subjected to "administrative reviews" that can take anywhere from a…

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    Comment #22242505

    Or better..that they outsourced it to them cheap Indians.

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    Comment #16746909

    Of all the hate that Advertising gets, how will any business survive without Advertising? How does an ad free world look like? You pay for every service as a ad-free subscription m…

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    Comment #16743865

    I would say vanilla education had nothing to do with, if it's that what you mean. Daily, I come across extremely well college educated folks ( including engineers) that are under t…

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    Comment #16735385

    We have to assume at some time that Economics is something more people think they can easily understand but in reality they asolutely do not. Cue the "Trade deficits? Huh that soun…

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    Comment #16707791

    Whaaat? Restaurant food can be very different than home cooked food because restaurants apply tricks to dress up a dish in ways you will never do at home. Excessive corn starch in …

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    Comment #16690579

    Or "How I have additional data to Facebook about my erasures on top of the copy of data I planned to erase".

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    Comment #16677964

    It's a little different as Internet makes it far easier to target a user compared to classic means of propaganda especially excaberating the issue of identifying real news vs "fake…

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    Comment #16655178

    The moment I started reading the first paragraph the thought in my head went like, "he is pointing to Online Masters By Georgia Tech..it's definitely OMSCS he is now ranting about"…

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    Comment #16597938

    That's a good thought but zero commision doesnt really change the investment attitude that much apart from the fact that it makes very low value plays possible. There are tons of p…

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    Comment #16530725

    yeah you are right. I would replace the harsher "Lazy" with Time + finance + effort variables. I have been to zoos before quite a few times on school trips. There are maybe quite a…

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    Comment #16529232

    I do not get the concept of a zoo. I have been to a real jungle safari recently and it struck me how obviously different animals are in their own vast natural habitat than in a zoo…

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    Comment #16401622

    Freedom means having the choice not to buy and have health insurance? Cause who needs it? But you have mandatory car insurance in most states. However much time I spend in the USA,…

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    Comment #16381656

    And strikes that leave you hanging at Frankfurt Airport with no option to commute at all for three days and more

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    Comment #16369345

    India has instantaneous IMPS bank transfers.

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    Comment #16343411

    Yeah don't know what the complaint is about. The lobster place, tacos stand, Vietnamese sandwich shop are all really good spots to eat. And not expensive

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    Comment #16290614

    Sadly this shows literacy has nothing to do with critical thinking and where the most literate of us should yield a higher standard on consuming fake whatsapp forwards, this shows …

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    Comment #16290571

    Exactly like how Homeopathy forces us to talk about real medicine? Or UFOs forces us to talk about Rocket design? Take Ancient Aliens at face value? There are other avenues to get …

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    Comment #16290520

    I was not expecting to find this reverse engineered piece of logic from Facebooks stream of nonsense to appear on HN.

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    Comment #16242126

    And in India transfers are instantaneous within banks. Beats me why in the US it takes 3 days.

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    Comment #16142745

    Some Highlights from Credit-Suisse Global Wealth Report. https://www.credit-suisse.com/corporate/en/research/research... 1. Richest 1% of Indians now own 58.4% of the country’s wea…

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    Comment #16073448

    Unless sarcasm is intended

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    Comment #16073401

    Mm I didnt get the joke about pg, care to explain?

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    Comment #16060226

    I dont think it's a choice in the hands of the consumer anymore.