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Good Indian food doesn't exist in the US. Take a trip to BC, or the UK, and you'll see what I mean.
While I am in agreement that BC has plenty of authentic south asian cuisine, Seattle is not so terrible. Food recommendation: Gulberg Restaurant, 5943 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z6 Authentic Lahori food. The cuisine is way older than the 1947 partition...
How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels
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#182Is the author generalizing other South Asian immigrants as Indian Americans? Or is it factual that Indian-Americans do own 50% of motels in the USA? Because I have seen a lot of Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and even Arabs owning motel businesses across the USA. I am not cleared about this just from reading the article alone.
I think it safe to say they mean "Indian American" in a racial rather than national context, akin to "African American". So I'd take it to include people who have ethnic ties to the entire Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan and Bangladesh. As a Canadian who has lived many years in the US, the casual use of racial descriptors still shocks me. I find is very discomforting to be asked my race on forms, to see natio…
On your latter point, absolutely. And the people who make make the biggest effort to categorize people into hyphenated-Americans are the very ones who turn around and accuse people of being some-kinda-phobic or some-sorta-ist if they don't see the world that way.
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#183The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai
The author is an investment manager with a focused value strategy.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe Gates started Microsoft with a $5000 loan from his parents. Not that "immense".
What valuation do you give his mother's influence over the board at IBM?
And how much credence would IBM give a mom (who had little knowledge of computers and software) who suggested checking out her son?
Lastly, the accounts of her advising IBM to use her son's company are not verifiable.
IBM went to Gary Kildall first.
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#186This book provides the investment philosophy behind the Patel success and how it can apply in other realms. The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai The author is an investment manager with a focused value strategy.
https://www.amazon.com/Dhandho-Investor-Low-Risk-Method-Retu...
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good Indian food doesn't exist in the US. Take a trip to BC, or the UK, and you'll see what I mean.
While I am in agreement that BC has plenty of authentic south asian cuisine, Seattle is not so terrible. Food recommendation: Gulberg Restaurant, 5943 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z6 Authentic Lahori food. The cuisine is way older than the 1947 partition...
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are those actual early millionaires or just retirees with retirement savings?
Early millionaires. The article makes it pretty clear.
As for the article, the people in it seem to need to continue living a frugal lifestyle after early retirement, so they aren't exactly wealthy. Financially independent, yes, but not wealthy.
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#189It's always nice to hear about people coming to the US and not just taking a chance coming to the US, but also taking advantage of those freedoms to take the risk of starting a business and the massive amount of work that it takes to do so.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I am in agreement that BC has plenty of authentic south asian cuisine, Seattle is not so terrible. Food recommendation: Gulberg Restaurant, 5943 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z6 Authentic Lahori food. The cuisine is way older than the 1947 partition...
What is good in Seattle?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chaat+House/@47.6326521,-1...
If you are far south of downtown in the Renton/Kent area, this Pakistani kebab place is great:
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=maz...