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by dfadsadsf 3mo ago
Does cold calling still works? I get so many spam calls that unknown numbers just go directly to voicemail that I check every other week or so. Pretty much everyone around me does the same. I do not remember when I got last legitimate call
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by dfadsadsf 3mo ago
> You're going to get demolished if you start bouncing gambling debt on a credit card. If you do not have assets or high income, you can just ignore debt and it will drop off you credit report after 7 years. They can try to sue you
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by dfadsadsf 3mo ago
If done at scale, you will get complaints/chargebacks that will trigger an audit followed by fines and/or account closure. Banks and underwriters have standard procedures in place to catch this.
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by dfadsadsf 4mo ago
>BAM would have become the successor to all liabilities upon taking over the store (in the U.S., at least). Not necessarily and highly depended on how it was structured and state law. It's possible that BAM only took over entity and
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by dfadsadsf 4mo ago
It's game theory. You start developing nukes and risk US bombing you to stone age while killing your personally. But the moment you develop nukes, US will likely leave you alone. Choices.
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by dfadsadsf 5mo ago
That math breaks down if you have kids and need 4bdrm house commutable distance to work in good school district - prohibitively expensive in Bay Area and affordable on engineer salary in most tier 2 cities. If you do not have kids, Bay Area
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by dfadsadsf 6mo ago
Most petitions are filed over the summer, so the numbers so far in this financial year are not super relevant to anything. You will see a spike pretty soon after petitions for lottery winners this year are filed.
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by dfadsadsf 6mo ago
Every year US absorbs 120k+ H1B+L1+OPT new visa holders. Considering there are 1.9M software engineers, market has to grow by 5% every year just to stand still. Add US graduates and you are talking about 10% growth required just to maintain
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by dfadsadsf 6mo ago
Do not mistake leadership and regular people. Afghanistan president Ghani handed over sovereignty to US too but Afghans disagreed. I am confident that there is significant minority in Kuwait wishing for Iran victory. As a datapoint, there w
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by dfadsadsf 7mo ago
Iraq right now is in roughly the same position as it was when Saddam Hussein was there but in the meantime a few million people died and the country went through a pretty traumatic period.
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by dfadsadsf 7mo ago
Not really. I expect with AI and increased productivity allure of outsourcing will diminish. You want super productive engineers to be close to product and customers. Besides if you are looking for work there is very little difference betwe
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by dfadsadsf 7mo ago
Lots of people laid off by Block are on H1B Visas. With transfer they have 60 days to find new role. If they could not find new job in 60 days, they "fake" transfer to "bodyshop" company while they are looking for real w
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by dfadsadsf 7mo ago
If we unionize, will I still be paid $500k with four years of experience?
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by dfadsadsf 7mo ago
Right now is exactly the time when we need to pause issuing new or transferring existing H1B/L1/other work visas for least a year until we know full impact of AI on economy and employment.
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by dfadsadsf 7mo ago
Coca Cola stopped officially selling in Russia but Coca Cola products are widely available due to grey import from other countries (it's present in literally every store - though prices are higher than for local brands).
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by dfadsadsf 7mo ago
Coca Cola actually have to run ads to stay relevant. War in Ukraine provided nice experiment - Coca Cola stopped all advertisement in Russia in 2022 and results are in. - Feb–Mar 2022 (before full production/marketing stoppage): RosInd
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by dfadsadsf 8mo ago
Money are stolen electronically every day - we do not know how to build secure systems. Considering the stakes for national elections (civil war or government instability) good enough is not good enough. I agree with you on local elections
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by dfadsadsf 8mo ago
Just use Amnezia VPN - it can masquerade as https.
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by dfadsadsf 8mo ago
Given the relatively low inflation in 2025, I’m skeptical of the claim that consumers bore 96% of the tariff burden. With CPI inflation at 2.7% and roughly $18,000 in goods consumption per person in US, total price increase in goods work ou
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by dfadsadsf 9mo ago
At the time it was not clear that GLP-1 solves obesity problem so effectively - many drugs suppress hunger (eg amphetamines), it's just that GLP-1 works long term and does not have significant side effects. Hard to predict without hind
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by dfadsadsf 9mo ago
30% of NYC public school students are functionally illiterate in high school. There is zero chance you will be able to teach them analog clock in a day and forget about an hour.
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by dfadsadsf 9mo ago
This comes down to realism versus wishful thinking. In the real world, force is used to resolve geopolitical problems - as we’re seeing in Venezuela now and saw previously in Iraq, Serbia, Grenada and countless other countries with US. The
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by dfadsadsf 10mo ago
Main reason normal people do not use public transport is this attitude and police giving up on enforcing basic public order on transport. Personally I am voting against any public transport funding until all homeless/druggies are kicke
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by dfadsadsf 10mo ago
Scale of the country matters. If Argentina (or any other small to medium size country) require extra work, businesses can just walk away - size of market does not justify extra efforts. Bet is that US market size is big enough that no globa
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by dfadsadsf 10mo ago
While tariffs on coffee do not incentivize coffee growing in US they do two things that are very beneficial for US economy 1) People replace coffee with hot cider, infusion tea or some other local substitute good. 2) Tariff on coffee as set
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
Let’s be real - nobody is moving R&D to Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh. Talent is not there and good luck convincing any expats to move there in meaningful numbers. India is real but every company is already there and very little rea
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
Technically yes but practically no. I did research - there were a few court cases in 60ies but after that gov gave up on trying to recover money.
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
Those rules are not enforced, every state has free (or almost free) healthcare that fresh immigrants are eligible for but sometimes they need to jump thru a few hoops. Many states have free “healthcare navigators” that will guide you how to
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
US allows unlimited chain migration for parents with short waiting period. Everyone brings their parents/siblings and put them on Medicaid/Obamacare, Section 8, etc right away. Technically sponsor is supposed to cover those benefi
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by dfadsadsf 1y ago
In practical terms it means public subsidizing gay lifestyle in US by 28k/year - it’s the only demographic outside of sex workers for whom this drug make sense and will be routinely offered. It’s just not sustainable.

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