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... but so true. I grew up in the South and am in an inter-racial marriage. After I moved up to a northern "blue" state, I met more overtly racists people than I thought possible. It was shocking.

Interesting. It looks like they are not subletting/subleasing, but working with property management companies to sign up tenants. They are basically offering a service to match tenants and collect payment without any risk of dealing with roomate issues. The tenants sign a lease directly with the property management company.

The are probably "quiet" about it because they don't want property managers to do it themselves.

I looked at one apartment complext LSeven. The floorplan 2bd/2ba goes for $4,683, but HomeShare is probably collecting $6,300 per month on that unit.

I had roomates in college. I would never, ever do that ever again.

I had one roomate who would masterbate at night on the couch in the living room, and seemed to think it was acceptable behavior. Had another one who would come in after 2 am strip down and fall asleep on the couch in his whitey-tighty underwear while watching ESPN. I've had to kick out roomates that stopped paying rent. I had a roomate break our lease so he could move in with his ex-girlfriend so he could try to save their relationship -- and that didn't work out so well for him.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with recent articles detailing how Russian FSB agents successfully use LinkedIn to find, contact, groom, and network with potential sources and agents on Wall Street.

Oddly, this is how they fire people at my wife's workplace; take them out to coffee and drop the hammer.

I don't think this is professional advice. In fact, I think it's horibble advice. If I wanted to ask a female coworker how they were doing, I'd do it right in the office, as a professional to a professional.

I would never ask a female coworker out to coffee just to talk. I've had a female project manager ask me out for coffee, and I was too polite to refuse. I felt obligated to go. She asked me about my family and how-are-you-doing kind of things, but I still felt it was awkward. She was an awesome project manager, but I was new and didn't know her well enough to know her intentions.

Before I got married, this is how I would screen dates -- coffee or drinks. Small talk, and then if we clicked, another coffee until we were comfortable to go on a real date.

Contrary to popular opinion this is how most office affairs start, and I'm sure a fair bit of harrassment, not a dropped pencil in the copy room leading to spontaneous sex with disco music in the background.

I wonder if these issues would dissapear if Silicon Valley companies weren't so focused on hiring only 20-somethings, with a skewed sense of morality, and had a few crusty bastards with daughters lurking the halls.

Do they no longer teach critical analysis in literature classes anymore? I remember rolling my eyes, and being forced to learn about author's lives, as the author's live experiences may impact their view point.

I would think this is even more important with authors that are trying to impact public opinion or policy.

Nice. I'm forever looking for any viable alternative to QuickBooks. I've even thought about writing my own invoicing application.

Looks great, but I personally don't like the collaboration tools mashed into the dash board. It looks cluttered. It also wasn't clear what information the client's would see. If they saw dollar amounts, it's a deal killer-- I work with too many clients and am assigned to work with other non-management employees.

Also, for reports -- I only saw a graph. I need to see who's behind and take action to get paid, and follow up with phone calls, emails, and letters.

I'd also like to see the ability to print invoices to mail them to clients. Some clients are overwhelmed with email, but a paper invoice gets paid.

My complaints with most projects in this genre I've evaluated -- they seem to be written by freelancers who've never had bad clients, never had to chase people down for payment, or never been in a relationship that turns sour.

Work for one bad client, and it will change you, and how you do business.

Just wow. This is terrible. You don't understand the difference between a statutory employee and independant contractor.

If you are an employee, the company is required by law to withhold taxes and pay you regularly. Every state in the U.S. has an agency that will take and prosecute wage claims. People have gone to jail for messing with witholding taxes.

If you just invoice, you are effectively an independant contract, they might not pay you, and you are on the hook for paying your taxes. A big difference.

I'm weighing the same decision. It's time to replace my eight year old Mac Pro, and I'd like to go with a laptop + docking station + external monitors, but I'm torn as to weather and get the current model or the next.

I've decided to wait. The current model will be discounted, and I want to know how many USB-C ports will be on the next version and what the impact will be. I've heard it is painful if not impossible to connect older Cinnema dispays to mac book via USB-C.

Edited to add:

>-I want to do iOS development You can do iOS development on any intel-based mac. My 8 year old mac pro is fine. My Macbook Air is perfectly fine.

>-Want to be able to hook up a external monitor later, >hence the MBP and not air

You can hook up an external monitor to any of the modern macbooks, you just have to purchase an adapter. A mini-display cable will plug into a thunderbolt port, and there are adapters for other cable types (thunderbold to vga, thunderbolt to DVI, etc). I have a set of adapters I carry in a bag just for presentations.

If you want to drive 4k monitors, there be dragons.

I hope it gets voted down. It was John F. Kennedy that introduced the Community Mental Health act of 1963 to close down and defund mental institions. The idea of cutting spending for mental facilities was put forth by the Democratic party, not GOP. Both parties have continued ever since.

I deleted my twitter account last week and deleted the twitter app after Milo was banned. I wasn't a follower of his, but I perceived an active bias against conservatives or filtering trending tags that comment on trending news that are negative towards Hillary as just too much, as well as the fact that it is a cesspool of bullying, huckster marketing, plagerism, and cry-bullying.

It was the second time I gave twitter a go. I must not be the target market.

You want us to render advice that covers several legal specialties which converge between state, federal, tax, business, and immigration law, which if wrong, could result in a denial of a visa and untold aggrivation to your business partners? In addition, you want us to tell you the secret on how to found a company that will become a unicorn?

You are an F-1, so you are forbidden from working as statatory employee (immigration law + employement law), except as OPT. You are forbidden from forming a single-member Sub S corporation (tax law). However, there isn't any reason why you can't act as a sole proprietor or single member LLC (depending on state law regarding LLCs). While this violates the spirit of the law, as long as you declare your income on a Schedule C the IRS (tax law) won't care. You will not be able be an employee of the company, but you should be able to take a draw or distribution. If you go this route, should should reserve 30% of everything you make to pay taxes and be prepared to pay estimated quarterly taxes.

If you plan on holding accounts overseas, you need to find a CPA that understands the requirements for reporting foreign holdings. You really need to be asking a good attorney along with an even better accountant, and be prepared to pay for their advice.

Too funny. I would love to see how they identify a 10x person from an 8x person.

I worked at a fortune 500 company that measured productivity via a ticketing system. "Write a device driver" was measured the same as "Change 'OK' to 'Accept' on a button." Guess what the 10x'ers did all day and what got assiged to consultants like me?

I worked at another fortune 500 company that measured programmer productivity via a ticketing system, and they focused on issues. I finished my work 6 months early with no bugs or issues, but the outsourced labor continiously generated as many issues as they fixed to the tune of roughly 80% reopen rate.

They told me I they weren't going to extend my contract and I laughed and told the lead -- I finished my work six months early with no bugs, and you are going to let me go and keep the guys to write as many bugs as fixes. They kept me and let six other overseas contractors go.

I could give dozens of other examples how people are smart enough to game the system.

I'm unique persective in that I have a degree I received 20 years ago, and decided a midlife-crisis meant going back to get an electrical engineering degree.

My chemistry class wouldn't transfer so I had to repeat it. So I took it at a local community college. Before I was allowed to register, I was forced to go to an orientation. The worst motivational speaker I've ever seen kept hammering the students about living life to the fullest and enjoying the college life. I walked out.

The last time I took a class, I could take a full course load for $700. The chemistry class was $800+ alone.

It amazes me that if you came home and told your parents you purchased a $80k car with payments they would consider you an idiot; If you told them you wanted to pay $80k for a college (with a 50% graduation rate) and received a loan that cannot be wiped out by dissability or bankruptsy -- they would think you were a genious.

Autplaying videos infuriate me. I've given up after trying to configure chrome to stop autoplaying videos. Now I just turn off javascript and only enable it for the sites I need javascript.

This is a worthy goal, but is it a good thing to have 100% voter turnout? Every direct democracy has failed since the time of Socrates. After several generations, direct democracies turn into a mob with the majority voting themselves benefits while minorities become permanently disenfranchised. At least voter disinterest allows minorities the possibility of voting as a block and gaining influence in off-year elections. In my opinion, sometimes too much so.

Perhaps that has something to do with people who aren't supposed to vote, who's demographics skew to the left side of the political spectrum: - Foreign citizens with drivers licenses - Permanent residents with drivers licenses - Felons with drivers licenses - Drivers under the voting age of majority - Non-naturalized immigrants with drivers licenses.

^ This times 1000000. There is so much chicanery and malfeasance in the nutrition and fitness industry.

I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes a few years ago. I went to dietitian who prescribed a diet with 60% carbs (I believe its roughly the same as the ADA dietary guidelines). The standard treatment is medication, followed by more medication, then insulin shots.

Frustrated, I read everything I could get my hands on, and found two books that I'd highly recommend: 1) Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution, and 2) Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner. Dr. Bernstein is notable because he was diagnosed with T1 when it was a fatal condition. He survived, became an electrical engineer and ultimately went on to become an MD. He lobbied the AMA to allow patients to have blood glucose meters, when the AMA wanted them to be restricted to doctors offices.

I stopped listening to medical practitioners and starting experimenting with the foods I ate, using pairs testing with a glucose monitor. There is no question that a low carb diet is the way to go.

Interesting. When I ran my S Corp, my goal was to avoid estimated tax payments. At the end of the year, the accountant would calculate the required taxes and I would issue a "net zero" check that only paid taxes, or a bonus check with a enormous withholding. The remainder was taken out as a dividend.

Taxes paid via withholding are treated as if they are paid in through the course of the year which avoids estimated tax payment penalties.

Unless you cannot, because you aren't in the allotted time window. Can distributions be treated as dividends?

If you don't know the basics, how to do you know when your accountant or bookkeeper is making a mistake, or giving you bad advice? How to do you know if they are optimizing their advice to make their jobs easier, not yours?

I stared an LLC last year. It it took two months to find an anchor client, and they started paying net 60 (so no income for four months). Compared to the year previous, my income effectively dropped 25%. The accountant figured estimated payments that would require me to pay every penny I made during the first half of the year. That would mean 6 months without income. He was simply taking last year's tax obligation dividing it by the number of quarters left, not the actual tax obligation. Did I mention he talked me into an LLC because the administration was simpler? He forgot to mention how much more in taxes I would be paying compared to an S Corp.

I'm now reading every tax book I can get my hands on, and am reading accounting textbooks. No one will watch out for your money like you should.

Am I the only one that sees the icon and thinks that it looks like an abstract drawing of the sphincter or the underside of your anatomy? Must be tortured remembrances of goatsee videos from years gone by. Perhaps there is a tie in with all those grindr ads. Personally I find the combination of moms, puppies, and sphincters a bit disturbing.

..and they use H1Bs, and those H1Bs aren't counted against the cap.

So there isn't any equivalent to #pragma pack in Go? I'll stick with C/C++, thanks.

Do the agents get assigned Soviet handler on the first visit, or do you have to attend a few meetings first?

I'm not familiar with European regulations, or medical procedures, but in the U.S., a medical diagnosis can only be made by a qualified licensed medical professional. Even making statements about diagnosing disease states via software or smartphones is enough to invoke an FDA response.

Disclaimer: I'm writing software for a company that offers FDA approved pace-makers, defibrillators, and implantable heart monitors. These comments are my own.

No where on your site do you reference FDA approval and I see that you are not in the U.S., so take my comments with a grain of salt.

Bio-metric authentication using cardiac wave forms? I'm not sure that is a good way to go, but it sure sounds good. What happens when the user takes medications that changes the waveform (ie., they start new blood pressure medicine or cardiac meds, or intermittently take those meds)? What if the user has PVCs when trying to authenticate? What about diabetics with high glucose levels?

The only time I've seen a legitimate use for using ECG in a consumer/commercial application is detecting a pulse when a user is attempting validate a finger print. I worked with a guy who had to implement something for ATMs being shipped to Africa. They required the user to authenticate with a finger print scanner in order to withdraw money. It wasn't long before people were loosing their fingers.

As far as monitoring for cardiac anomalies, they don't happen all the time. Your device only appears to work when you hands are touching it. It often takes days or weeks for them to occur, requiring continuous monitoring for days, weeks, and sometimes months.