kjackson2012

I know two Bay Area H1Bs that were just recently offered over 180K base salary with 250k+ in RSUs over 4 years. That's roughly $250k/yr total package.

The good H1Bs will get extremely high salaries and the shitty H1Bs will take all the jobs that pay shit.

There is no exploitation, it's just how the world works. If you're good there's nothing to fear from competition, and if fact it helps you.

Pretty much insane. I'm not sure if they asked this from their other candidates but if they did, they probably eliminated 99% of all the other great candidates just because they would refuse to waste a week of PTO just to deal with this request.

The same thing happens in all of Asia. In Japan, you have to apply with a picture on your resume, and hiring managers will ask married women if they intend to get pregnant, because they won't hire them. I'm sure it's similar across other countries. My friend, who is white, and his wife who is Japanese moved to Japan and after 9 months came back to the US because the conditions were so bad compared to the US. Not only do they work you to the bone, the pay is incredibly low and you are subject to blatant sexism and racism.

I think we should implement an all-solitary-confinement prison system.

We can make the initial prison terms shorter by an order of magnitude (a few days to a few weeks, depending on the nature of the crime). This should be hard enough time to scare most first-time offenders straight.

If you get repeat offenders, start increasing the length of solitary confinement exponentially.

The benefit is that you need less guards, the guards are better protected, less prison gangs because there would be no intermingling of prisoners, and it would protect the prisoners as well. It would help first-time offenders because they will probably get scared straight faster, and they wouldn't be in jail as long. And if you get a really violent criminal, it would be akin to locking them away and throwing away the key.

Then switch. Stop whining about it. If this is as big of a problem as the OP purports, and if people start leaving in droves, then imgur will die. This is the risk that they are taking, and they know this and so do you and the OP. So just switch. Stop whining about it.

"Oh no, a free web site isn't behaving the way that I want it to!"

I don't know if it's just because I'm old, but people need to stop whining about how free websites are behaving. If we were paying customers, then I believe we should have a voice in how the product works but if we're using it for free, then this feeling of entitlement has to stop.

Beggars can't be choosers. And whoever owns imgur has to make money as well, they're entitled to do whatever it takes to make as much money as they can, and if they lose you as a customer but make more money, that is their prerogative.

TLDR: we didn't know what we were doing when we started, and we learned a lot along the way. Unfortunately this came at the expense of our customers.

There is no rent control on single family homes in SF, regardless of its age.

I came in to say this. "Oncle Tom" translates to "Uncle Tom" in English, and in the US it has an extremely derogatory meaning towards African Americans. It's essentially a "black man that sold out to the White Man".

The name choice probably wasn't motivated by this, but it's an unlucky choice if the goal was to grow in North America, similar to the Chevy Nova, which in Spanish was equivalent to "No Go".

Yes, I absolutely agree. Ignoring never worked, it only made it more fun and challenging for me. The best way to stop a bully is to punch them in the face early on and make them think twice about considering you a target.

I'm sure almost everyone knows it's wrong, and I probably knew it was wrong too, which is why I was secretive about it in the sense that I never really got caught by teachers or my parents.

If I were born hundreds of years ago, I probably would have been a very hateful person, burning purported witches at the stake, etc. I'm just glad that I'm not that type of person now and that I was able to be self aware enough to stop my own behavior before it became a pervasive aspect of my personality. To answer your question as to why I stopped, I think I just realized it was wrong, and was wondering what was wrong with me and I didn't want to be that person.

I was a child so I had no end goals. I hated their weakness and wanted to make them suffer.

These days, whenever I feel those same feelings albeit a lot more muted, I stifle them because I know I'm the one who is wrong. If I just can't stand being around the person because they annoy me too much, I'm still cordial and friendly but I remove myself out of the situation.

Ignoring me never worked. It would actually encourage and motivate me to keep going and upping my verbal attacks until I got a reaction from you.

I do not suggest to anyone to just simply ignore their bully.

I've been thinking about this a lot. I'm remorseful of what I did as a kid. I was at times the ringleader that would make fun of particular kids and if I were a parent now, I would do my utmost to get me kicked out of school.

I grew up in a happy household, my parents were both highly educated, and my siblings and I are all relatively successful. I don't think my parents even knew about my bullying because I was really good at making sure I didn't get in trouble for it.

I didn't bully everyone, just particular kids. The best way to describe it is that I saw weakness in some kids, it sickened me, and I wanted to crush it. I didn't do it to make myself feel better, or because I had self esteem issues or to make myself popular. I was amongst the top students in my class, had a bunch of friends, and even kind of nerdy so it wasn't like I was a stereotypical jock picking on nerds.

I can't explain why I felt this way, I just did. And to be honest, I can still feel these feelings sometimes around certain people, but I just stifle them because I know it's wrong. So I think it must be genetic and something I was born with because despite me knowing it's wrong and I don't want to act on my feelings, when I interact with some people I still get the same feelings of "God this person is weak, I want to crush them."

This is why I recommend people fight back against their bullies. If the person I bullied punched me in the face, not only would I not want to get into a fight (as I mentioned I never physically attacked anyone and never got into fights because I was really good at picking kids who wouldn't fight back) but then I would reconsider whether they were actally weak or not.

Yes, but that's the point. I never picked on someone who I felt would fight back. I don't know how I developed this intuition as a kid but it was fairly accurate. The thing is if the kid fought back then I would probably have picked someone else. It must be hard for the bullying victim but it's something that has to be done.

This link you gave is interesting. My corollary to this is as a victim, never do favors for your bullier. It only makes you look weaker in their eyes and it will only spur them on. For me, the only solution is to fight back and make yourself not look an easy target.

As a former bully, my advice to anyone being bullied is to fight back.

I wasn't someone who would physically attack people, but I would relentlessly verbally abuse them. I'm not sure about the legal consequences these days but I know that if the person I picked on punched me in the face, I'd probably back down. This is what I have told my kids if they ever find themselves bullied. I'm not sure about the circumstances of the OP but I do think if you allow the bullying to fester, then kids who normally wouldn't bully start looking at you as a target and join in. The key is to not make yourself a target and if they know every time they bully you, that you will fight back tooth and nail, eventually they will choose someone else. It's sad and unfair, but true. It's like Lord of the Flies.

The one thing that makes me glad that I'm not younger is the fact that I didn't have the internet when I was a kid. I know for a fact I would have engaged in cyberbullying so I'm glad I never had access to a tool like this when I was at my worst.

by a 12 year old.

1) If you don't believe in credit cards, how did you get in $6000 debt in 6 months?

2) How do you get free monthly Uber credit?

3) That's 3 very intense treatments over the course of 6 months. That doesn't leave very much room for monitoring to see whether or not the treatment worked. What was the schedule of treatment over 6 months?

I'm sorry for your problems, but could you please clarify a few questions for me because there are a lot of problems with what I'm reading:

1) You claim to be 22 years old, but your dad hasn't had a relationship with your mom in 25 years... what does that even mean?

2) You're 22 years old and you accumulated $150k already? What sort of work did you do, and for how long?

3) You claim to be penniless, but you spend you money on Uber all the time because you can't drive in the snow? Can you expand on this? Don't you think that Uber is an expensive choice for someone in your situation?

4) Your credit rating is already "bamboozled" and you're $6k in debt? But didn't you just have $150k 8 months ago? When did your credit rating start taking a hit?

5) Could you expand on the treatments that your mom underwent over the last 4 months that cost $150k?

I use munchery 2-3 times per week. I love it, it's restaurant quality meals at similar price point. The difference is that I don't like the subscription idea, since I want a meal to be opt-in rather that opt-out. I don't want to have to change my plans and then be forced to cancel with this service.

No. It's not $1/yr. it's $1. That's it. There is no recurring revenue stream. That's what makes this even more insane.

Do you even know why the US went off the gold standard? If gold is such a panacea, then why did the US get off it? You should really understand history before you start spouting nonsense.

Based on every single piece of study, this is categorically false. The only people that have benefited, most recently since the credit crisis, was the rich. That means that the "rising tide" barely lifts poor peoples' boats, while it raises rich people's boats significantly. If that were the case, then do you still think that trickle down economics is worthwhile? Or is there a more efficient allocation scheme where poor people benefit just as much as rich people?

Your entire understanding of the credit crisis is deeply flawed.

1) Savers do not create jobs. Spenders create jobs. When you get a situation where people would rather save their money than spend it (ie. Japan) then you get deflation, and the economy contracts leading to lost jobs. This is why Japan is trying desperately to increase inflation through Abenomics.

2) To explain the credit crisis would take a lot more than just a few paragraphs, but your fundamental statement that it was caused because people stopped parking their money in financial instruments is just wrong.

I'm a right-wing-leaning centrist, and I do not believe in the trickle down theory that you are implying. Making rich people richer, and allowing poorer people to feed off of the morsels and crumbs leftover does not create a balanced society. There will always be rich people, and there will always be poor people, but thinking that if you bias towards the rich people society will somehow get better is a horrible delusion.

So, now you can be banned by Valve because of a thought crime? Shouldn't you actually be cheating to be kicked off the network, instead of just reading up on it? What if you visit a Warcraft 3 fan site that has href to images on Shadow French or other thought crime sites? Won't that show up in your DNS cache as well? (Answer: yes it will)

Can the merchants keep the currency that they get paid in and elect to convert it at their choosing, or does it get immediately converted to whatever their home currency is?

No, that's not Square's job. They pass along all chargeback/fraud risk to the merchants. The same thing (I believe) goes for Stripe and Balanced.

Is it just me or is there an inordinate amount of failed startup post mortems in the last two months? Is this a sign that the VC market is pulling back and the startup bubble is at least deflating a bit?

Another thing, I appreciate the author's honesty but will admitting that he quit on the company/investors hurt his chances of getting any sort of consideration in the future and a founder of another startup?

It definitely was NOT the worst of the breed. I had a couple of different pre-ipod mp3 players, including the original 32MB Rio, and the iPod was excellent. The major thing was the cool design, simple use, and their huge storage capability at the time. The thing that sucked was always iTunes, and the price. Everything else about it was fantastic, including the sound quality.

Yes, their marketing was brilliant, but it won't cause people to buy things they don't want in perpetuity. Eventually, even the most brilliantly marketed product will fail if customers don't want it.