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samfisher83on Ask HN: Build a startup in the US while on H-1B Visa?

https://www.lawfirm4immigrants.com/h-1b-holder-start-a-busin...

>So, if you decide to work actively for your own company – managing day-to-day activities, acting in elevated positions such as CEO including managerial or executive positions, and hiring-firing people in your business, it might lead to revocation of your H-1B status.

samfisher83on What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record

He was kind of considered very aloof and an asshole during his career. Sometimes people age and become more mellow.

samfisher83on Slack is cutting 10% of its product and engineering org

Given software salaries are pretty high why not cut 10% of comp?

Unless they just wanted to fire them and just using this time as an excuse.

samfisher83on Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF

There was so much evidence that even if everyone stayed silent they weren't getting off.

samfisher83on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

He plans to fire most of them. I don't think he thinks they are are that smart.

He could be right or wrong.

samfisher83on In Another Blow to Meta, Apple Demands 30% Cut From Promoted Social Posts

Microsoft got smacked down for installing it's browser. How the government hasn't fined apple like a 100 billion dollars makes no sense.

samfisher83on Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (2016)

The digital data in many cases is still transformed into sine waves before being transmitted and received. There is a bunch of rf involved.

samfisher83on Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]

I used to work in semi. Pay and opportunities are way better in software.

samfisher83on The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion

It was court ordered. Facebook didn't just give this information voluntarily to police.

samfisher83on AMD passes Intel in market cap

That's a pretty low bar.

samfisher83on Spf13 is leaving Google

Hedge funds/hf trading companies can't compete with monopolies in printing money. I wonder how they are getting all these people.

samfisher83on Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?

samfisher83on The Mountains of Pi (1992)

This is an article about Chudnovsky brothers building a homemade super computer to compute pi. It is crazy how our phones are 1500 times more powerful than their supercomputer. It is also crazy how they were able build a homemade super computer in the early 90s with prices of components and less availability of computing.

samfisher83on Show HN: Free 30-year financial statements visualization

This is pretty awesome where is the data coming from?

samfisher83on Ask HN: What tech companies/industries will do well in a recession?

Faang companies are printing cash. Instead of making 50bil maybe they will only make 45.

samfisher83on Cadkey or Catia? Boeing’s Billion-Dollar 3D CAD Mistake (2017)

It was also a jobs program.

samfisher83on Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)

I appreciated that about them. I Don't understand why they went the Mac way. Everyone doesn't need to do the same thing.

samfisher83on Putin orders Russian nuclear deterrent forces to be on highest alert

That is mutually assured destruction. I hope the people under putin realize that. Hopefully they think about themselves or their families.

samfisher83on Cuffed – A dating app with only one match at a time

Isn't that like coffee meets bagels?

samfisher83on Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

Even if US govt allowed FB to buy tiktok, there is no way ccp would approve the deal. They have a board seat.

samfisher83on Japan to pay companies to keep sensitive patents secret

Hedy Lamarr a famous movie actress invented fhss and the navy never paid her despite using her invention and making it secret.

samfisher83on Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”

Isn't that that MO of most big tech companies that don't sell things. Get as many eye balls and sell ads.

samfisher83on Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II

He probably could. He wrote some really cool pieces of software back in the day.

samfisher83on Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff

You had bunch a smart ass physics phds pricing sub prime mortgages as aaa debt. It's just history repeating itself.

samfisher83on Hertz orders 100k Teslas

They are worthmore than every car company combined. If they start making as many cars as Toyota will they be worth 10x as much as all companies combined?

samfisher83on Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021

Really in us it's Samsung and apple, and Samsung is content just matching Apple's price for it's flagship. Wonder why we don't have a phone market like China with all these phone makers.

samfisher83on Apple’s deal with Google is lucrative, but it's hard to square with its values

>I think we can all agree that $15 billion is a lot of money. Apple is absolutely in the business of making money, and it's very, very good at it. I'm just not sure anyone thought the company was willing to put a price tag on privacy

All these companies care about is money.

samfisher83on Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco

The ev1 was a pretty good car for it's time. It had a lot of fans. Battery tech got better. An electric car is theoretically much simpler than an ice car.

samfisher83on Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025

The us government budget is 4 trillion. If the political will is there 10 billion is nothing.

samfisher83on Tesla 2Q 2021 Quarterly Result

Made over a billion in profit, and margins are close to 25% which are great.