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Those will be VC fueled and privately held till they need a sucker to hold the bag.

As do I, and that's why I understand the whole "generational white guilt" spiel, cause I hear it often. Even an educated person such as yourself will be quick to jump the gun.

I get it, condemning their actions gives you the higher moral ground, you feel like a mensch and somehow detach you from whatever shared responsibility you think you shoulder.

IMHO, we can't judge old-day actions with current-day ethics. The same way we don't generally allow ex post facto law, we should be careful to deliver ex post facto moral judgement. If there's a place for moral relativism, it is probably when comparing different times in history.

That is not to say I excuse everything that was done during the colonial times —there are plenty of recollections of senseless atrocities— but there's definitely a tendency to look at all this in a reductionistic and emotional way that I don't think is fair.

Your point is that you feel queasy about how brutal life was back then and you wanted to throw some shade to feel better about your obviously better moral standards, and in doing so you missed the shot in the map by thousands of miles.

Here's some reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend

It's probably not too wise to pick on the kids that made it and are swimming in money and power. It'll be The Revenge of the Nerds all over again.

Not to mention Google is by now a pretty deft political player.

Congrats Peter, Travis, Matt, and the rest of Continuum!

Probably the one where the country that is indebted and in need of development gets 60% of their debt forgiven and an stimulus plan.

Good for the Greeks to stand up against bullying and remaining somewhat dignified (as much as they could be after years of destroying their society at the whim of the "austericides").

That said, the vote means lots of pain coming their way, and Euro or not, their economy will take the hit now and the North will pretty much be able to buy half of the country at garage sale prices. Talk about some value investing for "deserving" German and French banks: you lend recklessly, get bailed out by your debtors, then you buy the damn farm.

Note I said more-respectable, it was just comparative and not absolute. Politicians are politicians: it's never white, it's just shades of gray. Schroeder at least had some decency when it came to the bigger picture, which these gutless lawyers we chose as of late lack completely.

Absolutely. The pro-European movement that's been going on for many many decades has as an ultimate goal to unite the peoples of Europe so we can live in peace. United in diversity, as the EU motto claims. A great % of Europeans you met before 2008 would agree with this.

There's now —sadly— little left going around of the "Alle Menschen werden Brüder" that our shared anthem sings (all men become brothers under the gentle wing of joy).

A bunch of unscrupulous cronies sold both northern and southern Europeans up the river just to make a profit for themselves and their friends. No damn statesmanship to be seen anywhere. Long gone are the times Schroeder and other much-more-respectable leaders, we now have to put up with the likes of Lagarde and Juncker. And, of course, Tsipras and Varoufakis, amateur hour, who have been absurdly reckless in their handling of the negotiations and PR.

Your whole premise is, and I quote, "H1B is supposed to have skills that the local workers don't and thus should be worth the extra money."

That's false. I think you are mistaken about what an H1-B visa is: it's a temporary, non-immigrant visa that allows people with specialty occupations (and thus in high demand) to work for 6 years in the States.

The skill condition (as determined by a LCA application) to get one is not that you should have extraordinary skills the locals don't (That would be an O-1 visa, or an EB-1), but rather that you have the skills and the degree, and that your employer is willing to compensate you as well as they would compensate a local.

If you don't believe me, here's a link to USCIS: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupatio...

I won't deny that there's abuse by big corporations using H1-Bs to hire people that look like seniors but are really junior in skill, but it's cause they skirt the law and have gotten away with it so far. I see no sanctions to Infosys or Tata for selling people with say, Junior Engineer skill as Seniors, but what I see lots of hate towards the H1-B workers. If Disney fired the senior IT guys and replaced them with recent graduates, told them to train them, it would be the exact same situation, only we wouldn't be hearing "they took our jobs".

So as with everything in this country, the suits fuck the little guy over and the little guy blames the neighbor.

Unless you are tarring ships, you mean paid, not payed.

As an H1-B holder you have to jump through many hoops, including constant attention to your command of the language. How does it feel to be judged? :)

More importantly, why would you expect more from a foreign applicant that from a local? The point is there shouldn't be discrimination, in either way. H1-Bs are for specialty occupations that are in high demand to begin with. Not sure what encourages you to be more catholic than the Pope.

All trains from London are direct to Europe, even if they are local. I find the wording and the idea behind it as stupid as the trouble in Lille due to not being part of Schengen.

Signed: a Schengen national that hates and avoids lay-overs in Heathrow like the plague.

Such a twisted forewarning about the importance of net neutrality...

> In a 2010 meeting with the Austrian Foreign Minister, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said “With respect to Turkey, the United States, along with many other countries in Europe, support the membership of Turkey inside the EU. I know that it is an issue that divides the European Union. We don’t have a vote, but if we were a member, we would be strongly in favor of it.”[176]

> European Union During a televised debate on May 20, 2014 for the 2014 European Parliament Elections, President of the European Commission candidates Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz (of the EEP and S&D blocs respectively) both argued that they would "promise" that Turkey would never join the European Union while either one of them were President, with the view that Turkey has turned its back on "European democratic values".[177]

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_Euro...

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"You won't believe what happens after Wired turns into Buzzfeed".

She can, but it's more unlikely that she will have the time and the energy to get there if she's preoccupied by riding the conveyor belt of our schooling system followed by the worries of the 9-5 world.

Because by incurring in certain costs up front as a group, society benefits from blurry but tangible externalities.

I'm not assuming anything, I was just laying down my thesis, which is exactly that maybe we'd benefit more from education as a society if more people got some time to reflect on life as a whole before they get busy worrying about "real life".

There are definitely arguments against this thesis, mostly economic, but I think the non-maximizing side of the problem is still worth entertaining.

You are assuming what I assume...

I think it's much easier to be forced into being a subservient slave if you are not allowed some time to explore and learn, in a general sense.

Granted college is far from a fireproof way–especially nowadays—of reaching any degree of "intelectual enlightenment", and of course you can get to "it" without stepping into a campus, but the time you spend not worrying about "real life" can definitely help.

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We are looking for experienced engineers with a passion for education that want to join us and help shape the way people learn online.

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That's what The Market should be for, to make those jobs compensated attractively. Plus, people will be more likely to take a part-time job flipping burgers to fund their writing/music/open source project/whatever if they don't have pressure to pay back debt or don't have to worry about health insurance (another can of worms).

I wish the debate focused less on cost-benefit analysis and on ways to engineer a just "chargeback" using loans or taxes and more about the idea that maybe people should be encouraged to pursue education just for the sake of it, to become free men and free thinkers, regardless of whether they'd be economically better off by taking electricity at trade school just to quickly join the assembly line at Volkswagen so that they can make money to buy a bigger plasma TV. /rant

doesn't look like they applied pressure on the spot near the volume rocker where it apparently has the defect.

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The company was founded by Dan Friedman—one of the Thiel Fellows—and Darrell Silver, founder of Perpetually (acquired by Dell), our CEO and technical co-founder. The culture is balanced: analytical but fun, serious but sane. You'll be joining a small, agile team with big challenges ahead of us.

If you are interested, apply through the website (http://goo.gl/uXfqfR) or email darrell+hn@thinkful.com to hear more.

It might be a naive question, but having read on how GitHub works (holacracy, no management and all that), how a decision like this is made and sanctioned.

money changing hands != generating wealth