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> Worse yet, by exercising options you owe tax immediately on money that you never made. Your options have a strike price and private companies generally have a 409A valuation to determine their fair market value. You owe tax on the difference between those two numbers multiplied by the number of options exercised, even if the illiquidity of the shares means that you never made a cent, and have no conceivable way of doing so for the forseeable future.

Is this a rule that should be changed? Why can't these just be capital gains taxes owed when you sell?

> That's why phrases like "enhanced interrogation techniques" are employed, to make a distinction between that and torture, for example.

I'm not sure what you are saying here. Using a euphemism doesn't make torture any better.

The democratic candidate obviously.

Cause he wouldn't win the primary.

> Only in the wet dreams of California ultra liberals

why would they want Zuckerberg?

I hate those self checkout machines. They are slow and constantly try to error out and alert a human to help me. I'm capable of bagging groceries, just let me do it.

still, there is rarely a line.

2 disgraced journalists from 13 years ago is hardly indicative of a problem with the NYT now.

> but that was in an age where every citizen didn't have an internet connected phone with a camera in their pocket

If you want 10 shallow disconnected sources of information from the fringes then that works.

If you want someone who knows where to go, who to talk to, and how to actually build out a story then you still need journalists.

> If coming out of a CS program with internships and I still don't have the skills maybe these companies should invest in training me as an entry level worker.

I came out of an unknown school with no internships and got a big company to give me an entry level job at 100k+/year. I don't say this to be rude, but maybe the problem is you and you should look at what you can do to fix things.

If you aren't getting interviews maybe it is your resume, if you aren't passing interviews maybe it's your interview skills (I'm going through this now, as mine have rusted a lot and it really does suck).

Again, I don't mean to pick on you. I really have no idea what the actual situation is. Good luck.

> Those are the federal waivers handed out to highly trained workers in fields such as technology who don’t plan to immigrate here.

Actually large numbers of people on the H-1B do immigrate. It's a dual intent visa, you can start the green card process while on it.

> At a different company, he noticed that a team of white engineers from affluent backgrounds chose to delay shipping an Android version of the product because they believed they would make less money on the platform. But it turned out that Android users were far more engaged than iOS ones, and the group later regretted prioritizing the wrong platform.

Plenty of companies made that bet, especially if we go back a few years. Hell, nintendo just made that bet with super mario run. There are good and bad reasons to do it.

I'm not really sure what the point is? These guys were wrong because they were rich white guys as opposed to they were wrong because x?

> I’m considered a non-technical founder, despite the fact that I have an engineering degree from Stanford and maybe I guess I don’t look like a technical founder.

Are you capable of (and/or interested in) working on the tech side of things? Then why would you not be a technical founder. If you aren't, then does the engineering degree really have any bearing?

The steps they took sound reasonable. I'm curious about which were the most effective.

> So they built a Slackbot that assigned and circulated dishwashing responsibilities around the entire workforce

I'd quit. I hate doing dishes. Can I just agree not to use the dishes?

> They decided that the opposite of the word “guys” was not “girls,” and that they would use the word “women.”

Unfortunate quirk that guys is fine, but girls is condescending and women sounds awkwardly formal.

I wonder if having a female founder has helped. Strong female leader, someone for people to look up to.

Really? Has someone forced you to start using it?

Oh wait, you mean that someone made a personal choice to use it. A choice that has exactly nothing to do with you, but you see an opportunity to oppress their freedom to choose so you are going to take it.

No, paychecks are compensation given by you to them in exchange for work performed.

Health care benefits are also part of that compensation. Why should you have any say in how your employee uses that compensation.

Your employees use of their health care plan is none of your damn business. Trying to use health care to regulate their behaviour based on your religious views is a particularly nasty form of oppression.

Do you also place restrictions on what they can buy with their paychecks?

So "highly skilled" just means a bachelors degree in a specific set of fields.

People seem to be implying that it requires skills well beyond that.

> an extremely highly skilled worker for which there is no local supply

People keep saying this. Where is that documented?

> What if you, one day, bite into an apple that has a worm in? You'll probably feel different about apples after that and you calibration data is now useless.

More likely, what if you think about an apple while hungry. While in a mood for one vs not.

It's about trying to impose your faith on others.

Do you not realize how awful that is? How much of a hypocrite it makes you to hide behind freedom of religion as a means to try to force your religious beliefs on others? Especially via their health care.

How would you feel about tying health in to praying to Mecca multiple times a day?

How about if you work on the sabbath you lose your coverage?

Divorced? No health care for you sinner.

STD coverage should probably be banned. I mean sure, there are other ways to get AIDS but if you were having sex in a nice normal marriage then you probably wouldn't get it.

> because most Republicans seem to think the poor are poor out of choice and should suffer the consequences of being poor

Of course. What part of

> but damnit kid, get a job. Do something with yourself

did you not understand.

> but damnit kid, get a job. Do something with yourself.

I graduated just before 25, and my first job didn't have benefits because although I was working 40 hours they called it casual.

> Birth Control, yes and no. We should be able to opt out paying for it, especially if it goes against my religion and frankly it does, but I won't stop others from opting in and paying for it.

No, you shouldn't have the right to decide what your employees get to do with their health care. You don't have the right to decide who they sleep with and how. This is the theocratic, forcing my bullshit voodoo beliefs onto others crap that makes the republican party so repugnant.

Wasn't there more fixes in the initial version of the legislation that would have dealt with this?

I'm sick of these stupid names in general.

> Trump does it and it's a problem

That's cause he goes on 3am rants that sound like they were written by a 10 year old.

Announcing it like this is the political move. Trump can keep campaigning on it (he seems bizarrely intent on continuing to act like he's still trying to get the job) and Jeff gets some points with the President.

> Adding an example of recent Firefox innovation

I think this is a poor example, this does nothing to make the browser better at browsing the web. It's just a feature no one asked for, that has loads of alternatives already. Why do I need video calling built in?

You can do some very nice things with that sort of syntax. Being able to assign values based on an if statement is one example that just makes life a little better. Just a tiny bit. :)

These are just minor syntax complaints though. You get used to it, and start to appreciate some of this stuff quickly IMO.

I spent far too much time trying to figure out how to use string and str. That's where it becomes absurd. I'm fine with fighting with the type/memory systems a bit, but when something that seems simple becomes a confusing mess it's just frustration.

> I have discovered that Rust is not, or not yet, a language suitable for long-term infrastructure work

because it's missing an API and you can't write your concurrency the way you want.

I don't think that's a very strong argument.

That learning curve is nasty though. Too much is too tricky to get right.

> Washington Compost will stop pooping on Trump at every opportunity

So stop reporting the things he actually says and does then?

> you can't blankly hate everything Trump does

Watch me. ;)

> In a call with reporters on Thursday Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said his boss was happy to play a part in Amazon’s decision

Did he actually though?

> You have a good company hiring people in an area where a lot of tech companies tend to be outsourcing people,” he said. “So it’s very positive, political or not. It’s still 100,000 more people in the U.

Amazon wasn't one of the companies outsourcing people. They have been hiring engineers by the boatload for years.

I'd guess the large majority of these jobs aren't going to be tech jobs anyway.

> Over the past five years, Amazon says it has created more than 150,000 jobs in the U.S.

So they are just over doubling the hiring rate? about 30k/year before to about 70k now?

> After Trump’s victory, Bezos tweeted: “I for one give him my most open mind.”

Good lesson from a smart guy.

When they are actively trying to murder people, yes. It's not right, but neither is sending in suicide bombers.

> doesn't armed resistance make sense

Not when stopping likely means your enemy is willing to help.