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New comment by newmanships in "Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070"

newmanships — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:07:42 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...

New comment by newmanships in "The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts"

newmanships — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 05:15:47 +0000

Yeah this really bums me out because a lot of the time I just use Gmail on my laptop as my phone. Do you know any other services that have this type of functionality?

New comment by newmanships in "World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year"

newmanships — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 17:35:34 +0000

Are you saying stock value increases only come from reducing employee benefits and compensation or from lowering the quality and safety of products and services? Seems like that is simply not true across the board. If a company sells say software they could easily grow revenue and profits without changing their product or reducing employee benefits and compensation. Their earnings would be higher and their stock would go up.

New comment by newmanships in "Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again"

newmanships — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:01:35 +0000

Not the op but connecting through SSH works great in my experience and is very straight forward in the UI. I feel like updates are pretty frequent as well. I also love that it saves all my queries unlike psequel.

New comment by newmanships in "[dead]"

newmanships — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 20:05:14 +0000

Are libertarians pro bitcoin? Seems like some of the biggest names in that space (Schiff, Ron Paul) aren't very pro bitcoin.

New comment by newmanships in "American Equity"

newmanships — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:45:03 +0000

The rich aren't stashing most of their money under a mattress. Gates, Bezos, etc are worth billions, but that wealth is almost all based off of the stock prices in the companies they own percentagess of.

New comment by newmanships in "America has a monopoly problem"

newmanships — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:33:27 +0000

He gave a talk about his thoughts to a Stanford class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6K8PZxyQfU His slide on monopolies is around 4:40

New comment by newmanships in "Bitcoin has a usability problem"

newmanships — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:49:29 +0000

Weird, I've always had to provide identification to exchange dollars & X currency at airports.

New comment by newmanships in "Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge"

newmanships — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 02:35:59 +0000

Small thing, but wasn't it JP Morgan's clients buying bitcoin through their brokerage service, not actually JP Morgan?

https://twitter.com/ToneVays/status/909032026455642113

New comment by newmanships in "Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job"

newmanships — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:29:44 +0000

Came across your site the other day. I was wondering is the 17% from their base salary before taxes? So they (if in say California) pay federal, state, & you guys off the top? Great idea either way!

New comment by newmanships in "Filing Taxes in Japan Is a Breeze. Why Not in the US?"

newmanships — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:43:19 +0000

US companies do withhold money from each paycheck, but this varies not just by how much you make, but also by how many dependents you have and a few other things [0]. The US also has default deductions, or a person can choose to itemize. These vary if you are "head of household", single, married. However then there's all kinds of other deductions and things to complicate your tax return such as retirement accounts, mortgages, kids, side income, student loan interest, interest earned and on and on. Would be great if it was easier. :)

[0] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf

Edit: People who are contractors / not employees have to remember to set aside a portion of their income that the employer would take out automatically for them.

New comment by newmanships in "2017 Barkley Marathon features one finisher, heartbreak for Gary Robbins"

newmanships — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 04:46:26 +0000

I don't know the elevation gain on that run, but the 100mile track record is 11:28:03 so I would guess not much gain on the road record :) Interestingly the women's track record is slower than the road record.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-fastest-time-anyone-has-ru... (these might have been broken by now)

New comment by newmanships in "Patagonia and The North Face"

newmanships — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 02:30:49 +0000

Abercrombie & Fitch completely changed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Abercrombie_%26_Fit...

New comment by newmanships in "Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order"

newmanships — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 04:12:15 +0000

No the numbers I listed were entries of each type in 2015. That doesn't include ones from previous years. You said immigration was controlled. The fact that roughly the same amount of legal immigrants came into the country as illegal immigrants in the year 2015 shows this is not accurate.

With your logic we might as well just tally up all the legal immigrants that entered the country and all the people that have been naturalized since the country was founded.

New comment by newmanships in "Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order"

newmanships — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 14:36:47 +0000

Apples and oranges? Let's do some math. Refugees in 2015: 69,920. Asylum in 2015: 26,124. That gives you a total of 1,147,075... yes still less then illegal immiration. Adding naturalization (730,259) gives you 1,877,334, except naturalization is irrelevant in this because it includes people born outside of the states to American citizens & includes people that still live outside of the country (think children of military or expats) or people who have been permanent resident (living in the US already) for 3 years. Please do tell me all the other subset of legal immigrants. Maybe you're including the whopping 85,000 H1B visas or other temporary work visas for NON-immigrants?

Feel free to continue to ignoring evidence.

New comment by newmanships in "Ask HN: Anything we can do for those impacted by the US immigration ban?"

newmanships — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 02:35:39 +0000

Hmmm, that's an interesting thought exercise. I wonder what would happen in FB/Google blocked access in states that voted Trump, or in the future for states of X candidate but not Y and the impact that would have. What happens if they're blocked for a day, week, month, etc? Interesting.

New comment by newmanships in "Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order"

newmanships — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 23:07:52 +0000

(since I don't post much, not sure why I can't respond to your last comment)

However... what? > I could say the other way too. Immigration is not 100% uncontrolled, so it is controlled. However, what we do have is controlled immigration to a large degree and there are some uncontrolled immigration too. The ratio of controlled to uncontrolled is very high.

In 2015 1,051,031 people obtained lawful permanent residence (https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2015/tab...). Illegal immigrants are estimated at 1,201,000 for 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_Uni...). Is that really the definition of controlled? The "ratio" you stated is completely inaccurate.

The original person was talking about people working for less than minimum wage (because they are illegal immigrants), so do they suppress wages for those jobs? Yes.

New comment by newmanships in "Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order"

newmanships — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:47:37 +0000

Parent comment also is only referring to low-wage jobs so I suppose the entire H1B thing is irrelevant to the discussion. Not sure what you're looking for... you asked for a source - seems clear that yes, wages for some groups are "artificially suppressed" by "uncontrolled immigration". Is immigration uncontrolled? Yes immigration is not 100% controlled, hence illegal immigrants are a thing. I suppose you could argue that wages are suppressed "naturally" because of uncontrolled immigration if you want to argue about semantics in order to ignore the research that does show wages are suppressed.

New comment by newmanships in "Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order"

newmanships — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 17:09:22 +0000

In regards to legal immigrants there seems to be frequent discussions on HN about H1B visas and their effects.

Here's an article talking about them. http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2015/05/economists-h-1b-vi... (the direct link to the study is in there as well)

Edit: I should clarify - this isn't the only way to immigrate / cover all use cases, etc etc - just that in this & my first comment there does seem to be some wage suppression occurring in some forms related to various immigration.

New comment by newmanships in "Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order"

newmanships — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:57:19 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_i...

Tl;Dr - wages for lower class/lower educated minorities are hurt, but employers gain an advantage (lower labor costs). There's also a paper by professor in econ from Cornell about African Americans suffering the most from it, but my phone won't link to the PDF.

Outside of academia you just have to go to your local home depot to see how much cheaper you can get someone to come work for you for the day, or go to any massage shop charging $25 / hour instead of $60+ while employing illegal immigrants.