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Yep. SF wasn't really a late night city for most of my life growing up here.

+1 on this. I live around FiDi and I've been bumping into way more people on my morning and evening jogs that I have in the past 1.5 years. Most of the city has appeared to begun to return to a p…

Well, I wouldn't neccessarily treat the Citrix layoff as directly macroeconomic related, as they are going through an M&A event right now with TIBCO to make the "Cloud Software Group&quo…

A lot of it is due to lack of resources. Even Indian grads view TCS and TCS type companies as the choice of last resort. They’re still paying the same wages as they were in the early 2000s (3.5 Lakh),…

You’re giving the original poster too much credit. He’s just straight up being racist. If he heard Singaporean English m, ai lah this ang moh would also call it incomprehensible.

Agreed! I’ve complained about this before recently on HN and was flagged for this. Also, a lot of these accounts appear to be new accounts (less than 1 year tenure on HN), so most charitably they migh…

Pakistan's airforce works closely with Chengdu Aerospace Corporation - the JF-17 Thunder [0] being their flagship product. That said, even Chinese flagship aerospace manufacturers also depend on …

In California, under Labor Code 351 LC, what an employee earns in tips also cannot count toward the minimum wage. A number of other states have this on the books as well.

There was an ethnoreligious insurgency in Punjab back in the 1980s-90s [0] that also leaked into Canada with the Air India bombings, some journalist assasinations, and the future Premier (Govenor) of …

Yep! There are a lot of other internal concerns at least among Punjabi Canadians back in BC. One interesting thing I saw though was that Jats tended to lean Liberal or NDP, but Chamars tended to lean …

> The weekly earnings of men in five other designated visible minority categories were not significantly different from those of White men, while the weekly earnings of South Asian men were 2% high…

Jobs would be even better. Richmond, Burnaby, Langley, and the Lower Delta are all newish built (1980s-2000s), but a large enough white collar job base simply isn't there.

The South Asian aspect is false. Desi Canadians tend to be blue collar. Chinese Canadians tend to be way more white collar than us.

Mostly because despite the massive growth in population and immigration, there isn't the equivalent in housing or jobs. Salaries still suck back in Canada, and if you're a White Collar Canad…

The Canadian government has been targeting increased immigration for the past several years [0]. There has been a lot of bipartisan lobbying in support of this by the Century Initiative [1]. Imo the C…

For white collar roles, salaries tend to be significantly lower in Pakistan compared to India. A good rule of thumb I use is comparing competitive civil service starting salaries, as the civil service…

Why the downvotes, this is as equal as an argument as the others I brought up, which only shows how complex of a conundrum this is.

Yep! Everyone hates the status quo all over JK/HP/PN/HR, but any other option will inveitabely bring a return of the bloody days in the 1990s and 2000s, when people were being shot on t…

Neither will do it as the other nation would try to make it a client country, and it would anyhow fall back into an ethnoreligious civil war like back in the 1990s. Also, it's not just Kashmir - …

Kinda seems like it! I was back there for an industry conference a couple days ago actually and a number of the service staff who were around my age (20s-early 30s) actually asked me about how to immi…

It's not that cut and dry. First, does it belong to the Sikh Empire or Jammu Kashmir. If it belongs to the Sikh Empire, which Punjab does it belong to? If it belonged to Jammu Kashmir does it bel…

No Indian politician would want to appear to be appeasing Bangladesh would be slammed as anti-Hindu, anti-Assamese, anti-Tripuri, etc depending on the election, especially over an unneccesary symbolic…

I didn't know Helmand was owned by the Karzais! I splurged there a bunch when I was in college!

But which state inherited Jammu Kashmir? That becomes the key question when the Kohinoor comes up, because Gulab Singh was the Wazir/PM of the Sikh Empire at the time, and Afghanistan doesn'…

And it's a fair point, but not exactly apples to oranges. It was "just" Zahi Hawass who made the formal request back in 2003. What if it was Sisi or Morsi or Mubarak who requested this …

Pakistan would say no due to strained relations, and state level Indian governments would pressure the federal government to say no due to anti-Bangladeshi sentiment in India (sort of similar to anti-…

Also, I don't think the Taliban government has been recognized in the UN yet, which makes stuff murkier soverignity wise.

By record high I meant in recent memory - good catch, should have clarified. To your second point, CoL in London is basically LA level. London rents+council tax make rental prices SF level (around $1-…

Interesting. I've also been trying to find if royals other than the now deceased Queen have volunteered to income tax and capital gains tax, but I cannot find clear information on this (which is …