Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Chopping off the fingers has all kinds of barriers. First, it takes a much larger empathy gap to physically hurt someone in such a visceral fashion versus simply threatening them with violence in order to mug them. Second, the owner has to
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm wondering if, from UX perspective, in most cases it would be sufficient to draw the headers based on the mouse position. If the user hovers the mouse over a row in the able that causes the headers to pop-over one (or more) rows ab
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by Amadou 13y ago
That's probably true. Instead of getting rid of H1B's we need to fast-track them to green-cards independent of employer. One thing I've not seen mentioned here is that green-card applications require the co-operation of the
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by Amadou 13y ago
Perhaps she was doing a presentation, so was alone at the front of the room. The photographer, being in the audience, would obviously know which presentation it was and from there its a quick look-up on the list of presenters.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Here's an explanation of how that works - it is a fairly long read that boils down to a bait-and-switch on the job classification. http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-...
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by Amadou 13y ago
Snowden was able to access all the systems from his outsourced office in Hawaii. You aren't the first person I've seen make this erroneous assertion. Snowden worked at an NSA site, the Hawaii Regional Operations Security Center
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by Amadou 13y ago
As an H1 whose paperwork lists a salary higher than my effective salary, there's nothing that stops me from realizing that I'm underpaid and switching employers when convenient. Do I really need to point out that in the context
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by Amadou 13y ago
Yes, that seems to be the case. The problem is that the majority of H1B visas go to those body-shops. The top ten H1B employers are all such body-shops. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04&#x2
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by Amadou 13y ago
So, in effect there is nothing hidden from other employees or the employee being hired. That's not particularly helpful - the only people who see it have an economic incentive to not rock the boat. The thing to remember about H1B vis
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by Amadou 13y ago
Two points: 1) When classified information is accidentally moved to a computer with a lower classification it is a shit storm. Everything stops. All hardware involved is isolated and scrubbed. If it can't be scrubbed with certainty
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by Amadou 13y ago
Employers can’t hire H1 workers for peanuts. There are regulations in place to ensure that employers pay their H1 workers a minimum prevailing wage. That statement is true, but meaningless. Never in the history of the H1B visa program ha
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by Amadou 13y ago
Did you even read the Wikipedia link you said: The part of the article you are referring to is the original intended usage before it was adopted by racists seeking to cloak their racism in the language of their opponents. This new use th
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by Amadou 13y ago
(1) Like dpcx said, dealing with that isn't premature optimization. (2) Be careful about load averages, lots of people don't understand them. It just means the number of processes ready to run over a period of time. It is entire
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm going to agree with you here. 99% of the time this UUOC stuff is just premature optimization. If it gets the job done it does not matter if it wastes a few milliseconds.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think key splitting might be a better solution for the corner cases of unconscious or self-destructive patients. For example, split the key among 6 people associated with the patient such that any 4 of them are sufficient to decrypt. Th
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm not sure about your second point, but after some research it appears you are correct about extensions under limited circumstances. That was not the case for many years after the H1B visa was created.
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you watch Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert often parodies this fallacious political correctness by claiming he is "color blind" and everyone has the same skin color to him. You have profoundly misunderstood why Colbert does th
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by Amadou 13y ago
Most do not. But some of the most populous do. California and Texas are among the list that require thumbprints.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Here's the problem I see - your phone is covered with your fingerprints. If someone steals your phone they've got your prints. How long will it be until a super cheap fingerprint spoof kit is available? I envision something as s
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by Amadou 13y ago
The alternative would be a visa that was designed to avoid such punitive requirements. One that fast-tracked the applicant to a green card and automatically extended the term in case there was a delay in issuing the green card.
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by Amadou 13y ago
You are seeing it from the POV of the applicant, not from the POV of the people who designed the H1B visa program. It is their intent that matters and if their intent were to facilitate such people's immigration there are better ways t
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by Amadou 13y ago
That seems like a rather minor point to focus on. As the wiki article you linked to spells out, dual-intent just means that the visa-holder is not barred from applying for a green-card while in country. It isn't like holding an H1B is
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by Amadou 13y ago
The article says that the biggest employers are "consulting companies" it would be more correct to say they are off-shoring companies. The disconnect between the rhetoric about H1B and the reality is staggering. http:/&#x2F
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by Amadou 13y ago
they have just assumed the audience is entirely male, entirely straight and entirely just as crass, rude and objectifying as they are. No more so than other presenters assume that everyone in the audience is just like themselves.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Don't let the fact that such an organization does not exist stop you from supporting the EFF today. The enemy of the good is the perfect.
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you feel you can not take the risks yourself, there still are things you can do. 1) Skip the vacation this year, give every spare dime you've got to the EFF and the ACLU. Push to have your company make charitable donations to those
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is probably more correct to say, "Everything in life is a trade-off."
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by Amadou 13y ago
What do you think would be an appropriate comparison? The number of deer-related deaths that occurred on 9/11?
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by Amadou 13y ago
Because feminism is invading. If you can't see this, you've probably not been a part of the tech industry for too long. You appear to be saying that feminism == puritanism. That's just completely wrong.
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by Amadou 13y ago
the nature of the app might make the women in the audience feel a bit odd, that the big punchline was an app about looking at their breasts. The app was about photos of men staring at breasts, not about actually looking at breasts - the

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