Georgelemental

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by Georgelemental 24d ago
Inshallah!
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by Georgelemental 26d ago
Yes, he is an evil Eurasian agent. I hear he's a close collaborator with Goldstein. The Party said so, so it must be true
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by Georgelemental 26d ago
So, who pays their salaries?
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by Georgelemental 26d ago
> Biggest problem is you'd need to make the entrance exams _actually tough_. Like "basically nobody who takes it gets an A". The objective is to rank students between each other, after all! It doesn't matter if the to
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by Georgelemental 26d ago
Independent from who? The voters?
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by Georgelemental 26d ago
There are many practices that have been widespread for thousands of years, which we would nevertheless all consider wrong. Why is this issue different?
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by Georgelemental 26d ago
The only 100% effective form of birth control, which is also the most effective at avoiding HIV and other STIs, is the one that the Catholic Church recommends. Why do you want them to promote less effective alternatives instead?
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by Georgelemental 26d ago
Saying relevant words is part of the Pope's job description. Not so for billionaires
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by Georgelemental 29d ago
> You are again assuming people from a certain place are a certain way. (BTW: I'm an immigrant, I'm talking about myself here) Yes people from a certain place do tend to be a certain way. They are not all 100% exactly the same,
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by Georgelemental 29d ago
I have hypophantasia, so it's very easy to convince me that both exist (because I'm right in the middle between the two)
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by Georgelemental 29d ago
> And don't come crying to me about how the problem you're trying to solve is "hard". I don't care: you chose it, you chose to considerably worsen the web browsing experience of millions of people globally, nobod
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
Most H-1Bs are not $300k FAANG employees
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
The "with no backup plan" is load-bearing*. You can pursue citizenship while on an H-1B, but there has never been a promise that the government will say yes. *argh, why do LLMs have to ruin perfectly good words
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
> Your entire comment assumes people of different cultural backgrounds cannot collaborate on technical challenges. No it doesn't. It's not black and white. Of course, some amount of cross-cultural collaboration is not only poss
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
> At least in tech megacorps, immigrants get paid the same as americans … which is less than the Americans would otherwise get paid if there were fewer immigrants. A larger labor pool depresses wages for everybody.
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
Yes, all men are created equal. They have the equal right to live in their country. A Russian has just as much a right to live in Russia as an American does in America. And I have just as much a right to move to Russia as a Russian has to m
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/h-1b-spec... > This nonimmigrant classification https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b > The H-1B program applies to em
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
You are allowed to pursue one, but the government is allowed to say no. Hence the need for a backup plan
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
> Companies want the best candidates they can get, and the larger the recruitment pool, the better. Yes, at the lowest wages they can get. Increase supply -> lower prices (wages) -> more corporate profits! However, there are those
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
An H-1B is a temporary non-immigrant visa. You're not supposed to rely on it to build a life in the US with no backup plan; that was never the intent of the law. However, successive administrations ignored the intent of the law, for so
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
An immigrant who has followed due process is equivalent to a homeless person who has convinced the property owner to willingly let the homeless person stay in the property owner's living room. The property owner is allowed to change th
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
Four years minus one day after the first announcement of Linux
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
You can also create meaningless dimensionless quantities by blindly mashing the number keys on your keyboard. Should we stop using keyboards?
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Michigan Insurance Giant Blames "AI" for Layoffs–But Evidence Points Overseas(chrisbrunet.com)
6 points by Georgelemental 1mo ago|0 comments
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
That's the thing about traditions and Chesterton's fences, you don't need to know why they work for them to work.
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
Natural intelligences do this too
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
> There will always be someone willing to build that thing … with sufficient time and money. As opposed to the minimal time and money required if the baddies are just pulling an existing solution off the shelf.
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
The US government would never agree
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
No. Under EMTALA, hospitals are required to treat anyone who shows up to the ER regardless of ability to pay; this is an unfunded mandate.
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by Georgelemental 1mo ago
The problem TFA is complaining about isn't ads in general, but specifically ads in Amazon search results for products sold on Amazon.

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