WildUtah

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by WildUtah 10y ago
It's not a company's responsibility to pay more than it owes. It's the people's responsibility to elect a government that will write rules without such gross and long standing loopholes. Or at least to elect a government
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Since he's not a government official—the story is quite explicit that he's working for a private organization—he's fraudulently travelling on a diplomatic passport. He should have been arrested at the border, interrogated, ba
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Don't refuse outright. That'll just set up a primate dominance game with the people tasked with getting you to sign. Tell them you'll check with your lawyer. It's always considered a basic right in developed nations to a
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Our host, Paul Graham, talks about his first successful startup sometimes. It's ViaWeb, now Yahoo Stores, and it made him the rich investor he is today. He edited the code live on the production server sometimes. And he did it in the r
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I'm trying Neovim and it's the only editor I've ever tried that I like as much as Vim. Every other substitute has been inadequate.
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We have to compete against millions of our own country folk at our local examinations, which are way more difficult than the american equivalents. It's much harder in America because it doesn't matter how you do on the examinati
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by WildUtah 10y ago
One of the things that annoyed me was the love of multiple choice tests We said "multiple choice" only to the foreigners and the most uptight profs. They're properly called 'multiple guess' by American students.
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Of the top 100 websites (I got tired of counting) in the USA, the obvious open source ones from a quick review are, 4. Wikipedia 6. Reddit 33. Wikia 37. Wordpress 40. Twitch 60. Github 61. Reddit Uploads I&#
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That's nice. The typical H1-B employer has been breaking the law and ruining prospect for American families for decades and there's no enforcement of the rules in sight anywhere. At this point, we'll take whatever means of en
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The question isn't how much desert or glacier a country has. It's whether a family can afford a place to live and if you can get where you're going in the city without waiting forever in traffic. America is failing badly at b
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by WildUtah 10y ago
In my experience, standardized tests play almost no role in STEM grad school admissions. Why would a math department care about your score on a vocabulary test like the GRE, as long as you speak fluent English? The keys are, above all, good
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by WildUtah 10y ago
If you live in middle America flyover country it's hard to get any tech job. And the H1-B program is making it a lot harder.
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and not all locations in America pay the same amount of salary for tech workers either. Indeed. The $130k limit should be raised to $310k in SF, NY, DC, LA, and Boston.
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Scientists used to make a good living in the USA. Now the market is flooded with cheap foreigners and science is a road to poverty. Ending the employment of cheap foreigners, including as TAs and RAs, would go a long way to making science a
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That game is already being played. It's very lucrative for private colleges catering to third world (and second world) kleptocrats that want to plant their children and their dirty cash in the USA.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
If you don't qualify for the family-based or refugee route, employment-based immigration is the only viable pathway. The amount of hate I see piled on people trying to come here via the employment-based immigration seems insane to me.
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This is mostly a SWAT team storming through all doors and killing dogs if any an then taking away all your documents, interviewing all employees. In short that is end of business to you. Yes. That is exactly what I want employers thinking
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It's going to get at least four votes for Trump, maybe nine.
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Pretty sure that at the St. Patrick's parade, they just want to get drunk on green beer.
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Of course the USA should support the recognition of the Kurdish state and its success and freedom. And that is where Kurdish aides to the US have a right to live.
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The world is ridiculously overfull and Americans didn't make it that way. And the rest of the world is headed for rapid population increases to make it much worse. Americans shouldn't have to suffer for that; we've got a litt
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You can be a loyal citizen to only one country. Maintaining two passports is an open declaration of disloyalty and lack of solidarity. And immigrants shouldn't get special privileges that natural citizens cannot, especially special pri
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But let's not forget that Spencer and various members of his social circle have - for years now - been expressing approval Actual Nazis liked to be punched by their opponents and even arrested by the cops for their nonviolent activis
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I doubt a Jewish Israeli computer scientist poses a threat. But posing a threat isn't the criterion. We don't just take anyone that isn't especially dangerous. America is a nation and only those that further the aims of the e
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A patriotic American can simply renounce a foreign passport.
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It gives them an excellent opportunity to move to their new spouses' countries and settle down there.
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I doubt it will affect anyone with a US passport at the border, but it's about time for the USA to adopt the Japanese policy and simply ban all dual citizenship. If you hold a foreign passport or any kind of documents from a foreign co
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How that poll is taken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfkTwY6aalg
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Excellent. America shouldn't take any immigrants that just want to exploit our resources or wealth. Only those who believe in America and love the people and our land so much they would take all the risks of coming because no alternati
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US citizens can visit Iran—at Iranian discretion—with a state minder the same way US citizens can travel to North Korea. You can't travel freely and you can't travel without personal scrutiny ('extreme vetting') from Ira

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