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by abawany 9y ago
But they also have the Skilled Worker immigration program that takes in people with specific skills and fast tracks them to a Canadian permanent residency (with higher priority given to people with job offers in hand.) Thus, they are able t
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by abawany 9y ago
I agree, Canadian employers are really not paying good wages for the same skills as the US. The reason for that, AFAIK, is Canada's skills-based immigration policy. In the original article, notice that the CEO effectively brought over
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by abawany 9y ago
You are kind of proving my point: for Canadians to come to the US for more money as you state makes a lot of sense. You get to keep your Canadian citizenship and if things go badly, you move back. Also, re. 'employers pay for your medi
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by abawany 9y ago
Agreed, I have come to believe strongly in the value of Fizz Buzz and other simple tests. Many candidates have strong resumes but large companies destroy their souls and skills by sticking them for 8+ hours a day in rubbish meetings. Go wit
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by abawany 9y ago
The one reason that occurs to me is the different expectations for social safety nets, which most people I think ignore when they are youthful and/or healthful. In Canada, losing one's job (sometimes following a bad health diagnos
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by abawany 9y ago
In the 10 or so real estate deals that I have done over the past few years, I have to say that the realtor (even the exceptionally good ones) never pointed out any of the nuances of the perils related to the entities you mentioned above. In
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by abawany 9y ago
In my case, there was always a lawyer involved in the contract with a fixed for dealing with documentation, as part of the closing costs. I never explicitly involved a lawyer but have always been intrigued by the idea of doing a FSBO deal w
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by abawany 9y ago
I am not much of a fan but I think such stuff is completely in the domain of humanity and human nature. I can't think of any political or economic system that can suppress the evil and good that comprise the human species.
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by abawany 9y ago
It seems to be a bit content-free, with pop-up ads, and lacking attribution from what I can tell. However, if no other reference is available, I will certainly look at its information over the various other persons that infest the web with
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by abawany 9y ago
It is stunning to me that most people that I know are unable to decouple what Google returns to them from the source. When (i.e. always) I ask for attribution for what I consider a dubious medical claim, the answer invariably comes back as:
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by abawany 9y ago
I also find that the recent cuts in editorial staff at various newspapers is having a noticeable effect on quality. I subscribe to the NYT and noticed that after their recent editorial layoff, some of the articles had some egregious spellin
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by abawany 9y ago
My symptoms are a little different, I feel: it is pretty quiet now and I am about as relaxed as I get but it is pulsing away as I type this. It is good to hear (ha) that it might be more common than I realize - everyone else I have talked t
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by abawany 9y ago
I wish I had your advice when I was trying to deal with the pain of an open-office work environment. Listening to music or white noise for 8+ hours per day to drown out extremely noisy coworkers has left me with very nasty tinnitus. I am he
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by abawany 9y ago
Certainly, it makes it easier to call SWAT on the home of a person in Georgia while being in Alabama; this is much lower effort than shouting hate slogans at some random group of people in the street. This is scary nasty.
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by abawany 9y ago
This is often the case for me as well. I buy the paper book and send it on for (destructive) scanning, netting me a DRM free ebook.
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by abawany 9y ago
/r/Austin is toxic beyond words. There are sometimes great gems though, which still makes it worthwhile to comb through the piles of racist trolling and other muck but it gets to be a harder job every week. The mods just don'
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by abawany 9y ago
I am proudly of the '5%'. Some things I have done include: Thinkpad (some ancient Pentium-133 model) motherboard (30 min), Fujitsu T4020 fan (4 hours), Fujitsu T4200 SSD (2x, 10min max each), various hard drives, HP Pavilion 17 fa
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by abawany 9y ago
Another Surface competitor/clone is the HP Elite X2 1012 G1 (what I have). Opening it is a pleasure - takes under 5 minutes. Once open, the screen, SSD, and battery are easy to replace. I updated the SSD on mine in less than 15 minutes
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by abawany 9y ago
I have worked around this on other laptops that I wanted to clean without opening them: attach a vacuum hose to the vents and let it pull out the dirt. Of course, this is no help when the fan fails for other reasons :(.
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by abawany 9y ago
As I read it, the point being made is that healthcare costs are so out of whack in the US that they have to potential to bankrupt you manifold without insurance. If you have no savings, then certainly the question of who pays the mortgage i
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by abawany 9y ago
I became aware of that tragedy since NYT sent me a news alert about it on a Sunday morning. I recall follow-up NYT articles where this was mentioned as a potential cause as well. However, most other news sources that I have read have not me
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by abawany 9y ago
I think I misunderstood your original comment 'Or they don't want to feel like I'm [0] locked in a room alone for absolutely no reason.'. I took it to mean that cubicles/offices cause loneliness. I now see that what
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by abawany 9y ago
Yes, but online games are a collective. Consider the case of open spaces where you have one team per aisle. Team 1 can be as noisy as they wish - there is no penalty most of the time from the unrelated Team 2. I was in such a predicament at
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by abawany 9y ago
But if you want to kill the alone-ness, all you have to do is step out. Heck, people used to pair program in cubes long before this open space disease (sorry, my opinion). For those of us that are unable to function in the cage-free farm, o
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by abawany 9y ago
I think there is one difference between the person who prefers cubicles/isolation and one who prefers an open space: when you want to get away from the isolation, all you have to do is walk over to a willing party and have a chat. For
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by abawany 9y ago
Ha. I have an HP Elite X2 1012 and I love it. Windows 10, user-upgradable parts (recently updated the SSD to 512GB), running Bash/Ubuntu for Windows, no moving parts, wonderful keyboard, and superb stylus. I have been using Windows Tab
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by abawany 9y ago
I present to you, this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/smarter-living/stop-roboc... . The following excerpt was particularly interesting: Download apps such as Truecaller, RoboKiller, Mr. Nu
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by abawany 9y ago
Well, I suspect part of the reason is that HN often shows articles targeted to software engineers. I also think there is another reason that has been alluded to else where in the comments indirectly: ownership/autonomy. Compared to the
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by abawany 10y ago
In recent searches on Google Flights, I took the trouble to eliminate United from the results to avoid ~30% 'savings'. Even prior to this incident, my opinion of United was extremely low (due to my prior horrifying experiences wit
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by abawany 10y ago
But commercial airliners were never intended for private ownership, right? I would say a significantly large proportion of the world is unable to own a large bus and these are quite manual still.

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