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by amf12 6y ago
Currently, student visas are good for “duration of status,” meaning students can stay in the U.S. indefinitely if they remain enrolled in school and otherwise abide by the rules relevant to their immigration status. This is an asinine pro
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by amf12 6y ago
I always wonder why more people don't buy a reusable mask. Many use the surgical masks daily. Leads to a lot of waste.
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I think this comment has the right idea Yep, I can see how the new policy can help with #2. The news post seems to be suggesting Amazon is doing it to address #1 - which the policy doesn't do anything about.
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The purpose of a ban isn’t to prevent fraud on Amazon, it’s to prevent unwanted seed from entering the country. I don't see how it helps though. The product page for such scams doesn't show "seeds". It's an actual
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by amf12 6y ago
> Invoke-WebRequest ' https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=... -OutFile firefox-latest.exe A majority of Windows users can't be expected to do this. Think of the target demographic w
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by amf12 6y ago
They've been decent custodians to data they force users to give. Fair enough. It's like complimenting whoever stole my bike last year for taking good care of it. I don't necessarily buy this argument. They collect a lot o
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Indian POSes expect pins and most international credit cards do not have one so they get auto-decline This is actually an America problem and not a world problem. Even cards and POS in Europe are chip enabled. On the other hand, I have us
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by amf12 6y ago
> More like $200K I would say (base + equity). Also $200K is on a higher end and depends on other offers, etc. Average is around $180K.
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> Literally adding Google Meet URLs to Zoom meeting invites in Google Calendar, so half of a meeting's members went to the wrong room is kinda a bad way to scale your product You could argue that, yes. And I won't blame you. Bu
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> Why spend $25 on delivery, if I'm not going to do anything for the next hour anyways and raw materials cost $5? I think the idea is the overall costs will be similar enough that a lot of people would consider delivery from cloud k
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> Absolutely. That's why good restaurants invest in wine stewards, and extra table staff, and coat check facilities, etc True, but this applies to a minority of upscale restaurants not majority of the restaurants. There is of course
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I too doubt it will be as cheap, but scale and other related (but not accounted for) costs could make it similar . For example time spent cooking, grocery shopping, gas (cooking + fuel*), etc. One major expense for a restaurant is rental c
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> I have not used linked list in a while, I think the point of these questions for entry level devs is that they should be able to figure out how to remove an element from a linked list even if they have never used one. It's pretty
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by amf12 6y ago
> Quite the contrary: it’s illegal to not share data with government if requested: I see. That's a fair point.
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> what possible motivation could an employer have for bringing in an H1B than lower cost Skills for one. The way H1B was really meant to be used. I am not arguing TVA did this. But there ARE reasons to hire H1B workers other than cost. C
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by amf12 6y ago
> If China-based engineers have access to TikTok's US-based servers, they can still hand over data to the CCP (or be forced to do so). 1. That is illegal. 2. Theoretically this also currently applies to Google, Microsoft, Google (an
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> Not if this is the only way to protect its citizens. There are other ways, like enacting laws mandating data storage be in the US.
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> Every time I got a call, I asked them if my cover letter played a role in their choosing to call me. The response was always "Oh you wrote a cover letter? Let me check it out." > Not one person had read it. This is probabl
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by amf12 6y ago
> The thing though is, "trifecta" is difficult in practice and shouldn't really be a barrier to passing laws. > This is an illogical sentence. You said Democrats had "trifecta" only two years (2009-10) during
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by amf12 6y ago
> I'm not sure if you're being facetious here, or if you simply are ignorant of how the U.S. Constitution / government works. I do understand that. The thing though is, "trifecta" is difficult in practice and sho
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> The cynic in me sees the cost savings. There are major cons to WFH - less collaboration, impact on productivity. I don't think Google cares enough about the 'cost savings' aspect of it, if it has any impact on productivi
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by amf12 6y ago
You don't need to buy a 'workstation'. It's mainly for furniture. Everyone gets corp laptops and monitors.
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> These Americans who hate immigrants vote. You can guess what party they vote. Their votes are the reason our immigration system is broken beyond measure. I am not sure if that's really the case. Case in point, the Obama administra
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by amf12 6y ago
> There are ~330 million active twitter users, which means 330,000 users per employee with access to admin accounts. I think we should look at how many daily requests they get to reset account access settings (that cannot be done automat
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by amf12 6y ago
> Title corrected : More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack and chose not to. This is a stupid way of looking at it. Similarly: - X number of people owned guns but they chose not to go do a mass shooting. - X number of cop
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by amf12 6y ago
> There's thousands of people that have the ability to drain your bank account right now. That's false equivalence. If a bank employee drains my account without authorization, it won't be difficult to prove and get back. B
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> One thing that has always surprised me about documentation at Google is that they use Google Docs When did you work at Google? There are markdown supported wiki tools now for internal documentation. It supports pre-formatted code, grap
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by amf12 6y ago
> In the absence of the disruption to existing educational plans caused by the COVID-19 health emergency But there is disruption caused due to the health emergency. > why would foreign students (or any students) want to pay the regula
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by amf12 6y ago
> they are free to travel anywhere within the united states. Theoretically that's true for on-campus courses too. Most (at least that I know of) universities don't track attendance. So the students are still free to travel anyw
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by amf12 6y ago
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