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by auganov 6y ago
A visa that grants entry for some purpose on a temporary basis. As opposed to immigrant visas that can be converted to a green card. After your study is over you're supposed to go home [0]. Generally when applying for a non-immigrant v
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F1 (student) are strictly non-immigrant visas.
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This is not done by just one giant company. Many majors like Amazon and Facebook have been reported to have similar strategies. This is competition. All the giants want to grow. That's the name of the game. Google is now said to be goi
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by auganov 6y ago
Thanks will definitely check it out later. Though I did play around with Datascript before and found it to suffer from similar performance issues.
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Who says it's bad for consumers? Big corporations are monitoring what's popular to develop their own offerings in these markets. For consumers it means more choice and potentially better products. It's bad for startups which
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> It later emerged that liberal groups had been targeted, too, although in smaller numbers. Yes, because if you look at the targeting criteria they've obviously been targeted less. Just going off wikipedia[0]: - referenced words
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Well, for customers I'd say that's a worse solution as they will now depend on a potentially less-reliable 3rd party for something so simple. But who knows, maybe for the sheer ease of installation some people will prefer that. Wo
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Having an underlying disorder that can be treated with pharmaceuticals and other approaches working aren't mutually exclusive. Perhaps everybody struggling with anything has a yet-unknown condition that could be treated with drugs. Yet
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Never had any strict trouble with it. Maybe it's just that I've used it for a long time but I enjoy the simplicity of using it. My biggest complaint is performance for certain use-cases. Say if you're trying to pull a lot of
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> If they start to get 'innocent' accounts taken down there will be a huge uproar in the press. Not so sure about that. The US President has been falsely accused of colluding with Russia and the press (both in America and beyon
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The way GEDmatch works you can enter any "kit number" and get a long list of matching people which has their kit number, name, email and some other basic information. It sounds to me like hackers just managed to traverse the entir
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> Nubank has grown to 600 Clojure developers, running 2.5 million lines of Clojure code in 500 microservices Wow, that's enormous especially for a concise language like Clojure. Very happy about this announcement as a Clojure user.
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If something you write is a big success, especially tech/programming related stuff, chances are, most of the traffic over time will come in from search engines. Also most of the SEO juice (backlinks etc) comes in shortly after publishi
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IMO as an individual the best is to either go to SV or stay home. By moving to some other location you get all the downsides of migrating, few upsides of the best location and no upsides of staying home.
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No, just a standard article. Unless that's the default then I wouldn't know. Didn't seem to be behind a paywall.
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I've had Medium do this to me and in server logs for my homepage I found hits from a Medium owned subnet preceded by hits from a Slack robot. Then some more Medium requests with a referrer from my other social media. Definitely not aut
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> Pseudonymous publishing has a long and respected history. Well there's definitely a history of authors publishing pseudonymously. I don't know of a tradition of keeping the identities secret even after they've been reve
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Well, I don't know much about this person or the article that was coming up, hence making a general point. [0] But generally when writing a piece on anybody it's normal to gather all kinds of details about one's life. Profess
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I'm pretty ambivalent about what many seem to call "doxxing". I get it when publishing phone numbers or addresses for no reason. But I don't get the notion that you have a moral obligation to protect other's pseudon
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Willem Van Spronsen who firebombed an ICE facility was a self described antifa [0] Connor Betts who shot 9 people dead was an antifa sympathizer [1] James T. Hodgkinson who hurt two officers and wounded Republican Rep. Scalise in a shootout
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Well, the trans policy is written out in their TOS so at least everybody can follow it. I think Twitter can do whatever they want and personally I'm fine with rules if they actually mean something. But here it sounds like they're
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> We will permanently suspend accounts Tweeting about these topics that we know are engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade a previous suspension — somet
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I did actually do a lot of reading on ActivityPub yesterday and it's exactly the mess I would have imagined it to be. The standard doesn't define all that much. Arbitrary undocumented JSON fields are perfectly fine and used heavil
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This is untrue, a "Muslim Registry" has never been proposed by Kobach. He called for reinstating the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System [0], "a system for registering certain non-citizens within the United State
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> "ownership of your own social graph" What would that mean? > If these platforms were forced to act more like email Who decides who's "following" who? Say I decide to use a competitor. Do I then get to "
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The rx macro in emacs is similar: https://francismurillo.github.io/2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-...
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Reach out to a few people with a sizeable audience (or some other means to potentially amplify it) who may be interested. And also don't immediately write off channels that didn't work. There's a lot of luck involved. You can
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According to this ZDNet article [0] 14% of Chinese internet users use a VPN daily. If you do the math that's roughly 7% of the Chinese population. > We talk in person, during lunch or on dinner tables, in office. When we talk politi
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> Most of my friends back in China, especially devs, use VPN daily This is such a tired argument. You've got a tiny percent of the population with the ability to proxy out of China. You cannot easily share the information you find w
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Statistically speaking most people don't have a big audience on Twitter either. As your audience grows so does the chance of somebody at Twitter having a problem with you. If you're on Twitter because of this potential for massive

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