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by downerending 6y ago
Well, indeed, maybe it was an easy mark. But still, "fish and chips" was a thing here in the US in the 1970s to 1990s at least, and I still remember "Long John Silver's" with great nostalgia. (Not sure a Brit woul
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by downerending 6y ago
So again, I wasn't there. I will say, having grown up in the sticks, I love hearing the accents of foreign people and sometimes ask them about theirs. I know they might take it wrong, but it's hard to resist doing so. And inde
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by downerending 6y ago
It does seem like the main point of H1Bs would be to make use of highly-skilled workers. We have plenty of low-skill workers already--we don't need more.
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by downerending 6y ago
Pretty sure they've been "weapons free" since election day 2016.
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by downerending 6y ago
Flipping that around, if a company can hire someone for less in a foreign country and get the same result, why bother going through the H1B process? Why the drama? Just do it.
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by downerending 6y ago
I wasn't there, but this sounds more like cluelessness than anything else. I could imagine making small talk like this to keep someone's mind off of their pain or anxieties. Did it really seem like the gal or guy was hating on y
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by downerending 6y ago
Here's a frank answer. I've worked with various foreigners and H1Bs over a long career and always enjoyed it. I worry sometimes that they're being seriously abused by their employers, but I figure that's for them to de
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by downerending 6y ago
Same here, although within the last 24 hours, my neighborhood's chat is starting to look like a Twitter-ish hate-fest. If they don't stop, I'm going to chuck it in the same dumpster as Twitter.
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by downerending 6y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted--it's a fundamental truth. Especially given how truly little we understand about biology.
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by downerending 6y ago
IME as an American, London British can be quite hard to understand, especially at a high word rate (which was my experience). Yes.. it.. turns.. out.. that.. speaking.. slowly.. does .. make.. it.. easier.. to.. understand.
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by downerending 6y ago
There's a good reason why the kernel is a single "binary". It's far less clear why the init system needs to be, especially since it wasn't for decades. Yeah, I'm not crazy about the various init scripts that h
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by downerending 6y ago
My math says 60x increase, which is a lot considering that the liability of each added source line is superlinear. And it's also a lot considering that most (?) of those lines of source are compiled into a single inscrutable binary
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by downerending 6y ago
It certainly sounds crazy, compared to the maybe 10KB of init.d scripts on a typical older Unix system. Yeah, I realize that isn't quite apples-to-apples, but still, systemd is a ridiculous beast. We used to mock Windows for this so
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by downerending 6y ago
I thought you were going to link them to the brownshirts. Certainly they seem similar in many regards. I can't think of anything good to say about someone who thinks vigilante violence is a noble act.
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by downerending 6y ago
tldr: The symbol is a point-down red equilateral triangle. Seriously, does anyone recognize this symbol? (without googling) EDIT: Just found it in a news story. It's a symbol used by Antifa in Spain, which is why it was in the ad.
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by downerending 6y ago
Essentially everyone is against Nazis/etc. Antifa has rather different goals--otherwise we'd just call them people.
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by downerending 6y ago
I think society should focus on the root issues that lead to crime. That said, there are a lot of people in the world who we cannot allow to walk the streets without being quite cruel to the law-abiding rest of us. Making amends is gr
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by downerending 6y ago
At least in the US, far more people should be removed from society, yes. Even a brief search will turn up large numbers of rapists and murderers (for example) that are sentenced and released over and over again. This is indeed arbitrarily
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by downerending 6y ago
I've done nothing like this. Nor have most people.
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by downerending 6y ago
Scientifically interesting. A lot of people that have acquired the wisdom of experience would probably shudder at the thought of living 500 years, though.
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by downerending 6y ago
> it bares repeating it bears repeating ( Sometimes you get the bare, and sometimes the bare gets you. )
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by downerending 6y ago
No, it doesn't. As far as I'm concerned, violence or shit like this should draw life. The law-abiding public doesn't need to be exposed to people like this.
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by downerending 6y ago
I haven't. But the idiot in me wants to ask whether I could just drink loads of albumin in water and "dilute" myself that way, without all of this weird dialysis, etc. Presumably not, but why not, exactly?
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by downerending 6y ago
This is getting flagged down as a dumb joke, but for those in the cheap seats, it's not entirely clear exactly how this differs. Presumably adding "adding albumin and water" is different than just "adding water".
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by downerending 6y ago
When you realize that your data is going to take 24 months to copy elsewhere (e.g., the cloud or another DC) over the fastest link you have, you have a real need for something like this.
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by downerending 6y ago
Or these days, micro flash cards.
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by downerending 6y ago
If alt-right has any meaning at all, I agree that it ought to refer to rather extreme beliefs. In practice, the left uses it as an all-purpose slur to refer to the half of the country that voted for the current President. (Hence my quot
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by downerending 6y ago
You're saying that anyone who gets beaten for their opinion had it coming? Truly we live in evil times.
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by downerending 6y ago
The ground has shifted. Someone who was a moderate in 1995 would be considered "alt-right" today.
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by downerending 6y ago
To have an opposing view in 2020 is to risk being beaten. Advise keeping your head down and your mouth shut.

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