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by einszwei 1y ago
As someone who previously worked in US with H1Bs who were making well over half a million, I doubt your statement. I have moved out of the US a few years back though. But regardless, I sincerely hope this policy sticks without any loopholes
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by einszwei 1y ago
Thatcher era privatization has been proven to be epitome of "short term gains for long term pain". Water, Power, Gas and Rail all privatized in a short span of decade and now the future generations will be footing the bill.
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by einszwei 1y ago
Its disingenuous to discard the contribution of humanities. To name a few of the top of my mind: Chomsky hierarchy is an important concept in programming languages and could be considered as originating from linguistics Philosophy (which is
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by einszwei 1y ago
> the big-tech worker is closer to the robber baron Zuckerberg A big tech worker earning 200k is closer to a minimum wage worker earning 20k per year than Zuckerberg earning 20M per year with net worth of 200B
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by einszwei 1y ago
BBC had a report from 2006[1] which admitted that its coverage was biased towards Israel on top all the recent coverage. > - that a disparity (in favour of Israelis) existed in BBC coverage taken as a whole in the amount of talk time giv
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by einszwei 1y ago
Is US Military[0] good enough? [0]: https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...
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by einszwei 1y ago
But we also understand that Krogers can’t expect a cut of every transaction on Xbox just because the Xbox was purchased from Krogers.
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by einszwei 1y ago
The problem isn't people taking public transit or taxis, its the people who take private jets and yachts not paying their fair share of taxes.
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by einszwei 1y ago
The student enrollments had already started going down last year. 2023 was the peak. From the article you linked: > According to separate Home Office figures, 393,125 student visas were issued to foreign students in the year ending Decem
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by einszwei 1y ago
The conversation in UK media and the ruling class consensus has shifted so far to the right on immigration that it would be a miracle if UK continues to see similar levels of foreign student enrolment in future.
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by einszwei 1y ago
The timing of the leak is interesting. It might point to the fact that situation on ground in Gaza is dire enough that big companies want some plausible deniability. This is just a speculation though.
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by einszwei 1y ago
You cannot discard the role of US Immigration & Deportation policy in the rise of MS13 gang. Please read some books on the matter if you disagree. My recommendation is "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolu
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by einszwei 1y ago
NGO Monitor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO_Monitor From Wikipedia: > NGO Monitor is a right-wing organization based in Jerusalem that reports on international NGO (non-governmental organisation) activity from a
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by einszwei 2y ago
> Syrian speaker Interesting framing. Do you also consider Barack Obama a Kenyan as his father was born in Kenya?
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by einszwei 2y ago
From the article - Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Subway Surfers, and Truecaller use this too
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by einszwei 2y ago
Just wow. I assumed that Google patched this few years back but guess they left a few backdoors.
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by einszwei 2y ago
Tech and Software adjacent professions have to be ones that are least likely to unionize. There was an internal survey (unofficial) at my workplace right after a mass layoff 2 years back about how many were interested in forming a union. Th
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by einszwei 2y ago
I have always argued that homeless people shouldn't be allowed to own anything because of a lack of individual responsibility. (I could list many similar paternalistic takes)
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by einszwei 2y ago
Their main economic source was tourism which US has successfully strangled (rolling back the relaxation from Obama era) https://www.yahoo.com/news/travellers-visited-cuba-last-11-1...
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by einszwei 2y ago
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/where-to-watch-the-debateand-... Sanctions on Cuba have strangled their economy and spread misery among the population. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11
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by einszwei 2y ago
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/where-to-watch-the-debateand-... The best thing US could do is relax the decades long sanctions on Cuba (which almost the whole world opposes)
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by einszwei 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weap... I'll leave these here if you
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by einszwei 2y ago
Why do you think FB only had Onavo's data after acquisition? See this article from when instagram acquired [1]. > Instagram has grown on the iOS platform and recently opened its community to Android users. The service now has 30 mil
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by einszwei 2y ago
> The more interesting question I have is how he knew the speed that IG user base was growing. See the acquisition of Onavo by Meta/FB [1]. Onavo was a Spyware which allegedly provided the data to FB on which Apps they were loosing
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by einszwei 2y ago
I fear we might see an opposite trend in the "Global South" countries which now constitute >80% of world population
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by einszwei 2y ago
Hezbollah was founded in 1982. With benefit of hindsight we can see that while Israel's Lebanon Invasion in 1980s was successful in curbing the PLO who perpetrated the massacre, they created a more formidable adversary in form of Hezbo
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by einszwei 2y ago
Hezbollah didn't exist in 1970s. It was founded in 1982 Like the famous quote said "We make peace with our enemies, not our friends" (I can't recall the source) - what is lacking here is diplomacy. To repeat - Israel&#x2
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by einszwei 2y ago
The answer isn't straight forward. 1980s invasion of Lebanon by Israel and it's withdrawal in 2000 was what made Hezbollah into the force that it is today. The conflict has been simmering for decades
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by einszwei 2y ago
From Israel's perspective, this supply chain attack was undoubtedly a clever move, but I can't help but wonder about its long-term consequences. Although it was aimed at harming Israel's adversaries, third-party countries may
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by einszwei 2y ago
The lack of historical context on immigration in U.S. is par for course. There has always been massive immigration to U.S. since 18th Century. Talking about "nation of people of shared blood" is a Fantasy

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