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H-1B: Trump administration goes ahead with rule to scrap visa lottery(mercurynews.com)
5 points by fhrow4484 6y ago|1 comments
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> How did we arrive to this point where a huge chunk of the population is in one reality and another huge chunk of the population is in another reality This isn't an accurate representation of the US. There are 4 sides: - extreme le
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> Basically you are saying that, because of a quirk in human psychology, the only way to get people to donate, over the long term, a portion of their income, derived from them doing jobs they are much more productive at than building hou
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
Even if a phone is made 100% in US or Europe, the raw materials for it like Cobalt is probably not immune to other types of human rights abuse: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/a
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
The same happened to my old "...@hotmail.com" email, Microsoft deleted old childhood emails, still bitter about that. Per https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail... , the limit
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> she literally told her group to stop working. Where did you read that? in the email shown,she told a listserv called "Women and Allies" to stop writing docs that are an attempt to better the situation in terms of diversity, e
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> but at the same time not realizing that it's unethical to withhold what she did Have you considered that she has to remain vague due to the potential litigation coming down the road? In fact didn't she leave some tweets hint
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
Any details on what happened? Trying to get context, I see big names professors from Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, Cornell all commenting/retweeting on how bad this is, so it's a big deal for sure
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
The twitter thread has way more details about the change, which is why I submitted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25279424 https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1334149283449352200
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Kubernetes is deprecating Docker support(twitter.com)
5 points by fhrow4484 6y ago|0 comments
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> Right, but you have to be on the local network to do that But who is "you" here? Are you assuming the attacker needs to be physically present on your network? can any malicious script running on browser's victim make an
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> To make the list, companies must hit the following criteria: headquartered in Europe; founded in 2000 or later; private Founded in 2000 or later seems odd definition for a "unicorn", the last one on the list, vente-privee was
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
The S-1 has this section with title "Directed Share Program": "At our request, the underwriters have reserved up to [blank] shares of Class A common stock, or [blank]% of the shares offered by this prospectus,
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> 1. The truthfulness and reliability of the historical record is important. [...] Everybody agrees here, but how does one gets to decide that Google, a private corporation, is the one to decide that a given email is an accurate historic
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> If two people are going to stay together, a piece if paper telling them they're officially together.doesn't make any difference and if two people are going to separate, some paper's likely not going to stop it "Marr
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US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year(theregister.com)
88 points by fhrow4484 6y ago|59 comments
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ByteDance won't sell TikTok U.S. operations to Oracle or Microsoft: CGTN(reuters.com)
110 points by fhrow4484 6y ago|168 comments
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
That's false. Since it's Washington State we're talking about: Googlers who join in WA state do not have a Non-compete in their contract (at least the "rank and file" engineers), even though Google could add it an
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by fhrow4484 6y ago
> The "opt-out" is just another cookie. There's nothing special about them either, they can be used to track return visitors just as well as any other cookie. I'm sure they're not, because that would be against t
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
Regarding private companies' RSUs, anyone here has heard of a company eligible for and opted-in 83(i) elections? (Which lets the employee defer tax for up to 5 years)
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
In US, yes. I've seen it happen, people take extended leave of absence on FAANG, to pursue some non profit stuff or simply to prevent burnout. During those, you're still covered by healthcare plan, but everything else freezes: let
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
> but leaves you the maximum amount of (mental|emotional|psychological|spiritual|whatever) energy That's probably not the case. It looks counterintuitive but being bored and feeling unmotivated at work can leave you at the end of th
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Why parents are forcing tech companies to erase kids’ data(theguardian.com)
1 points by fhrow4484 7y ago|0 comments
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
I don't seem to understand the whole thing. To me the premises are: 1) we can't trust ISP with unencrypted DNS query 2) we can trust a third party with DNS query because those are encrypted. My questions are: - Why is 1 true? What
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
Maybe France could not look at the US and also start taxing citizens everywhere in the world: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec... (french source)
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
Currently the limit is 7% per country, as described in the second paragraph of tfa. If 85% is a "blatant move to block" people from those countries, how would you describe 7%?
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Firm accidentally deleted G-Suite. Escalated support ticket to a lawsuit(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by fhrow4484 7y ago|0 comments
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
Another caveat of that app, even though the website hides it pretty far in the T&C, is that it appears to be owned by "Verivox GmbH" : https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verivox Translated to English the Wik
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
In Washington State, there was an almost full-ban on non-compete that was proposed a few years ago. Google came to the public hearings with full support for the law as it is (which make sense given the status for non compete in California
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by fhrow4484 7y ago
Backlog: Every year there's a finite amount of green cards available, and a rule that says: a country can not claim more than 7% of all the green cards each year. So every year the max number of Indians that can get green card is the s

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