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by idrios 6y ago
I'm sure you saw the article recently about the H1B visa program requiring significantly higher pay for visa holders. How do you think this will affect current visa holders? Obviously it varies case by case but I'm hoping you&#x27
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by idrios 6y ago
Yeah but doctors are a unique entity. There's little need for doctors to do collective bargaining because there's barely anybody who could take their job, so they already have a lot of bargaining power. If doctors didn't requ
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It's not cynicism, it's Goodhart's law applied to actual law enforcement. There are good police units who have it in their culture of not bringing a suspect to trial unless they have substantial evidence, and presuming innoce
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by idrios 6y ago
Exactly everything candiodari said. The police are under immense pressure to put somebody away or else they're basically telling the public "we have no idea who did this crime". They need to find and convict a suspect to inst
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by idrios 6y ago
You and the parent comments have said basically everything that I feel about learning a new language, but I'll still add.. When you're a kid playing with dinosaurs with other kids, you're all saying things like "dinosaur
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by idrios 6y ago
This comment really put into perspective what kind of malware these extensions are to me. When I think about decentralized open source solutions, the major example that comes to mind is email, with how Gmail can communicate with Hotmail can
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by idrios 6y ago
I would argue that it's hurting those demographics right now. It's never been easier to do a background check, which if you've had a rocky past that you're trying to change, means it's never been harder to escape yo
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by idrios 6y ago
This is true, so I should have prefaced that part with 'in theory'. But companies that become a monopoly or pseudo-monopoly can be broken up by the government. The government cannot become broken up by companies. The fact that the
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by idrios 6y ago
The US is nothing more than a land where there are more controls and restrictions on the government than there are on private companies. This should be a good thing, because you can choose what companies you interact with but you can't
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by idrios 6y ago
> The vast majority of programmers working on side projects are already established in the industry. I strongly disagree. There are teenagers writing custom skin mods in Minecraft by Googling and copy/pasting. There are non-tech pro
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by idrios 6y ago
Well obviously that will never happen. It just sucks for those of us with friends in China where all we want to do is keep in contact. I blame China more than the US but this whole fight for control over communication platforms is so annoyi
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by idrios 6y ago
Whatsapp is banned in China. I'm guessing Telegram is too. Facebook, Google hangouts, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram all are too, blocked at the ISP level. If you want to talk to someone in Mainland China, your option is pretty much only
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by idrios 6y ago
> I can, in theory, at least elect representatives to change the policies of the NSA Please let me know which representatives have 'reducing power and increasing accountability of the NSA' as part of their running platform in t
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by idrios 6y ago
That's a good way to look at it, and sorry for interpreting your response poorly. Definitely agree, this is a good opportunity for self improvement.
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> let's refrain from whataboutisms here For economic sanctions to have their intended effect you need participation from a lot of countries so this doesn't feel appropriate to dismiss as a whataboutism
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It is weak but it's a good minimum. They're banning any product that might have been made from forced labor, which at least sends the message that the US won't be seen as complicit. But agreed, I hope to see stronger sanction
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by idrios 6y ago
I think "bored" is a really unfair trivialization when the parent comment's choice of words was closer to "devoid of meaning". The examples you gave are the day to day things that childfree (& single) people ar
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by idrios 6y ago
Or maybe he picked Chinese because it's the most well-known pause word of any non-Eurocentric language
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by idrios 6y ago
This list needs thenewboston [1]. I got into programming by learning Android development, and learned entirely by watching his channel. He has hundreds of tutorial videos on everything from Adobe suite products to Angular to PyGame and he&#
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by idrios 6y ago
Probably the issue then is that the US government trusts US companies more than Chinese companies, when they shouldn't. I agree with the parent company that if China wanted this data they could probably get it very easily and they most
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by idrios 6y ago
Yeah, but it only works when they have some kind of leverage on you. A very lazy google search tells me that there are about 4 million Chinese Americans, which is 1.3% of the population. So 1.3% of Americans could be manipulated this way. T
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by idrios 6y ago
I'm sure that's among the cases he meant when he said "fringe cases". Most Americans don't have families in China
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by idrios 6y ago
I agree with you, except that I like criticism when it challenges my thoughts and gets me to improve. On the internet you're at risk of losing your job over things you said 10 years ago, or getting death threats from random strangers.
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by idrios 6y ago
Has the US ever done this before? Force internet providers to ban certain IP's? Because this also, ironically, is how China blocks the majority of the western internet
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Don't forget to add a few comments from shill accounts saying "omg so true" to add to the authenticity
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by idrios 6y ago
That it's tiresome does not invalidate the argument. In fact, if the policy change was made because of university lobbying and not because of the public outcry, that's downright depressing. It means we still had no control over th
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by idrios 6y ago
Are you sure these companies are getting an increased customer base? These services are giving them advertising but also giving advertising to all their competitors so I would assume it cancels out to a degree. Also the negative reviews for
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by idrios 6y ago
So had they been complying with govt data requests from Hong Kong up until 5 days ago? I have no idea what China's policies on ex post facto laws are but does this mean there are political dissenters in Hong Kong who will likely be pun
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by idrios 6y ago
Custom solutions for disabled adults and children. Conditions like cerebral palsy, ALS, quadriplegia, etc force otherwise healthy people into isolation. Steven Hawking famously had a custom program that gave him his voice back when he lost
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by idrios 6y ago
I like this article a lot and would like to see it expanded upon further. Based on their visuals and explanation (without seeing equations) it looks like they've modelled an individual's political alignment based on a number of or

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