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The employer has to prove that they have tried and failed to hire a US worker qualified and willing to do the job for the prevailing wage. The complication is that some people think the existence of the H1B affects the prevailing wage, and
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>>> The only entity in the US that wanted and continues to lobby for H1B to continue is industry and their sole reason for doing so is keeping their salary expenses as low as possible. In the software industry it began with the fak
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Wow that's a fascinating perspective, thanks for posting! I'm looking forward to using this to make people think I'm smarter than I really am.
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I think the right phrase is something like "worth thinking about" rather than "common". It's like the "in the very unlikely event of a water landing..." you hear on airplanes. It is very unlikely but there
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Right but the only possible outcomes of the move you're proposing are: * the situation they're trying to bring about with this law or * the same situation we have now except the gov't is taking more of people's money
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It's hard to imagine how that would work. Airline routes are usually based on a use-it-or-lose-it slot. So either the tax will have the desired effect and make the flight uneconomical, in which case it'll be discontinued, or it wo
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This is obligatory reading, and I would say at 3 years you're probably exactly at that stage of your career when developers tend to be most susceptible to this mistake: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/0
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Maybe I have just forgotten how to English, but this sounds borderline incoherent to me. Either way I can't make sense of any of this article. >>> If the high court is not in fact behaving in a fashion that makes its decisions
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>>> many from marginalized migrant communities I scoured the article looking for any explanation of "marginalized" or any reason why this might be in some sense a contributing factor or relevant in any way and found (surp
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Paywall
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>>> Because the status quo isn't working I don't think I can follow your logic here. The private sector isn't building houses, and the government isn't building houses. No one is building houses. How can you use
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Wow this is excellent. Many times I have googled things like "what is a tensor" and then spent ages reading what came up in total confusion. This is the most I've ever understood! Thanks for linking this.
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Don't worry about 1-2 years at the start of your career. You will easily pick up what they have learned in the industry, but it will take them a decade to pick up maybe 1/4 of what you learned in a CS degree. Granted that will he
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I agree that if you have the opportunity you should do the degree. I don't think it's necessarily true that you won't be able to troubleshoot things otherwise, but there are other reasons. It's hard to explain why theore
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>> Alas that money is not in the hands of those who need them. Well literally everyone needs a home so I have to disagree. No matter who has the money, they need a home. It's not like only a small number of people in Ireland have
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It's not clear that it's necessary for the state to engage in housing construction. There's plenty of money for people to pay for houses. But there has been no building for the last decade while the population has exploded. W
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What do you mean by "was killed"? The story in the link is still there and talks frankly about the Bilderberg meetings. BTW if anyone wants to read more about this, I highly recommend Jon Ronson's "Them: Adventures with
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I presume he means parts are likely to need replacement- i.e. that either move or are susceptible to degradation from heat. If you have to replace a resistor that's a freak occurrence. Yes electic cars do have heat and moving parts but
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I can only assume that you have very little experience of violent crime. Have you ever been attacked and beaten up by a random stranger? I have and I can hardly think of any of my friends from my progressive, soft-on-violent-crime country w
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I don't understand- in what sense is this "1 bit"?
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I thought someone here might have some ideas about this. Apparently there's a strange code someone wrote in this First Folio that no one can figure out.
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Can you crack this code in Shakespeare's First Folio?
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Thought provoking, but ultimately disappointing because no proof of the "impossible" claim is offered. Impossible is a strong claim that needs to he backed up. "has failed to happen in a couple of cases" doesn't cut
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Very unlikely to be a feint imo. Strategists are probably not going to make their decisions based on public information like this. They probably know where the Russians are weak. I don't know much about this stuff but I think this kind
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I don't! I think in pseudo code that maps easily to most languages. They're all equivalent at the end of the day.
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The reason they do this is presumably because they don't want your email provider to know what you're buying. I don't know about Walmart but Amazon provides a browse-able, searchable list of your orders going back to the very
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>>> The best case for not disclosing Crow’s tuition payments would be to argue the gifts were to Martin, not Thomas, experts said. But that argument was far-fetched, experts said, because minor children rarely pay their own tuitio
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Yes American people tend to be very unaware of which cultural things are universal and which things are specifically American. Everyone probably has that problem to some extent but people who come from countries that depend less on other co
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I don't know if we see the same options. When I look at the options for recent purchases of things that have sizes (just checked now) I see at least 2 that are perfectly consistent with "wrong size": * bought by mistake * no
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I'm sure the psychological factor is huge. That said, I did come across a few relevant stats [1]: >>> 2,744 officers were assaulted with firearms; 6.1% of these officers were injured. 1,180 officers were assaulted with knives
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