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by jpollock 7y ago
It also depends on their nationality. Only Canadians can obtain a TN.
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Spouses can't work when their partner is on a TN. A Green Card allows the spouse to work.
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Blocking ads won't stop your info from being shared during the auction. That's a back end data transfer.
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The Medieval Ages ended in the 15th century[1], and slavery didn't really start to end until the 19th century [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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Using ground water for irrigation increases the salinity.
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by jpollock 7y ago
Isn't "building structures of popular power" the definition of politics?
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If the business' value of success is driven by impressions clicks and likes, they aren't doing it right. It would be like a development team measuring success by lines of code written - it bears no relationship with the underlying
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No moving parts, and finding free water for pumped storage is going to be hard in California.
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I thought the slow burn of older movies was because of the cost of printing and managing the prints. My understanding is that it was a substantial investment for a movie, which meant that releases had to be staged - you wanted the most bang
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by jpollock 7y ago
Systems, particularly safety-critical systems, are tested in specific configurations (inputs, users, integrations). If you change the configuration, you encounter the possibility of finding new bugs. When someone's life is tethered to
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by jpollock 7y ago
The school board is required to do an environmental assessment first, that's where the majority of the cost comes from. https://reason.com/2019/06/20/george-washington-mural-san-fr...
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by jpollock 7y ago
As a lesson to anyone else hoping to do a shutdown with a migration to a different service with your company. If you are going to treat me the same as any new subscriber, where I have to re-signup, re-add my payment method, export my settin
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by jpollock 7y ago
I'm guessing the number of short-term people hasn't changed (except for population growth), so what impact has this had on hotel occupancy rates?
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by jpollock 7y ago
My great grandmother lived through the last smallpox outbreak in Canada, where their boarder caught it and she had to be quarantined. My grandmother told us about how she come back to school after summer vacation and found out about friends
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by jpollock 7y ago
Google says Boeing had 153,027 employees as of Jan 2018. Why should we listen to Stuart? They don't list his job, so he could be just about anyone.
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by jpollock 7y ago
The problem is that the newspapers were already a cartel, and Google and Facebook broke them up. There were several large networks: Associated Press United Press International Reuters Agence France-Presse etc. Newspapers generated little un
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by jpollock 7y ago
This is about avoiding US import duties, not avoiding Chinese export bans.
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by jpollock 7y ago
Of course the value of a book changes based on the distribution channel. Immediacy has value, so if you need something _now_ you will be willing to pay for that. Also, you have to pay in time and money to go to the store, so you _may_ be wi
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by jpollock 7y ago
It would also mean that all the PC BIOS manufacturers have been violating IBM's copyright for decades.
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by jpollock 7y ago
I didn't either, but I had multiple schools (USA and Canada) where the guidance counselor basically sat you down with a book and said, "Here, check what you're interested in in the book first."
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by jpollock 7y ago
Am I the only one who looked at BLS statistics for demand by job designation in high school before deciding on what school to go to and what to study? Although, even though actuaries were in extremely high demand, that did not interest me i
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by jpollock 7y ago
In the us, tv news is regulated because it is using public frequencies. Newspapers publish lies and propaganda all the time. Ref any supermarket checkout magazine.
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by jpollock 7y ago
I had a similar experience, where we would spend at a full day every sprint planning the sprint (team of 5). During the project, it felt like a bit of a waste. We were spending a full 10% of our time on project management. However, looking
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by jpollock 7y ago
Whenever I've used scrum, the developers set the estimate and task breakdowns. We even had the developer _doing_ the work provide the estimate. It's not really fair to have someone else estimate your work, it doesn't breed co
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by jpollock 7y ago
American coal won't stay in the ground any more than Australia's does. There are plenty of coal burning power plants in the world, and while it may not be economic to burn it for electricity in the US, there are countries which im
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by jpollock 7y ago
I've found that in the Bay Area, there are so many people who aren't allowed to work that it can be very, very hard to volunteer - the supply of volunteers exceeds demand.
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by jpollock 7y ago
Terms to search for: 1 Neutron Embrittlement 2 Helium Embrittlement https://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/201610/fusion.cfm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_embrittlement
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by jpollock 8y ago
Russia requires foreign owned services to host data about Russian users inside of Russia. That way the data can be retrieved by the government and used to de-anonymize users. [1] Data localisation is an up and coming regulatory thing, and m
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by jpollock 8y ago
Given the number of surgeries/year in Scotland (2009/2010 20,048) [1] the checklist saved: Death rate after fix: 0.46% Number of deaths after:93 Death rate before fix: 0.46/(1-0.37) = 0.73% Number of deaths before: 147 Number
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by jpollock 8y ago
We already tried data ownership, and society rejected it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035834

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