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This is a major reason for reform of the visa system. If you get a US PhD you should be guaranteed a US visa. Studying a STEM PhD is free and mostly paid for by public grants aka tax dollars. If you force these people to leave you are using
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11y ago
LinkedIn allows you to auto invite your email contacts to join linkedIn and they sort of ask you to confirm sending the invite but what they dont make clear is that if the person does not accept they will send 2 follow up invite emails that
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11y ago
this is exactly the problem. The CIA did not get hacked it was OPM and no CIA records were stolen. But by simple process of elimination china could look at all the embassy staff in beijing and find out who is not in the OPM records, since t
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11y ago
at least 50% of companies will refuse to tell you when making an offer to you. It is insane that they tell you about these shares and play it up like it is great compensation then when you turn around and ask a very simple questions "h
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11y ago
Comcast, the largest isp in the US, already claims to have ipv6 support in all markets since 2014. AT&T the next largest also claims full support. I would guess the majority of US residential internet users have ipv6 support from their
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11y ago
i simple solution to cut down on this is never allow more than 2 or 3 failed card attempt from a single ip address. You have to link it by ip because they will just make a new account if you do it by account. Carder will move on to another
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11y ago
The big thing is that these things are law in China. The chinese government is basically making the tech companies sign a document saying they will comply with the law. The laws in China are insane and if tech companies want to do business
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11y ago
south korea specifically picks only tall soldiers to stand guard at the border. They do it on purpose to intimidate the north koreans. It is consider special duty in south korean army and you must be hand picked. The US does this shit too,
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11y ago
I am more interested in what you use to make these graphs and charts. The data presentation in all the articles on poly-graph is always excellent. The interactive charts and graphs is perfect for letting the reader understand the data. Did
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11y ago
using ssh tunnel works just fine in china but they detect it and start blocking the ips. You can usually get a few weeks before they block the ip address. It works better if the server is from a legitimate source like an edu. Most of the de
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11y ago
at amazon virtually everyone is considered an insider because almost everyone has access to the sales graphs that are used to track the health of the website and you can see detailed graphs of the revenue which only become public during the
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11y ago
he is talking about canceling a pending sale of stock. When you are an executive or board member of a company you are not allowed to just buy and sell large amount of stock on a whim you must setup buying and selling plans to spread the tra
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11y ago
this makes sense in a fair market where trading is fair but in china the market is far from fair and the government hates to admit that but insider trading is rampant. Many of the short sellers are the majority stockholders in the companies
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11y ago
@golang is the official twitter for the site, i suggest others message them to take this article down. They have already mentioned this article on twitter https://twitter.com/golang/status/618096409137393665
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11y ago
it is impossible to get chinese people stop believe these kinds of things even after they move to america most will continue to believe this kind of stuff. They believe all electronic equipment especially computer equipment give off radiati
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12y ago
A lot of people dont realize that that you can begin trading stock OTC by just filling some paperwork with the SEC though lawyers fees for that paperwork are not cheap. You can do what is called direct public offering and directly sell your
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12y ago
What people should be more concerned with is the fact that the government is selling off someone elses property before they have even been convicted of a crime. Dread pirate roberts plead not guilty and has still not had a trial yet. He has
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12y ago
When you are on parole and get convicted of another crime that is less severe than the original crime you are on parole for the judge decides how much of your paroled sentence you must go back to serve and can add on some time up to the max
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12y ago
the article is misleading. He got arrested for pointing a laser at the aircraft but he got 14 years for committing an act that violated his parole. He most likely had 14 years left on his sentence when he was paroled, probably drug charges,
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13y ago
The idea is not to recreate the coins. The idea is to allow MtGox to make a transaction from a wallet that supposedly they have lost the private key to, this is a wallet that has hundreds of thousands of BTC in it so not many people could b
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13y ago
Everyone neighbouring country has fought wars in indochina over the years. No country has been to successfully control them for long periods of time. In a land war the chinese have a lot going for them, just look at the korean war to see th
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13y ago
In the securities market is it illegal per the securities exchange act of 1934. It is called a bear raid and is normally done by short sellers who have heavily shorted a stock and then collude to drive it lower. It is not as common as the p
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13y ago
just think about it this way if illegally collected evidence was allowed at trial police could do whatever they wanted. If police illegally search you home there is no criminal penalty for the police, at most it is a civil rights violation
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13y ago
it is legal to record them if it is clear you are recording them i.e. holding up a camera or phone that any reasonable person who deduce that they were being recorded. Recording someone with a hidden camera can fall under wiretapping laws i
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real changes that need to be made to h1b are the fact that they need to prioritize the h1bs to foreigners who graduate from US universities. Every year thousands of foreign PhD students graduate and go back to their home country not because
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13y ago
What would be better is if paypal would stop freezing businesses' account when they receive something as simple as a charge back. Paypal's main market is small businesses who can not afford the time or cost of setting up a merchan
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All those numbers are very misleading. China has shit load of college grads because 90% of the universities are just diploma mills that you put in 4 years and you get your degree, there is almost no way to fail out. Most of those graduates
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13y ago
absolutely never buy chinese stocks, especially on the chinese stock markets. They all, every last one of them lie on their balance sheets. There is no morality in chinese business world, people will cheat their own family members to make s
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13y ago
One tiny problem with this is that there is no 4G service is currently available in china. China mobile also does not run a standard 3G network they run a proprietary 3G network standard that only chinese phones made for their network can r
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13y ago
I think it is actually a bad idea for bitcoin to be treated like a currency. People should not push for it to be treated like a currency because then that only leads to regulation. It should be treated like a financial vehicle or commodity
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