mportela

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by mportela 29d ago
Oh, yeah, that makes sense!
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by mportela 1mo ago
Not really… Theoretically, you could get it issued in a third country under very restrict conditions (renewing to the same class, in Mexico or Canada, force majeure, etc). However, the likelihood of it being denied was considerably higher,
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by mportela 1mo ago
Not _this_ time but they were targeted previously: banning up to 75 countries from issuing visas, adding a $100k fee to the application, forcing visa renewals to go through consular processing instead of change of status, etc. The end goal
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by mportela 1mo ago
I agree. I think it is the kind of situation that goes “gradually and then suddenly”, to quote Hemingway.
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by mportela 1mo ago
GitHub Actions upkeep is down to one 9. I miss the days big tech aimed for four or five 9s of reliability :(
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by mportela 1mo ago
Mind sharing it? I would also love a manga reader for remarkable!
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by mportela 4mo ago
Non-paywalled article: https://archive.is/9tg3a
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China's Rise in Drug Development Looms over U.S.(nytimes.com)
7 points by mportela 4mo ago|1 comments
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by mportela 4mo ago
The legit gacha experience
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US suspends immigrant visa processing for 75 countries beginning January 21(travel.state.gov)
4 points by mportela 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mportela 9mo ago
Happy new year from New York!
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by mportela 11mo ago
I've recently watched a video [1] that mentions how pre-rendered graphics dominated the 90s-early 2000s and were replaced by real-time rendering. You'll probably like it too! [1] The Beauty of Pre-Rendered Graphics https:/&#
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by mportela 2y ago
FWIW I had a professor that defined "robotics" in the same way (we even had a quite philosophical debate on whether automatic doors are robots). I ended up liking Norvig and Russell's definition better by appending the word &
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by mportela 2y ago
Then definitely what 3Blue1Brown's video on eigenvalues and eigenvectors. [1] That's when I clicked to me! His entire series on Linear Algebra is incredibly well produced. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=PFDu9oVAE
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by mportela 2y ago
While that's true, one of the reasons why Spain mandates Castellano in the federal level is a legacy of Franco's push to annihilate the other languages spoken in the country. In a way, forcing a single language and culture is a te
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by mportela 2y ago
And with good audio chat
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by mportela 2y ago
Curse was becoming more popular than TS at the time, but Discord offered a better quality of audio and stable connection. That's why my group of friends migrated to Discord around 2016.
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by mportela 2y ago
Great, now go back to study before Duolingo kidnaps your family
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by mportela 2y ago
"-y" is a quite common diminutive suffix in English nowadays. As a fun fact, Americans find hilarious/cute how Brazilians pronounce English words ending in consonants (e.g. WhatsApp/Facebook) adding an extra "i&#x2F
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by mportela 2y ago
I would assume so, since a foreign attorney wouldn't be able to help with US immigration law.
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by mportela 2y ago
Unfortunately, that's all the Biden administration could get written into law. The Big Pharma lobby is too strong and definitely battled to keep this list as small as possible.
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by mportela 2y ago
like the healthcare industry in the US
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by mportela 2y ago
Hmm, concatenation and alternation are exactly what I thought of when reading the work "composition" (I probably had functional programming in mind). I'm curious. What came to your mind for "composition"?
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by mportela 2y ago
I believe that's the O-1 visa, not the H-1B.
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by mportela 2y ago
Follow up question: how do you find freelancing opportunities?
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by mportela 2y ago
It's called garnishment [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnishment
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by mportela 2y ago
> Note the court does not say foreign actors don't have First Amendment rights. Is there a precedence on foreign actors (either inside or outside the US) having First Amendment rights?
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by mportela 2y ago
Sure, but education (and healthcare) costs grew much faster than the inflation. "The average annual cost of tuition at a public 4-year college is 40 times higher than tuition in 1963. (...) After adjusting for currency inflation, colle
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by mportela 2y ago
I had a similar experience, except Mechanical Engineering being my weakest area. Computer Science felt like a children's game compared to fluid dynamics...
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by mportela 2y ago
> I saw my mom gradually become a Sandy Hook "truther" as she fell deep down Facebook rabbitholes. It was bad. Although she eventually came around (...) Mind sharing how she came around? My dad fell a similar hole but I haven&#

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