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721.
by notJim 6y ago
> The H1B program has been abused for a long time What's the abuse?
722.
by notJim 6y ago
The new rule is that H1B workers need to earn higher salaries relative to the distribution of salaries in their profession. The worker must make the 45th percentile wage, where previously it was 17th. Won't this primarily hurt people e
723.
by notJim 6y ago
I definitely have friends who would and could buy Teslas if not for the asshole techbro image cultivated by Musk. IMO, that is kind of silly of them, but it's foolish to pretend people don't consider their self-image when consider
724.
by notJim 6y ago
That's not really what this type of speaker is for. It's more a speaker for your bedroom or kitchen that you use from your phone or via voice. My Sonos One doesn't have Aux in either, although some of the other speakers do.
725.
by notJim 6y ago
Gotta disagree with this, I'm very happy with the integrated Roku in my TCL TV. And the TV still has HDMI ports, so I don't see how it's obsolete if I ever want to stop using the Roku.
726.
by notJim 6y ago
Why are you stuck with them? Does your TV not have HDMI ports or something?
727.
by notJim 6y ago
Heh, wasn't sure where to draw the line. Radiation was discovered in the 1890s, so that seemed like as far back as you could go.
728.
by notJim 6y ago
I don't think that's quite an apt comparison. The fundamental physics of an atomic bomb were not well known until the late 1800s. Apparently the Manhattan Project cost about $23 billion in 2007 dollars. ITER apparently had an init
729.
by notJim 6y ago
Playing any sound is bad enough, but they seem to have specifically chosen one that is designed to give you a stroke or something. It's honestly kind of amazing to me.
730.
by notJim 6y ago
> Good developers are the ones that create code that resists the slide from a 10x code-base to a 0.1x code-base That may be true of good developers. On the other hand, in my experience "10x developers" are the ones causing the
731.
by notJim 6y ago
Indeed, who needs an informed population when you can have an entertained one.
732.
by notJim 6y ago
Hard same. After having a few experiences where a dependency hardly does anything, my approach is to read the docs first and see if I can implement the parts I need in a couple of hours. Often I can.
733.
by notJim 6y ago
It's honestly so weird to read comments like this that presume no one else has ever realized before that the sun sets every night. I would guess that the California power regulators actually do know this and have plans for it.
734.
by notJim 6y ago
I can't find the link right now, but I read a paper recently that electric cars are about twice as efficient as gas cars, so even if we only switched to electric cars, we'd massively reduce our energy consumption.
735.
by notJim 6y ago
1) Regard apartments, the government should make funds available to add charging to existing apartment buildings. It could also do stuff like add chargers to light posts, as I believe some European countries do. Also, we can normalize runni
736.
by notJim 6y ago
I'm not saying I completely agree with closing the plant, but to be fair to the argument they make, the agreement does seem to spell out that the plant will be replaced with greenhouse gas free energy sources, including renewables + st
737.
by notJim 6y ago
First time I saw one was when I was interviewing in NYC. I walked in and grabbed a sandwich and couldn't believe what dry flavorless garbage it was. 7-Eleven is honestly a step up.
738.
by notJim 6y ago
It took over a year for my mom to get cable at her house. Never occurred to me to start my own ISP instead.
739.
by notJim 6y ago
From Wikipedia: "Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit ". I looked around a bit to see if this is a contentious definition, but other definitions
740.
by notJim 6y ago
> be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling) The cards "are an expression of" everything wrong with modern policing. Not sure if you are just being pedantic, but this seems to fit.
741.
by notJim 6y ago
In the US, the police are essentially an occupying force with their own agenda that they pursue. At times it aligns with the agenda of broader society, but at times not. Because the police know not to mess with the "wrong" people,
742.
by notJim 6y ago
I remain skeptical that JWTs are a good idea for the general case. People like them because you can do stateless auth, but if your database really can't handle a single PK-based lookup per request, I feel like you have other problems.
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by notJim 6y ago
I think with JWTs, you sometimes need to do this because the JWT itself stores the id of the key used to create the JWT. For example, if you have a multi-tenant application where each tenant has their own key, or for key rotation (although
744.
by notJim 6y ago
I don't think there's coordination happening on HN necessarily. There is a very high degree of anti-union propaganda in the broader culture, and many have taken that propaganda on without considering or hearing much from the other
745.
by notJim 6y ago
> You're talking about union education as if it's equivalent to mathematics or something, like there is an absolute truth to be learned. Surely even the most pro-union people would acknowledge that not every implementation of a
746.
by notJim 6y ago
The House has passed a bill [1] that would make it illegal to make these meetings mandatory, btw. Obviously won't pass with a GOP senate, but could happen if the Dems manage to retake government. [1]: https://www.congress.go
747.
by notJim 6y ago
Great point—every company I've worked at, people have complained about lack of transparency about who gets promoted. HR and company leaders always respond "oh we're trying, it's hard, trust us", etc. But with a unio
748.
by notJim 6y ago
Who supports these pro-worker politicians and holds them accountable? In the US, both parties are very cozy with corporate interests, because that's where the money (and thus ability to mobilize voters) is. Historically, unions played
749.
by notJim 6y ago
I think the real problem with those systems is that it's relatively easy for a well-funded group or person to influence the outcome or outright abuse the system to their own ends. Pay canvassers ridiculous rates per signature to get it
750.
by notJim 6y ago
To elaborate on the policy part, in the second poll linked, majorities of Republicans are opposed to scientists being involved in making policy.

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