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by olcor 6y ago
You're exactly right, this is what I mean when I talk about the current government being this transparent. Immigrants tend to think of the risk-reward scenario, and a lot depends on image and perspective in their heads. This image now
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by olcor 6y ago
Thinking about it as an immigrant, just the same way as the H1B: why punt on it if it is this variable? And why even depend of this? The entire problem is that immigration isn't working as it is supposed to. If even this can be gamed,
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by olcor 6y ago
I agree. Noped out of staying in the US last year even after finally getting an H1B in my third attempt. All the dollars in the world aren't worth it if I have to leave at any random point just because a politician wanted to pander to
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by olcor 6y ago
You don’t even need to log in for replying to messages. IIRC you can just reply to the email and that would get relayed.
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by olcor 6y ago
Linkedin provides value to me in two ways: - My connections list would make a potential recruiter (and maybe even the Linkedin Algorithm) be slightly more confident that I am who I say I am, i.e. I did work at the companies and studied at t
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by olcor 6y ago
Not sure; I don't see any ads, I used the same query as you did. Haven't seen any ads since the time I've been using DDG. Note I have both uBO and uMatrix installed.
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by olcor 6y ago
I completely agree with you on almost all points (I don't have a social media account either for the exact reasons you mentioned; dropped all of them like a hot potato when I read some of those social media experiment papers) except fo
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by olcor 6y ago
https://outline.com/ehDSWa > The wait is largely the result of an annual quota unchanged since 1990, and per-country limits enacted decades before the tech boom made India the top source of employment-based green card-se
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by olcor 6y ago
I wouldn’t completely agree with that. From most sources, Bloomberg wanted to run even in 2016, and did a lot of work on that front, till the end when he somehow changed tack to “not split the vote”. While he did officially make a late entr
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by olcor 6y ago
> If he returns home, Kore says, he worries he won’t be able to repay the $66,000 in student debt secured by his family’s house. I wish people didn't do this, not any more. Getting a full-time job (even on F1 STEM extension) had bee
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by olcor 6y ago
Nokia just announced a couple dumbphones: 125: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-125 150: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-150 They have a huge range of "classic&qu
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by olcor 6y ago
Just wanted to point out you might’ve pasted the wrong snippet, which is about eBay’s policies.
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by olcor 6y ago
A few fundamental issues: > the browser largely still does what it did twenty-five years ago Maybe that's by design? The browser (at least major ones) can be easily extended the way the user wants; if they want something which helps
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by olcor 6y ago
An Apple phone is a good bet. They last quite long, have a fantastic battery life (especially for your use cases), do everything you're asking for (including having SSH clients / terminal emulators) and some of them aren't to
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Indian Government makes contact tracing app mandatory for all employees(news18.com)
1 points by olcor 6y ago|0 comments
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by olcor 6y ago
In my personal opinion, better that than trawling slowly through traffic jams. If their train system is over capacity, more people moving through cars would be even more of a nightmare. The feeling of independence (or not feeling like “catt
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Mystery of India’s lower death rate seems to defy coronavirus trend(reuters.com)
3 points by olcor 6y ago|0 comments
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by olcor 7y ago
This isn't exactly a democracy-crushing deal as most people paint this to be, nor is this Disney trying to be family friendly. HBO shows, including ones which definitely aren't family-friendly/politically correct, are on Hots
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by olcor 7y ago
Clearly. So many also pointing right in the middle of the US, Brazil and Australia. I’m not sure if the poll was portrayed to be serious. Also, as someone who was in the US for quite some time, I found that (very much contrary to national s
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by olcor 7y ago
Nope. Working fine in India. Edit: Even FB is fine here.
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by olcor 7y ago
I usually take an Uber only when I know that it’s price is going to be cheaper than a taxi, when public transport is inconvenient, and when time isn’t an issue (prices are sometimes at a 10-15% discount to black-and-yellow taxis at non-pea
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by olcor 7y ago
I disagree with almost everything the blog post says. From what I've seen from the internet, almost every content creator making something of good quality without ad support has decent funding backing them up, either from donations or
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by olcor 7y ago
I completely agree that those are important factors too (sometimes much more so than salaries), but good salaries, type of work and first-world benefits are usually the reasons why people emigrate in the first place (often leaving family an
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by olcor 7y ago
Well a direct currency conversion might not work, but in purchasing parity terms Canada seems to be less well off. Consider the conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21107264 200k CAD is roughly comparable
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by olcor 7y ago
Already started happening. I’m already a data point, and I know a few more. The generation going to grad school now is no longer thinking of settling in the states as their primary option; it is too cumbersome for most. Salaries for top tal
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by olcor 7y ago
Aah yes, I misread it; totally my bad, I apologize. Definitely feels like a telephone game now that I read it.
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by olcor 7y ago
I guess what the OP is trying to say is that throwing a million or more into a savings account, not having to worry, and peace of mind is in itself a class game. Few people have that luxury; I got a chance to be a bit better off and immedia
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by olcor 7y ago
> If you go to third world countries like India, etc. you'll realize that even people who are dirt poor place an extremely huge amount of importance on education. While I get your point, I don’t fully agree with this statement. The
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by olcor 7y ago
I did talk to a recruiter hiring for Juul, the one time they called me. Their only selling point was how fast the company was growing. This was around the time Altria bought them.
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by olcor 7y ago
Some stats on tobacco usage in India: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/272672/wntd... Smokeless tobacco is more widely used than cigarettes, and quite a few states have banned gutka

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