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by pliftkl 11y ago
The spoken language has some horrible holes in it. A couple of my favorite examples: "You cannot put too much salt in a margarita" (which has two completely opposite meanings) and "I did not say he beat his dog" (which
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by pliftkl 11y ago
Small clarification - I don't think you can sell it to an FFL or through an FFL. I think you'd be able to sell it directly to another person, but there's no mechanism to have it go through the NICS system (which requires a m
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by pliftkl 11y ago
It's not specifically to address the quality, but the way in which those employees are valued. If a company wants to bring in a crappy engineer for $200k/year, I think that's their business. If we put in place a point syste
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by pliftkl 11y ago
Obviously there would need to be some level of enforcement to prevent "wage adjustment" once the applicant arrives. The primary reasoning behind the suggestion is to prevent the H1B from being used as a mechanism for driving down
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by pliftkl 11y ago
Or, as proposed elsewhere, keep the cap and remove the lottery system. Grant visas to the top paid applicants. This removes allows companies with a need to great engineers to pay for them, and reduces the influx of lower quality H1-B&#x27
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by pliftkl 11y ago
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don
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by pliftkl 12y ago
I remember fondly the advice of my first computer science instructor in the mid-80's: Becoming a great programmer is easy! Get a notebook. When you make a mistake, write it down. Don't make that mistake again. It's simpli
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by pliftkl 12y ago
While I wasn't getting blackout drunk repeatedly, I definitely had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, and removing alcohol had enormous positive effects on my cognitive abilities. I also do a heavy dose of caffeine in the morning.
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by pliftkl 12y ago
Think about it this way. What if there were a million doors, and you pick one. The host then opens 999,998 other doors, showing you nothing behind them. Stick with your choice, or pick the other door? Of course you pick the other door -
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by pliftkl 12y ago
You can't win a gun battle with the United States government. What you can do is to be armed and force the government to kill you (and risk being killed). While Bundy shouldn't have been anyone's poster child for the 2nd am
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by pliftkl 14y ago
I think you are missing his point. The term "assault weapons" is a made up term. It describes a series of cosmetic features on a rifle, and if a rifle has a sufficient number of those features, it becomes an "assault weapon". The gun com
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by pliftkl 14y ago
Didn't the killer shoot the person who would have monitored the firearms first before taking them? So this solution would only be helpful if law enforcement actively tracked the position of all "assault weapons" at all times. And that see