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by qq66 9y ago
Yes, of course they do. The H1B program is critical for American competitiveness.
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by qq66 9y ago
At the high end, there are no substitute US citizens. Imagine trying to find an American-born replacement for Yann LeCun. At the low end, the H1B abuse train definitely imports a lot of people with close to zero skills.
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by qq66 9y ago
I agree that the claim is probably an empty boast, but depending on jurisdiction and heist mechanics, the laptop theft could be the more severely punished offense.
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by qq66 9y ago
The biggest harm from these prison labor businesses is not to the prisoners (who, in the article, say it's better than their alternative), but to the other dairies out there who have to compete with businesses employing Thirteenth Amen
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by qq66 9y ago
Even with an identical product, the article says that the Swintec is specifically enumerated in many prison regulations. Getting a new item there might require a large licit or illicit sales budget.
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by qq66 9y ago
The bright lights and noise levels in casinos are deliberate as they impair rational thought. Study after study on "cognitive load" show that if your brain is being stimulated or worked in one domain it impairs good decision makin
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by qq66 9y ago
No drug where a 2% difference matters can be administered outside of a monitored hospital setting. There are too many variables that affect the drug uptake far more than 2%, such as body weight (100 pound person will have 3x the drug dosage
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by qq66 9y ago
What block do you live on that 15TB is on the low end?
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by qq66 9y ago
Ouch. It's terrible when guys like this find guys like you to work for them :)
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For some roles, it's not petty. For example, for a sales role, you'd expect your salesman to be able to fit in at a client right from the first visit. If they can't do that at your company, that's a negative indicator fo
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by qq66 9y ago
There are actually more high-curation specialty stores than there ever have been, but they're almost all online. I've seen online stores that only sell wall sconces, wax seals (the kind medieval kings used to use), coping saws, an
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by qq66 9y ago
Actually, credit was given. FB's head of product publicly admitted to copying Snapchat's features.
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by qq66 9y ago
Hm... I think a large sheet of paper on a drafting table, with a chair on a low-friction sliding rail, might be a really good way to organize large projects/concepts.
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by qq66 9y ago
As an Indian immigrant to Minnesota in the 1970s, my dad adopted a habit of ALWAYS wearing a suit. This gave him the benefit of the doubt in a lot of interactions where he wouldn't have otherwise had it. He kept up that habit for a lon
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by qq66 9y ago
I was an intern at a Wall Street investment bank in 2004 and I remember the unbridled anger that animated any senior banker who started talking about Google and their efforts to "cut out the Street." It's not "collusion.
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by qq66 9y ago
The government markets will always be willing to pay more because money is free to them. In general, the financially motivated criminal black markets would probably be willing to pay less (if hackers use an exploit to steal $250m from Apple
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by qq66 9y ago
If you are organic certified, and you could build something as fast and big as a combine harvester to remove weeds... why not?
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by qq66 9y ago
There is plenty of good precedent for allowing countersuits in cases of frivolous litigation.
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by qq66 9y ago
Worth noting that this is a "benefit" of not offshore outsourcing, but outsourcing in general. Large companies prefer to purchase services from vendors rather than hire employees to limit their liability and responsibility for tho
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by qq66 9y ago
It means Amazon renting you access to business software rather than access to computers on which you can run your own business software.
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by qq66 9y ago
But in Uber's particular case, the company has a serious problem with women in particular. There haven't been accusations of problems with gay men, or immigrants, or black people. There have been multiple accusations of Uber tak
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by qq66 9y ago
If you're not breaking the law, then avoiding police is perfectly legal. If you are breaking the law, avoiding police, depending on how you do it, can be an additional violation of the law, and can be a criminal addition to a civil inf
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by qq66 9y ago
Something smells fishy here. How did the Intercept maintain enough opsec to stay in contact with Snowden (who would have dropped them like a hot potato if they didn't seem competent) and then do this, with the same general staff in pla
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by qq66 9y ago
The FCC auctions exclusive-use spectrum. That doesn't make them a government monopoly any more than an exclusive-use lease on a piece of land from the Department of the Interior.
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by qq66 9y ago
The core principle behind all equity research reports is that the value of the equity being discussed is the most important thing. That's not a problem -- the principle behind a physics paper is that the particle being discussed is the
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by qq66 9y ago
Lots of large companies have strong corporate cultures, good and bad. Southwest Airlines, Uber, UPS, Apple...
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by qq66 9y ago
I've tried all of these delivery companies thanks to VC-subsidized promotions, and none of them get me a better meal than Costco's excellent frozen and refrigerated prepared foods (Sukhi's, Giovanni Rana, Ajinomoto, etc) whic
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by qq66 9y ago
There used to be well-connected educated people who were spectacular at telling, genuinely and without condescension, the stories of the dishwasher with Type 2 diabetes. The all-time greatest was Studs Terkel.
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I'm relatively surprised that Trump was even given such classified information to begin with. I would have thought that the security agencies would have given him the equivalent of an "unplugged controller" the way big brothe
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The lack of risk mitigation is perfectly rational because of the lack downside. If a manager creates a hedge fund that has a 10% chance of making $1 billion and a 90% chance of losing $50 billion, he's got a 10% chance of making $200 m

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