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by randompwd 6y ago
Because, in essence, they get servitude from far more of those foreign hires than they do from the locals who can confidently exercise their rights.
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by randompwd 6y ago
> not encourage companies to open offices in Canada and the EU. Opening offices in Canada and EU directly correlates to the sales of their products and services in those markets. Not quite sure what your point is. Forcing companies to h
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by randompwd 6y ago
you linked a generic coronavirus update page, which at this exact point in time happens to have news(below the fold) about visas as a sub story. this will not last long. thehill has good write up: https://thehill.com/homenew
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by randompwd 6y ago
It's quite clear you're confidently commenting without having watched any of the multiple videos available. He was passed out in his car in the drive thru lane. Did you even watch any of the videos? He was not cognizant for most o
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by randompwd 6y ago
Even more problematic is the fact Michael Bloomberg owns it, you know, the guy who stopped journalists that worked for a subsidary of his from doing their job. I have zero doubt he'll interfere with the normal operation of CityLab to s
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by randompwd 6y ago
European countries generally set and/or change their policy based on science, not public "opinion" or pressure. There is no hard evidence that smoking weed doesn't have a disproportional impact on mental health(particula
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by randompwd 6y ago
> It's simpler if you only write the front-end, because it de-couples the work with the back-end. This is nonsense. Both the frontend and the backend influence the design of each other(and for good reason). The notion that you can b
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by randompwd 6y ago
unloading third party libraries _from_ memory. or else gaining the ability to freeze their code and all derived/generated code from accessing the dom/network/etc.
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by randompwd 6y ago
> Prevent reloading of the page every time the user clicks a link, You don't need a SPA for that. And page load/render times are much shorter when html is delivered straight to browser fr most applications > Better emulate t
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by randompwd 6y ago
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. Also: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dostoyevsky-misprisioned...
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by randompwd 6y ago
What 'many other' countries? Every country has unmarked cop cars in use alongside high visibility marked cars. Every country has armed officers in addition to unarmed officers. Given the US has liberal gun laws, how would that eve
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by randompwd 6y ago
The line in parent comment is: > Officer Bob might have 31 excessive force complaints against him A complaint is an allegation. It's not a confirmed incidence of bad behaviour. Using Chauvin as example (17 complaints), From WAPO: &g
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by randompwd 6y ago
You implied it by omission > A model for this is the PSNI in Northern Ireland > Seems to be working given that there’s been 19 years of peace over there.
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by randompwd 6y ago
To attribute the RUC->PSNI change(2001) as the reason for peace is wrong. That change was on the back of a much larger, much broader set of changes brought in as a result of Good Friday Agreement in 98: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by randompwd 6y ago
> If I harmed a patient once You're conflating allegations of harm vs harmed. Given your position is just assisting the person and not enforcing the law(which the person does not want the cop to do against them), you are magnitude
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by randompwd 6y ago
Immediately stained by the simplistic naievety of: > And if they didn't carry guns nor drive unmarked cars.
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by randompwd 6y ago
Still there and I wouldn't be so sure. Fake it until you're high enough in an org then jump sideways to another gig(which is what he did).
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by randompwd 6y ago
Well, it could be. However, a family member who had years earlier excelled in a (non software) technical field before jumping to management positions then founder had given advise. Become excellent at $skills then move up. Good advise. Adv
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by randompwd 6y ago
> At the beginning of my career, I would never, ever, post anything technical on the internet. I thought that if someone was brave enough to post a blog post or take part in a tech discussion, they always know what they are doing. I coul
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by randompwd 6y ago
> because a bunch of cops ignored all protestations and pleadings from the public around them. I guess you've grown up in a pretty privileged low/no-crime place. Go to any high crime neighbourhood. The cops could be arresting s
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by randompwd 6y ago
Yes there is. As a craft, it dies.
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by randompwd 6y ago
> You can subscribe for a year, skip a year, renew every year — it’s up to you. Whatever you choose, you’ll always have the latest version with the newest features They may want to rework those sentences to be less absurdist. Those lines
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by randompwd 6y ago
Link is outdated. Newer version(as highlighted & linked on page) is at https://zenodo.org/record/3710954 Newer filename is jshopl-preprint-2020-03-13.pdf (published 14 March) Older filename is jshopl-preprint-2020-
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by randompwd 6y ago
Great idea. I tried subscribing to a 'best of HN' newsletter and set it to be every 2 then 3 days. Very disappointed with the content that was coming through. Hope this curation remains sustainable.