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by swalberg 3y ago
At the same time, the political climate and even the person you get reviewing your application could make a difference. I was denied the first time I applied for PERM after the officer combed through the supporting paperwork to find problem
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by swalberg 3y ago
I used to run a small payroll company in Canada, everything was done in Rails. Call it brute force but every time the rules updated I'd run scraper against the CRA calculator that would calculate payroll across a variety of provinces
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by swalberg 3y ago
Maybe we're thinking of different things, but isn't the backlog for Indian citizens caused by a fixed number of visas per year and per country caps? If you track the visa bulletin [0] they call out when a green card number is read
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by swalberg 3y ago
The Washington Post has written about this a fair bit, including an article from the editorial board. "washington post indian assassination" should give you some reading.
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by swalberg 3y ago
I have low expectation of airport food, too, but unless you get a direct flight at the right time you're going to find yourself needing to eat at an airport. The section I was in had some automated sandwich kiosk and a burrito joint th
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by swalberg 3y ago
Was just there at re:invent the other week, and I couldn't point to anything different about the airport WRT security and TSA. Very long lines, traffic in and out of the airport was _insane_. My last impressions of Vegas were the terri
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by swalberg 3y ago
Just bought a 2023 Forester, no problems yet but wondering if this problem is just for the Outback?
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by swalberg 3y ago
Yea, another good Scout knot. While a square knot can do the same it can capsize under tension!
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by swalberg 3y ago
Know knots or tie lots! Knowing a few different knots for a variety of situations comes in handy. The right knot holds properly and can usually be undone when needed without having to cut it out. If you're starting out then the square
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by swalberg 3y ago
There's already a category for that, the EB-5 investor visa. If we understand the act of giving a green card to mean the US wants that person to join the society for the long term, is "taxes paid" really the best measure of d
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by swalberg 3y ago
My issue with "H1B to the highest bidder" is that there's a lot of industries outside of tech that use H1Bs like healthcare, academia, skilled trades, or heck, even fashion models. I think something like that would have to be
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by swalberg 3y ago
> you can apply for permanent residency while you have it. Just to further complicate it, for many people _your employer_ has to apply for permanent residency on your behalf which is another 2 year ordeal and fair bit of money (that&#x27
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by swalberg 3y ago
The site references the PDQ book and library. Dr. Gunther also wrote a book called Guerrilla Capacity Planning that goes into detail on the curve fitting method of analysis which is worth a read.
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by swalberg 3y ago
Both :) the standard unit Of time is a dit. A dah is 3 dits long. 1 dit between each element (so s is ... But 5 dits long because its on, space, on, space, on). 3 dits between letters. 7 dits between words. When people make the dits too lon
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by swalberg 4y ago
> The stewardship claim bit seems maybe a bit overstated considering they weren't able to secure an object the size of a button leading to it "falling off the back of a truck" As I understand it, this wasn't fuel, it
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by swalberg 4y ago
RE "it's social", at least over on HF there are a lot of activities where the expectation is just a signal report and a thank you. In particular POTA/SOTA, DX'ing, contesting, and special event stations. And then th
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by swalberg 4y ago
Just for General. Technician changed last year.
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by swalberg 4y ago
I don't regret it. I've managed to make the time thing work, even writing a book when our first was still an infant. I've also had experiences I never otherwise would have had without kids. One of my sons wanted to learn to s
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by swalberg 4y ago
Yes, though it's not hard and fast. Many sites will teach the Koch method but often with subtly different ordering, and very different from his original ordering. CW Academy teaches based on how frequently you'll hear them on the
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by swalberg 4y ago
Somewhat. There's a skill to the timing that needs to be picked up in addition to the patterns you learn when learning to copy. Ideally, you're also practicing sending with some kind of local oscillator or your radio set to monito
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by swalberg 4y ago
It is more power efficient than voice. You put the same power into roughly 50Hz of bandwidth vs 2.2k for voice, so you can work the world on a modest station. Its also easier to pick out in the noise than voice. Amateur radio is more than
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by swalberg 4y ago
If you like documentaries about the space race, the Washington Post has a fantastic podcast series called "Moonrise" ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/ ).
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by swalberg 4y ago
I was wondering the same. The picture accompanying that text was a plate from a Vibroplex Bug, a semiautomatic telegraph key. https://infostory.com/2013/08/27/debugging-the-origin-of-the... talks a bit more a
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by swalberg 4y ago
I'll have to remember the "tie them in bed" thing. I tell scouts that their basic knots should be known "cold, wet, and blind" for the same reasons. If we're doing knot relays, I'll also have them do it wi
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by swalberg 4y ago
I was canoeing in Minnesota two weeks ago as part of a Boy Scout camp and they offered a patch if we came back with several readings. The boys were interested and looked forward to taking the measurements. Didn't realize the device was
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by swalberg 5y ago
You're not the only one. Minuet was what I used.
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by swalberg 5y ago
Only been a Ham for 2 years, but the etiquette I've observed falls along the lines of "don't do things that make it hard for other people to have fun". Like checking to see if the frequency is in use before sending, and
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by swalberg 5y ago
I picked CW up as a pandemic thing and its a blast. Its probably the majority of my on air time now. Never would have thought, since Morse was originally what kept me from the hobby as a kid. Give it a go! 73 DE KN4ZMA
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by swalberg 5y ago
Posting because I saw that someone removed references to sexual assault as ways to remember the resistor color codes, and 2 minutes later it was reverted in the name of that being censorship.
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List of electronic color code mnemonics(en.wikipedia.org)
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