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by t1o5 9y ago
Facebook tried to pull a similar gimmick in India called "Free Basics". It was dealt with criticism and the regulatory authority in India was smart enough to reject the proposal. Reliance, one of the sheepskin corporation in India
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India starts work on bullet train line with help from Japan(theguardian.com)
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by t1o5 9y ago
Agree, when I go for a vacation, its my hard earned vacation. I wont and I dont have time to deal with a myriad of AirBnB problems. Hotels are predictable and guaranteed. Another upcoming is Turo. I used it once and discontinued. The owner
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by t1o5 9y ago
I have had bad experience with AirBnB. For me, it was a rental agency posing as a family. The listing had photo of a family which I hoped to meet when I rented. After checking in, I called the phone number and it was picked by a receptionis
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by t1o5 10y ago
Not everyone in this world is from Anglosphere. So please excuse if the word "menace" is not apt. On another note, Dennis The Menace should be R rated I guess.
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by t1o5 10y ago
Remember eBay's bright yellow to white background transition ? WhatsApp owned by Facebook which also owns FB Messenger, its only a matter of time for this transition.
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by t1o5 10y ago
They are a menace to the common man who lives at rental apartments. The rental prices of apartments have gone very high due to AirBnB. The entire building is being rented out in AirBnB by the owner making it impossible to rent for the commo
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by t1o5 10y ago
I have lived almost all of my childhood in Muscat, Oman. I went to visit Oman some years back which was very nostalgic. I still felt very welcomed there, met shopkeepers & my neighbors who instantly recognized the grow up me. PS: I am n
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by t1o5 10y ago
If we could put those government folks who signs the contracts to build customer facing government web applications through this exercise.
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by t1o5 10y ago
The Masters in US is gamed too. Many of those students are the ones who could not clear the campus interviews of Infosys, Cognizant or Accenture when they were in the college for Bachelors. So they come to "study" MS in the US so
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by t1o5 10y ago
IELTS (Non academic stream)
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I have a general understanding of all the nook & corners of the I-140 portability rules. Its very precarious & employees with a family and kids in school will not dare to do this. Its a high risk maneuver. Suppose an employee did ta
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by t1o5 10y ago
I really feel welcomed here. I should have done this earlier, but better late than never.
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by t1o5 10y ago
Happy to be at a place where my skills are appreciated. More of my friends will soon be ex H1Bs.
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by t1o5 10y ago
No lawyers needed. Its a simple online system. If you have the skills and you can prove it( IELTS,work experience,your degrees), the system awards you the points. No employers needed, no lawyers needed, you are totally in control of your vi
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by t1o5 10y ago
Points based system is the right way of quantifying skills & it seems to be working well for Canada. for ex: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/express-entry/grid-crs.asp
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by t1o5 10y ago
and you are one of those random H1B employee in the top percentile & we were not.
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by t1o5 10y ago
I am not in the country anymore. Was in US for 4 years. Left it for Canada as a permanent resident.
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by t1o5 10y ago
"lottery based skilled visa" sums it up. I am not assuming that you are in Detroit. I used to work remotely for an Automotive company in Detroit for their telematics unit. Some colleagues I know commute from Windsor.
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by t1o5 10y ago
If you satisfy the points under this grid - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/express-entry/grid-crs.asp and your documentations are correct, 6 months is the SLA.
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by t1o5 10y ago
Whoever argues that H1Bs are paid handsomely, have a look at this data disclosure for 2016 H1B wages (137 MB) from DOL. You can find all the details of companies that exploits the workers with some MS Excel wizardry. https://www.
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by t1o5 10y ago
> H1B is transferable between employers Its not easy as it sounds. Being a single that time, I have transferred my H1B myself and it was a nightmare. I had sleepless nights and uncertainty. My GreenCard process was reset. Any H1Bs who kn
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by t1o5 10y ago
ex H1B here. Yes Trump is right.(though I do not like him personally, he is right in this matter) Most of the corporate America is exploiting H1B workers. I have worked in one of those firms and I have friends in many other firms. These are
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by t1o5 10y ago
I was in the same boat, and I understand the frustrations. But then I used third party plugins which can filter out the fluff from twitter & facebook.