thatfrenchguy

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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
Those four countries have very different quota problems though: folks from Mexico and Philippines face a long wait in family immigration, mostly to bring their kids & siblings to the US ( https://travel.state.gov/content
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
Going for citizenship is pretty easy once you have a green-card, and you can do it without a lawyer. It's a bunch of easy paperwork and an interview. Getting the green card though...
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
They are not "in line for citizenship", they're in line for a green-card, that's very different
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
easier to release the source code here and better for your customers right?
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
I mean, "cigarettes are the devil", especially for teenagers also have stuck.
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
I mean, in San Francisco, you’ll find plenty of good bread and pastries, it’s the only mid size city in the US that has enough French people to have two competing French language schools for kiddos.
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
> In the last decade or so American grocery stores have dramatically improved their cheese selections. I don't know if it is 100 different cheeses, but it is pretty darn close. And unusual regional cheeses come in all the time. Eh,
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
Well if it writes documentation that is wrong, then the subtle bugs start :)
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
Negotiated rates are per code here though, and doctors generally aren’t the ones doing the actual coding for the visit in the US, they have folks going through your doctor’s notes and figuring out the codes. Another reason why the overhead
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
Add a French and American person, in the US you hear "insurance did not approve", in France it's more "you can't get an appointment / the surgery provider does not have any spots unless you go to their spots in
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by thatfrenchguy 11mo ago
In the US, you'll be billed the maximum out of pocket for your health insurance whether your little one is in the ICU for months or whether it was a easy delivery though, so at least birth is a predictable medical expense.
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
> But what you see in the end is that 90% of medias in France belongs to a few wealthy families that are friends with him. The only way the current wave of right-wing media ends if by finding a new way to fund media & making it impos
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
> charging infrastructure is still quite poor Now that basically every car can access Tesla Superchargers and vice versa for Teslas, this is really not a problem anymore. We’re at the « sometimes I’m grumpy the best stop for my car does
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
If you look at EPA efficiency in 2020 and 2025, it hasn’t really moved that much for the same class of vehicle.
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
Yeah, no European is going to tell you this is "real cheese"
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
at Safeway or Walmart? Absolutely not what most europeans would consider "real cheese"
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
Yeah, I mean, any French person who goes to a Safeway or a Walmart will be shocked to see what the offerings are.
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
I mean, Whole Foods targets upper middle class folks, you’re far away from the average American experience
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
Really a market shaping failure by the federal government here.
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
> sat around a rock grunting at each other Seems crazy to me, given anyone with children that is exposed to multiple languages can easily imagine how complex the language scene must have been in humans that did not write, given how easy
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
I can’t fathom this being an issue in 2025 where you can have digitized versions of your kid’s birth certificate on your phone, which indicate that you are their parent. The kidnapping thing has nothing to do with names, if you only have o
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
I truly wonder how much time we have before some spectacular failure will happen because a LLM was asked to rewrite a file with a bunch of constants in it in critical software and silently messed up or inverted them in a way that looks reas
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
But then you’re accentuating the master mill problem and loosing on a ton of talent who does not have the money to pay for a degree in the US.
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
It can be 12-24 months if you’re not born in India and your lawyers do all their paperwork on time and you apply when USCIS is not crippled :)
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
> Maybe the H-1B program is a great program for hospitals. For tech, it is 100% being used to import cheap, disposable labor in a way that harms U.S. citizens economically And yet, Apple, Google, Nvidia, Meta and Amazon would never be wh
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
If you track them while working you’ll focus on hourly productivity rather than annual productivity and customer satisfaction. My postman has literal love letters by children written on houses on the block, makes sure you never loose any im
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
It’s kind of a good way to make your business collapse though, because figuring out the kinds of problems where LLMs are useful and where they’ll destroy your productivity is extremely important
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
It’s funny because as a parent there’s nothing I want less than living somewhere I have to drive everywhere. I can walk 5 minutes to the nearest park, take a bus or a tram to be in a different one in 10 minutes, and I can’t fathom having to
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
Cases aren’t necessary, have not been for a while. They don’t actually protect your screen.
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by thatfrenchguy 1y ago
Or we could have a functioning smart government who lets say, Nvidia or Apple hire more folks and Infosys less instead of having a lottery? Folks on H1B pay federal income taxes

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