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by vsskanth 3y ago
USCIS still has a lot of leeway over how they adjudicate visa applications (both standards and the time duration) and this is used by the administration through political appointees to shape who and how many people they admit. Post 2016, th
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by vsskanth 3y ago
Yes but not just though the lottery. USCIS has massively increased visa filing fees, especially for employment, to fund application processing for other areas like asylum etc. which don't have any fees.
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by vsskanth 3y ago
My most charitable explanation is that these topics do not lead to any novel discussions and instead creates flame wars between the pro and anti visa people for no benefit.
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by vsskanth 3y ago
Typically HN seems to down weight any discussions on visas or immigration to keep it off the front page, but for what it's worth it's important to point out that this lottery system was designed by USCIS and recently changed post
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by vsskanth 3y ago
Trying to understand why is the impact so high ? Why does forcing data separation reduce ad revenue?
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by vsskanth 4y ago
Looks like any vehicle affected by this is gonna end up with large insurance costs if you don't have a garage
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by vsskanth 4y ago
Thank you.
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by vsskanth 4y ago
Anyone here know if it can be used for generating 3D surface profiles? Or material thickness measurements
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by vsskanth 4y ago
I think the parent comment meant that there doesn't seem to be any cost to making jokes at the expense of Asians. A similar parody letter based on stereotypes about black people will pretty much end their career, no matter the intent.
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by vsskanth 4y ago
I used to be a regular NPR donor. Sometime after 2016 there were a lot of changes on the legal immigration side of things that affected a lot of indians, and there was little to no coverage by NPR. That's when I realized I am not their
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by vsskanth 4y ago
It’s hard to believe but the walker edison brand of furniture sold online actually has solid wood options and is cheaper with better tolerances than ikea. Ikea tolerances are indeed trash. I have the same hemnes dresser
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by vsskanth 4y ago
1. It's not clear this is fraud, more like over utilization of reimbursed services 2. We're on H1B, can't complain without risking losing job tied to visa and having to leave the country.
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by vsskanth 4y ago
One thing I don't see mentioned here is unnecessary surgeries being performed on elder patients. My wife was a home health OT for a small rural county. She was primarily doing post-op rehab at home. Recently, she noticed a lot of old p
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by vsskanth 4y ago
Really ? That's nice. I thought you had to install some ipykernel and all kinds of libs in your venv. Maybe that's changed now
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by vsskanth 4y ago
I am really, really not a fan of IDEs being a part of the environment in which you execute the code. Basically I want my virtual environment separate from the IDE code. Both Spyder and Jupyter do this and I don't like it.
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by vsskanth 4y ago
So what's the big blocker for Google to let the public try it out ? It can't be for lack of capability or resources
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by vsskanth 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder what the end game is for US healthcare. Costs for private (even employer subsidized) insurance keeps going up every year, and then you have Medicare, Medicaid and ACA on the other hand for a separate set of individuals wh
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by vsskanth 4y ago
It's important to note that Ford made the decision to bring the F150 and Mach E to market ASAP as opposed to taking the time to develop a separate EV platform (like GM and Hyundai), probably why their design isn't optimized. IIRC
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by vsskanth 4y ago
Me and my friends watch netflix only on TV and subscribe to the 4K plan, one TV each. Now, if they make us buy our own plans, they should atleast make a single-device UltraHD tier.
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by vsskanth 4y ago
you can see the underscore on the keyboard
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by vsskanth 4y ago
It's not on the keyboard though
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by vsskanth 4y ago
> The Dodge brothers owned 10% of Ford and opposed this and took Ford to court because they wanted the payments to be able to start their own company. They won and Ford was not allowed to lower prices or raise salaries at the company thu
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by vsskanth 4y ago
Not very knowledgeable but are there any implications for path planning for self driving cars ?
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by vsskanth 4y ago
Full autonomy is different from level 3. Also it's important to note that they assume liability when L3 is in use. https://www.wardsauto.com/industry-news/mercedes-benz-takes-... .
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by vsskanth 4y ago
I sometimes wonder if these seemingly random layoffs at top tech companies, irrespective of whether they were high performers would cause reputational damage to a level where they would have to pay even more money the next time they need to
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by vsskanth 4y ago
I agree
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by vsskanth 4y ago
They are pausing PERM, not all green card applications. PERM is a labor market test that needs to be done for certain category of employment based green card applications (EB2/3)
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by vsskanth 4y ago
This is already standard. Many companies have 3 year 401k vest, RSU grants released at regular intervals on top of non-disclosure agreements. The good thing is now the decision to move is monetary and has a symmetric cost/benefit to th
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by vsskanth 4y ago
How does this reconcile with claims of not enough housing supply to explain massive rent increases during COVID? Has supply caught up with demand already?
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by vsskanth 4y ago
As long as they can do the job, they are talent. What it costs to hire them is an orthogonal issue.

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