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by xpl 2y ago
They would probably be able to do it if the listed prices were fixed, but they provided a personalized discount that would vary depending on who you are.
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by xpl 2y ago
How does the device regulate the heartbeat speed? I mean, how does it know that it needs to pump blood faster or slower?
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by xpl 2y ago
> So what's the motivation here? Better interpretability, I suppose. Could give insights into how cognition works.
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by xpl 2y ago
> Bader then used this leg to mount multiple escape attempts from various prisons Oh, that reminds me of the prosthetic leg joke from 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. So it was a reference? https://www.youtube.com/w
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Weaponizing Wikipedia Against Israel(aish.com)
12 points by xpl 2y ago|6 comments
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by xpl 2y ago
> People can jump employers while one H1B Good luck finding a new employer willing to sponsor your H1B within just 60 days (the grace period allowed before self-deportation) in this job market. Additionally, switching employers resets
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by xpl 2y ago
> MAGA decisively won Did they? Trump just recently made a couple of statements, siding with Musk on that issue. He has no other choice, as money comes from Elon, not from MAGA. He also reversed his stance on EVs during his campaign, o
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by xpl 2y ago
I was responding to the comment regarding "how about the top 0.1%" . H-1B isn't designed for bringing the 0.1%, there are other visas that already do exactly that. Also, it is not so high bar, I know people even without a de
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by xpl 2y ago
Nobody here is anti-immigration. The reality is that the H1B program is being used not to bring in individuals with 130+ IQ, but essentially anyone with a bachelor's degree, which can be easily obtained from diploma mills. In some thir
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by xpl 2y ago
Looking at discussions about the current dire state of the white-collar job market — with thousands of applications per job posting and many months of job hunting, even for individuals with over 10 years of experience — it's hard to ar
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by xpl 2y ago
Yes, and you can fulfill this growing demand by raising wages, which is essentially the market mechanism to bring in additional supply. Another way to address this is by importing cheaper labor from abroad. For American workers, it is bette
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by xpl 2y ago
This argument doesn't hold because you don't know how much an average American SWE would be making today if there were no H1Bs — it could be $200k. > because there aren't enough qualified workers in the US It's ofte
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by xpl 2y ago
There is L1 visa that does not require a degree. And there is no quota/lottery. It requires you to work for a U.S. employer overseas for at least a year though.
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by xpl 2y ago
I once created this tool for benchmarking JS: https://github.com/xpl/what-code-is-faster It does JIT warmup and ensures that your code doesn't get optimized out (by making it produce a side effect in result).
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by xpl 2y ago
What is currently happening is the exact opposite. There is a so-called "Technology Alert List" — a list of critical areas (nuclear, missiles, AI, etc.). If a person has a background in one of these areas, they get an automatic U.
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by xpl 2y ago
I didn't. Terms are subject to change + can be vaguely written. What matters is your data getting uploaded to someone else's cloud. Even if they explicitly and clearly state that they don't use your data for any purpose other
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by xpl 2y ago
It is to collect more data for LLM training. To tap into proprietary code bases that are never uploaded to GitHub.
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by xpl 2y ago
> in a moment of brilliance Congress wrote laws so that there were an equal number of green cards handed out to people from Jamaica as those from China It is largely by design and serves to preserve cultural diversity. Without immigrat
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by xpl 2y ago
Is there any intuition why does it even work? It seems very unexpected.
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by xpl 2y ago
> different from fraudulent votes No, Putin would have won in elections even if you removed fraudulent votes (there is a fraction, but it is not at all decisive). He wins not because of it. In those kind of countries elections are won
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by xpl 2y ago
> Voting is the only thing in the democratic process Voting is not the only thing. If it was, Russia or Belarus could have been considered democracies — people get to vote there (in case you didn't know). You can research why thos
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by xpl 2y ago
You're reducing elections to voting, while it is only the final stage of a proper democratic process. First comes the preparation of the public opinion — it is campaigning, political advertisement, debates, etc. This shapes the voting
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by xpl 2y ago
> Every time you go to sleep your consciousness shuts down. So, each morning is a copy of you wakes up I think it doesn't "shut down", maybe fades away to a different, low-power mode. When you go to sleep and then wake u
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by xpl 2y ago
Yeah some people don't get that "property" is just as much a constructed concept as everything else is. It is an agreement/contract between people that is enforced by other people (e.g. the government). Owning a home mig
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by xpl 2y ago
> Does anyone else consistently get 6 to 7 hours of sleep no matter what 6 hours is too little IMO. If I sleep 6 hours for more than a few days in a row, I feel like shit and need caffeine to wake up properly. Then I end up sleeping 10
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by xpl 2y ago
The Moon moves not in circles but rather along a straight line in curved spacetime. It doesn't require any force to stay on this path — it is in free fall.
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by xpl 2y ago
Can't we build a giant optical interferometer in space by sending multiple telescopes out there?
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by xpl 2y ago
This is often overlooked but is actually a big deal: > ...it’s straightforward to modify JavaScript dependencies locally. I’ve often tweaked something in my local node_modules folder when I’m trying to track down a bug or work on a feat
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by xpl 2y ago
BTW here's a Russian chat about administrative processing, check it out: https://t.me/usadminvisaprocessing
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by xpl 2y ago
> In the interview, Benioff also hyped up Salesforce’s new AI product, Agentforce

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