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by xtreme 9y ago
At 50,000 Diversity visas per year, it is comparable to the number of new H1B visas issues per year (65,000).
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by xtreme 9y ago
In my experience electric windows are rather useful to the driver because you can control the windows even if you don't have passengers.
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by xtreme 9y ago
Why can't we have the best of both worlds? Apps that have been manually checked or curated can be marked as "Trusted/Certified" (similar to WHQL certified drivers), while others can be marked as "Untrusted/Use
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How do towels stay on hooks?(physics.stackexchange.com)
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by xtreme 9y ago
I never understood how this works. If you donate $X to charity, you reduce your taxable income by $X but now have $X less. If you paid your tax on $X, you would still have $X-Y. How can the former approach save you any money?
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If I have the same name as a historical person, should I be barred from using that as an username? While it is unlikely that /u/AlanTuring has that name in real life, the probability of such collisions would become a lot higher if
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by xtreme 9y ago
Universities are not a monolith, they are composed of many independent individuals. It is difficult to convince young researchers (PhD students, Post-Docs, Assistant professors) to "gamble" their future by publishing in new journa
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by xtreme 9y ago
I don't see the benefit of not enforcing immigration laws on illegal immigrants or offering lottery based diversity visas. Most people agree that skilled immigrants are good for the economy, so make that process more streamlined and ba
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by xtreme 9y ago
Although this bill has large number of co-sponsors from both sides (D-163, R-139), I'm not very hopeful. The same bill (HR 3012) passed house in 2011 (Y-389, N-15) but died quietly in the Senate subcommittee. Despite all the rhetoric a
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by xtreme 9y ago
Just to share an opposing (and unpopular) viewpoint, I am from a country where legal ownership of firearms is basically impossible. One of the reasons I chose to move to the US was my strong belief in the 2nd amendment. And I am absolutely
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by xtreme 9y ago
Assuming this not a sarcastic comment, whose necks did the "Bitcoin billionaires" step on?
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by xtreme 9y ago
This is a pretty standard way of how governments enforce their authority. Each demand is backed with the threat of a bigger punishment, ultimately ending with incarceration. I wonder if there is any alternative strategy that is "better
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by xtreme 9y ago
I never understood this argument against more roads/bridges. Even if there is no improvement in latency (travel times), isn't the increase in throughput (number of people traveling) and the associated economic benefit worth it?
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I agree that certain toys can be age-appropriate while others are not. But a blanket ban on all electronic toys seems unjustified by this reasoning. (Parent said they have 6 children, it's likely that at least one or two of them would
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by xtreme 9y ago
In India, private hospitals are very upfront about the estimated costs of medical procedures. They also provide various options at different price points (some devices can be costlier than others, or some rooms can have more facilities etc.
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by xtreme 9y ago
I want to know what the peer reviews looked like.
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by xtreme 9y ago
As others have pointed out, lots of places in underdeveloped countries don't have street names and numbers.
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Saying that India got her independence legally is quite a stretch. There were plenty of mutinies, bloodshed, violent and non-violent movements before the British (massively weakened by the WWII) decided that they had enough. While it is tru
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by xtreme 9y ago
> all that matters if I have enough military power to keep them in the saddle That's pretty much how most declarations of independence have worked historically. But even if you have enough military power, how much blood are you will
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by xtreme 9y ago
You don't even have to be vision impaired to benefit from this. If you are walking along a narrow road or alleyway and a car approaches from behind, the noise will alert you and you can move accordingly.
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It's easy to pick on Capitalism, but I'd rather have cheap but low quality food on my table than no food at all[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Roma...
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by xtreme 9y ago
You can close your eyes. Or cover your ears. Or close your browser tab.
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If some leaks can reduce the reaction to a product from magical to meh, perhaps the reaction was engineered by hype and not actual quality or features of said product. To be concise, if something is truly groundbreaking, leaks don't di
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by xtreme 9y ago
Success in our society is not a good measure of evolutionary success. Evolution is only concerned about the number of viable offsprings you produce, not how well off they are.
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by xtreme 9y ago
The parent just explained why there is not much support from either the people or the politicians for a national ID in the US. Even if you don't agree with him, the assertion that "there is no reason US can't have a national
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by xtreme 9y ago
Reality exists independent of the observer. If there is some relationship between eclipses and hurricanes or between solar flares and seismic activity, they existed long before life originated on earth and would continue to exist far beyond
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I wonder why they chose monospace. Wouldn't a proportional font be more tamper-resistant?
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Depending on how it is implemented, features like autoclosing can be hijacked for nefarious purposes. Let's say it is done by Chrome "clicking" on the close button, which it detects by the URL and the element id. Once it is i
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by xtreme 9y ago
Why do you assume that all the third party voters would have voted for Hillary if there were no third party candidate? They could have abstained, or even voted for Trump. Many libertarian party supporters find the Republicans more tolerable
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Cars, and even planes are way too slow to track the moon's shadow across earth. The speed seems to vary from ~1500-3000 mph depending on how close you are to the equator. An SR-71 Blackbird would have a hard time keeping up with that.

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