Amadou

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by Amadou 12y ago
> Department of Labor can crack down on the company for not paying the "prevailing" wage. That is technically true, but effectively impossible. The DoL simply does not pursue H1B abuses. They do not have the political will no
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by Amadou 12y ago
The L1 visa program forbids placing the employee at a third party site as part of a labor arrangement. Thus the L1 visa is not applicable to this sort of "training." I'm sure plenty of L1 employers play fast and loose with
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by Amadou 12y ago
Your point can not be emphasized enough. In 2012, all 10 of the top 10 H1B employers were offshore outsourcing companies. http://www.epi.org/blog/top-10-h1b-guestworker-offshore-outs... In 2013, 50% of all H1B visas we
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by Amadou 13y ago
They know it's wrong (by societies/normal people's) standards, but it doesn't violate their own. Tou keep saying that, but it doesn't mean what you think it means.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Thanks, but I think I will take it as a sign that I should just move on to some other site. The internet is a big place.
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by Amadou 13y ago
You are the second person to bring up sociopaths as if they don't match the definition of evil I wrote above. The thing is, they are the very personification of lacking empathy. They believe that their own welfare is more important
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by Amadou 13y ago
imagine that as an engineer on any secret NSA project, being shown real information regarding atrocities that have never been publicised and knowing that you can help to make the world a better place. Yep. Of course if that engineer had
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by Amadou 13y ago
with that much information, people will simply not care what everyone else is doing. part of what makes "private" information interesting is its rarity. That's basically Brin's theory and it is a bad one because it ass
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by Amadou 13y ago
Where do you find that? Is there some sort of recourse?
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't think NSA people are evil. They believe that the things they do are for good. Evil like in the movies doesn't exist. In the real-world evil is simply a lack of perspective (some would call it empathy instead). No one ev
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by Amadou 13y ago
I completely agree. I am really tired of that Brin story being constantly cited by people without thinking through the consequences - of which there are many. One of the biggest is the destruction of creativity. When people know that th
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by Amadou 13y ago
There was a shooting at LA just weeks ago. You mean Paul Anthony Ciancia who was pissed off about all the excessive security and deliberately targeted TSA agents hoping to commit suicide-by-cop? Lots of less than spectacular events have
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by Amadou 13y ago
Yeah, that poll is the one anomaly. Go to your profile and set "showdead" to yes, I think that will let you see all [dead] posts and submissions.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I just looked at your submission history again and even the most recent one "Game industry of Finland" on slideshare is marked [dead]. Looking back through your history, the last 129 submissions are all [dead] it changed right be
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by Amadou 13y ago
For anyone who doesn't already know or wouldn't be willing to spend the $100 for Global Entry + PreCheck These programs are the ultimate sign of just how pointless airport security is. There is simply no way that $100 is even r
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by Amadou 13y ago
An attack on an airplane is simply too challenging for the vast majority of people to execute. Is it impossible? No, but almost nothing is impossible. I don't think you are making the point you intend to make - the very fact that pul
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by Amadou 13y ago
--off topic I see that all of your HN story submissions are marked [dead] as soon as you submit them. Do you know why that is happening to you? It started happening to me a couple of days ago without any explanation.
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by Amadou 13y ago
You left out the biggest problem with the Post Office - it is often closed when you have the free time to go there. I've been using private mailbox services for nearly 2 decades now and they have it all over the USPS PO. 24-hour packa
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by Amadou 13y ago
Nothing is secure from the start. Everything has bugs. Sure, all aspects of programming are subject to bugs. My concern with the site is an apparent lack of design for security. Admittedly the linked article only talks about symptoms, I
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't see "having the crap beat out it in production" as a good strategy here Absolutely. The people who will pay the price for that design philosophy are not the ones making the decision to use that design philosophy. I
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by Amadou 13y ago
Yep. Hence the constant stream of security issues.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't have the reference handy, but I recall an article from this past Summer that said the designers of the site had put security on the back-burner. Their plan was to get the system working and worry about security afterwards. Tha
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by Amadou 13y ago
The article mentions the State Secrets Privilege as a reason the government can get away without judicial oversight by claiming national security interests. It is worth noting that the case which established the judicial concept of the stat
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by Amadou 13y ago
Totally unrelated to this topic... Do you know why your submissions are all marked [dead]? Mine started to do that a couple of days ago and I'm trying to figure out why. Looking at your submission history it looks like it is permanent
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by Amadou 13y ago
Your monitor's electronics may be doing more processing at 30Hz (like frame-doubling) than at 60Hz thus adding latency that is not inherent in the lower refresh rate. I used the T221 at 30Hz in a multi-monitor system with the other two
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by Amadou 13y ago
(A) Horrible is a vast overstatement. Unless you need calibrated color, it is fine. (2) Being too large is relative, my 30" 2560x1600 quickly became normal sized. For the additional pixels the additional inches of a 39" seems ab
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by Amadou 13y ago
It has been widely speculated that the customs form that they pass out on the airplane en route to the USA is not about stopping bad guys but about getting them to lie on official paperwork so that there is a documented crime to cite as a r
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by Amadou 13y ago
With the 39" Seiki 4K "tv" at less than $500 shipped, the $3,500 pricing level on the Dells seems excessive. I'm certain the Dells are better monitors, but are they 700% better? If Seiki revs their model line-up to inc
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by Amadou 13y ago
Looks like you could completely neutralize it with a hefty bag dropped over the top.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It's not a choice you are given for proprietary desktops. New features are almost always the domain of point releases. The linux distros have just decoupled that so you know what you are missing if you wait.

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