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by a-and 5y ago
This is certainly a ... reductionist view on geopolitics. Not only does this assume everyone in the thread is American, but also completely disregards the sovereignty and historic significance of many Eastern European countries.
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If there is any meta advice I've learned from developing good sleeping habits it would be "Learn your own nervous system". Anecdotally I've seen varying responses to different lifestyle factors, so experimentation should
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by a-and 5y ago
What is your experience? I will admit I don't have much insight into WITCH. I've worked at and interviewed people at FAANGs for the past 5 years and the bar for hiring is the same.
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by a-and 5y ago
An H1 transfer is when an active H1-B visa is transferred from one company to the other. If both incoming and outgoing positions are in the same geography and have the same responsibilities (e.g. a software engineer moving between Bay Area
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by a-and 5y ago
To add - when this process fails, tech companies rotate employees out to a remote office (often in Canada). The US loses tax money which the employee would have paid and the position remains filled.
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In this thread there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding regarding both the Permanent/Temporary visa distinction, as well as what Facebook did. The lawsuit refers to the Permanent Labor Certification process - the process of certifyi
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It's unfortunate since ideally any contribution is a good contribution, but the Linux kernel has been so highly dependent on maintainers, that them being highly protective of their time is totally warranted. As someone who works at a b
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by a-and 5y ago
What's unfortunate is that Hristo Georgiev is a very common Bulgarian name. This isn't a case where a highly uncommon name can lead to a high degree of certainty in association.
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by a-and 5y ago
> but then you are simply dividing by ability While I understand the sentiment, but I think we need to speak of skill vs physical factors. The division of weightlifters in weight classes is to deal with the latter rather than the former.
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It is indeed! PEDs provide such an advantage in Power sports, that anyone not on them is at a huge disadvantage. > Personally I just take Creatine and WPI All you need! Similarly I'm an engineer, I compete in a tested powerlifting f
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by a-and 5y ago
Fully agree with your second point. Your first point touches on why it's such an interesting and difficult problem to solve. 1. Country-wide doping systems that currently exist in weightlifting. Punishing an individual lifter does litt
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by a-and 5y ago
I'm someone who's been seriously active in powerlifting for years and I was getting ready to argue, but you seem to be correct. Not only was I not able to find research supporting CNS fatigue, Menno Henselmans himself(quoted in th
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by a-and 9y ago
To add to your anecdote - I also have an extremely high caffeine tolerance and can fall asleep just fine even if I've had an espresso (or two!) after dinner. Similarly to you, I don't really notice the lack, as I rarely drink caff