egourlao

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by egourlao 8mo ago
> The only benefit Canadians get compared to others is the opportunity to work for employers on TN status which is a temporary non-immigrant-intent work visa. That doesn't strike me as "not at all" when the TN status is 1&
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by egourlao 2y ago
> Everyone else stops coming because they don't want to hear Nazi shit, so, it's a Nazi bar now. There's plenty of non-Nazi writers enjoying a good amount of success on Substack, though? Or at least, as a casual Substack u
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by egourlao 2y ago
> Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable. You
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by egourlao 3y ago
I mean yeah, that's one way to spin it. But it's interesting to observe the dynamics in the work force and how that benefits some smaller companies that were having a hard time hiring before.
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by egourlao 3y ago
China bans platforms because they give access to information that embarrasses those in power. The US, here, is planning to ban a platform because it's a propaganda vector, and because its popularity has gotten to a point where we - as
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by egourlao 4y ago
Has the denial rate for all companies gone down? Or could it be that companies that were getting the most denials have submitted less petitions for H-1B workers? Sponsoring an employee on an H-1B has become significantly harder in the past
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4,797 Builder's Remedy housing units have been submitted in Santa Monica(twitter.com)
6 points by egourlao 4y ago|2 comments
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by egourlao 4y ago
Because Santa Monica's housing element is currently out of compliance, the city will have very limited options to veto or block those projects. The decision to approve or reject those projects will fall to the State of California.
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by egourlao 4y ago
From reading the excerpt of the book Paris Marx quotes [0], Musk's criticism of the California HSR project seems focused on its cost & effectiveness (i.e. that the bullet train would be too slow, especially considering modern tech
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by egourlao 4y ago
Besides the benefits or drawbacks of the 4-day workweek on its merits, it's worth remembering that behind the headlines such as "$COUNTRY tests $SOCIAL_CHANGE", it's usually some entity in $COUNTRY on a mission rather
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New York’s Hipster Wars(newstatesman.com)
1 points by egourlao 4y ago|0 comments
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by egourlao 4y ago
Culdesac? https://culdesac.com
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Covid viral loads in wastewater in Pretoria, South Africa(twitter.com)
5 points by egourlao 5y ago|1 comments
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by egourlao 6y ago
FWIW the app for my ING bank account in the Netherlands allowed me to move up the slider allows me to move up the slider for daily transfers up to 50k euros. A little scary, but thought it could be handy if I need to move money around one d
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by egourlao 6y ago
My dad loves to tell this story about him going to engineering school in France in the 70's. He was suggested to stay away from CS or software by his guidance counselors - the reasoning? "We'll soon enough have programs able
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by egourlao 7y ago
Do you have a privacy policy? I don't see anything on your landing page, or in the web app.
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by egourlao 8y ago
I agree. I'd also add that my experience with fintech services, in regards to fraud detection, has been excellent. I've been using Revolut for the past year. Just 2 weeks ago, they detected a potential fraudulent transaction with
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by egourlao 8y ago
> Americans have the best care in the world I've been reading that a lot, but I can't find any decisive evidence supporting it - what leads you to think that?
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by egourlao 8y ago
Many places in NL only accept Maestro and Visa Electron cards ( pin payment cards, as they call them), and won't take any other regular major debit/credit cards. Including UnionPay.
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by egourlao 8y ago
It might have been an inspiration for the Busway in Nantes, France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes_Busway
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by egourlao 8y ago
From the article: > The Home Office has also [planned] to set up computer terminals at 56 local libraries around the UK to help those without smartphones, or without the necessary digital skills, to apply to stay in the UK.
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by egourlao 8y ago
The Scandalous Story of Dreadful Code Written by the Best of Us - by Katrina Owen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_ST9nbf5M This talk made a strong impression on me when I was figuring out how to write more beautiful, and
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by egourlao 8y ago
> It's one of the best IT schools from France According to whom?
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by egourlao 8y ago
Look up PSD2 regulations.
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by egourlao 8y ago
Also noteworthy, from Georges Perec: A Void (La Disparition), which was written entirely without using the letter "e" (and which the translation reproduces brilliantly well).
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by egourlao 8y ago
Usually not into fantasy, but La Horde du Contrevent is a French fantasy classic, written by Alain Damasio, which was published in 2004. He went later on to collaborate on a few games that might be more known in the US (Life Is Strange, Rem
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by egourlao 8y ago
Is there a reason why you don't have a Swedish bank account, even though you are living there?
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Google Cloud Joins the LoRa Alliance(globenewswire.com)
1 points by egourlao 8y ago|0 comments
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by egourlao 8y ago
Article 83: > When deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to [...] the degree of cooperation with the supervisory authorit
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by egourlao 8y ago
Not if there isn't significantly more demand that supply. Rent control has worked well to mitigate housing issues in Paris during the last few years. It didn't solve everyone's problems: more and more students are moving to t

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