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by returningfory2 3y ago
That's a surprisingly complex question. I started a PhD at NYU just as the graduate student unionization happened. IIRC, at NYU only graduate students who were actively teaching in a given semester or had a specific type of research gr
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The Tragic Death of Inheritance(avivcarmi.com)
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I think it's the other way around, actually. I think a lot of people, especially in Europe, have FOMO about the salaries in the United States. One of their coping mechanisms is to try to convince themselves that everyone is lying about
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by returningfory2 3y ago
I agree with your points, but I don’t think they undermine congestion pricing. Even if you take all the congestion tolls and, like, toss them in the Hudson River, the program is still worthwhile. Just getting people to pay to drive into Man
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by returningfory2 3y ago
I used to live one block away from Melrose and that’s where I found my stray cat…
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by returningfory2 3y ago
I think this POV is the _opposite_ of selfish! It's advocating for a system in which everyone gets to individually decide for themselves what working environment they want. Instead of the pro-remote or pro-office crowd trying to impose
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> we don't know who they are, so we don't know the informal structure through which decisions are actually made Yeah, I'm starting to think that for the Rust dramas specifically we need to start publicly naming and shaming
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by returningfory2 3y ago
There is indeed a mechanism by which you can “downgrade” from EB2 to EB3, but I think there’s lots of complexity and inefficiencies in the system which keep the dates apart.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
No, they don’t have to advertise the position. They have to disclose that they are hiring H1B workers. It’s a huge difference. In particular, there is no mechanism by which the disclosure can lead to a US worker applying for the job and blo
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> The employer has to prove that they have tried and failed to hire a US worker qualified and willing to do the job for the prevailing wage. No they don’t. You’re probably thinking about the requirements for employment based green cards,
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by returningfory2 3y ago
To me this seems to be an upside down view of US immigration law (and US law in general). The INA is the supreme immigration law of the land. DOL regulations and documents are downstream and subordinate to the INA. The true “intent” of the
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by returningfory2 3y ago
This is literally false? Ever since the H-1B has been in law the requirement is that the person has a degree and is working in a speciality occupation related to that degree. The INA imposes no conditions like “occupations for which there a
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> Isn’t the requirement for a H1-B visa that your skills can not be "easily" replaced with a local person No, that is not the requirement. That is a common misconception, though. What you described is the requirement for an emp
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by returningfory2 3y ago
My point was that, looking from the outside in, it can be hard to guess what leads to status in the UK. Your comment in a sense reinforces that: to an outsider, why would one specific humanities undergraduate in one specific university be t
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> Status wise, I'm not sure there's much difference OP is from the UK where status is...complicated. Having a physics PhD from Harvard is potentially lower status than having gone to the right British high school and then done
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by returningfory2 3y ago
True, but isn't the complexity of Rust closures essential rather than accidental? Fundamentally closures are easy in e.g. Go because you don't have to think about lifetimes, at all. As soon as you capture a variable, the GC guaran
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> For me, in large part, the borrow checker is encoding in the compiler rules that you should be following in C++ anyway. My experience was sort of the inverse of yours: I knew a little C++ before learning Rust, and being educated by the
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by returningfory2 3y ago
I generally agree, but one small disagreement: housing-as-an-investment can be important for having a robust and affordable housing rental market. Every rental agreement has an investor on one side of it.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
The premise of all of your points seems to be that car-owners are a privileged, temperamental class whose interests and fragility require sacrifices from everyone else.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
This is perhaps a controversial opinion, but at least when it comes to haggling I think this is fine. The wealth gap between traveling Westerners and the average local in countries like Mexico and Peru is staggering. I recently did a 5 week
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> The purpose of a head of state is to act as a personification of the state, so what better symbol could you pick? There's no universal answer to that question. It depends on what you think the state represents. In your case you at
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> Feedback in general doesn’t benefit from in-office scenarios in my experience, so long as the junior is proactive. In your comment you say you haven't worked in-office much. So, genuine question, how do you know feedback doesn&#x2
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Not the OP, but I would describe this article as muddled. And in a way that’s common for people who haven’t thought deeply about the housing market. For example he complains that 95% of apartments are owned by institutions, but also that re
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Reminds me of a recent story in New York in which a Broadway theater was raised 30 feet. The owner of the building wanted to put commercial space on the ground floor, but the theater itself was on the ground floor and protected. So the solu
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but by conservation of energy if all of the energy of the sun was converted to heat then no electricity would be produced? Conversely, that fact that panels do produce electricity means that not all
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by returningfory2 3y ago
This looks awesome! I used booking.com a lot a few months ago and was just constantly amazed at how dumb all these “nudges” are. My favorite was a warning on a hotel listing saying “only 1 room at this price left on booking.com”. Turned out
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by returningfory2 3y ago
This is very interesting, thank you for sharing! I do have one tangential comment based on this: > I continued to use [the interview question] because I got good signal from the candidates. Working at Google, this is something I hear a l
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Maybe a bit of everything, though in my experience people outside the US significantly underestimate how much successful professionals in the US earn. For example, this article [1] says that to be in the top 1% of earners in the US a family
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> there's no way these terms of use would (should?) fly in the EU Do you have an actual concrete reason to believe that, or is this just "the EU is morally superior to everywhere else" vibes?
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by returningfory2 3y ago
I agree that there is sometimes tension between tax filing and the 5th Amendment. But aren't federal income taxes legally rock solid given that Congress is explicitly authorized to levy them in the 16th Amendment?

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