returningfory2

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by returningfory2 2y ago
The Waymo failure mode of false positives (signals but doesn't turn) seems much better than the human failure mode of false negatives (doesn't signal but turns)!
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yeah. Do people really think that Silicon Valley would be such a huge economy (and a huge job creator for US citizens) if the US had never allowed immigrants to work there?
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by returningfory2 2y ago
This piece of misinformation seems to be trotted out every time H-1B is discussed. H-1B is not for "extraordinary ability", the O-1 is. The H-1B is just designed for regular workers in a "specialty occupation". This is h
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by returningfory2 2y ago
What do you mean by "cash grab"? Are you suggesting this is a scam?
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by returningfory2 2y ago
You save money. Take some time off and live off your savings. If you want to start making money you go back to the workforce (e.g. fall back to your skills).
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I was arguing against the specific claim that a "free and fair" election is one that is consistent with the laws of the country the election is being run in. In fact, I think your response proves my point. What you're saying
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yes, I do. By your argument if a country (e.g. China?) outlaws competing political parties then the rubber-stamp single-party elections are “free and fair” because they are in accordance with law. In general the whole point of a “free and f
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I feel this is kind of stretching the phrase "free and fair". The election e.g. in Venezuela earlier this year was not "free and fair" because the votes simply weren't counted and made-up tallies were published. Thi
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Sure, but right now we're talking about a situation in which quite a lot of money has been pumped into someone's campaign! This situation is proof that people are willing to interfere in the election. The problem is that once you
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Right, so what about if I don't like a candidate and I intentionally pump 1 million euro into her campaign so she gets disqualified? This is what the parent is asking about.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I appreciate the details, but ultimately I still don't buy it. The people who voted for this guy have agency and decided for themselves. Yes, they were likely influenced by a likely state-actor campaign. But they still have agency, the
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Could you give an example of what the motive could be then, and how the not-professional-but-sort-of-professional fits into this? I had thought it was either (a) professional hit or (b) disgruntled family member.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I think it's a little bit misleading to casually drop a "yearly budget" like this, as if this is something we're currently following. In the US the average car emits 4.6t of CO2 per year [1]. If you really think we need
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I'm guessing they meant Portland Maine, but yeah confusing given the article being discussed. :)
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by returningfory2 2y ago
We can have it both ways. In ~50 years in the US, 99% of cars will be electric and 99% of electricity generation will be carbon negative. We can keep our comforts of modern life, like cars, while not damaging the planet. I accept there is n
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yep. As a simple exercise, visit e.g. the Ireland subreddit and see how many young people there are complaining about the cost of living and are talking about emigrating.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
The article (if I'm reading it right) is placing the blame on how the government of Kenya restricts its coffee market (e.g. only allowing a small number of export licenses). It's about internal laws. The government of Kenya has th
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by returningfory2 2y ago
While it's true that these systems are a holdover from colonialism, it's also true that Kenya has been an independent country for over 50 years with sovereignty and agency over internal affairs like how the coffee market works. I
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I think the article is pretty interesting. There are so many more interesting takes than just another boring Hacker News moan about Google.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
> As someone from the outside who has been around, I can say the rest of world is not like this. I agree with your general point that this is part of a broader cultural phenomenon, but I think your "rest of world" point is over
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yeah, by comparison the total coverage of the ongoing devastating civil wars in Sudan, Yemen, Myanmar and Haiti is miniscule. I guess to play devil's advocate, the US is much more involved in Palestine via its essentially unconditional
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Sort of a nit, but the parent says 18 trains/hour in each direction, which is actually 36 trains/hour total, vs 20 trains/hour if departures are every 3 minutes. Additionally, it looks like Hiroshima station serves a few dist
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by returningfory2 2y ago
There's also the fact that way more Americans are killed by cars than in homicides. This is not to diminish the importance of tackling homicides. But the high level picture of "what is most wrong in America" is definitely ske
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by returningfory2 2y ago
> I suppose each person has to decide what kind of problems they are ok dealing with? What problems do you think people in the United States have that people in Mexico don't? Of this list you gave, most of them seem to apply to peop
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by returningfory2 2y ago
If you follow your argument logically, it says there's nothing to do and we're in a good place. You said we need to have 5.4tCO2/person/year on average across the world. You then presented a table that shows that we are
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yes! Great find. (Although, even these statistics are not as simple as they seem! E.g., when an H-1B status holder changes employer this counts as a new receipt even though the number of H-1B workers hasn't changed. In periods of time
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yeah. To be clear I think it's fair to be critical of the current shape of the H-1B program (personally, I think the way it's used by outsourcing companies is pretty bad). But there's a logical fallacy in these discussions in
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by returningfory2 2y ago
> Though it is supposed to be for skilled jobs that a capable american is not available to do. No it's not. The H-1B program has no requirement for a labor market test (i.e. showing that there is no citizen that can do the job). The
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by returningfory2 2y ago
But arguably any labor shortage can be fixed by just having way higher wages. Like if Google is struggling to hire L3 entry level engineers, can't they just offer $1 million/year salary? Then of course they will get the people the
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by returningfory2 2y ago
> The h1b program is supposed to be for people at the top of their field so they can skip the normal visa line, but it is commonly used to save money through exploitation. This is false. O-1 is the visa for the "people at the top of

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