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by returningfory2 2y ago
IMO when people say "one of the richest countries on Earth" the mental model is the United States or the European Union countries whose wealth is kind of self-sustaining at this point. Like it would take many massive proactive mes
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by returningfory2 2y ago
The "among the richest countries on Earth" statement is frequently trotted out, but I think it's kind of misleading. Argentina was rich largely because it had lots of raw materials and agricultural products that, at the time,
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by returningfory2 2y ago
The work "ban" is in scare quotes for a reason. The law doesn't ban TikTok. Rather, it bans TikTok from having Chinese owners. If the law stands, the end result will likely be that TikTok will be sold to US owners, rather tha
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Calling it a "TikTok ban" is sort of inaccurate, but unfortunately that's how the media and politicians have referred to it. The act doesn't ban TikTok; it bans TikTok from having China-based owners (in this case the Chi
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I feel this comment's characterizations of both the US and Europe are both basically wrong (or at least, they would require significant qualifications to be reasonable). I grew up in a suburb of a relatively dense Western European city
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by returningfory2 2y ago
> hopefully the article will make it fashionable among hipsters seeking better materials for their moleskines? If that happens we’ll be reading articles about how unfair it is that western consumers are pricing the Nepalese people out of
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Unfortunately your citizenship is irrelevant and all that counts is your country of birth. Because you were born in India you are chargeable to India despite your British nationality. However if you are married to someone who was born in th
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by returningfory2 2y ago
No. Immigration is the responsibility of the federal government and the immigration system is exclusively administered by federal agencies like USCIS.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Congrats on your green card!
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by returningfory2 2y ago
I’ve wondered this too. One theory I have is that in the UK doing an undergraduate degree is a humanities subject has much higher social status than the US. This leads more of the “top” high school students to do these degrees. When they gr
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by returningfory2 2y ago
This has been investigated and the conclusion is IMO clear: the dogpilling accounts were part of the operation. See the parts about Jigar Kumar in this link: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Another interesting data point: about 2 years ago there was a clear pressure campaign to name a new maintainer: https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00566.h... At the time I thought it was just rude, bu
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Yeah the GitHub account looks really really legitimate. Maybe it was compromised though?
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by returningfory2 2y ago
A couple of years ago I wrote a Go library that wraps the xz C code and allows you to do xz compression in Go: https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz About a week ago I received the first PR on that repo, to upgrade to 5.
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by returningfory2 2y ago
How do the M chips fit in with this narrative?
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Why do you think California Forever is a far worse scheme?
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Thank you for your very thoughtful response. This has given me food for thought.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Having studied a lot of the TeX source code and re-implemented portions of it, my theory is that it's the result of the TeX language evolving organically in a software development environment in which large scale refactoring is impossi
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by returningfory2 3y ago
I think the idea in this comment -- that users of languages inherit all of the perceived negatives of the community developing the language -- is just wrong. (I say "perceived" because some of the claims in this post are simply in
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Is it just me or is this article taking a negative spin on what's happening? The change in the market is described as a "cool down". Recent construction is described as "overbuilding". Higher vacancy rates are descr
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by returningfory2 3y ago
This project is a library so it's actually relevant? The language libraries are written in is one of their most important features because it determines if/when you can use them...
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Fair point, I guess the notation ~100k, ~10ms would be better.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Are you performing list calls sequentially? If you have O(100k) directories and are doing O(100k) requests sequentially, 15 minutes works out at O(10ms) per request which doesn’t seem that bad? (assuming my math is correct…)
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Which is exactly the point. To ensure the national parks stay national parks in a democracy like the US it’s necessary for the parks to have widespread public support.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Your read lines up with another point in the article that I found to be stated in strangely absolute terms: > you need to be able to deploy your code fast, i.e. within at most an hour of pushing the changes to whatever branch/tag&#x
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Isn’t it the other way around? If you’re a decent performer you should be more afraid of random layoffs (like FAANG in the past 2 years) than performance based layoffs.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
I think this part of the article is incorrect.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
You don’t need to be the US while applying for a green card. You can be living in, like, France, and apply for an EB1 green card with USCIS and then when it’s approved go to the US Embassy for a EB1 visa stamp and move to the US. This is wh
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by returningfory2 3y ago
I suspect USCIS is consciously allowing it. They have large amounts of discretion and the President can generally get USCIS to exercise this discretion to fit some policy goal. Under Trump it was making it harder to be an immigrant; under B
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by returningfory2 3y ago
> On a related note, the moment OP resigned from their L1B job, I am fairly certain they needed to leave the country in 60 days or so. It may or may not affect them when they pursue citizenship. Just a technical note that it won’t affect

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