serge2k

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by serge2k 10y ago
> I'm a Trump supporter so take this with a grain of salt. Immediately predict lame rhetoric about how bad the media is. > When he said the media was dishonest, he was referring to CNN, WaPo and the mainstream media (excluding Fo
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by serge2k 10y ago
I'm not talking about Facebook opening an office in Vancouver, I'm talking about "I'm moving to Canada if Trump wins".
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Wasn't the previous Canadian prime minister at least as xenophobic as Trump? God no. They passed a (bullshit) law saying that they could revoke the Canadian citizenship of someone under specific circumstances. You had to be a dual
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by serge2k 10y ago
I'm so sick of the "moving to Canada" talk. You get to come if we say so, not because it's your backup plan. I like living where I am now, and I don't want to leave to go back to Canada and earn drastically less wit
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by serge2k 10y ago
Man makes business out of identifying market, finding supplier, ordering product, reselling at higher price. Amazing.
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by serge2k 10y ago
because it opens up the options to sponsor you for a green card.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> F1 students are not American citizens and are not entitled to an immigration pathway through employment American citizens would be entitled to an immigration pathway?
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by serge2k 10y ago
> America is already crowded. America isn't crowded. America is mostly pretty empty. http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/thematic/us_p...
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by serge2k 10y ago
http://www.h1bdata.info/index.php?em=samsung&job=&city=&year... Just a glance, doesn't seem that bad.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Haven't we allowed minority religions facing persecution historically? Is this "I'm a christian so please let me in" or "I'm a christian/wrong kind of muslim (sunni vs shiite) and facing persecution so ple
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Surely, you must be joking. WP has been pretty blazen in disregard in their "facts" during the election and have most blatantly been pushing an anti-Trump agenda under Bezos's guide Can we please not allow HN to become t
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by serge2k 10y ago
Or keep looking until they find someone else. They aren't just going to hire someone unqualified. If they find someone qualified they will also try to find a place for them, because it's hard to find qualified people.
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by serge2k 10y ago
because apparently we (people on visas) are getting horribly underpaid. Trump supporters keep trumpeting this despite the fact that I don't remember showing any of them my pay stubs. I'm sure Brin showing up in person at the prote
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by serge2k 10y ago
that makes no difference to the workers. It's worse if anything because those companies won't even sponsor them for a green card. I'm a foreign worker, and while I am very happy to live in the US being here on a visa sucks.
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by serge2k 10y ago
I'm (selfishly) for keeping them because I don't want to get stuck in line with the huge backlog of people from India and China. That's a lousy reason though. I'm not going to spend a decade living a shitty life waiting
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by serge2k 10y ago
No it doesn't. India has a massive backlog of green card applicants. Obama's order makes it so taht people who are already here working under H-1B laws can cut ahead of that line and start getting green cards. That's a change
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by serge2k 10y ago
> But they also abuse the visa process for lower wages in lower positions. The numbers are public on this and look fine. People keep telling you "I'm on an H-1B and I'm paid reasonably". Please, offer actual proof or
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Dictatorial and authoritarian are not necessarily negatives Yes they fucking are. > we knew that's how this candidate wanted to operate and voted for it anyway Most didn't vote for him.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Google said this impacts ~180 employees total. is that really enough to impact salaries? Maybe, just maybe, these sons and daughters of immigrants and refugees are just as disgusted by the actions of Trump (and Bannon) as the millions of ot
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by serge2k 10y ago
Yeah, RTFM. Read the fuckin manual. You have google, you have docs on whatever you are working with. Figure out the solution for yourself. Worst case you can't, but you might learn something else while trying.Depending on what you rae
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by serge2k 10y ago
No, Tinder matches first. This is how girls on OkCupid feel.
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by serge2k 10y ago
They have the most popular browser, mobile OS, search engine. They operate popular public DNS servers too. They add this cert and they control a vast chunk of the internet.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Elected by the people.
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by serge2k 10y ago
How about a parliamentary system? How about just fixing the problems of presidential elections?
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by serge2k 10y ago
Since when does the south or west virginia go for democrats? Clinton lost because she wasn't able to get out her base in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. If Trump lost Texas you wouldn't be talking about how he failed to rea
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by serge2k 10y ago
They are not mutually exclusive. The united states is a democracy.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Why? They would get the chance to participate in any amendment to abolish the electoral college.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Eric Ruark, director of research at Arlington, Va.-based NumbersUSA, which advocates for limited immigration, said Mr. Trump could use an executive directive to tighten the U.S.’s Optional Practical Training, or OPT, program. > The
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by serge2k 10y ago
What is this? > Share any file or folder statically. We serve HTML files automatically File sharing application? edit: ahhhhhhhh :) https://zeit.co/now#
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by serge2k 10y ago
The nearby native inhabitants are going to pay for it.

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