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> Google surfaces literally thousands of references to every little bit of US immigration minutiae, thanks to every immigration lawyer having public websites and forums, so I think that your path to EAD was likely wishful thinking.

It was not. Please see my sibling comment.

Furthermore, Obama administration has explicitly declined to allow such provisions despite being well aware of this situation and after publicly promising relief.

In a memo[1] dated 11/20/2014 (right after the President's State of the Union address [2]), Jeh Johnson (Secretary of Dept. of Homeland Security) stated:

As you know, our employment-based immigration system is
afflicted with extremely long waits for immigrant visas, or
"green cards," due to relatively low green card numerical limits
established by Congress 24 years ago in 1990.
...
The resulting backlogs for green cards prevent U.S. employers
from attracting and retaining highly skilled workers critical to
their businesses. U.S. businesses have historically relied on
temporary visas- such as H-1B, L-1B, or 0-1 visas-to retain
individuals with needed skills as they work their way through
these backlogs. But as the backlogs for green cards grow longer,
it is increasingly the case that temporary visas fail to fill
the gap.
...
To correct this problem, I hereby direct USCIS to take several
steps to modernize and improve the immigrant visa process.

After 2 years of dragging its feet on the issue, USCIS recently published its rule. It goes into 95 pages of legalese, but the TL;DR is that USCIS has not done pretty much nothing to address issues pointed out in Johnson's memo. The only good thing to have come out of it is what you said:

> clarifying that there is a 60 day grace prior for switching jobs

Notice how little the actual action was compared to the lofty initial rhetoric.

[1]: Executive Action: Support High-skilled Business and Workers - https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120...

[2]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/28/presi...

[3]: USCIS Publishes Final Rule For Certain Employment-Based Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Visa Programs - https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-publishes-fin...
They estimate it might cost them up to $1MM. Question - if IRS lose, can they recover most of legal fees??
How are you making such a specific assessment without any knowledge of what the characters are?
Please show me some addresses of purposefully vacant properties...I'm starting to think this is mostly an urban legend. Palo Alto is not Vancouver.
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It's more than that:

* You continue to be taxed even if you're not in the US. Additionally, the US uses its diplomatic advantages to strongarm foreign banks that serve US customers, even if those US customers are never present in the US.

* You have to pay a expatriation tax, and a $2,350 fee to renounce citizenship to avoid the above.

* Central banking gives the government much more control over the monetary system than is needed to pay for simple services. Look at China to see how bad this can be; the article is about Bitcoin, which is currently mostly used to evade oppressive currency controls in China. I consider our central banking system to be an indirect form of taxation.

If these 3 issues were changed, I'd put taxation closer to the 'not theft' than the 'theft' category. Until then, you have to pay the tax even if you don't want access to the US' society.
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Same thing in LA.
I didn't realize UC Berkeley was a private school.
> For tax purposes, gains on property do not have a de minimis exemption like currency. This would mean that even the sale of a small amount of digital currency (say to purchase a cup of coffee) would generate a 1099 form.

Does that mean you could write a program that created virtual currencies and transactions between them (along with their required 1099 forms) in order to troll the IRS by submitting TBs of data?
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You could do a lot of things, but antagonizing the IRS would not be a smart one.
Don't confuse the fare with what's fair...
In the case of silicon beach, it is the tech companies that sparked this. They moved in to Santa monice and nearby areas. In a matter of 5 years or so price of detached houses in near by cities (with decent commute meaning no driving on 405 freeway) jumped up 100%. When google and other tech companied moved in,'investors' saw the sign and started gobbling up houses to raze or remodel to flip. And you also have Chinese from China following the trend.

Some higher density condo/apartment were built nearby but I really don't see a sign they are even half occupied.
It is definitely the tech companies that sparked it. Not their fault necessarily.
Taxation is not theft.

Can you explain to me how it's not theft? It's money taken from you whether you consent or not under threat of force. I suppose more technically that's extortion, but there mere fact you get some services in return doesn't change the fact it's not voluntary and done under threat of force.
> But it seemingly was no match for Pokemon Go and a generation of kids who desire familiar brands and YouTube celebrities.

I hate how stuff is just thrown into articles like this as if it's fact. The circus was passé when I was a kid 30 years ago.

I could throw out unsubstantiated garbage like this as well and claim that kids today are actually much more understanding of animal welfare and would rather see animals in their natural habit on Youtube than see them perform tricks on a stage.
All the slights about 'kids these days' with their TV, YouTube, Pokémon Go, and short attention spans seem pretty unfounded. I see tons of kids lining up to see Cirque du Soleil, or Wicked, or Penn & Teller. All of those shows are just as long as the circus, and much more expensive.

If I had to guess I would say that our standards for 'awe-inspiring' have changed. Dancing elephants are a lot less exotic when you can watch them in 1080p with David Attenborough narrating. The human acrobatics are nice, but not as thrilling as Cirque du Soleil or the X-Games. Add in the nagging feeling that watching animals perform is unsavory at best, and it's no wonder that the business was unsustainable.
If you have a keylogger malware, you only reveal the passwords you type in until you get rid of the malware.
Also, you will likely notice something being off if you have malware before you type in every single one of your passwords. PW managers - especially those written by others and widely used - are the most attractive targets for an attacker.
Where I live in Mountain View, it is definitely the older residents that are the most vocal against increasing density.
If only there was a way to pimp people who were providing a legal service, like giving people rides, or delivering food, or providing lodging...
If I stole your wallet and gave you a car, it would still be stealing.

The social contract is not a contract, it's an invalid excuse. If I made a contract which (1) I could change at any time without your consent, (2) I was in charge of enforcing, (3) I forced on you just because you were in a certain area which I deemed under my control, and (4) never let you opt out, no court in the world would support me.

Taxation is theft. The question is whether the moral violation is worth it.
> one reason is that basic auth lost out early on to site-supplied login forms, so people got used to entering usernames and passwords into the page content anyway, instead of the browser UI

To be fair, basic auth is not particularly user-friendly. If you want to add anything else to the login form, such as a "Remember Me" checkbox or a captcha, you can't put that in the browser chrome, you need to add an additional step in the login flow. If you want an "Did you forget your password? Click here to reset it." error message, the user has to cancel out of the auth dialog in frustration before they can see it (or you have to redirect them to an error page after failed auth, with another link/button to Try Logging In Again.

And even if you solve those problems, the user still needs to enter their username/password when creating their account, and I have never seen Basic Auth used for this scenario.
My inclination was less that tech companies should abuse their contractors, but that tech companies should actually directly employ people that pretty much solely work for them.
"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Harari.
Pretty much a review of all human history.
My ride to work was usually $2 on pool in Nov 2016. It's usually $7 or $8 now.
>The governments could have averted this crises by not zoning their municipalities for 3x, 4x, 5x more jobs than housing units within their borders.

Each municipal government is correctly pursuing a local optimum by doing this. The life of an existing homeowner gets no worse for the presence of a tech company office in their municipality, and the tax revenue from the company can be used to fund better services and/or lower taxes for locals.

Night-time populations, on the other hand, require water and sewer and education and policing, more wear on the roads or staggeringly expensive public transit buildouts, etc.

Each city is pursuing the best interests of its home-owning electorate in signing up for the tax revenue without the responsibility.

Ignoring property values and aesthetics, the first municipality to liberalize housing construction will get to pay all the scaling costs that the whole region should have shared.
I don't get it. What're they afraid of?
I've tried bash, zsh, and fish. After trying all three, I'm staying with fish. bash and zsh don't have sensible defaults, and configuring them is tedious. fish works great out of the box, and it's really fast. When I picked up zsh I used oh-my-zsh and later prezto, but it was slow and figuring out what everything all the framework did was complicated.

With fish I have a setup.fish script that defines all my universal exports, for when I setup a new computer. This is for private tokens, like HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN. For aliases and utilities, I wrote a fisherman [0] plugin. It has a functions folder and a fishfile for the few other plugins I use.

[0] https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman
Person writing Medium app release notes was part of the layoffs
Even when written, the study made inaccurate claims about rkt (the SELinux support in rkt is identical to that in Docker, because rkt uses the same code from libcontainer - there is literally no difference there). It certainly wasn't an accurate depiction of rkt's state of security as of August.

(Disclaimer: I implemented some, but definitely not all, of those security features in rkt, and I currently work at CoreOS)
Or this one: http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2017/01/11/announcing-remacs-p...

For extra enjoyment, look at the way they convert a function definition to Rust. You'd hope that the new version would be at least somewhat nicer than the original, but of course not. As lng as it's Rust it must be better, right?
See, I added, "in general", because I knew somebody was going to come behind me and give one anecdotal reference to a good public school. Yes, there are some good public colleges, and a whole lot of crappy public colleges. Yes, there are a few good public secondary schools and a whole lot of really awful ones.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution

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Taxation.. isn't.. theft, basically by definition, so that argument is a non-starter.

It's (in the US) constitutionally allowed, which is analogous to "we agree to be taxed to support our government". It's true that you may not have personally agreed to it, but that doesn't really scale anyway. The constitution 'stands for' our mutual agreement - which is why we're allowed to change it.

Even if you don't like that argument, you have to appreciate that it works for many people and so you won't get much of anywhere declaring "taxation is theft" like that's obvious and unquestionable; you just lose 98% of everyone right there. (okay, maybe 95 or 90. I don't know anymore.)

A different argument:
In an anarchy, taxation would be theft. In our system of government (being US-centric again), it is not. You can argue that you'd rather live in an anarchy/minarchy/whatever, and that's fine, but it's silly to declare that taxation is theft universally because in the current system that's not really true.
aryehof asks>"Has AI advanced from the 1990s?"

No.

But lots of progress in pattern recognition & classification. So whatever AI exists can see better, hear better, speak better.

Unfortunately nothing remotely approaching the intelligence of a cat or dog, much less a human being, has appeared except in very limited domains.
They also have $20 fitness tracker with app.
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think the commenter meant "nice"= "nice to have" not a statement on quality.
Good article, clickbait title.

TL;DR: Google's automated systems tend to unfairly ban accounts.
Interesting. I tested Opera Mini after your comment and it seems kind of "dangerous" for me. It also saves a lot of bandwidth on HTTPS connections so I assume it intercepts and also server rendering those connections. Saves a lot of bandwidth for sure but this is a privacy nightmare.
"people of far greater means" drastically supported Clinton over Trump and look what happened. Money does not equal political power. This really isn't the tech industry's fault.
You're welcome to move to a non taxation government, or just to one where it is barely enforced
Being not legally theft doesn't make it not theft.

If a woman forces a man to penetrate her, she has raped him, regardless of what the law defines it as. Law is inconsistent.
I wouldn't mind groundbreaking executive strategy differences for experiments sake in a small state. You can't get the benefit of having 50 different states competing with each other, if they're all too scared to actually revolutionize anything. If California is the only place where people have the balls to try, I'll take it.

If you're curious about the individual reasons I think Thiel is awesome, he frees kids from college through his fellowship program, crushes bastards like gawker, supports longevity and innovation in other moonshot industries. Doesn't hurt that he has a book out trying to get people to create the future definitively by investing their time and money into businesses that are doing things no one else is.

The only downsides I see are, maybe Palantir sucks, and maybe his choice for president will turn out to suck. He's the coolest gay christian republican billionaire thinker I know of.
This is a good move for Coinbase, i'm glad they are defending their users. They are right that it is overly broad. I don't see how IP addresses and customer support transcripts are a matter for the IRS.
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the fact that the government provides us with sub-par "services" does not refute the statement that taxation is a form of theft.
This is interesting. I am not well versed on yubikey, but does it allow you to have a similar setup with other password managers, like keepass? (Meaning, one press per one password) Or is it just a substitute for typing a master password?
You're arguing as though the phrase 'social contract' refers to a literal contract, which isn't even slightly true.
same on what jeremy said. he specifically meant in general. not only did you pick a top ranked school as an example, but chose the #1 ranked public school as a representation of public schools in general.

i went to 8 schools before graduating high school. ranging qualities really depends on neighborhoods' wealth, unless there's a magnet/charter type school.
You're welcome to move to North Korea if you love the state so much.

Yeah, it's not really a valid argument, is it.
I've wondered about this, and the other topic of "Why should a human recognise and heed borders?".

My conclusions:
a. Humans have evolved into socially needing to exist with each other.

b. In general, the various societies across the world have different styles - democracy, dictatorship, kingdoms, capitalism, socialism,etc.

c. In general, most of us have the choice of leaving a particular social group and then moving away to another social group. Somewhat easy to do within a country if you are a citizen or are authorised to do so. Somewhat difficult in some cases (e.g., you are not permitted to leave the country).

d. If an individual doesn't agree with social norms and "laws", they may most likely still have the option to leave. They will need to relocate to some other place where they are permitted to do (or can get away with doing) what they want to do.

If I live in a country, then my predecessors decided together to create a tax system whereby all residents contribute tax, and in exchange receive certain benefits. To prevent free-loading, tax is made mandatory. To ensure some form of proportionate taxation, there are tax slabs.

If they are not receiving these benefits, then they need correct the situation. If they feel they are being over-taxed, then they need to present the reasons, and hopefully have sufficient auditing and electoral process in place to correct the over-taxation.

If they don't like this and are not effective enough, they (mostly) have the options of reconciling to the situation, or of leaving.
Hopping on the elaboration bandwagon as well. Anyone considering financial support of the dev would probably appreciate more information about your claims.
Offtopic, but why would a CEO make an important (for his company and customers) post like this on medium.com? Why isn't this hosted on blog.coinbase.com or something? I know that Medium is a popular platform these days, but I think it weakens the branding of any company or individual to be posting there.
I think if this is your philosophy, Coinbase isn't your exchange, and they've been very forthright about their mission to popularize Bitcoin by complying with regulations rather than trying to skirt them basically since day one. And this strategy has made them effectively the first mover on Bitcoin in every sense that matters even though they were pretty far from first to market.

I think this note from Coinbase is exactly what I would hope they would do in such a situation: reject an overly-broad request while restating their willingness to comply with all regulations and legal requests, just like a traditional financial institution.

Many of us are not interested in turning every situation into a political or philosophical battle. I'm glad that there are options out there both for people who do and people who do not.
And carriers need a throttled power supply based on operations (steam to move, steam for catapults etc). Reactors don't like being throttled. So having eight probably meant they could keep more of them running at full, turning them off when not needed rather than try to run them at reduced power.
Of course it doesn't refer to a literal contract. But a non-literal contract has no binding, so under what crazy-land definition of justice can the state use it to deem its actions of taxation, conscription, etc as just?
Thank you! I totally agree! I found this too be odd for the same reason. And I think you are absolutely right. I never thought about it before but passé is extremely accurate.

I remember, I went to the Ringling Bros circus, once, as a child [almost] 30 year ago. Before the internet, before [ubiquitous] computers, before cellphones, before iPads, before YouTube, before pokemom [even the card games], and even before Tamagotchis. I had an very small world at that time, I had the library and I had tv. I was also very easily entertained as a result.

I was excited because "circus" and you hear a lot about "circus" on TV and pop culture. Sounded exciting because of media.

I remember it as just odd. The reason why it is so memorable is because it was so odd.

First there were the protesters, I couldn't even begin to understand at that time why they were protesting but the idea that some people didn't approve of this didn't sit very well with me. Before my trip to the circus I've never seen any protesters ever in my life.

Then the show. It was... OK. Animals didn't impress me, they were more interesting on TV and in books than performing. Seemed unnatural and almost distracting and not at all impressive. I don't really remember the other performances because they seemed to REALLY want to showcase the animals.

I kinda felt, even as young as I was, that this was just outdated. Even though I wasn't able to articulate it or even understand it then. My mom said she felt the same way too, "well I always wanted to to the circus, I did, now I won't go again." Seem like they were cruzing on nostalgia for half a century.

It's never a good sign when a kid goes in for entertainment and comes out confused.

Seems like they were cruzing on nostalgia for half a century.

"I could... claim that kids today are actually much more understanding of animal welfare and would rather see animals in their natural habit on Youtube than see them perform tricks on a stage." - I think this is probably more accurate. :) I [totally unscientifically] think that most humans enjoy watching big cats with catnip on YouTube more than big cats being coaxed to jump through a fire hoop. (At least I do...)
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How would we change it? Malfeasance like perjury on the job is already illegal, but if the legal system excuses it case by case, what other recourse is there? The way you change stuff like this is at the ballot box, but the vast majority of voters treat voting like their own personal pissing contest instead of something with consequences (seriously, look at some of the research around what determines the way people vote. It's an utter farce).
Is Fahrenheit 451 banned?
Many people are actually working towards the goal of a non-taxation (or "private") government to reach an "Anarcho-Capitalist" society. Many of the original proponents of bitcoin are following a path called "Agorism", which is a method to reach this goal by engaging in "grey" market activities such as buying and selling goods through a non-state-managed currency without paying taxes, to achieve a peaceful revolution, without having to physically move.
I'd say one advantage of bitcoin is the lack of reporting requirements if you wanted to move money without letting the IRS know. So I could see how bitcoin could be a loss for the IRS.
You could say that in response to literally anything a government does. You're welcome to move to a non spying government, you're welcome to move to a non prohibitionist government, you're welcome to move to a non police brutality government, etc etc.

Are you are arguing that staying in a geographical area constitutes consent for whatever the state in control of it does?