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I think it's funny that people complain that the H1B visa program are "shipping jobs abroad" when by being a visa program, the whole point is to allow people to work in the US. No one is going through all the trouble to enter a 10% lottery to "ship jobs abroad" when actually shipping jobs abroad requorws no visa, and requires no minimum 60k payment.

Now, this doesn't mean there aren't problems with the H1B program. By making workers so dependent on their employers (for example, if an H1B visa holder gets laid off or fired they have to leave the country immediately without legally having the opportunity to find a new job) it most likely drives down wages slightly, but the "sending jobs abroad" rhetoric is little more than xenophobic sloganeering which only serves to distract people from the actual problems related to the H1B (the power differential between the employers and the employees, and the ridiculousness of a lottery system which benefits those who can flood the system with applications as opposed to actual companies that need good workers).
I am not, and it is necessary to measure the temperature of the batteries in at least some locality, as batteries can short out and go into thermal runaway. Although their construction can avoid a full battery pack fire, if you don't shut down the tractive system immediately you will run current through them and charge them negatively. Then you will get a fire from surrounding cells.
A method for semiconductor startups, especially in analog to tape out on the leading nodes.

Things that could expedite this:

Better affordable EDA tools (maybe even open source? startups that succeed and become self-sufficient would pay big bucks for customization and support). Especially for analog!

Some sort of business model which pays for masks, such as perhaps taking a percentage of the money in exchange for a MLM mask. This could be something that a mask work company does. Another related but orthogonal startup idea(albeit much harder than an app like snapchat)would be to develop a maskless lithography technique for cutting edge nodes, such as electron beam lithography.
tl;dr: click-bait title. The ability to access Bluetooth peripherals is opt-in and requires an explicit user interaction.
- Why can some people get by with less sleep than others and thus be more productive?

- How can I determine the best time to sleep?

- What food to eat before sleep?

- How can I be productive all the way until I fall asleep?

- Why no sleep drug without harsh side effects?

Just a few things I'd like to see research into...
So that's good, right? Prices will go down and the wealth transfer from poor renters to wealthy buyers via the mortgage interest deduction will go away.
> "don't look and behave as if they are from fucking 2003"

2003 desktop environment was fine. Actually, there weren't significant benefits after Windows 95. On the contrary, modifications simply confuse users. I'm a big LXDE & MATE fan for this reason. If it works, don't fix it.
They have to be jobs worth moving for and capable of sustaining you when you get there.
Without net neutrality there is nothing stopping Comcast from switching to a whitelist model where any destination IP outside their network is unreachable once it hits 0.01% of all outbound traffic. This would allow small one-offs like a doctor's office website but block just about everyone of even small size. Then you can pay Comcast for the "privilege" of being unblocked.

They don't even need to truly block traffic, just refuse to upgrade peering links at POPs and let continued growth of traffic do the work for them, which is basically what they did to Netflix.

If we unbundled the last mile and had true competition none of this would be a problem; people would just switch ISPs. Unfortunately we don't have competition. Don't tell Ajit Pai though; he thinks competition is "robust" because you can choose from metered wireless plans on already crowded spectrum. From the point of view of his paymasters that's true: Verizon would be happy to have you switch from Comcast so you can buy data by the GB on their wireless network. It is vastly more profitable for them! They inherited their core spectrum for a song and don't have to lay fiber to millions of homes. The capital costs are vastly lower than wired broadband and the scarcity jacks the prices.

If Republicans still gave half a shit about a free market economy they'd follow the Texas electricity plan: A heavily regulated company that owns the last-mile lines. It charges cost plus a margin for future capital upgrades. Terminate at the closest NOC/POP and dump the traffic on the ISP's network. You could go even further and just task the infrastructure company with providing unlit fiber from every home and business; let the ISPs compete in providing the ONT/CPE so you can get innovation there.

People forget: the federal government spent a ton of money to get electricity everywhere. Much of the power infrastructure wasn't funded by private companies. Even the trans-continental railroads (so lauded in Atlas Shrugged) weren't built by private enterprise. The federal government back-stopped the whole thing with money and soldiers.
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Norsepower provides modern sails: "a spinning cylinder that uses the Magnus effect to harness wind power to propel a ship."

"When the wind conditions are favourable, Norsepower Rotor Sails allow the main engines to be throttled back, saving fuel and reducing emissions while providing the power needed to maintain speed and voyage time. Rotor sails can be used with new vessels or they can be retrofitted to existing ships."

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> Something that better vets quality while not pushing for Toptal prices.

Why do you think this is possible?

That's pretty much exactly what Toptal or other premium shops like Gigster do: vet remote developers to ensure high quality.

The idea that you can get great developers from India for rock-bottom rates is mostly a fallacy.
Go is a perfectly good language for many applications. Why would you want to write yet another language to transpile to Go?

You might want to look at Otto, a JS interpreter in Go, https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto
silly me, forgot to check snopes. Thanks for the link!
"political suicide" or not, I'm paid for 8h/day. What I do with my free time is nobody's concern and I sure don't have to defend myself for respecting my contractual obligations.
The source is on Github: https://github.com/spotify/spotiamb

Fun fact: The developer that made it (Ludvig Strigeus) is the same developer that made µTorrent and ScummVM.
Can you clarify why, from the third person, such significant privilege that affords such significant benefits would ever so willingly given up? I'm asking you to supply the logic such that we can convince individual members of our tribal states that they should support the movement towards a borderless/nationless world. So far, the argument has been moral (When privileged, you have a moral obligation to elevate those less privileged), though I was hoping for a stronger argument than that.
Great side project — I'm a fan of interactive tutorials like the ones you've made. Even though, not exactly the same your project reminds of the very helpful interactive textbooks on http://interactivepython.org/runestone/default/user/login?_n...

For someone interesting in collaborating for further development, what are your ideas for future development?

P.S. - I'm an alright Python/JavaScript programmer from Mumbai with time on my hand to work on side projects that align with my interests and I'm totally down to build stuff that helps people learn programming!
That sounds like pretty much what EagleView is doing: http://www.eagleview.com/
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I agree with you if the OP is suggesting a tax on foreign born Americans.

On the other hand, if the OP is talking about foreign non-Americans, I'm not sure I automatically believe that they have an absolute right to access or participate in the US real estate market.
I'm not sure about the feature you talk about, but maybe have a look at accessibility settings of MacOS. They putted a lot of advanced settings in there targeted at various kind of handicap. However these feature can also be used to improve productivity.

Some developers even uses accessibility interface to add custom overlays & controls (Steam for instance).
Thanks, I will look into that.
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In many countries you cannot even buy a SIM card without providing an ID.
I tried that. It did not work. It's too late, I deleted the app three months ago, and anyway now I have a dumb phone. I don't miss Spotify at all. Sometimes I miss maps, though.
It's definitely not a truthful retrospective of a failed ad (I would be shocked to hear that they were actually going out of business), but it is made to follow the style of one. However, it's simply using that form as a vehicle, not mocking or shaming the subjects of the imitation, so I wouldn't describe it as satire. Perhaps irony, verging on sarcasm?

The ad and the article are part of a single, original marketing campaign, done very much in their style: part spectacular and part absurd.
What? This is basic supply and demand. The supply goes down, the demand stays the same (in fact, demand grows because of panic), so prices rise. Rich countries continue to eat, poor countries starve.

What does democracy in, say, the Philippines have to do with the fact that an exporter (of which there are now less of) can sell to England for $0.20/pound or sell to the Philippines for $0.10/pound?

Consider the 2008 rice crisis which wasn't caused by a shortage of rice (1). You also see this when staple foods suddenly become trendy (2)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_global_rice_crisis

(2) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans...
I have the same thing happen when I download the .deb file for Chrome from the site, open it in the Software Installer (or whatever it's called), it opens an icon in my tray and sits there forever, doing nothing. It's not until I do a sudo dpkg -i that I know that dependencies are missing and that's the reason it won't install. Explain that to a newbie.
> In practice, it's ludicrous to think that the vast US university system cannot produce employees with whatever skills are in demand, so workers must be imported from countries that have much smaller education complexes.

Many of the students in the US universities need a work visa to work for a US employer. I've worked with several people who finished a US degree, and apply for an H-1B visa for when the OPT visa runs out. As far as I can tell (I didn't read everyone's posting), their wages were comparable to mine, so it doesn't feel like a cost savings move to me.
Realistically speaking, it's unlikely that something which provides as much value as essentially replacing QA would be priced transparently.
Multiplying the value of bitcoin.
This is done by shining bright Infra Red lights high in the stadium down onto the crowd. We cannot see Infra Red light ourselves, but the lights/torches the crowd holds can detect the infra red light and respond when they see it by switching on and showing visible light we can see. Thus all the lights the crowd have can be commanded to light up at the same time, or turn off at the same time. In advanced situations the infra red lights can trigger mass synced colour changes in the lights the crowd holds, exactly the same way an infra red remote control commands a TV to do different things. Cheap and effective tech.
> There are plenty of positions that need filling that would still make sense to pay full market salary for.

If it made sense to pay market salary, why aren't they filled? Market price, after all, is a look back on the transaction once it has happened. The market salary is exactly what it took to get someone in that seat.

Perhaps you mean it would make sense to pay below market salary, necessitating a change in the market (i.e. increase the supply of workers through foreign imports) to meet that lower price goal?
We can assume that companies are deciding what's financially best for them, but not what is best for the country they have a social responsibility to. Look at some of the monumental IT failures we have seen recently and will see in the future (some UK banks for example). And with globalisation it's not bound to happen anymore because people are finding a voice. Do you think trump or brexit would have happened if people thought globalisation was working for them. There's more than low income people supporting these 'movements'.

And your argument for full globalisation doesn't work for me. Should we send all manufacturing to a country in the Far East with questionable labour laws and regulations. I don't feel comfortable with that. Certainly not the level playing field you think it is.
Immigrants or illegal immigrants?

To become a legal immigrant in America takes a lot of effort. It's almost like saying people of new money are less likely to go to jail.

As for illegal immigrants I've got no idea as to how many bad actors there are.

However I'll give a stat that many liberals in Europe failed to realize. Their are many people in this world that do not like Western culture. E.g take Muslims around the world wanting sharia law (http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...). We shouldn't block immigrants from coming to the us. But we should only allow immigrants who will "melt" and become part of the American melting pot.
Also, Donald Trump's mother was a Scottish immigrant, Mary Anne Macleod. Donald Trump's wife is a Slovenian immigrant who appears to have worked illegally (as a nude model) in the USA.

There's an old joke about immigrants doing dirty jobs that Americans won't do, and being married to Donald Trump may be one of them...

The Trump family lied about being Swedish, though more recently, Donald has aired his pride in his superior German genes.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/29/1575870/-Shocking-vi...
I didn't see the ad, but a look at Twitter suggests it was actually broadcast (almough it appears to have been pre-game and quite possibly only in certain markets)
I've lived in Paris where it is the same, or even worse because there are historic buildings everywhere. Now I live in Japan where it is the polar opposite. I live in a very dense area of Osaka in a building built in 2013 for the same price than my way smaller and very old place in Paris. If only Europe and North America could be like that...
Sure, but I'm pretty sure the problem being discussed here is specific to at-will salary workers, who do not have specific contractual obligations and are not paid for specific hours.
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Etymological nit pick:

Capitalism was defined by Marx. It is the political movement to give power to people with financial resources, and it's principal consequence is exploitation (in Marx' analysis, every penny of profit comes from underpayment to your workers. This analysis is a mathematical one, about as rigorous as any theory of economics is possible to be.)

I prefer the term Market Economics or Market Forces to describe the positive effect you mean, which was discovered and described much earlier by Adam Smith.

(If you would like to read a decent history of economic ideas, I recommend The Worldly Philosophers, which is a very good book.)
I can't find quotes from the book, but here's a summary of a fictional factory in Atlas Shrugged:

"Questions of need cannot be answered objectively. Need is a vague and undefinable term in this context. At the Twentieth Century Motor Company, the group voted to decide the needs of each individual, just as the group decided the projected output of each worker based on ability. As a result, each individual was enslaved to the group; his income was determined by his ability to beg rather than by his productive effort. No worker could feel the pride that comes from earning money as a direct result of hard work." [1]

I know it's a stretch, but as others have pointed out, it's a slippery slope.

[1] https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/atlas-shrugged/summ...
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I'll stick with an in person Paul Graham meeting any day over Go To Meeting or Hololens.
Menus are at the top of the screen, so to reach them you'd probably focus another app first.
Plasma was before there was anything similar on Windows.

But to be honest my perfect linux enviroment was kde 3.5. And I don't think "regular" people had any problems with uncanny valley. When I left for university I installed kde 3.5 on my parents' and my sisters' computers. My sister switched to windows 8 years later because of some apps she needs for work, parents still use Linux (but recently I installed them kde 5).
What is the tech stack they use?
1) Any hopeful homebuying millennials would also have not have the benefit of the deductions.
2) Wouldn't this just pass the cost onto renters?

This seems more like a way to shift the tax burden to the middle class.
I would prefer to live in Switzerland over Silicon Valley too. And a generation ago I might have argued that the US education system was as good or better than Switzerland's, but I can't make that argument now. But it's still better than most places, and certainly good enough to provide qualified workers.
Also, the tragedy of the commons. Companies pollute our environment externalizing costs on society. They collect the profits, we pay for the damage. The weakest point of capitalism is the same as its greatest advantage - greed.
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I read this when I was a kid, will be interesting to reread and see how it's held up. I imagine some of it will seem quaint in retrospect.

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2600 is still produced no?
Can you imagine hearing...

"Thanks for owning Google home. Hope you're enjoying the Super Bowl."

That might freak some people out. ha.
The point is that we talk about inflation (and hence, real economic growth) by comparing equivalent baskets of goods and services year-to-year. However, that "equivalent" part is actually non-trivial - how do you decide how much more this year's iPhone 6 is worth than last year's iPhone 5 when you're trying to determine inflation in consumer products prices? (In periods of rapid technological change, the comparisons are much weirder - how do you compare consumer prices when people suddenly start buying cars, or personal computers?)
$100k plus legal fees (about $5k[1]), plus a super long wait between offer and start date.

[1] https://www.hooyou.com/h-1b/attorneyfee.html
I am finding it difficult to find collaborating sources. Does anyone have a link to the commercial. Did it actually air ?
SpaceMonger is one of the rare pieces of consumer shareware so good that I was compelled to pay for it. Being able to zoom with the mousewheel, google maps style, is incredibly satisfying and useful.
If you hold one H1-B, you can get a new H-1B without needing to win the lottery again. That's usually referred to as a "transfer", even though you are technically getting an H-1B.
How feasible would it be to just crowd source something through maybe an organization like EFF or a collection of organizations? How many satellites would be required? Could they be rebuild so they cost less? What else would this entail? I know nothing of the subject so these are idiot questions I know.
I'm not familiar with "at-will salary workers". How does that work? If they don't have contractual obligations, what do they get paid for?
Why do you think desktop applications have to be different for the distros?

It is rather easy to ship libraries with your package or even do static builds..

Even without that, things are relatively portable.
(Steam packaged for Ubuntu works on most of the distros)
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1. http://isittaxed.ca

2. World's first search engine for sales tax (Canada only)

3. Difficult to know, since it was soft launched a few days ago

4. Classified ads (against 12,000+ consumer goods and services in the database)

5. Not monetized; classified ads have not been activated yet
To be a bit pedantic, the 68000 was a mostly 16-bit implementation of a 32-bit ISA. The ALU is 16-bit (though it can be ganged together with an additional 16-bit shift register for 32-bit shifts) and most of the data paths are 16-bit as well.

It's a really smart design. Combines a forward-looking architecture with a realistic implementation for the time. It's a shame it died out while x86 survived.
Those are pretty expensive though aren't they? Comparatively $50 a night.
The same week my job went from mostly to fully remote, I split up with my ex-wife-to-be and a large chunk of my social network went with her. I'm an introverted person who enjoys a fair amount of alone time but being alone 24x7 quickly had me craving social interaction.

The cure for that was pretty straightforward: Leave the damned house.

All those annoying chatty people you encounter during everyday errands? Far less annoying when you're starved for social interaction, engage them. Have interests? Turns out there are meetups for all sorts of interests. I walk into one, find a small cluster of people, and introduce myself. "Hi, I'm tbyehl, crowds of strangers are about my least favorite thing so I need to make a couple of fast friends" is quite effective.

Need more, uh, intimate social encounters? Treat yourself to a couple nice outfits, find a nice barber, and read up on /r/seduction. I'm obese and my personality is something of an acquired taste but I've hardly spent any days alone that I didn't want to.

There are +/- 72 waking hours a week that you aren't scheduled to work. That's plenty of time to build a social life that isn't dependent on commuting to a crappy office environment 5 days a week.
More interesting is the effect of lightening Has had from moving us from a primarily "daylight only" culture to a 24-hour culture.
People are always being turned into serfs somehow. It never quite succeeds.
You don't have to if you don't want to. Any sensible desktop distro has a DE configured for you out of the box, if you want to just start using it.
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The article is clearly satire. But it's unclear if the ad actually aired or not.
I would contest if it's untapped.
Aren't these addressed by CGAL? Or you mean, you'd want database primitives using CGAL?
Yep, video conferencing still very much sucks. For starters, we need a video chat app that enables eye contact. I think it would be a big deal.
"The way it works" can be altered through legislation, as is happening here.