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Question about E2 treaty countries.

If one is an E2 treaty country citizen, and starts a company in the treaty country, how difficult would it be to create an American presence?

Could you go a bit more into E2 and how it could be used by start ups (if at all)?

And also, could you go a bit into what an E2 treaty county citizen can do to live/work in the US?
> I keep hearing people mention the Yuan as a reserve currency, but why would any country do that? China's economic and financial data reporting seems to be spotty at best.

Good question. And the answer to that is no serious country accepts Yuan as a reserve even after 10 years of China's GDP being number 2 in the world. People really don't trust Chinese government and it shows.

The only reason the Yuan has a chance is because America chooses to not be a world leader in matters that affect the world (Paris agreement, UN, WHO etc). This leaves a power and money vacuum which disproportionately affects poorer countries. Think Sri Lanka or poorer African countries or sanctioned countries like Iran, Russia.

These countries have only one country offering them development or aid or help. And that country's currency is Yuan and are happy to trade in Yuan. So slowly and steadily, yuan gets a place in their reserve mix and then becomes dominant because that's the only major country trading anything with them.
Especially if you have little time and enough money -- like a career-end engineer.
I found that if you want to talk about the professor's research area, they will often have time to talk, at least at the beginning / end of classes or over emails.

I'm not as sure with TA's, partly because I often skipped the TA-sessions for various reasons.
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The HDD swap isn't unique to Amazon either, this is something that has plagued retail since birth. There was always jokes about "rocks in the box" in the 90's when I worked at an electronics store.

You hit the head of the nail though, it's a calculated loss / cost. With retail they dealt with physical theft way more than this and anticipated up to 10% of inventory loss for a plethora of reasons. It's not surprising the thieves have transitioned here. I would expect that between this and mixed inventory, these issues are far more common that people would think.

While amazon is at fault for passing it back on, I imagine they make it right. They have always fixed issues for me with no hesitation. It sucks, but I wouldn't get out a pitchfork unless they denied it. And like I mentioned above, Amazon isn't unique, any company has this happen.
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That is an oligarchy. Ultimately, it does not matter much if coercion is based on political or economic power, or the media.

That being said, in these cases media and politicians tend to align over time, either because media help compatible politicians, or because politicians created the media landscape themselves. Oligarchies tend to be symbiotic. For those close to power, anyway; for the rest of the country it’s more like parasitism.
Eventually there will be "ample evidence" that police are also members of this "second group". A Minneapolis cop vandalizing a business was identified on Facebook already. (Don't link to the police denials; rational observers take those as proof.) City governments have a lot easier access to pallets of bricks and the equipment to transport same than poor kids have. Authoritarians do the same thing over and over again because it works over and over again.

None of that matters. The point of the protests, to combat USA racism in general and also the specific racism of violent USA police, is more important than the form of the protests. If we truly do support these goals, we won't be sidetracked by potential insurance claims of large corporations. Instead we will interrogate myths we've accepted by dint of constant media gaslighting. MLK did not oppose destructive protest in general. Destructive protests are not counterproductive; in many instances they have had far more significant positive effect than any number of candlelit vigils. The police don't work for us (even if "us" means "us white folks"); they work for wealthy property owners. Many black Americans do support effective protests, even if the only black Americans allowed on cable news are very worried about "white anarchists". Much of the destruction you fear is the rational action of black citizens who've had to deal with this shit for a really long time.
If I changed jobs and transfer went through, I’m still able to get an H1B extension with an already approved I-140 even if the new PERM filing is impacted, yes?

Thanks again!
That's actually a great summary of the beef with cancel culture -- it only punches down.

They can't touch Trump, or Ben Shapiro, or any of the other people that they really hate. Those people's actual jobs are to say things progressives hate.

Who can the cancelers get? Moderate liberals, working in liberal enclaves, who said the wrong thing. Get'em! That'll make me feel better.
The UK's departure 6 months ago is a milestone that's more political than actual. During the transitional period of the withdrawal agreement, the UK is effectively a non-voting member this year as it has no option to opt of EU regulations or budget contributions until the end of this period. Other parts of their departure, like the Northern Ireland backstop have their own conditions before the UK can adjust them.

Describing the departure as in progress rather than done is very much accurate.
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The is intersectional analysis and has been a core part of activism for decades. Race is a huge and essential component to systems of oppression in the US but it is not the only component.

But people working on this problem already know this at a deep level. This does not take away from the importance of understanding how race fits into the systems of oppression.
I can't tell if you are serious or sarcastic with this comment?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
In some respects, I think the constraints of something like SQLite can focus people's attention on making things work properly rather than throwing hardware at the problem.

I can think of a couple of places I've worked where they had simple problems that could have been solved by some thinking and coding but instead were solved* by more expensive hardware.
This problem has been solved for decades - cryptographic signatures. Twitter and their users are uninterested in a real solution, they just want engagement.
They are claiming that they are not arresting people[0][2] when they are, which is apparently illegal[2][1]

[0] “They did take them to an area that was safe for both the officers and the individual to do the questioning,” he said. “It’s not a custodial arrest. We need to question this individual to find out what their role was in this laser-pointing.”

Eventually, Cline said, the protester was released “because [DHS] did not have what they needed.”

[1] In Dunaway v. New York the Supreme Court considered whether police violated the Fourth and 14th Amendments when–lacking probable cause–they took a person into custody, transported him to a police station and detained him for interrogation. Once again, six justices found that police violated the U.S. Constitution with such actions.

Per that landmark case:
[T]he detention of petitioner was in important respects indistinguishable from a traditional arrest. Petitioner was not questioned briefly where he was found. Instead, he was taken from a neighbor’s home to a police car, transported to a police station, and placed in an interrogation room.

[2] https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/two-dhs-officials-app...
I don't buy this. There are millions of anonymous Twitter accounts and forum posters. Literal children have figured out opsec well enough to save themselves them embarrassment of having to share their love of anime with the wrong friends.

I'm sure a tenured professor is smart enough to use a different email address and profile picture when signing up to radical life extension forums if what they want to discuss is really that edgy.

We have more tools and venues to test out and refine new ideas today than we have ever before. Use them.
That's one thing, but another thing that is not listed as one of the possible reasons is simply that the original email is just verbose and _bad_. Imagine a person in real life gave you that spiel, of course you'd be put off.
Wondering, how viable would be a new portal hiring all the resigned staff.
> Humans made it to Australia without any Land Bridge.

For that matter they also made it to Hawaii without any land bridges. Polynesian navigators and sailors proved that neither land bridges nor high technology are needed for these sort of daring ocean crossings. Who is to say that other early seafaring cultures couldn't have accomplished similar feats?
The answer really depends on your background/accomplishments and whether you would be working for your own company or for another company. Oftentimes, for entrepreneurs, the best and easiest option is the E-2 investor visa, which is available to Swedish citizens.
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well let us not kid ourselves, select humans will be protected and may survive. how many must survive to have survivable off Earth population viable?
Sure i really liked and I’m looking forward to build desktop apps using python
A big part of why you can't freely distribute Maxmind's Lite databases is them trying to apply CCPA requirements.

That law will affect open source solutions just as much.
What did you find as the top 2-3 things that help in crafting an effective mission once you decided to make it more intentional?
I suspect that’s marginal cost of production, not actual price. I’m one of the folks in charge of this exact issue for the healthcare chain I work for; we can negotiate volume discounts, but nothing that brings us from $35 to $1.
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[This is not a direct reply to your comment, but a comment on Hacker News itself.]

It's interesting that a couple of minutes ago, I was unable to even attempt to reply to wrren's comment. It was grayed out, and I guess you can't reply to grayed-out comments. I read the comment and saw an exploration of ideas, not something that would be destructive to the Hacker News community or experience. I reloaded the page, the comment is no longer gray, and I am now able to reply to it. I guess it's been upvoted into acceptability again, and eligible for further discussion.

Did I just imagine that there was no reply link after this comment? (It's an honest question, since this might be the first gray comment that I've tried to reply to.)

Ironically enough (given that Paul Graham founded it) Hacker News itself seems to provide tools for silencing unconventional ideas through downvoting (unconventional for HN.) Apparently, it's not a particularly new problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17612885

Seems like there's some aggressive conventionally-mindedness right here on Hacker News. It happens structurally, in the way downvoting unpopular ideas gets them silenced, and conventionally, in the way discussion about voting on Hacker News is discouraged.
Laughed at this - sounds like something a YC exec would post under an alternative account even though I'm sure it isn't
I have a mitigated opinion about technical interviews. I know several companies hiring mostly in the employees’ network, so technical interview is not really necessary. Good references are far better than any whiteboard test.

On the other end, by hiring only in your network, the result is often companies lacking diversity. If you only work with people you know, you’ll probably work with people from the same schools, same social class, same experiences, etc. as you. At least technical interviews are more objective and give a chance to people with diverse backgrounds.

We can probably find a proper mix between network and technical interviews. In my opinion the technical interviews should be here to select candidates as a prior step to any other interview. So they should be quite easy. (I’m always surprised by the proportion on candidates to fail in very easy technical tests.) The true candidate evaluation should be done according to soft skills: ability to communicate, curiosity, desire to learn and help people, etc.
Hungarian here. It stopped to be a democracy the moment they attained more than 66% of the votes (with gerrymandering of course).

They also control the other branches of power. They also control the attorney general who can stop any prosecution against any member of the Fidesz before it starts.

They control the media now. The whole system makes me sick. And I'm one of those people who would vote for a paty like Fidesz if it was a regular country (I'm not left wing at all).
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CBS’ overzealous copyright bots hit Star Trek virtual Comic-Con panel
> and other beach dwelling large mammals

Like walruses? Sorry..
Yep. Also, fun fact, these are used in dentistry and orthodontics to check spaces between your teeth. We use the same information in our 3D treatment planning environment.
How to satisfy the PERM physical notice posting requirement when all offices are closed due to CoViD (keycard access is revoked, all employees WFH)? Is it enough to post it in an empty office and/or electronically on the intranet? What if the office never reopens, or not anytime soon?
Here’s the thing, I honestly think these consultancies are going to be feasting for decades to come with all these enterprise companies shifting to the cloud.

That is the very definition of ‘their business model is geared towards building one thing, learning one technology, and then exploiting it for as long as possible with minimal evolution.’.

This kind of lock-in at the enterprise level is a dream come true for them. They can marshal armies of AWS certified architects, and tie themselves to every corporation in the world, forever.
Political agendas
There’s the rub. Your friend is more likely to have a similar point of view as you on a given topic so they can relay the necessary details for you, if the topic is important enough. No matter the topic, there will always be multiple spins on it so getting your friend’s spin is no better or worse than a journalist’s — or worse, the mob’s.
Thanks for offering your thoughts. What you're saying about VCs makes sense.

I agree that it can be difficult as a technical person to assess non-technical people/activities, and I've tried to be understanding of our differences. Our team has frequent meetings, and PC has explained they have been lining up investor conversations through references from our company connections (corporate counsel, previous accelerator connections, etc.), but I've gotten the feeling PC hasn't really been chasing the money with enough intensity. For example, PC spent 3 days the other week (~20 hours reported) "preparing for an investor pitch," which went disastrously - lots of stumbling across words, struggling to explain our product, competitors, and IP strategy.

I suppose the challenge is finding someone more competent who would be willing to do the job with minimal pay, both in terms of the availability of such people and the ability of me and OC to dedicate time to such an effort. Thanks again for your answer. I'll have to discuss with OC what we can afford to do at the moment.
The anti-self-improvement arguments usually devolve into weird strawman arguments and non sequiturs. In this case, the author is trying to portray modern technology and companies as the enemy because he wrote a series of books on the subject.

> It’s that we humans should be making active choices about what it is we want to do to ourselves, rather than letting the machines, or the markets propelling them, decide for us.

Self-improvement isn't synonymous with buying products or following companies. In fact, two of the most common self-improvement goals are to reduce the amount of time spent in front of screens and to spend more time with friends and family.

This article reads more like an anti-technology or anti-corporate piece disguised as a criticism of self-improvement.

Ironically, the author of this post would like to sell you his thinly-veiled self help books such as "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" and "Get Back in the Box: How Being Great at What You Do Is Great for Business". This blog post is marketing material for his specific brand of self-improvement.
We got judged on both. Most security teams in my experience feel that even clicking on the link is a big risk, although I've never read a more detailed explanation of why than "oh there might be a 0-day".
Hi Peter, I’m currently on h1b and my visa stamp on passport is from my ex employer and is expired. Is it too risky to travel abroad? Will I still be able to get a new visa stamp due to the visa ban?

Thank you!
I’ve read all of VMLS and Forecasting (and ISLR from the original list), and maybe half of SLP. MML I have skimmed through for review / used as a reference, and the deep learning book is high on my queue.

I tend to not be a cover-to-cover reader, so I usually deep dive into a single topic for a while (e.g. forecasting, information retrieval) and read papers/tutorials/chapters related to that topic and the math concepts related to it.

PS I feel like impostor syndrome is so common among data scientists because there is so much material that feels like “must know”. Don’t feel like you need to memorize thousands of textbook pages to be effective, and you could spend a lifetime mastering any of these individual subjects. JIT learning is a great skill to have.
You can "bring your own IP" or lease a dedicated IP address for $25/month. I'm not sure how effective it is, but the option is there.
The truest saying in software is that the highest value output of a project is an engineering team that understands your business. Past a certain point of size/complexity you can't buy one of those for any price, you have to make it.

Outsourcing turns an investment opportunity into an expense.
I guess we've read different books about it. This is my source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679746323/

What Mao did in secret may not be possible to know fully.

But are you really telling me that China in 1966 was a free enough society that students could just start an independent political movement that took over the country?
This seems to be extremely similar to what I've been working on writing up (which I'm slightly salty about :D) and it's great to see this stuff finally getting affordable. My design using the same capture card and a 3D-printed enclosure set me back just under 25€ shipped, which includes KVM, as well as USB/IP, CD emulation and power control (not to mention that you can program it to do basically anything else).
I don't even know if anything like it exists on the market, let alone how much it might cost. Despite how buggy and horrible this kind of strange Chinese hardware is, it is absolutely incredible what you can accomplish with it.
People may have lived in North America by 30k years ago
> Some of the smartest young men and women in the CS field.

Can you give any names and/or accomplishments to support that claim?

Personally, I haven't bumped into enough NC A&T grads to form my own opinions.
If they do this I'm fairly certain the $COMPANY also does school filtering on resumes.
The answer really depends on your background/accomplishments but (based on the limited information provided) it appears that the O-1 and E-2 visas might be good options as well as the L-1.
Thanks! I think it might have been an extract from Bossavit's book what I'm struggling to remember now. The title definitely rings a bell.
There's usually nothing but fields or woodland behind the hedges. Have a poke about on google maps. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.0386913,-0.0888581,3a,90y,...

While I agree that they're bad for sightlines, they're also traditional and may be on private land, so getting rid of them from minor roads would be a hugely unpopular undertaking.
It wouldn't happen either way as that requires somebody to prosecute the police.
Kindness Yoga shut down after their pro-BLM posts online were criticized as "performative activism" by employees: https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/29/kindness-yoga-closure-dur...

A woman in Kentucky was fired after 20 years from her job as a Hearing Instrument Specialist after she said she didn't support BLM in a facebook video: https://reclaimthenet.org/tabitha-morris-cancel-culture/ (Her GoFundMe was also shut down.)

A high school teacher in British Columbia was fired after mentioned that he thought abortion was wrong, as an example of how personal opinions can differ from the law, in class: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-b-c-tea...

David Shor was fired after retweeting a black scholar's work on riots and election results: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-raci...

A Mexican-American utility worker was fired after someone filmed him making the "OK" hand and accused him of white supremacy: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

A graphic designer was fired after the Washington Post published an article about how she wore a blackface-costume (attempting to make fun of Megyn Kelly) two years ago: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/why-did-the-washingt...

The operator of a campus cafe was fired after he posted an ad full of jokes, saying that he needed "a new slave (full time staff member) to boss around": https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/head-of-ontario-univers...

The founder of a charter school was fired after he was accused of "white supremacist language" in a blog post: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/ascend-cha...

An author withdrew her book because she was mobbed for being a white author writing chapters from the perspective of a Gullah Geechee person: http://elainemarias.com/2020/06/26/bethany-c-morrow-gets-ya-...

A Boeing exec resigned because of an article he wrote advocating against women in combat 33 years ago, when he was 29 years old: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-resignation/boeing...

I can post more if you'd like. None of these people are celebrities. None of them committed a crime. Some of them have stupid opinions, some of them made stupid decisions, one of them cracked his knuckles in the wrong way.

But if you don't believe that "regular people" are at risk here, well - I hope your opinions are all non-heretical and that they stay that way for the next 33 years.
They have already tried your strategy. Economists thought free global markets would lead to liberalization in other governments. That has proved to be utterly untrue with China and as a result they have become the worlds manufacturing hub, while becoming more and more totalitarian.

Production wise, an economy that is not concerned with democratic institutions or reducing inequality will outperform one that is. With that in mind, globalization is basically a race to the bottom human rights wise.
Key point here is that most people fail to consider the reader.
It's rare to see someone so purely miss the point.
A contrary anecdata - I've worked at a bunch of places and know people who work at others that have large, actively maintained, decades-old systems using, e.g., Perl. The only one I know that was actively trying to migrate recently was looking at node instead.
"I don’t focus on cancel culture because I’m concerned more with the erosion of our voting rights and the dismantling of our institutions by our own citizens."

Maybe we need to focus on both as manifestations of the same disease, even though one is much worse than the other?