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Announced, not implemented. It won't take effect any sooner than 60 days from now.

Much the same thing was previously announced back in June. And something similar was announced back in April.[1] Besides, there are still L-1 visas, for foreign companies who have employees working in the US.

This is mostly a PR move.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/apr/21/trump-us-immi...
Read another way:

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Prices have changed dramatically for some people. There were 4 executive orders about it in late July. Once was specific to insulin, but the important order enforces most-favored-nation status on drugs. The USA is supposed to get the cheapest international price.

This won't help everybody. It has the same flaw as price-matching at Best Buy. The manufacturer could sell a different model in each country. For example, the USA gets one set of pill sizes (20 mg, 40 mg, 80 mg) and the rest of the world gets a different set of sizes (25 mg, 50 mg, 75 mg).

To combat that obvious maneuver, the orders make it easier to import drugs. Americans had been getting in trouble for importing drugs, even if the same ones are sold here. This made it easy to have different prices in different countries. It was like DVD region enforcement. The orders change that, making it really hard for manufacturers to keep the USA price high.

The type of insulin you get for "$300 per vial" might only be available in the USA, or it might actually cost that much (and seldom be prescribed) outside the USA. You might also be facing the issue of retail prices lagging behind wholesale prices. Check other retail locations.
>Macs can run, Windows, Linux and OS X. You won't get that with the Thinkpad.

Actually, you can run OS X[0], Windows[1] and Linux[2]^ on a Thinkpad. In fact, there are multiple ways to do so for each OS (see links).

Whether you run Windows or Linux on your bare metal, you can run any or all of those OS's (or specific functionality to provide a working environment, e.g., Cygwin) on a Thinkpad.

You are absolutely correct that a Mac can do so as well.

Given all that, I'd say that some of the questions for the OP are:

1. Which hardware is going to get you the most bang (performance) for your buck?

2. Which hardware will provide better long-term utility, stability and support?

3. Which hardware makes the most sense in terms of the infrastructure in which it is used?

^Please note that link [2] does not include WSL2 as an option for running Linux on Windows.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/918gcp/maco...

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/133515/4-ways-to-run-windows-softw...

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/170870/5-ways-to-run-linux-softwar...

Edit: Fixed list spacing.
Do you have any concrete evidence that deplatforming doesn't work outside of rare anecdotal examples (e.g. Barbara Streisand's house) where it backfired?

The rabid insistence that deplatforming doesn't work reeks of wishful thinking rather than evidence-based reasoning.
Yeah it does, libreoffice has methods of recognizing numbers that are to be interpreted as strings as well. This is user error and the programmer trying to blame that on the program rather than it being a process issue. The spreadsheet can't read your mind
The Slack etiquette your busy coworkers wish you'd follow
At least in the states, most power companies require a commitment when you are using more than a megawatt of power. The idea is that you use this money to build infrastructure to support the customer (high power distribution usually). I’m surprised they wouldn’t build storage capacity as part of that which can then be used all over the entire grid.
To add to it not being a forgone conclusion:

One anti-trust argument is that Mozilla couldn't succeed against Chrome due to Google's use of a monopoly position in Android and search results.

The beta version of Firefox was released in 2002, the same year that the final ruling came down on the Microsoft anti-trust case. The first release of Firefox was 2004, and it quickly beat out IE, and was the market leader until Chrome overtook it. It is hard to say what would happen if Chrome were not the default browser on Android, and Chrome ranking above Firefox in search results and Google Play.
Now now, we are surely spoiled for choice these days [1]. A savvy operator could easily have snagged buttplug.holdings. Or even my personal favorite -- buttplug.fishing.

[1] https://www.hover.com/domains/results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=buttp...
Oh wow I think I just figured out how a VERY limited-use card number got stolen around that same time.
Or you could just play a stick. https://stick.com

Fwiw, I would be surprised if Eddie Van Halen was not aware of the instrument, since they were invented in Southern California ~8 years before the release of "Van Halen".
This sounds awful from a seller perspective, but honestly I don’t care. It is also awful from a customer perspective and I care about that a lot. I used to do most of my shopping on Amazon. Now the ux of it all sucks out loud. I’ll search for a product and the first two results are ads for Chinese knockoffs. They’re constantly trying to sell me shit instead of the thing they have, that I want. It’s like walking around a store with a shopping list, but I have to constantly turn down offers to get what I need.

It’s really bad.
I fail to see the "problem" here. Most academia STEM jobs are incredibly competitive, postdocs less so than professorships but for fundamental science it is nearly indisputable that academia is flush with labour. If universities deem it too hard to raise postdoc wages across the board (or for specific foreign students) due to a lack of grant funding then they will still have ample choice of American students who go onto do the same research.

Yes, it is unfortunate for students looking to move to the US that the path through the standard academic route is no longer easily viable but that does not mean important research does not get done. There are also plenty of other countries that are in fact seeking such talent that might actually look like better options for the now disenfranchised (for lack of a better word) foreign students.
> Raising the wage requirement will mean that the actual talent will have better chance to get in.

How does this follow?
Where is the evidence that Dvorak is faster? I thought that was throughly debunked 25 years ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20190108175236/http://reason.com...
If you want it to be a string then put it in quotes. It's that simple. If the user is too dumb to slow down and look at the import options it is not excel's fault, it's a process issue. Excel can't read a cell and then read your mind and extract the correct option.
USB3: Why it's a bit harder than USB2
How does one get vimium working on GSuite tools? I think this is a huge limitation. If anybody has figured it out I would love to hear how they did it. Thx
that's your biases talking. basketball has roughly a billion fans worldwide (china is #2 after the US in b-ball fans) and every one of those fans knows who kobe is. van halen probably has in the few millions, mostly americans. and basketball is probably the most popular major sport among nerds (and many other demographics).

yes, the outcome isn't too hard to understand--hypocrisy. if you don't care about basketball you just ignore the posts about it. it takes willful malice to actively flag dozens of posts about the death of a singular athletic talent like kobe. he also has an oscar, a much rarer achievement than a patent.
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In a 300mio people country, Google can't gather a team of compiler experts?

And this can still be fixed by requiring above-market prices for H1B workers (eg. requiring 1.5x average pay for the position needed, so if an average compiler developer in california is paid 100k, you can only get a foreign developer if you pay them 150k - this would force companies to get local talent by raising their pay to 110k, 120k, 130k..., and when they really cannot get anyone, even at 150k, they are able to get someone on a visa).
Importing the most educated, most entrepreneurial people is the most sane immigration policy.

It's infinitely better than importing huge numbers of uneducated fundamentalists whose culture is incompatible with the western values and includes throwing gays off of roofs.

It's better to have a few shining examples of truly great countries in the world, rather than mediocre mush everywhere. So citizens of other countries can point to such countries and tell their politicians and their friends - see, we can do better, much better.
> You wiped them out.

Sorry, "we" didn't have time to get any colonies - go find a Spaniard to blame. We were too busy getting raided by Ottomans, having our children kidnapped, trained as slave soldiers, and then used for more raids against us. Or sold into harems. But I won't hold my breath waiting on any sympathy or condemnation of that.

And elevating the expansionist, slave-owning, human-sacrificing-on-unprecedented-scale Aztec empire to some pedestal of egalitarian virtue, just because they were later destroyed by the Spanish, could not be more ridiculous. How do you imagine China reached its size before it stopped being expansionist? What do you think "subdue" means in the following passage?

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland [1]

But I want to draw specific attention to your comments about India, since it's a very common type of argument. From that same wikipedia page:

History: Vedic period (1500–1000 BCE): The dasas were frequent allies of the Aryan tribes, and they were probably assimilated into the Aryan society, giving rise to a class distinction. Many dasas were however in a servile position, giving rise to the eventual meaning of dasa as servant or slave.

Already they had a class system and oppression, yet the British Raj was still three thousand years away. But you are correct, contact with the British did change them. Contact of any two civilizations ends up changing them. So everything bad that is to follow, we can blame on the British.

Just like everything bad the Spanish did, we can blame on the Moors that invaded them. I'm sure if we dig further, we'll find someone that attacked the Moors, so they aren't at fault either. We just have to follow this chain of aggression, until one day, we'll find the civilization that first attacked another, that first oppressed a class of people, and we can blame everything bad on them.

Or do you only apply this logic to Europe, and hold everyone else blameless?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China#Imperial_Chin...
If you look at any of EVH's interviews on Youtube in the past decade, he was in rough shape - either dementia, alcoholism, poor health, or all 3.

Looked like he lived hard and his time was up - very rock and roll!

Most of the classic guitar gods will be gone in the next 5 years, so buy your oldies tickets. There's a nice crop of upcomers, including Tim Henson and Tosin Abasi.
We've got some azure pipelines tasks on buttplug.io in the works that may facilitate this.
What leads you to say that? I'd take the counterpoint. Much of what passes for "science" these days is glorified p-hacking for conference proceeding churn and sweatshop adjunct work to pump out a minimum amount of monetizable IP to underwrite an ever bloating university administration complex. It seems closer to scientism than to science for me. And I think that is the natural result of intellectual pursuit being diluted into a commodity.
Sure, but if you get caught then you get deported and banned. So it's a pretty high risk.
It's that there is a shortage for talent available at the price point that corporations want.

EXACTLY.
I think policy should be evaluated by whether it is better on net, not by whether it has any downside whatsoever. The latter is a sure way to be stuck in status quo.
I think... they may have been joking?
Really shows the crazy scale.
It puts all the planets on exactly the same plane though, dont think that is quite right.
Eddie and Alex’s father Jan Van Halen was a hell of a clarinetist and was featured on the dixeland track Big Bad Bill from VH’s Diver Down album. Give it a listen, it’s a treat: https://youtu.be/9RPx6A3gKiA
Amazing I love the idea. Is it possible to make it compatible with vimium please? :)
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Excel is fine, but keep the data as xls and you won't have problems like dropping leading zeros. As soon as you convert to a simpler file format like cvs, you will likely lose data unless you are very careful in both export and import.
But you don't know what is at the other end of the spectrum you are on. What if someone knows these algorithms and has very good recall. Perhaps it becomes easier to reason about and mutate these ideas in their heads. Come up with new things, or do algorithmic things faster.

I still think problem solving with newly gained knowledge is the way to go for retaining things longterm, but if you aided that process with something like Anki for meaningful connected information, you'd certainly be better off compared to someone who just does the former
>Would the lawmakers force a creation of companies who are doomed to fail?

Strongly disagree. The current market structure with free browsers forces the users to pay for a browser with their private data, having little control over it. If the antitrust laws instead forced the users to pay for the browser directly, they would be in much better control, leading to increased competition and better products.
Fantastic creation! I had a blast "reading" The Call of Cthulhu.
But there are other trombone players in the country, google will just have to pay them more than the competition to get them and/or the competition will have to raise their pay to make them stay. In the long run, some orchestras might be a trombone player short, but with high(er) average wages, you'll get more people who take trombone-playing as a career path.

There are very very few positions, that you can't fill if you offer above-average pay and working conditions, and most H1B visa carriers now, are not unicorns, but usually just someone willing to work for less money than locals (example: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff... )
Putnam's study cover the US not Canada, if I'm not mistaken. Do you have any evidence that the rate of immigration is "too high" to sustain social cohesion in Canada? I would suggest that as you're the one that introduced it the burden of proof is on you.

> Some of us would like it to stay that way, and we understand that bringing in a whole bunch of people to undercut the price of labour while eroding our hard-fought social capital is not the way to do that.

The immigration rate of 1% per year has been the same since 1992 and I see no evidence of inequality increasing in conjunction with immigration. Do you have evidence? And once again, dramatically increasing wages by cutting off immigration increases income inequality. The GINI has remained a consistent .33 from the late 1990s through the present day, in spite of 1% per annum immigration.

You're going to need to back your case if you want to sway my mind.
Because beggars can’t be choosers.
Tesla Solar Roof buyer left without roof and tarps over his house after 2-months
I think it doesn't help you (as an entrepreneur) or the customer if you aren't forthright, especially in your initial communications, which are setting up their first impression of your product and your company.

When I was working on AdGrok, which did Google AdWords campaign management, the very first thing that would save thousands per month is to add the negative keyword "free" to their ad campaign: People searching for "free $whateverYourProductDoes" are not going to be easy to convert to paid, and are likely skewed towards subsequently toxic customers.

There are many "freemium" products that hide the limitations of their free offering, which may result in higher initial conversions, but no one feels good when they're "tricked" into using a product.

Clearly enumerate what's the value-add of paying for the thing, and make sure there's actual value to that value-add.

Also: it's (possibly) PR-worthy when you make previously-paid features be free. It's flame-worthy when you push previously-free features behind a paywall. Consider being conservative with your free tier due to this imbalance.

(I'm wrestling with what's going to be in the "free" versus "plus" tier for PhotoStructure right now!).
They have free anomaly detection on spending now (not sure how useful yet).
>to determine whether a specific known object (e.g. a known photo or video) was sent / stored by a user rather than decrypting all sent or stored objects?

It is standard practice to make it so that it is impossible to detect identical plaintext. What you are describing would count as a backdoor. So you might as well instead make it explicit and save any sort of brute forcing (rainbow tables?).
The western hemisphere is pretty big.
I think you need to do something more than that, or round trips will give you text that looks like &amp;amp;amp;lt;img src onerror=alert(1)&amp;amp;amp;gt;
> The Slack etiquette your busy coworkers wish you’d follow

> Send a complete message rather than dribbling out your stream of consciousness

Or, in other words, send an "email", just carried over a slack IM session.
Have we collectively forgiven Triplebyte for this yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 ?
China has four times our population, and we are falling behind on many fields. We need all the manpower we can get.
On another note, I'd like to raise the point that bringing talent to the country also creates demand. Many of the next generation of startups will be biology-based.

THe bias I speak of is in regard to the attitude towards H1B. I have my own different bias, for in my field most people are in favor of it.
It's a "problem" if you hear this and think, "Wow I want more of those people".

It's not a "problem" if you hear this and think, "Yeah, it should be hard for them".

Ultimately, people explicitly disagree with your initial position and framing.
The ad industry thrived for centuries without any personalized targeting. It's only in the last 15 years that ads invade privacy with tracking better than the FBI had in the 80's.

Personalized tracking needs to go. It's a privacy invasion straight out of dystopian sci fi novels
Then are diabetics smuggling insulin over the Canadian border ?
It's quite simple to disable Vimimum for a website, just click the extension icon and "Save Changes". By default it will add a rule to disable all keys on that site.
It was for sure not poaching.

It is strictly legal to hunt feral pigs any time of the day or night (!!), any time of the year, without permit in Arkansas, so long as it's on private property. You can even do it on public property if you have a generic hunting license, though there's time-of-year and time-of-day restrictions in that case.

There is no bag limit. You can even do it with night vision.

But yes, shooting pigs with small children playing nearby isn't good. I don't know the context, maybe it was very obvious that the kids all got safely inside and accounted for.
Are we paying more through higher prices or are businesses cutting margins?
I work at a Bay Area tech company with a lot of H1Bs. I consider myself to be an average coder, no formal education, and yet it behooves me why I'm sitting next to Stanford and Harvard grads at work doing the same grunt-work coding that I'm doing.

Not anything original, not anything H1B worthy, just building front-end UIs and basic BE stuff. There's of course H1Bs working on the more complex things too like machine learning (complex to me) but I'm just astounded by the number of "brilliant" H1Bs that I have to stand shoulder to shoulder with when doing my average (at best?) coding.
They can be device and geo specific. Generally the cheaper the device, the more ads.
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http://buttplug.engineer - My personal website

http://butt.engineering - My company website (http://nonpolynomial.com)

buttplug.zone/games/cam/online/tech/work/app - Going to point to various parts of my Intiface product line at some point. Games should probably be pointed at https://intiface.com/ghr for now.
I've given some thought to the PG offering -- $15/mo is really just for a dev instance with some minimal backup, it costs more to do anything production-level.

My conclusion -- YMMV! -- is that I'd happily pay that much to "set and forget" the DB in a proof-of-concept or hobby context. I realize it's not perfect, and there are cheaper options, but I really think they gave us a cheap-enough deal, and you can always play sysadmin if it's too much for you.

I'm not a big DO customer but I appreciate their pricing transparency: having worked professionally with 2/3 of the major Cloud companies I would never put anything there that's billed to my own account.
Not everyone can afford to pay for a browser. Get off your privileged horse and stop imposing your privacy argument on everyone. A mother in the bronx fighting for survival is not going to pay for a browser. The free browser is a godsend.
Life is busy work. I mean, we give sense to our life beyond filling the atmosphere with CO2, and yet, on a planetary scale, there is not much more to humanity than that.

Technology allows us to experience things that wouldn't be possible otherwise. And your word processor can indeed save you enough time to do other things you want to do with your life. And if word processors and overstimulation are not your things, you can go to a Zen monastery, technology have your back: food, medicine, construction, transportation,... so you can meditate in peace.

I have known several people who live a simple life. Small house in the middle of nowhere, no phone signal, grow their own crops, etc... But they still have a car, go out to town to buy stuff that come out of large factories, they have a few electric devices powered by solar panels, etc... They take advantage of technology and people love of word processors to live their simple life, and that's fine! That's what technology is for, to allow those who want to disconnect to do so without putting their life at risk, and to give a dopamine rush to those who can't stay still.
I haven’t read all the comments, but does anyone have a good explanation for why software engineers in the US (especially in the Bay Area, seattle and New York) make so much more than anywhere else in the world?

Even looking at relatively high cost of living / high services places like Northern Europe it is hard to make the comp work out. E.G. levels.FYI says an E5 at Facebook in London averages lower pay than an E4 in the US.
How to design a UI is a broad question that is independent of programming language. It does not need to be reinvented.