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I doubt. Forget citizenship, the US is not processing permanent residency for its employment based applicants, many of which are MDs working in hospitals. The backlog spans more than a decade and if the applicant passes away, their family is subject to self deportation. The backlog is due to antiquated per country caps which result in prolonged waiting times for populous countries (I am personally waiting for the last 11 years). Forget citizenship, forget changing legislation to give them green cards faster, the agency (uscis) is poised to waste 100,000 of such green cards this year (which cannot be recaptured without legislation next year). These numbers would otherwise be useful for applications whose petitions were approved up to 2013. Truly dystopian.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-100-000-green-cards-at-ris...

My 3 year old hates sweets. Ice-cream, cakes and chocolates/candy are a hard no. So much so that he cried once my wife tricked him into tasting ice-cream. OTOH he loves ripe sweet tasting fruits so it is not aversion to sweet taste.We'll see how long this lasts...

Right now yes. However any neighboring country with a recent coup doesn't fill you with confidence.

Maybe you are right about youtube in context of Indian covid. However, the coverage elsewhere in mainstream has been quite graphic in the current wave.

That signal move backfired for me. Before it was just whatsapp. Now with some folks from my generation moving to signal and the older folks from the parent's generation staying with whatsapp, I have had to maintain presence across 2 chat applications.

“National government may have limited formal powers to stop any super league. But local government may have more, stronger and long forgotten powers. Football Clubs use the name of their towns and cities with the permission of the local council. If Liverpool Council decides it no longer wants Liverpool FC to bear its name, then they could withdraw that right. The club could still exist and play in the new ESL but call itself something else (Red Mersey?) but they could no longer call itself Liverpool. That would be an utterly extraordinary move but maybe even the threat would be something.”

Interesting idea

I chose to get Pfizer for the exact same reason. If it was able to get the same effectiveness as Moderna with lesser mRNA it seemed to be an efficient choice (as a programmer :))

I wonder why the previous link to track it is not working again. Would have been cool to see it navigating the canal:

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000

Does this forum have a "NSFW" tag? If so, this hilarious post needs it

While the headline talks about covid, I found other bits of the article scary. For instance the supposed lax handling of pathogens like smallpox. While I would trust the worldwide scientific community for covid origin theories, I cannot look past the egregious safety violations reported in the article (if true).

Amazing comment, thank you

>Being able to explain it in 5 minutes doesn't necessarily mean it's not complex.

I second this. Evolutionary biology is a complex topic. But all it took for me to understand the basics of it was the Carl Sagan video about the japanese crabs.

Most of the grains we eat are grass so we can technically eat grass.

I ordered quite a few items from etsy over the holidays and all by logging in with Google on my android phone

This might be due to a car being a more common retail purchase compared to a plane. Airlines might want to customize their plane for the usage and different engines might provide different benefits.

I wonder if there are studies linking this disease to occupations which routinely disturb ones circadian rhythm like air travel.

It's worse when you are trying to put a soothing music to put your baby to sleep and it starts with a loud ad which wakes her up. Or now that she is a toddler, her nursery rhyme videos have political campaign ads in the middle of the song.

I don't even mind ads before videos however the current way ads are being shown is pathetic and ruins the experience. My toddler likes to watch 15 mins of cocomelon while drinking milk and ads show up every few mins in the middle of the nursery rhyme playing. It is extremely infuriating.

So possession is decriminalized but what about sale and distribution? Also is this in direct conflict with federal law prohibiting the same?

I have bookmarked a javascript snippet which a friend wrote to enable better text reading experience on such websites. It just hides all images in the page.

Wow. I wonder if there is an equivalent of this sticker for other states.

The question then is will Oracle kill TikTok like Solaris?

That is a co-incidence due the name Corona meaning crown in Latin as well as Spanish along with the zip code being populated with folks presumably in sectors where WFH is not possible.

"From corona (“crown-like circle of light appearing around the sun”) +‎ virus.[1][2] Corona is derived from Latin corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “something curved; curved stern of a ship; end, point, tip”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). The name refers to the characteristic appearance of its virions by electron microscopy, which have a fringe of surface projections creating an image reminiscent of a solar corona.[3] Compare the former genus name Coronavirus."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coronavirus#Etymology

https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/11368/

Looks like a lot of them are cargo operators.

They are corrupt but most corrupt? Please read up on the Nehru-Gandhi family. I agree that family is shady but calling it the most corrupt is a hyperbole.

Honestly the reason people flee is due to the lack of opportunities as a result of the existing bureaucracy. You are conflating the cause of the inefficiency and one of the ways of getting around it. Reliance and Dhirubhai just showed how to navigate around it. The bureaucracy is a relic of the colonial past and it belongs in a museum.

And I write this as an honest, maybe smart Indian sitting outside India.

I agree with your general sentiment. I have stopped watching lately but the last great season I remember was the one when Lewis Hamilton won the championship in the last corner of the last race over Felipe Massa due to some other driver not finishing. I think it was in the late 00s.

Can you elaborate why that statement is incorrect?

If B/G is high, G/B is low. But if P is a very high number G/B * P must be a decently high number as well.

Sure, scammers are abound and the bad to good ratio is pretty high but due to the population size, the number of good developers is high as well.

I don't think it is "way less". 80K USD converts to 5,979K INR which is about the ballpark estimate some of the senior engineers I know make in India (one of them is working for the Western European company btw).

One of the reasons to move to India would be the availability of talent even if it is at comparable cost. Companies like to scale and lack of talent is a risk they want to mitigate.