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Is the United States more prone to misinformation and special interest groups than other countries?

That sounds like a great read. And it seems that a lot of world leadsrs have taken an interest in the book. Yet still no other country except maybe China has aggressively pursued the same kind of environment.

Or maybe there are just more high-income people than there used to be? More people in the upper ranges of the middle class? The author cites rising hotel prices, but there are the same number of hotel beds. Meaning just as many people are staying, they're just paying more to do it.

What about exactly 50%?

As a non-lawyer, it seems that you'd have to leave your company to join YC, meaning you'd forfeit your H1B visa.

If this happened would existing TNs still be valid till their end date?

Given Musk's pay package that requires getting Tesla's valuation to $8 trillion, isn't it obvious that he should absorb all of his holdings (SpaceX, X, xAI) into Tesla?

While I'm inside the US, can I perform work for non-US entities? For example, remotely teaching a music lesson do someone in a different country or writing a book and publishing it abroad but not in the US.

It's no fun if you legally can't do it...

I'm living in the US on TN status and I'm interested in starting a startup, a subscription-based mobile app. But I have a pending PERM application and leaving my company would mean abandoning the whole thing, which I'm not eager to do. Is there any legal way I could start a startup without having to do that?

A question about TN status for a Canadian living in the US. There are some income-generating things I'd like to do outside of my work visa (play a music gig, upload music to Spotify, act in a movie). My understanding is that I can't do these things in the US. Am I able to do these things if I do them outside of the country, or is there any way to make them work? For example, if I went to Canada, recorded an album, uploaded it, then came back to the US.

Is that predatory? Can't you just decline the offer?

Just get an LLM to do it for you.

Financial markets produce a net positive outcome for investors (gamblers), no? The average rate of return in the S&P500 is about 10% and it's considered the baseline for thr stock market.

The music is an essential dimension of the text. To remove it and only leave the words is like deciding whether a movie is great based on its screenplay, or taking all the words of a poem and writing it out as prose. The piece that as created to be heard, and of course it won't be good if you remove a whole dimension of it.

The author's argument seems to be "literature equals words," which I, and evidently the Nobel committee, think is a naive way of viewing literature. Music has always been tied to poetry, and the advent of recorded audio made sound people's primary way of experiencing poetry again, as it was before mass literacy. In my opinion, Dylan brought music back to poetry, not poetry to music (which is how many like to characterize his work).

Can you give an example of a moral company? Is Apple one?

You know what's cool? A billion dollars.

Should people on non-dual-intent work visas not be paying those taxes then? Because they do.

I wonder if treaty-based non-immigrant-intent work visas like TN and E-3 will be next.

I wouldn't want to wear earbuds while doing anything active, the chance of them falling out is too high.

I appreciate the live demo but I'm suprised they didn't at least have a prerecorded backup. I wanted to see how video calls work!

Why shouldn't an employee at one of the world's most profitable companies be paid well? Should they work for less so that the company can profit more and they can somehow prove a point?

Would that be done by congress? I thought all nonimmigrant-intent work visas like that were written into treaties.

"I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go with" doesn't sound to me necessarily like making a number up. There are different ways to measure this like how many years and what counts as an "AI investment" and it sounds like this number he chose is just one particular way of measuring it.

Can you share more about these accounts? I've never heard of single men vs women having a harder time, but I don't know many Europeans who've emigrated to Canada recently.

Why would that give you a nice feeling?

Canadians self-sort into the US because of money. If they could earn the same amount working from Canada, almost none would pack up their lives and move to a new country.

Indeed, adding sugar is a process.

Yep. And a company like Meta or OpenAI paying massive sums is a good thing for workers, even if you don't work there. Other companies have more incentive to pay their workers more or they'll go elsewhere.

Is pizza? Basic pizza is just wheat, mozzarella, and tomato sauce. It's cooked, but I guess cooking is a process.