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you might be surprised to learn that there are people who apply for eb-2 on work (or non-work) visas other than h1b.

you can already get a greencard by paying less than $1mm in taxes. in general, your requirements are way higher than what's even required for citizenship. and green cards don't need a civics test either.

but I agree that it would be nice to have a less fraught/complicated path to permanent residency.

i think the difference here is that humans can't even write down what makes a great game great. we don't know. you have to play it.

if we can't even write it down, how is an llm going to be able to ace it?

i'm guessing it means that when datacenter gets too hot (maybe load, maybe climate, or maybe a combination), they may use more evaporative or other methods to help cool. e.g. a turbo mode for cooling that uses more water, but isn't required at all times.

ground is actually a vector of loss for water.

if you look at household water consumption, most places in north america treat their water and return it to a freshwater source. you can scale cities very wide and water use might go up, but the consumption rate is actually low. more depending on how much people water their lawns.

farms on the other hand 'spray water on the ground' but it actually removes the water from the freshwater source and needs to be replenished.

leaks is water loss/consumption. human activity is no guarantee. leak in this case is still bad.

most bars have scanners that will warn if the same id is scanned twice. it means that someone producing fake ids would at least need a repository of valid barcodes such that two purchasers wouldn't experience the birthday problem trying to get into a bar.

Canada doesn't have "open borders" or "free mobility" with "east asia" in the way that people are boogeymanning.

The closest approximation is the united states under NAFTA.

There is lots of poverty in America, but the border doesn't appear to have an issue. I fail to see how this would be much different (except more difficult due to an ocean and better security/screening checks on airport arrivals).

brutalism doesn't refer to the architecture being "brutal".

it refers to "béton brut" - french for 'raw concrete'. in this case, brutalism could be more readily understood as 'rawism'. it also emerged during (and is a descendant of) the modernist architectural period, which is well known for those boring, non-descript office towers.

there's nothing wrong with the simplicity of raw concrete. but just like other architecture, it can be done well and it can be done poorly. it can be done for utility, and it can be done for extravagance.

I think many people think of non-descript office towers when they think of brutalism, rather than all of the interesting things that can be done with a single material (shapes, textures, designs, etc. it's a very versatile + strong medium!).

I think it really depends by what you mean when you say vegan.

If you’re eating vegan cheeses and whatnot you’re probably not doing so hot. Or impossible burgers. Or any other manner of “invented” food that is not essentially basic agrarian or hunter-gatherer.

Conversely, wildlife play important ecological purposes and can be hunted sustainably.

Wild life can also be useful in processing things we cannot eat and grows in abundance (grass) into things we can eat (cows).

Everything in moderation…

Some do, some use closed-loop systems that are essentially 'charge once'. higher energy use, but less water

Truly. Aetna, United Healthcare, Anthem, etc are examples of industry that does not need to exist, and exist only to serve the status quo.

Each of those are companies worth billions of dollars that could be instead used to lower the individual cost of providing health insurance.

As you say, this would of course be unsavory in some respects as those companies employ a lot of people. It's not a very economically productive industry though, the main output seems to be consuming patients' and doctors' time, causing financial anguish, and causing stress among people as to whether or not if their condition will be covered.

12gb is a huge downgrade.

I was going to buy an 11 Pro, but now I might just grab a 10 Pro instead. What is the 11 buying me, some extra attention grabbing lights and a small redesign? in exchange for less memory? Oy vey.

if you're up til 6, your next day is already shot. who cares about caffeine at 2am at that point.

I read 'we' (present tense) rather than 'we'll' (future tense). So, nevermind!

genuine question, what IP does america presently steal from China?

I agree. I'm looking at replacing my braun series 7 shaver, and I'd love if the replacement product had usb-c.

what really gets me though is products that support usb-c and then don't support PD, so you end up charging at a glacial pace. The most upsetting incidence of this I've seen is a powerbank charging via usb-c but not supporting PD. So slow!

That's actually fine, but the people who oppose rent control would probably not accept that because that's basically the system (give or take) that already exists in places where rent control already exists.

My ex also had a lease that stipulated automatic 5% increases, until they made him sign a new agreement mandating the non-negotiated increase would be 7.5% instead.

NYC has a particularly spectacular brand of hostility towards tenants (the latest trend I've seen is, instead of broker fees, absorbent move in/move out fees paid to property managers).

I've lived in properties with no form of rent control whatsoever. Landlords issuing 10%+ rent increases is awful. it denies you the stability that's granted by fair/consistent rent increases. It erodes the community fabric by having a revolving door of tenants who live there 1-2 years before leaving.

I do agree that we should focus on other remedies such as building more. However, even in a market with ample housing, I'm not convinced that some Landlords would still just as happily take the 'I bet they'd rather a 10% rent increase than deal with the hassle of moving' gamble.

Most of the people I've met who are anti rent control/stabilization usually don't have the pleasure of a landlord who has decided to engage in such tactics. Almost always they argue from some place of guaranteed housing safety.

this is an issue that applies to people making 30k and also people making 300k.

I suspect the ceo of greenhouse wasn't saying 'and there will never be another new ats again.' that's a ridiculous thing to say, as evidenced by the fact that greenhouse and lever both cropped up.

the reality actually is, you DO need depth in order to close lucrative enterprise contracts.

but startups will use anything. you use early money/traction to fund the deeper features. that's saas/startup 101.

anyhow, saas just means the second "s" matters more. maybe software gets cheaper (that's actually an unproven hypothesis), but service encompasses many dimensions. the most lucrative contracts won't be eaten by fly-by-the-night operations almost by definition. any startup that knows the words 'vendor risk' will tell you.

This is a very “taxation is theft” take.

Everyone knows that many things that are not directly beneficial to society would go unfunded because humans optimize for what’s around them, and things that are self-interested.

There isn’t even alignment. One person wants to fund science, the other wants to fund high speed rail, the other wants farm subsidies, one wants social security and the other wants the military. Government balances all of that together. Of course people will make value judgements about their pet interests and declare the other aspects to be better funded separately.

if your supplier promises you an iPhone 17 Pro, and then delivers you a Pixel 4a because 'thats all you need', you will be understandably miffed.

maybe in the same way that we have to keep voting on awful privacy legislation

Or, it is saying things in a way that will be actually heard by an audience, regardless of content.

The results are still there though? What mediocre blog spam

depends on the grant type and what scenario we're talking about. things change if we're talking about 3-legged oauth or client-device oauth. for example, in an authorization code flow, the refresh token is useless without the client id/secret.

more providers are making refresh-tokens single shot. this means that if someone refreshes your token for you, your own auth will break as you will not be eligible to refresh the token, at which point you could reconnect the app and void the old (stolen) session.

time-limiting and single-purposing the tokens are not cure-alls, but they do certainly offer enhanced security by limiting the amount and scope of damage.

OAuth with refresh tokens.

IAM roles/workload identity.

Even time-limited or signed JWT, though has a separate issues.

Maybe you'll say 'those are both just text values passed like an apikey' though api keys don't frequently rotate/time limited, which is an important security feature.

alberta could also have had a wealth fund if it didn't have 0% sales tax, didn't do things like ralphbucks, etc.

norway and alberta take fundamentally different approaches to how they see the government and taxation. don't blame the federal government by saying individuals paying income tax somehow exempts the province from smart financial stewardship.

From everything I've heard, running LTSC is not a good idea for a daily-driver pc. App support/compatibility is annoying and not guaranteed. I guess if you have a small set of unchanging apps that you use and that's all it could be a good pick.

Interestingly, I hear a lot of people talk about LTSC, but few talking about their positive experiences. Is this the "I'm moving to Canada," of operating systems?

Honestly they should go in the other direction. Real people, real conversations. Upload an ID or a CC transaction or something in order to prove your identity, and require re-ups every few years.

the downside is no anonymity. The upside is, no astroturf, no bots, no nothing. Or maybe not 'none' but 'greatly reduced'.

That's actually a community I might be enthused about participating in. Sort of like HN, where a lot of people use their real names. The problem is how you bootstrap it. People need a good carrot to embrace the stick.

That I can't tell whether "the wheels coming off," is literal or figurative when it comes to Tesla is an indictment about their product quality at this point.

What a disaster. I don't really know anyone who is voluntarily buying Teslas when there are so many other viable options in an increasingly crowded marketplace.