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Waymo seems to have much better PR than Cruise. For example, a Waymo killed someone's dog recently which hasn't been mentioned here at all:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/waymo-car-ki...

I'm not sure if the economic angle is convincing, since Canada spends over $300B a year on healthcare [0]. Are you suggesting MAID was introduced to save "as much as" 0.03% of healthcare expenditure?

[0] https://www.cihi.ca/en/news/covid-19-expected-to-push-canada...

One nit: you can actually transition directly to permanent residency from TN status. The only challenge is that after you file, you can't leave the US! That's why, as you explained, generally the play is to wait to transition to an H1B before starting the process.

For the OP: entering the US with TN status is relatively trivial. FANG companies recognise this, and will interview you more or less as if you had work authorisation in the US. Totally doable also for smaller employers, and is honestly easy enough for you to do on your own if needed.

Either your employer will provide you with documents to show CBP at the border when you first enter and they'll adjudicate your application on the spot, or your employer will apply for the TN a priori which takes only a few weeks - this allows you to enter in a sort of pre-authorised way.

One note on permanent residency: there are limits for employment-based green cards on the basis of your country of birth (not your country of citizenship). This makes things difficult if you were born in India or China.

Don't believe that using an external device helps -- the TV can detect what content is being played by sampling the video stream and creating a fingerprint. They can compare to live tv streams to detect channels, and static video files to detect movies/tv shows -- even the menus and cutscenes in video games can be detected.

Also note that disabling WiFi isn't always helpful - some devices expose ethernet over HDMI which the TV will use to phone home.

Rampant property theft and homelessness in SF predated Chesa Boudin and the ballot initiative the article mentions.

I’m not convinced that changing those two things will be a panacea to SF’s problems.

It really is as bad as it sounds. A couple anecdotes:

- Some people without homes pitched a tent on the sidewalk nearby, blocking the sidewalk. The city has a moratorium on clearing tents. I recently walked by and the tent had been consumed by fire, leaving charred furniture and camping equipment behind. It’s been there for a good week now.

- multiple times I’ve seen folks grab armfuls of goods and run out. The staff just watch (I don’t blame them.) as a result, most medicines, alcohol, or other things of value (Tide!) are behind locked barriers.

- my local Safeway has armed guards, but somehow this doesn’t deter about a half dozen folks from loitering outside. Occasionally one will try to get in and make a run for it. Somehow this doesn’t effect the whole foods across the street.

- many streets downtown, including blocks on market, are open drug markets: folks dealing, preparing, and consuming drugs. You literally have to step over passed out bodies.

The whole city has a apocalyptic vibe right now. I’m not clear what the cause or solution to these problems are. But I’m kinda sick of people pretending that it’s normal. It isn’t.

My mom came from abroad recently to visit. She was horrified and I was embarrassed that she had to see all this.

All this presupposes that what the AG has written is correct, and that what happened was actually illegal. Generally a court of law decides that.

Since none of this has been proven, maybe it would be prudent not to throw all of the folks who work there under the sociopath or coward bus?

A cursory reading belies the authors don’t fully understand the mechanics of the industry (eg, the broken analogy comparing an ad exchange to a stock exchange), so I’ll reserve judgement personally.

The area around the port of long beach is rather dense residential, so in order to preserve views the city limited the height of container stacks.

> "These provisions, which have been in effect for many years, were established to address the visual impact to surrounding areas of sites with excessive storage."

https://longbeach.gov/press-releases/city-of-long-beach-stat...

You’re right, sorry!

What? Give me a break -- one is completely unlike the other.

Listing candidates to intentionally confuse voters is completely different than (correctly!) challenging the legitimacy of voter signatures. Calling the latter a "trick" is completely dishonest.

This whataboutism in America is exhausting.

> Our vaccine acquisition strategy was a disaster

Not sure if the facts agree with you here. Canada had, at one point, the largest number of vaccines on order per capita from a number of different companies. [0]

You seem to dismiss this news which contradicts your point - that Canada has better vaccination outcomes than those countries who DO produce vaccines, like the US and the UK, to say nothing of peer countries like Australia. [1]

Certainly many aspects of the pandemic response could have been massively improved on — but I’m not sure if there’s any citizen of any country that doesn’t feel that way today.

My suggestion: open your eyes a bit and take a moment to be thankful for the relatively good outcomes we’ve enjoyed vs the rest of the world. We’re not under anyone’s thumb yet.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/us/coronavirus-vaccine-do... [1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

Clubhouse lets you collect payments to join some channels. Isn’t KYC reasonable in that case?

Re: Age Verifications on Google & YouTube: this has been covered well elsewhere. Google is required to do so by EU law. Blame regulators not the companies.

It works this way often in (north-east) Asia. Double-tap a selected floor and it unselects. Brilliant.

Interestingly the "City of London" is a specific thing that has surprising meaning [0], but used here I think it is a metonym for the financial / banking sector of the British economy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc

Seems like buying more data for the LTE modems already in the cars would be easier / cheaper path than building a fleet of novel satellites and launching them into space?

> It has forcibly sterilised some Uyghur women

Forced sterilisation is a form of genocide [0]

[0] https://asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/Publications/Compen...

It is not the number of pardons that is unusual (and it’s unsurprising that this administration has done less work than previous ones), but the sense that these pardons are so clearly in service of Trump’s personal agenda rather than true acts of clemency.

Can you find examples of bad pardons from other Presidents? No doubt. But not on this scale.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-11/why-presi...

> It protects the outgoing administration from political persecution

Aren’t pardons generally given post-conviction? How can it be a tool to protect against an incoming administration if the victim has been convicted under the current one?

Unless you mean that in the future, when the outgoing’s party is back in power they can issue pardons. That doesn’t seem to be consistent with the trend that many pardons are issued on a President’s last day in office (and not his first).

Did you read the article? Or are you just regurgitating to Fox News talking points?

Sweden - on both health and economic measures - has fared nearly as worse as the United States (read: not great).

As great as its image, in my view Whole Foods just isn't that great of a grocery store.

They were out of ground pork the other day and the staff at the butcher counter insisted they weren't allowed to grind more pork, despite it being on display. Bizarre.

They are regularly out of things just beyond the norm, like polenta.

Seems less like a grocery store for normal people and more of a spot for yuppies to buy $8 kombucha or whatever. Blows my mind.

Why can't we have HEB in California?

I'm not American but you're off-base here. Sure, if you already have another western passport an American passport may not buy you much. But if you go to Asia or Africa, you'll find that an American passport is still the Holy Grail; certainly "one of the most prized" as the article says.

And, BTW, if you're poor (like most of the world!), the mobility offered by a passport matters little in the short term; it's the economic mobility a new nationality gives you.

Besides, those passport indexes are ridiculous -- they rank them by number of countries you can access. But let's be real -- would you prefer an Emerati passport to an American one because you get a visa-on-arrival in Liberia or similar places? Insane.

Yes but... and I'm sorry to point out the obvious, but these executives haven't been murdered by Persians. They've just been paid a relatively trivial amount to do their jobs for a few months.

And who's to stay the internally-promoted folks will demand any less payment?

Anyways, sounds like you're just opposed to these payments fundamentally despite all of the rational arguments that have been elucidated in this thread in support of them.

Generally it’s the shareholders approving these payments. It’s in their interest, and perhaps in the interest of the creditors as well, to have a competent management team who know the company well in place to maximise enterprise value through Chapter 11.

You’re assuming that there is a pool of hypothetical executives who are a) familiar with the industry, b) familiar with the company, c) available, and d) willing to earn an amount less than what the existing executives are offered here, and e) willing to take a very risky job that will likely end fairly shortly.

I’m not an expert but it seems like these people may not exist and that keeping the existing management on may be in the shareholders’ interest.

My favourite is AirWay Sim [0], a massively-multiplayer online airline simulation. Incredibly detailed business sim financially — with full financial statement generation - as well as operationally. One must decide on hubs, airplane types, fuel hedging, scheduling.. the list is endless.

I’ve spent a non-trivial portion of my free time in university building airlines in this game. Highly recommended.

[0] https://www.airwaysim.com/

Correction for the title, Trump actually called Zuckerberg and not the other way around:

> Later that day, Trump phoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. During the call, Zuckerberg "expressed concerns about the tone and the rhetoric," according to a source familiar with the call.

The brilliant thing about financial markets is that anyone can put their money where their mouth is. If you believe you've spotted some inefficiency, then put up some cash and enjoy your spoils.

Jeez man their mission wasn’t to solve world hunger or bring peace to the Middle East. It was a credit app that refered people to credit products. They sold to a financial company. Seems pretty consistent.

Debt isn’t dirty. There’s a reasonable case to make for having an appropriate debt load in terms of tax shields and motivating management.

I mean like, he had previously complained about the car swerving towards a barrier on the 101. He later crashed his car into the same barrier while on Autopilot which took his life.

I think the intuition is that like, if a piece of technology repeatedly shows itself to drive your car into a concrete barrier, maybe don't play video games while passing that same concrete barrier.