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ycombonatoron DHS to Raise Fees Significantly for Many Immigration Benefits

OP modified the title

ycombonatoron President Trump Is Ensuring That Americans Are Not Displaced by Foreign Workers

This is huge. Federal corporations going out of their way to hire H1Bs

ycombonatoron Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Abolish History Classes

Cancel culture eating it’s own ?

ycombonatoron Americans Aren’t Making Babies, and That’s Bad for the Economy

The answer was right in front of our eyes. Just needed to look at all the pets and dog poop left on side walks.

ycombonatoron Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them

Just like gas station prices.

ycombonatoron Indian IT consultancies struggle against technological obsolescence

https://www.tcs.com/business-4-0/report/behaviors-digital-tr... Just read this and tell me if any of this makes sense. I read it 10 times and couldn’t figure out what is the value they are bringing.

ycombonatoron Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings

Thanks for reminding got carried away.

ycombonatoron Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings

Twitter Commie hacks are in full force downvoting

ycombonatoron Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

ycombonatoron Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings

“Trends Blacklist” & “Search Blacklist” are interesting buttons. Manipulation much ?

ycombonatoron The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments

As an outsider I found it charming. Especially the Orange trees on sidewalks :) in the Lycabettus area.

ycombonatoron Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient

Why can’t they trial this in US ? There are literally thousands of cities without fiber and locked into crappy cable connections.

ycombonatoron Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say

A lot of CXOs are waiting for the Biden win and hoping for storm to pass so to speak.

ycombonatoron I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to

So the “canceller” got cancelled

ycombonatoron Bullshit Jobs (2018)

Most of the Federal government offices have been shut down since end of February barring a few “essential” services. Yet we seem to be functioning normally. Perhaps 70-80% of these jobs are bull shit jobs ?

ycombonatoron My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards

These people are from India who say they are from IRS and usually target seniors.

ycombonatoron Why marketing is eating the world

No it’s not

ycombonatoron Did a Chinese Hack Kill Nortel?

West is littered with graveyards of companies hollowed out by Chinese Industrial Espionage. ASMC comes to mind.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/chinese-win...

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Didn't they already do that in 2016 ?

ycombonatoron A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts

Google product Growth hack: Fake it Until you make it

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So much for “war on women” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_women

ycombonatoron YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

https://www.locast.org/ Don’t pay for TV

ycombonatoron Dependence on H-1B has fallen significantly, says Infosys CEO at virtual AGM

They have atleast 60% of their workforce in US via 3rd party contracting body shops.

ycombonatoron Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China

On what basis do you make this claim ?

ycombonatoron Facebook Boycott Grows: Ford Joins Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Other Brands

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/how-far-gone-...

ycombonatoron Zero-sum thinking on immigration will make America poorer

There are tons of 45 and older American software professionals looking for jobs. Immigration specifically related to tech labor is promoted by big tech to dilute the labor pool and reduce their labor expenses. This group is the last of the good paying jobs in America.

ycombonatoron Facebook’s community standards censorship has far-reaching consequences

If Hillary had won none of this would have been a problem. No claims of “election interference”, no one would have accused Facebook of being “used to manipulate the voters”. Life would have been happy for Facebook, Twitter and other entities.

ycombonatoron Stop Firing the Innocent

"Dignity Culture" has been replaced with "victimhood culture" in United States[1]

>A dignity culture, according to Campbell and Manning, has moral values and behavioral norms that promote the value of every human life, encouraging achievement in its children while teaching that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

>Because victimhood culture is now claimed to confer the highest moral status on victims, Campbell and Manning argue that it “increases the incentive to publicize grievances.” Injured and offended parties who might once have thrown a punch or filed a law suit now appeal for support on social media

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Victimhood_Culture

ycombonatoron iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes

Chinese Communist Party [1] [1] https://www.vox.com/open-sourced/2019/12/16/21013048/tiktok-...

ycombonatoron The death of the private citizen?

So NYTIMES policy is to Dox their sources ? I don’t see them dox the opinion column of the famous “anonymous” government official or other tyrants.