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ycombonator··on Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year
>For the lakhs in India who aspire for an H1B visa, the news is disappointing, but not entirely unexpected. The options of Canada and Australia, which once seemed alternatives to the American dream, are also more distant now, given the dismal global economic scenario. One young couple, on a temporary visa in the US which will expire soon, had invested in acquiring a Permanent Residence (PR) in neighbouring Canada, but they are now unsure of that too.

[1]https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2020/06/22/american-dream-...

ycombonator··on Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year
They all eventually come back to USA after gaining a foothold in Canada. TN Visas. Majority of TN Visa users are immigrants into Canada.
ycombonator··on LinkedIn ‘Job Offers’ Targeted Aerospace, Military Firms with Malware
Chinese Intelligence use of LinkedIn to steal intellectual property and recruit spies is well documented https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/asia/china-linkedin...
ycombonator··on Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations
I just tried Wuhan
ycombonator··on Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign
> “The internal investigation found that, while Mr. Wenig’s communications were inappropriate, there was no evidence that he knew in advance about or authorized the actions that were later directed toward the blogger and her husband. However, as the company previously announced, there were a number of considerations leading to his departure from the company,” eBay said.

That’s all I had to read. It had to come from the top to be this organized.

ycombonator··on HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database
HSBC IT is a hollowed out outsourced shop. Just like Avis Budget, Disney, Walmart and Walgreens. They will all move to MongoDB data stores sooner than later.
ycombonator··on Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague
Setting all the drama aside he was fired for harassing a coworker. The news article’s headline is misleading.
ycombonator··on Senator Josh Hawley's Open Letter to Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom
Or the Chinese Communist Party which can make him obsolete as they have done with other Chinese billionaires who don’t two their line.
ycombonator··on Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe
Thank you. Just found this beauty on Faroe Islands http://radio.garden/listen/-7fm/EgrMqzvq
ycombonator··on WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password
That means the ChiComs know all their citizens passwords. What’s new. Corporate surveillance and speech oppression coming to your neighborhood soon.
ycombonator··on I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
What happened to everyone leaving Facebook when Hillary lost ? Their active users have grown orders of magnitude since then.
ycombonator··on The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle
This is what Apple car would have looked like if Jobs was still alive.
ycombonator··on Dear Facebook Employees
Why the fit ?
ycombonator··on Do I need to go to university?
“Educational credentials are badges that admit one to the elite class. Expect elites to struggle mightily to justify the current system.” - Naval Ravikant
ycombonator··on SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
How did SpaceX accelerate their development so fast ? What took NASA decades to achieve in terms of high tech rocketry SpaceX achieved in less than half the time. What are the factors ? The people Elon hired were ex NASA ? Where did the working knowledge come from ?I don’t think I found the answer anywhere on the internet.
ycombonator··on Head of Twitter's fact checking has a history of anti-Trump tweets
Who is fact checking the fact checkers ? You see where I am going with this ? [1] [1] https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/796186371408789505
ycombonator··on Ask HN: Where do HN readers spend their online downtime?
Slashdot zerohedge japantimes
ycombonator··on Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
Let’s face it Silicon Valley is run by leftists. Nothing to see here move on.
ycombonator··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
For me Pihole on hosted vps has less latency than NextDNS
ycombonator··on Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs
Geeksforgeeks and tutorialspoint are low quality offshore content farms.
ycombonator··on IBM confirms layoffs are happening, but won’t provide details
Welcome to on demand remote IT Labor. Pretty much anyone one IT can be replaced with a cheaper offshore resource thanks to the acceleration of remote work.
ycombonator··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?
They are busy making TV shows.
ycombonator··on Shopify Goes Digital by Default
Bye bye wework
ycombonator··on U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low
Just look at the number of pets being adopted by Millennials.
ycombonator··on The most prized degree in India became the most worthless
Great solution to “economic inequality”. We should do it here too, increase admissions in ivy leagues by 100 fold. Will solve the inequality problem the television pundits and grifter politicians breathlessly blabber about.
ycombonator··on U.S. Senators Advocate H-1B Freeze for 60 Days or Longer
Estimated to be 400,000 mostly in IT.
ycombonator··on Pi-hole 5.0
I host pihole on Digital Ocean. Updated DNS on all my home clients. Smooth and adfree
ycombonator··on We Chat, They Watch
Also check Zoom while you are at it.
ycombonator··on Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole
I host Pihole on Digital Ocean as well.
ycombonator··on Paul Graham’s thoughts, discoveries, and tricks on parenthood
Where do the MBAs fall ?
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