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zaitcev

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zaitcev··on Krugman: Debt Is Good
Krugman is a specialist in the field of licking a certain kind of bottom.
zaitcev··on The Slow Decline Of Adobe Flash Player
Lies such as?
zaitcev··on Why Aren't People Using Smalltalk?
The only appropriate answer to the IDE part is this:

JEREMY CLARKSON: You mention that you rent a garage.

JAMES MAY: Yes.

JEREMY CLARKSON: How far away from your house?

JAMES MAY: I don't know. Seven miles?

JEREMY CLARKSON: You rent a garage seven miles from your house! How do you get there?

JAMES MAY: On... on my folding bicycle, obviously.

JEREMY CLARKSON: You are mad! Clinically insane!

zaitcev··on California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It
All is left for you is to learn why resistive losses on the order of about 30% are necessary for the (unbuffered) electric grid to function at all.
zaitcev··on Invited to the U.S., Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare
I knew a few guys on H-1B who switched. The only downside is that the clock is not restarted, but since the H-1B timer is 6 years and GC takes about 3 years, a worker who's not a complete idiot has plenty of time to shop around.

Hiring H-1B for cost reasons is not possible. It is not allowed to pay less than market price and the government audits it. My first H-1B job paid $75k in '97 dollars (e.g. north of $120k now) and it was more than typical market value. Full bennies, too.

zaitcev··on Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway
After Alice Goffman, a publication with this kind of journalist involvement has to be seen with a certain suspicion.