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> Second, salaries are garbage, especially for migrants. There is a term for this situation called "Canadian Experience": employers claim that because one does not have experience …

> This means that foreign-trained doctors (as an example) can easily get a federal visa to enter the country, but the province will refuse to recognize their medical training, forc…

> People are increasingly getting into the field for the pay rather than for a love of programming, > the quality of the software being produced is decreasing I feel these two are …

> It tells me I need to get out because it represents a shift to a higher level of abstraction in programming. In the ideal I hear expressed, instead of programming you'd be just d…

> Likewise, I find it absurd that anyone running a startup outside of the US would ever incorporate in Delaware. What if I told you it's sometimes easier for a foreinger to setup a…

> My daughter thinks I'm one of those nerds that married a regular girl from college and can do magic with software because I can make her computer go back in time and bring back v…

With shrinking recess time and PE disappearing from some schools, boys with normal needs for physical activities are increasingly labelled as "sick" and medicalized for completely …

> many countries have their own laws and policies regarding air quality exposure. Often times these regulations use metrics about time-average exposure (e.g. the annual average 8-h…

It means you'll be getting a "This phone isn't available in your country" pop-up when shopping online and all SKUs sold in Europe by the maker's subsidiary will have different mode…

> Unsubstantiated [0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421151224.h... [1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225792.shtml

> I remembered growing up with a the children of a customs officer. Every now and then he would show up with boxes of confiscated pirated movie / game days discs, asking us to pick…

> tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs. Think teachers, nurses, secretaries against soldiers, police officers, construction workers. > less dangerous,…

> what my local government/news says about air quality That's assuming the local government is giving the truth regarding air quality and that their "official scale" is made to ref…

> Are they just extremely rare cases or am I just not aware of the valley and their customs? Not aware. That's not unusual compensation for key contributors. Especially in AI or ot…

A lot of what Turing did was kept classified or not publicized too much by the British government. They seem to have done a complete 180 on this relatively recently (now that tech …

> Until the 1980s or so, Turing wasn't known much outside mathematics, and was considered a minor figure in computing. Von Neumann was the big name in computer architecture, and Fr…

> when bad luck gets hold of you > Children's cancer wards exist. They definitely do, and this is pure bad-luck. But go to a hospital today and take a look at the patient census: a…

I recall a story someone told me a while ago. Software business that did local CoL/prevailing wages. Hired an intern one summer that was just running around in circles around the o…

I don't think people realize how relatively easy it is today to have a healthy lifestyle. Don't smoke, don't vape, drink a little and cook at home. There has never been a better av…

> Apple didn't keep raising money to pay for the development of their next iPhone. But they did raise more money (from Mike Markkula) than what they made from the Apple 1 sales in …

> I find Russians to be highly political apathetic That's a good survival strategy. You'll see them side with the winner as soon as it becomes obvious who that is.

That's what modern Chinese politics expert call "the mandate from the heavens". As long as the average (Han) Chinese gets richer, they won't mind the oppressive regime and the coll…

One simple question I ask is to count the words in a string. It's a warmup question and a way to get the candidate comfortable with the format of the interview and the optimal work…

That's the reason I advise against them. Unless you are the top company in your bracket, your completion rate will also not be so great for a take-home (people have limited time: t…

> EU-wide booking system. Maybe they can achieve what we had in America back in the 60's with SABRE [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corporation