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largely/generally this is how it's done for NAFTA visas

you can renew the same permit without, but you can't go from one type of permit to another (student to working prof in my case) without flagpoling; you also can't go from a visa to…

it's a great last line; when trying to explain something to someone it behooves someone to ask a follow-up so they can clarify anything not yet answered.

Political violence created and has sustained democracy, democracy is what happens when the violence fails and violence is what happens when the democracy fails.

This seems like fantastic fantasy or fanfic, but unless you have a citation or some actual names, I think I'll put it down to fiction

I am an archivist; please don't use flash drives because they lose data to the air; use hard disk drives.

Brazil and South Korea offer two relatively recent examples

I mean, the CEO of bsky used skeet unironically in interviews so I'd say it's a-ok

Canada is the source of more than 80% of the US's potash, the source of fertilizer. Without that, the entire farming industry and its crops withers and dies. It is not something ea…

OP, I love your passion, but as someone who's been in these trenches for a long time as a visibily queer person, you are a Titanic heading for an iceberg of legal issues in the US,…

Yes, huge +1 to this OP, especially if you're American bc you are heading for a big collision with FOSTA-SESTA and other legal issues that could put you and your users at risk of h…

No they're not; their roots are in the YMCA and the British society for the suppression of vice and earlier societies dating back to the 1700s. They originated when the church cour…

I've found mousemaster (windows) to be excellent and the dev incredibly nice and responsive https://github.com/petoncle/mousemaster

> Why didn't other people, other national archives, other commercial concerns or non-profits join in this work? I'm very confused by this statement and I don't understand if it com…

I think pointing just to Wikipedia ignores the growing use adoption and massive impact of Wikidata. perhaps I'm biased because of my field but everything I see indicates the growin…

I would happily bite on that; I mostly deal with archives, libraries, museums and how they deal with people and communities. Because of that there is a ton of nuance when it comes …

it's more likely in cochlear implant territory (there are different laws and regulations for implants vs aids depending on locale)

> enough publicized cases of Chinese CCP operatives gaining Like? not doubting you, just not aware of multiple cases beyond the big near-miss earlier this year

Where can we follow up on this when you're done--do you have a blog or social media?

this one is maintained https://github.com/johnalanwoods/maintained-modern-unix

They don't, OCLC is largely funded by the exorbitant prices they charge libraries for various things, including DDC.

yeah I'll definitely try out ecode when auto save is implemented!

you can have rows between the columns is the key difference

And hopefully the massive towers push the council to start rezoning those single story residential areas into something more realistic