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> The only benefit Canadians get compared to others is the opportunity to work for employers on TN status which is a temporary non-immigrant-intent work visa. That doesn't strike m…

> Everyone else stops coming because they don't want to hear Nazi shit, so, it's a Nazi bar now. There's plenty of non-Nazi writers enjoying a good amount of success on Substack, t…

> Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in servi…

I mean yeah, that's one way to spin it. But it's interesting to observe the dynamics in the work force and how that benefits some smaller companies that were having a hard time hir…

China bans platforms because they give access to information that embarrasses those in power. The US, here, is planning to ban a platform because it's a propaganda vector, and beca…

Has the denial rate for all companies gone down? Or could it be that companies that were getting the most denials have submitted less petitions for H-1B workers? Sponsoring an empl…

Because Santa Monica's housing element is currently out of compliance, the city will have very limited options to veto or block those projects. The decision to approve or reject th…

From reading the excerpt of the book Paris Marx quotes [0], Musk's criticism of the California HSR project seems focused on its cost & effectiveness (i.e. that the bullet train wou…

Besides the benefits or drawbacks of the 4-day workweek on its merits, it's worth remembering that behind the headlines such as "$COUNTRY tests $SOCIAL_CHANGE", it's usually some e…

Culdesac? https://culdesac.com

FWIW the app for my ING bank account in the Netherlands allowed me to move up the slider allows me to move up the slider for daily transfers up to 50k euros. A little scary, but th…

My dad loves to tell this story about him going to engineering school in France in the 70's. He was suggested to stay away from CS or software by his guidance counselors - the reas…

Do you have a privacy policy? I don't see anything on your landing page, or in the web app.

I agree. I'd also add that my experience with fintech services, in regards to fraud detection, has been excellent. I've been using Revolut for the past year. Just 2 weeks ago, they…

> Americans have the best care in the world I've been reading that a lot, but I can't find any decisive evidence supporting it - what leads you to think that?

Many places in NL only accept Maestro and Visa Electron cards ( pin payment cards, as they call them), and won't take any other regular major debit/credit cards. Including UnionPay…

It might have been an inspiration for the Busway in Nantes, France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes_Busway

From the article: > The Home Office has also [planned] to set up computer terminals at 56 local libraries around the UK to help those without smartphones, or without the necessary …

The Scandalous Story of Dreadful Code Written by the Best of Us - by Katrina Owen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_ST9nbf5M This talk made a strong impression on me when I was fi…

> It's one of the best IT schools from France According to whom?

Look up PSD2 regulations.

Also noteworthy, from Georges Perec: A Void (La Disparition), which was written entirely without using the letter "e" (and which the translation reproduces brilliantly well).