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That is one of those grey areas. They would argue that they don’t intend to stay forever in their new country so that makes them expats. But like the post I replied to pointed out,…

I keep seeing this question often. It used to be simpler when there were only immigrants and expats but now other categories exist so everyone is confused. An expat is typically so…

You said factual. But what is factual for you and I may not be for someone else. There are a lot of recollections in the article where sama remembers one version or doesn't remembe…

Ronan Farrow, the write of this article, made a comment in this thread that is buried in all the comments, "As is always the case with incredibly precise and rigorously fact-checke…

Another vote for guitar. Will love to get this for guitar.

The easiest way to solve this is to salary rank the H1B applicants. Those with the highest salaries get picked; not the ‘lucky ones’ that get through a lottery, which puts a PhD fr…

I’ve found that breaking down a task into smaller parts before asking Cursor to help with each one makes a huge difference. Instead of tackling a big task all at once, guiding it s…

Came here to say this. Will happily pay for it.

Growing up in an Indian village, everyone relied on the local Kirana store. Everyone had an 'account' at the Kirana store. The farmers would zero out the account at the harvest tim…

I love this. I have my commonplace book in Roam Research. Search in Roam is not perfect and I have wondered lately if there was a way to get all of the content into a graph DB and …

This 100%. You also have to keep in mind that taking photos in public spaces is protected under the first amendment in the US. Yes, the first amendment has become a bit unpopular l…

The only negative of studying in the US is that it is becoming close to impossible to stay long term after your degree to work due to the outdated work visa process. But your other…

I remember Computers@Home. Convinced my parents to buy me my first PC after reading that magazine. The included CDs were a delight. Internet was so slow that I only ever played gam…

Steve Rinella of Meateater interviewed the hunters in this case on his podcast. It is quite an entertaining listen - 1:03 is where he explains the background and 1:08 onwards is wh…

It really depends on the publication. In a past life, I was a newspaper reporter in a town with two papers. There were strict guidelines against doing this. If you lost the scoop, …

Readwise Reader for a week and so far I am really liking it. Before that, I used Feedly and Google Reader before that.

Looks amazing! I played with Reader for the last hour or so and it looks so much better than Pocket. The import from Pocket - delightful! I had originally started using Readwise to…

Once upon a time i.e. before COVID, Bay Area had a really exciting meetup scene. In fact, going to meetups used to be the highlight of my visits here - the energy in the room was u…

I have been looking for good meetup groups in the Bay Area for a few months and finally got inspired by you to solve my own problem. I have created a Hacker News Meetup for Bay Are…

This is 100% correct. The biggest risk is the remote country coming after the employee and/or employer. If you are the employer, and you are 100% sure you are never going to do bus…

This. Also, I have friends in high level HR roles and HR functions have become smaller and smaller over time with a lot of offshoring and outsourcing. So a lot of 'nice to do' thin…