- someperson parentIs there any enforcement such as towing and impounding vehicles that don't pay those bills?
- Also, "Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/canada-judge-t...
- That's an extrapolation to finish the entire game.
If limit your token count to a fraction of 2 billion tokens, you can try it on your own game, and of course have it complete a shorter fraction of the game.
- But DuckDuckGo does censor search results, if DMCA takedown requests are countered as censorship (which they should be because the system is abused).
Eg, DDG always fail the "watch (specific movie or tv show) online" search query test. Many other search engines like Bing and Google also fail. It's a quick censorship influence test as DMCA takedown requests have a clear track-record of being abused.
One search engine that succeeds is Russia's Yandex. I'm sure they censor plenty of things (eg, material sensitive to Russia), but that censorship set may not intersect with the Google, Bing and DDG sets.
- Deglobalized is the term Zeihan uses, he means "end of the US security order"
- A few years ago geostrategist author Peter Zeihan predicted that in his deglobalized world (where the US steps back from global policing in favor of domestic matters), the breakdown of the international order it built would cause the government of India would engage in international piracy of Middle Eastern oil shipments destined for East Asia (since cargo ships are slow, unarmed and transit easily interceptable waters for India's navy).
He makes lots of extreme and usually wrong predictions. And he's not yet right on that. But this reminded me that wild international piracy prediction.
- As somebody also directly impacted by the US immigration system, yes please do enforce the laws on the books universally and impartially.
Immigration reform will happen, but regardless no queue cutting.
- Country of birth does determine the "priority date" waiting list. Specifically for Philippines, Mexico, India and China. Due to demand. Everyone else is in the rest of the world bucket.
For those countries (especially India) the wait can be more than a decade.
Moving to a points based immigration system without country of birth consideration may one day happen.
Depending on what contributes to points it would encourage better English language abilities and skill sets from immigrants (eg winners being China and India, losers being Mexico)
- A TN visa is explicitly a "non-immigrant visa", there isn't supposed to be a pathway to permanent residency.
It's still possible to through an adjustment of status but the hoops around not leaving the country are much more awkward.
Because permanent immigration is not the intent of a TN visa, it's a loophole.
- With easier to replace batteries and 3.5mm headphone jacks, I'd wager the secondary market service life would be 2-3 times longer.
Not to mention the e-waste from non-repairable battery-based devices like air-pods.
Corporation make planned obsolescence decisions that happen to benefit themselves, then can dress it up as "water resistance".
Wouldn't be so bad but Apple's anti-consumer decisions are unfortunately imitated.
- So you replaced your perfectly functional phone because they made the battery (a consumable) too expensive to replace?
- It seems using the E-Verify portal to validate Form I-9 employment authorization is only mandated in some states right now.
It seems the others just need to collect the information but not validate it.
- Why hasn't the federal government mandated Form I-9 employment eligibility as part of federal tax returns?
Seems like a more systemic way to improve issues around people overstaying visas or using tourist visas to work (in the formal economy at least).
All employers already are supposed to confirm Form I-9 (but they clearly don't).
- For what it's worth, this is my first pro-Yandex comment after 17 years on Hacker News.
It's a major tech company service based in Russia, so presumably controlled by the government of Russia.
But the results produces for a query like "watch (obscure movie) online stream" are far better than what Google or Bing produces. If you need to check a scene of a specific episode of an obscure TV show, it's the fastest method (but happy to hear alternatives).
Also, the websites it links to aren't operated by the government of Russia.
- Feels weird to say but I have found using Yandex of all places an excellent search engine for content that get taken down by DMCA requests.
Eg if you want to watch a movie that's not on Netflix using a web stream the search results are far better.
Feels like Google circa 2005.
- Since after 3 years you're beyond the break-even point due to energy use, the old refrigerator should be disposed of rather than given away.
By keeping it in service, it's making somebody poorer. Especially since the person receiving the free 30 year old power hungry refrigerator and keeping it for a decade is the least likely to afford a replacement.
Somebody already disadvantaged will eventually be stuck with structurally higher bills and find it harder to save due to this.
Those that's not your problem it's more a government policy problem.
- Did you mean Airbus?
- What an indictment on NVidia market segmentation that there's an industry doing aftermarket VRAM upgrades on gaming cards due their intentionally hobbled VRAM.
I wish AMD and Intel Arc would step up their game.
- > have their visa applications denied on public charge grounds
Oh, I wasn't familiar with the 'public charge' requirement of the US immigration system. That's excellent in principle, and wonderful if enforced adequately.
> Not sure how that works with Medicaid—it sounds like [1] some states have chosen to implement that in ways immigrants can access if they come in on green cards and spend their working lives in the US, paying in to the system—but that seems to me more like a local policy choice than a primary feature of the immigration system.
Yes, agree that's not a feature of the immigration itself but a local policy choice. Some states are very lax with Medicaid qualification rules eg, California recently expanding coverage to illegal immigrants with loosened criteria that legal immigrants won't qualify. I recall changes were made in response to federal tightening of rules. It's still a bad policy, but a local one.
> For that matter, in your formulation, should the working-age immigrants themselves, who permanently resettle and work their whole life in the US, be denied access to old-age benefits when the time comes?
No, one principle is they have paid into the system for a long period of time then they should of course be able to access benefits.
The other principle is by that time they are ready to retire they will certainly permanent residents but hopefully citizens, so not seen differently than other citizens.
- Many Medicaid rules around minimum residency and work history are being (insanely) relaxed/removed. At least in California.
Based on my reading of the law, you can overstay a tourist visa and receive Medicaid coverage in California relatively quickly.
(But that's a different discussion)
- The final years of healthcare for the elderly is unaffordabily expensive.
Nations are able to afford it with a healthy dependency ratio, but with the Baby Boom generation leaving the workforce, it will no longer be possible.
A young family who have recently migrated are saving for a house and college, to make them pay for a decade of end-to-life treatment (cancer treatment, dialysis) at United States price ranges is unaffordable even for very high income earners.
Remember the two parents have four grandparents, and two children (the receiving country would love for them to have a third).
That said, I am open to a special visa with a million dollar escrowed deposit per elderly parent to cover their healthcare. Without extreme restrictions they are bound to become a healthcare burden on the system.
- Abandon is the wrong word.
Should the country receiving the immigrants let elderly grandparents be cared for by their own country's pension and aged-care and healthcare industry, instead of burdening the receiving countries?
Absolutely unequivocally yes.
The grandparents can always come visit on tourist visas and the immigrants can visit their original country too.
- > you can be pretty sure your retired parents won't, if ever you need them to move in with you
The immigration system should be designed to block retired parents from moving country to live with their working age adult children who have migrated.
One reason to have immigration is to improve a country's dependency ratio: the ratio of working age population to children and retirees.
The ideal immigrants are young well-educated parents that can stay in the workforce for 40+ years with healthy children that are just about to enter the school system.
That way the receiving country didn't need to invest in educating the parents originally, don't need to pay the healthcare costs of very young infants, and it provides the best possible addition to the the receiving country's demographic structure so the host country benefits from a whole working life of tax payments and all the value created by their work output.
The economic case for even skilled immigration is far less compelling for a receiving nation without such restrictions on immigrating retirees.
- The project presumably is a portmanteau of "audio book generator".
I agree that the project need not be renamed to remove the single syllable that may be an obscure slur, especially since every syllable may be an obscure slur in some language and you can't expect somebody to learn them all just to avoid them.
But there was no need to use that syllable as a slur.
- Keep fighting the "open weights" terminology fight, because diluting the term open-source for a blob of neural network weights (even inference code is open-source) is not open-source.
- Surely improvements be made to c2rust to reduce the cited information loss with constant naming, to reduce the initial conversion burden?
- Why can't Apple set whatever pricing they want? Unless you're arguing that Apple has a monopoly.
Also it's not a tax, though arguably it can be termed an "economic rent" (a technical term) that can be considered excessive, but I'm not sure about that.