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  • $100K fee added to H1B applications

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  • I think you're on to something. This could accelerate the movement of tech jobs to India & other countries vs just importing cheap labor.

    In the past, when tech jobs were outsourced, it was just the coders. Lately, ilve noticed entire teams being outsourced, manager, project/product managers, coders, agilists, designers and others. Big companies are letting all technology be performed offshore and only the business units remain. This administration policy move could accelerate this trend, which could have far reaching implications.

  • What are your "must-watch" movies?

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  • I scrolled way too far to find this.

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    Totalitarianism Can Be Terrifying. It Can Also Be Thrilling. He Taught Us Why.

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  • I don't know why there's more down votes than up votes, but I found the article interesting, even if it was a little light and fluffy.

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    thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned?

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  • This may not help at all, but I worked at a toxic workplace. I got good at recognizing when I was being manipulated. Eventually, I learned that if I hid the hurt and acted as if the jabs didn't hurt, it would send the toxic folks into a toxic rage, but the ironic part is that they could not complain to management about me not being affected.

    One day, I was called from one of the people from a recorded line (certain customer facing phones were always recorded, you could even hear the beeps). After the call, I told my manager, we went to HR, who pulled the recording and that person was moved to another area. I left shortly after for other reasons.

  • AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools

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  • America as Several Smaller Nations

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  • There's already some good discussion here. A little less drastic is a soft succession. It's already happened and is happening. The blog articulates it much better than i could, but the essence is that the US constitution already has been interpreted to give state laws a sort if priority over feseral laws. Additionally, states can apply financial pressure to the federal government.

    Near rhe end of the blog he ponders whether this could result in a shell fedwral government.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • I came here to see if it was the early signs of the demise of YouTube. I secretly want all these content producers to move to a privacy-respecting platform, especially those who produce tech or privacy related content.

    Now, for why I don't watch videos anymore, the medium isn't as easily consumed by me. I prefer text. At home, it's noisy and I get interrupted every 90 seconds. I lose interest quickly and fast forwarding isn't as easy as scanning text for a topic shift. My mind wanders on some topics, internally exploring that topic deeper. With text, i can just stop reading. With video, i need to realize that I'm processing a thought and hit pause, then rewind a bit. I get interrupted a lot. On the bus, I need to remember headphones and I hate when people shoulder surf. That's harder to do with text. Give me a plain text RSS feed that I can read anytime.

  • do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated?

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  • I'm loving all the Canadians in this thread.

    If you're a kind person, there's always something to apologize for. I was taught a long time ago that it was OK to apologize, but that you should add " for..." to the end and if it still sounds OK then you should say it.

    "I'm sorry for hurting your feelings." "I'm sorry that you don't enjoy the meal that I prepared for the family." "I'm sorry your face looks like an anus." "I'm sorry that you're too stupid to understand that I'm not complimenting you." ...and so on. This took an unexpected turn.

    PS: I'll apologize in most confrontations as a way to de-escalate the situation.

  • why do you people delete your posts?

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  • I expected the whole comment thread to be like this.

  • Pi NAS for multi-location backups

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  • I came here to say the same thing except that I have a pi locally and one at a relative's house. I back up to the local pi and a nightly cron starts rsync to pull my local copy.

    I chose this so that i could control the rstnc start time, bandwidth and stop time but also so I could leave the remote network vanilla with no open ports, etc. With bandwidth limiting, it may take a few days to catch up from full backups, but a differential is same day.

    Be sure to use a RO filesystem or overlay FS on the Pi card. I've had them go corrupt.

  • Firefox updates vs me

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  • Devils Panties 08/26/2025

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  • Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    Frank Wilhoit 03.22.18 at 12:09 am

  • Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first time

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  • I thought Nazism, Hitler and WWII was the cautionary tale? I wasn't present at the time, but i heard that Bad Things happened.

    I also thought that after WWII, systems were put in place to ensure that it would not happen again. Where are these systems and why aren't they working?

  • Health insurance

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  • I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but the grocery store destroying the food is for liability reasons. A local grocery store would throw out expired food that they could not sell and someone dug some cooked rotiserie chicken out of the trash out back, ate it and died from complications due to food poisioning. His family sued AND WON because the grocery store was negligent in not destroying the food, which "lured" the hungry man to eat it since it was still in it's on the shelf packaging and did not say that it was spoiled.

  • I remembered I had to do something while putting on my socks, I ended up walking around the house with one sock on.

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  • Does anybody remember those old cartoons (Looney Tunes, IIRC) where they tie a string around their finger to not forget something?

  • What are some active online communities that are entirely oldschool forums?

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  • I'm interested in the second part, how # users are determined. Lemmy is federated,instance so if i setup a community instance physically I the UK and cap users at 9999,flying just under the threshold,but i federate with everywhere, my instance don't have enough users to require compliance, right? What if i set up 5 separate instances,each capped at 9999? There's got to be a loophole...for the children.

  • The Fed is expected to hold rates steady as Trump pushes for a cut

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  • I was about to argue and then read "legality doesn't matter". You're right.

  • The Fed is expected to hold rates steady as Trump pushes for a cut

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  • It's important to remember that Powell himself does not set the rates, it's decided by a committee which he is currently the chair of. I feel like this fact is absent from much of the news I read/hear surrounding Powell & Fed interest rates.

    From MSN:

    Powell chairs the central bank’s eight annual meetings. But the other 11 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, get an equal say on each Fed rate decision via a majority vote.

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    the Fed’s four no-cut calls so far this year have been unanimous.

    I realize that the chair is an important role, but am I missing something that replacing 1 person would change the interest rate voting outcome?

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • Apps and web sites can also apply custom pricing based on the individual's ability to pay. Payday? The parking spot costs more.