Green card processes are also not without caveats these days. Every visa extensions with or without I140s can be subjected to "administrative reviews" that can take anywhere from a month to six months. That's what the original post refers to. Lot of folks around HN have no clue about how the Trump administration has wedged a bureaucratic block at every stage of the work visa process. I am also pretty well settled in the US but will be moving to Toronto to get rid of this visa nightmare.
Of all the hate that Advertising gets, how will any business survive without Advertising? How does an ad free world look like? You pay for every service as a ad-free subscription model? But how would you come to know such a service exists without Advertising?
I would say vanilla education had nothing to do with, if it's that what you mean. Daily, I come across extremely well college educated folks ( including engineers) that are under the sway of Facebook and WhatsApp fake forwards. They were swayed by Radio, TV and Newspapers before, now the medium has changed. The story is the same in the USA or Europe or Myanmar. There are no special critical thinking courses out there where people sign up and learn to "think effectively". People have been swayed by propaganda before and they will continue to be. Saying "education" in this context feels like you are leaning towards saying that only if the people in these "third world uneducated country" learn better, this wouldn't happen. That's not right is it?
We have to assume at some time that Economics is something more people think they can easily understand but in reality they asolutely do not. Cue the "Trade deficits? Huh that sounds bad". What about trillion dollars Budget deficit? "Lower taxes oh yeah so good" <Sound of brain frying>
Whaaat? Restaurant food can be very different than home cooked food because restaurants apply tricks to dress up a dish in ways you will never do at home. Excessive corn starch in Asian soups, humongous amount of butter in every meal, higher amounts of salt, using old and dangerously suspect stored food to cook with, using substandard cuts of meat, stale sea food, using colors to boost the appearance of freshness ( use packaged tomato puree plus color instead of doing old fashioned tomato way at home), general hygiene issues in kitchen etc etc. Restaurant kitchen delivery system is drastically different than a home kitchen.
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Well, it does something: it erases your public comments on FB, and even more so, shows in a few steps how a programmer can go about doing so. Not everything has to be about what FB knows.
Agree. Facebook might still have them in some log or neural thinggy about you, but it will protect you from direct profiling like the Cambridge Analitica debacle. If it would turn out that deleting the activity still allows Facebook to keep them and sell them to 3rd parties, it would be a company-ending event, so there is at least self-preservation.
Why do you presume that once you come off facebook, your data is not used? That is not true, the data gets used and pimped around to the highest bidder. What is true, is that as time passes that data has less value (assuming you actually stopped pumping in the data in fb).
It's a little different as Internet makes it far easier to target a user compared to classic means of propaganda especially excaberating the issue of identifying real news vs "fake" news. With TV and Newspaper there are less "anonymous" outlets for content and a system of oversight could be applied in theory. A WhatsApp forward or an FB post spreads like a virus with no clear source. It's trivial to spread lies and for a user to consume it.
The moment I started reading the first paragraph the thought in my head went like, "he is pointing to Online Masters By Georgia Tech..it's definitely OMSCS he is now ranting about". Voila. He was indeed. I have a rigorous bachelor's degree in CS. Thee are many many topics which were never covered in that Undergrad course which are done in the Masters. Yeah it's maybe not useful if you are making a quickfire app for the play store but there are tons of work and research areas and jobs around for which you need the aademic rigor of having studied an MS atleast. Can we have this debate to rest? You are doing well with a BS, good for you! Education is expensive in the US? Dont do it!
Now OMSCS is riling up a few heads here and there which it will. At 7000 USD its a fantastic way for a working professional like me to advance my knowledge. You think these kind of MS courses devalue the degree? These courses are not THAT easy to do and this is 2018, there are fresh disruptive ideas in very field , why not Graduate school ? Hey with enough of these courses you will not need the evil H1B sith lords eating up the jobs here right? Its a Win Win. The market will then decide whos the more worthy MS student they wish to hire.
When you talk to OMSCS students and they tell you that they implemented their own Augmented Reality system from the scratch, used Deep Learning in classifying diseases in X-ray images of chest, programmed a Lunar Lander automated solution using Deep Reinforcement Learning, reconstructed 3D models from a series of photos in a weekend, I would say they are working on way more interesting things than most people get a chance to work on during their whole career. It seems more like you risk by not taking it, even if it is not really research based, though some people told me they have selective research courses as well, working e.g. with inventor of Google Glass etc.
That's a good thought but zero commision doesnt really change the investment attitude that much apart from the fact that it makes very low value plays possible. There are tons of people having the same speculative investment behaviour on both sides of the line especially on larger bets. It's the smaller bets that Robinhood makes possible. I would also argue that Robinhood is a great playground to learn trading at minimal cost. I have tons of freinds with 500 dollar portfolios playing around and learning the ropes. This was seldom attractive with web based serious accounts. In the end it's all about discipline and eventually Robinhood users reach the same investment mindset as regular account players very soon.
