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profsummergig commented on Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m

ranger_danger · 14 hours ago

People from other countries can own US companies even if they've never been to the US.

profsummergig · 9 hours ago

If they are in the US on a work-permit, they have to follow the limitations of the work-permit. They are not free to follow the affordances available to people who are outside the US. For most temporary work-permits, owning a business is not permitted. The govt. wants the worker to work for their sponsor, not own a business. After one gets a GC (i.e. permanent residence), one is free to work for anyone, or start businesses.

profsummergig commented on Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m

catlikesshrimp · 14 hours ago

The bussiness can be lawfully owned by his US native wife. There are possibilities, but as you say, the article is lacking.

profsummergig · 9 hours ago

If we are talking hypotheticals here, anything can be possible. Subject could be an illegitimate direct descendent of Thomas Jefferson, which would make this entire case uniquely newsworthy.

profsummergig commented on Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m

ylow · 14 hours ago

This is not true. You do not need to be a US resident to register a company, and anyone own shares in a company. There are a variety of visa options, and ways to navigate the process that will work.

profsummergig · 9 hours ago

I realize this is complicated,

I didn't say you needed to be a US resident to register a company.

I said that most pre-GC work-permits (e.g. H1B) don't allow you to own a US-based business. If you're here on a work-permit, they (the govt.) expect you to be an employee of your sponsor, they don't want you to start a business.

To your point,

one can be an investor in a US company without having a US visa/residence/work-permit. Although, to open a business without living in the US, only a handful of states allow this (e.g., Delaware, Wyoming, Nevada).

However, once again, if you are in the US on a work-permit, you need to follow the rules of the work-permit. The rules applicable to non-citizens who are not living in the US on a work-permit may be different.

profsummergig commented on Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m

profsummergig · 14 hours ago

Per article he owns a business.

Usually a pre-Green-Card work permit doesn't allow that (you need a GC to own a business).

This article is an example of sophisticated co-mingling of facts and omissions, designed to obfuscate the context.

profsummergig commented on Five disciplines discovered the same math independently freethemath.org... · Posted by u/energyscholar

profsummergig · 2 days ago

There's a Taleb vs. Sornette debate (argument) on YouTube.

I thought Taleb won (complex system outcomes, in the sociopolitical realm, cannot be predicted). But then I'm a Taleb fanboy.

Sornette (my first and last exposure to him) came across as a relic from a different age. Pitifully out of touch.

profsummergig commented on AI is killing B2B SaaS nmn.gl/blog/ai-killing-b2... · Posted by u/namanyayg

kstrauser · 5 days ago

OTOH, I was hired by an enterprise that was many months into a giant backend rewrite. After wrapping my head around the many plans, I realized they were rewriting Django, badly. One weekend I prototyped the whole thing… in Django. It worked. It met the specs. It was a CRUD app with a REST API.

I came in to work Monday morning, showed it off, and inadvertently triggered a firestorm. Later my boss told me not to do that again because it caused havoc with schedules and such.

So I quit and found a better job. Sometimes the new guy can make a better version themselves over the weekend, not because they’re a supergenius, but because they’re not hampered by 47 teams all trying to get their stamp on the project.

(In before “prime example of overconfidence!”: feel free to doubt. It was a CRUD app with a handful of models on a PostgreSQL backend. They were writing a new Python web framework to serve it, complete with their own ORM and forms library and validation library. Not because the existing ones wouldn’t work, mind you, but more out of not realizing that all these problems were already sufficiently solved for their requirements.)

profsummergig · 4 days ago

Also, some people want to work on what's already familiar to them. If building a framework from scratch is what appeals to them, they'll do that even if a framework already exists. Busywork to look productive.

profsummergig commented on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft... · Posted by u/fortran77

nitwit005 · 5 days ago

I always remember the pointless integration of Google+ into YouTube that simply annoyed everyone. There's surprising willingness to damage an existing successful product to try to save a new struggling product.

Microsoft has also tried hard to push Edge, annoying nearly every Windows user on the planet, with no real success.

profsummergig · 5 days ago

Also Teams and OneNote.

If you're on Windows 11, search for "Startup Apps" and disable CoPilot, Teams and OneNote (if you don't use them). It'll speed up your system.

CoPilot is a great name. But Microsoft being Microsoft even messed that up. Apparently there's a Github CoPilot and a Windows CoPilot, and they're different.

profsummergig commented on How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post newyorker.com/news/annals... · Posted by u/thm

breakyerself · 5 days ago

NYT is good for games and cooking. Their news editors are garbage.

profsummergig · 5 days ago

Also, it seems there are a lot of paid posts on NYT.

Recently, both NYT and WP had front page articles about a book by some billionaire's daughter whose husband cheated on her. They seemed like puff-PR posts.

profsummergig commented on Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022) currentaffairs.org/news/2... · Posted by u/bediger4000

profsummergig · 6 days ago

It will.

Oh it will.

profsummergig commented on India and EU announce landmark trade deal bbc.com/news/articles/crr... · Posted by u/Palmik

profsummergig · 14 days ago

It's insane to me that BBC now has a paywall.

Way to fall-off from being the one source of news everyone in "Anglo" countries in the Third-World used to turn to (and love and respect... however biased the news may have been).

Edit: am trying to access from US, I see a paywall. Good to hear from comments that other countries don't see a paywall.