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stainforth commented on New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says   axios.com/2025/09/20/trum... · Posted by u/srameshc
warkdarrior · 3 months ago
The new H1B fee effectively puts a cap on software engineer pay. I can hire an immigrant on H1B for $150k/year ($50k salary + $100k fee). So local hires better be cheaper than that.
stainforth · 3 months ago
Wouldn't it be more clear to say that for hiring approach, now the unexpected burden of tagging on a new 100k fee works as a negative coloring (as it I think intends (ostensibly)) to these candidates then? How was the 100k already priced in?
stainforth commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA    · Posted by u/proberts
neom · 7 months ago
There has been a bunch of chatter in Canadian founders whatsapp groups about people getting detained for long periods of time coming into the states either at SFO or pre-clear in Canada. Are you advising Canadians travel with any additional documentation these days?
stainforth · 7 months ago
"Founders" seems like an arbitrary term devised
stainforth commented on Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies   metropolisjapan.com/resig... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat
makeitdouble · a year ago
This isn't ineficiency though, probably closer to bullying.

Quitting a job has no complex moving parts, and most corporation will deal with it with minimal paperwork (you really only need to prove you gave them your resignation. An email reply would be enough legally).

The issues these new graduates (the source of the TFA is MyNavi, which is new graduate centric) are facing are arbitrary, purposefuly set to make their life harder.

stainforth · a year ago
Can you enumerate the issues new graduates are facing, and when they began on timeline?(if even possible to see explicitly first public)
stainforth commented on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson   sportingnews.com/us/boxin... · Posted by u/storf45
transcriptase · a year ago
I don’t pay my ISP each month to be part of a streaming sites infrastructure. I pay the streaming site each month to use theirs.
stainforth · a year ago
If you use Comcast's modem/wifi router, you are part of their service infrastructure. Xfinity WiFi Home Hotspot

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stainforth commented on Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra   terathon.com/blog/poor-fo... · Posted by u/ibobev
forrestthewoods · a year ago
As a fellow game dev this article should be targeted at readers like me. But my eyes can't help but *immediately* glaze over as soon as I read all the math notation.

I'm pretty ok at 3d video game math. I do lots of work with matrices, quaternions, vectors, and friends. It's not particularly difficult.

I can't for the life of me read mathy math. Wikipedia Math is inscrutable hieroglyphics. It's quite frustrating.

I wish someone would write a "foundations" article or book that spoke in language understandable by normal humans. Or at minimum had a bloody legend that explained what all the %&(#%& symbols meant.

stainforth · a year ago
"It just means that there’s a lot of low-quality stuff under the same label, which has made that label questionable, and if you want to sift through it you have to be ready to filter for quality yourself... At some level GA is trying to “democratize” geometry." Hit me just now reading the case against GA linked in this thread, maybe the same way Munger remarks on Costco's counter-intuitive membership fee, the notation and systems of "real" math as we encounter them like you say in Wikipedia is the field's membership fee keeping out the riff-raff from overwhelming the gathering place and making the entire store burn down.

"But the point is to make the existing math more intuitive, not to discover new results. The fact that research mathematics is generally not concerned with making calculation and intuition easier to think about is, I think, a giant failure that it will eventually regret. There’s as much value in making things easy to use as there is in discovering them."

stainforth commented on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach   techcrunch.com/2024/07/12... · Posted by u/impish9208
erikig · a year ago
Which leads me to wonder - were any of the NSA’s own employee, call and SMS records at AT&T part of the comprised data?

(edited for grammar)

stainforth · a year ago
Right, if phone records for Congressmen and known (or deduced) DOD were made public would that sway any changes
stainforth commented on The City of London which is not part of London (2016)   thevintagenews.com/2016/0... · Posted by u/kaisix
cletus · a year ago
I find the City of London (formerly the Corporation for London) to be fascinating for many reasons.

For one, the exact origins are unknown. the earliest record we have is from 1067 CE with the William Charter [1]. William granted the City rights in exchange for not attacking and the City recognizing him as King, which this article sort of mentions. But the interesting part is that William was simply recognizing the rights of something that already existed. For how long? Nobody knows. It's likely somewhere in the 7th or 8th century when Anglo-Saxons resettled the previously abandoned Roman walled city of Londinium after their departure in 410 CE.

It's also fascinating because it's managed to survive for nearly 1000 yaers since then, largely recognizable from its earlier form although there have been various changes and reforms. There have been efforts to disband it too but obviously they failed.

It also survived uncertain times like the Vikings would cojme along every now and again and burn down London Bridge.

London's development as a financial center goes back to 1066 too and a key part was likely due, at least in part, to the arrival of Jews during William's reign [2].

Why was this important? Well, Jews were prohibited from charging interest to other Jews. Muslims and Christians had similar constraints. But an oddity of Judaism was that Jews could charge interest to non-Jews [3]. This later likely contributed to conspiracy theories about Jews (eg blood libel) and antisemitism.

So ancient civil institutions like the Court of Aldermen still exist and certain rights given to the Freemen of the City of London still exist, like the ancient right to bring sheep in to the City over the bridge [4].

[1]: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/history-and-her...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_England...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loans_and_interest_in_Judaism

[4]: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/09/27/unbaalievable-sh...

stainforth · a year ago
Is there a direct relation or something specific you were going to draw in mentioning the history of the Jews in England and the history and particularities of the City of London? That the Jews performed the interest loans on behalf of and/or within the City of London possibly or something like that?
stainforth commented on Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres   windytan.com/2024/06/ultr... · Posted by u/GolDDranks
btilly · 2 years ago
My ex got a device to discourage ants. Then forgot where she placed them. Then found out that it was in my daughter's hearing range.

Finding the last one was a nightmare.

Here is the device.

https://www.amazon.com/Ultrasonic-Repeller-Electronic-Repell...

It was

stainforth · 2 years ago
Did it work in its stated goal?
stainforth commented on Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres   windytan.com/2024/06/ultr... · Posted by u/GolDDranks
slimsag · 2 years ago
Or the idea that the humans are just blissfully unaware while their 'hyper' cat/dog is stuck inside a home with some device screaming 24/7, LED lights flashing, etc.
stainforth · 2 years ago
To this day, not one person in the spec reviews in whatever overseas OEM electronics or those split AC units (which are fantastic in one regard) reflects on persistent light in a room where people are sleeping? The worst is encountering AC units when arriving at a hotel that do not have a "display" button to turn off the 20C display in white LED. Are the actual people that make these and make those decisions just tougher or they're just ignorant?

u/stainforth

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