It wouldn't be private even if the privacy policy had some boilerplate. Outside of narrowly defined e2e cases, nothing is private once you give it to someone.
What region ? What are you talking about ? Nobody is bringing anyone from any region. Human beings migrate for better opportunities, and over time groups find their niches and areas of expertise. That manifests as a concentration geographically or professionally as it's a reinforcing loop. That's why group X is dominant in trade Y in city Z.
>They do not exactly like the idea of being "carpetbagged" or being "flooded with people who do not integrate" and those perceptions exist not wholly out of imagination.
They do exist wholly out of imagination in this case. You are professing your opinion and stating it as fact. As far as actual immigration statistics go, Indians are a tiny minority, disproportionately successful on wage, crime, and education metrics, and most importantly, legal.
>offers people from a handful of Indian states (and the highest castes).
I really do not get what caste has to do with anything. Which states ? What is the mechanism that favors people from these states or castes ? The legal immigration pathways to the US/Canada are either education or work, and neither of them has any preference for state, caste, etc.
You are not refuting what I said. The company is doing what it can do to maximize revenue and reduce costs. If you are working at such a company, that reflects on your skill more than anything else.
No, it means that if you find yourself surrounded by mediocre/incompetent people, it means that you aren't working at a good place and that you may be mediocre too.
What you are talking about is PERM. That's a requirement that the department of labor has established. When you want to hire an immigrant permanently, DOL requires that you take out an ad in a Sunday newspaper. It benefits the lawyers and the government greatly as this is a good source of revenue for both of them. As far as the actual job goes, that job was never open. The person is already working for the company on a visa. DOL just makes them do this dog and pony show before they can hire them permanently. These regulations are a few decades old and were never updated.
800k in investment gets you a green card. And you may even make a return on that investment. Why would anyone pay 500k for participating in a pageant ?
There is rulemaking process that takes time. It has to go through notice and comment period, withstand lawsuits, etc. I agree with your overall point though, that this admin was utterly spineless and useless.
No, this was post 9/11. It has nothing to do with immigration policy. The collective jerking after 9/11 led to many bad policies, including this one. Biden half assedly tried to go back to the pre 9/11 state of "stateside renewal" but it went nowhere.
I think that is nothing compared to what modern UEFI does. There are entire hardware drivers in UEFI. To protect against software evil maid attacks, you need to authenticate the device before you use it. So it has to be some type of challenge response protocol. It can be achieved with fido type keys or it can be HOTP/TOTP.
Yeah, I looked up what people have done, and the EC alone makes it not worthwhile. And like you said, there's no availability. Ebay only shows the Japanese layout. I think the T480(s) keyboard is fine. I'm quite comfortable with the Tx30 chiclet keyboard, and 480 looks about the same. I was debating buying X1C 13, but this T480(s) may be a fun Christmas break project.
I have found Mr. Mobile (Michael Fisher) to be quite good. He does some sort of a road trip or excursion as a real world tech review and also covers a lot of old and quirky hardware.
For this particular model, not much, other than having a partially open source bios. That can provide better security and bug fixes compared to the original bios, but that's the sort of thing that'll be mostly transparent to you. You can make this a robust system like chromebooks with verified boot or use a project like heads, but these require quite a bit of effort. For older models, there used to be more practical benefits too such as removing wifi whitelists.
Nice. Somewhat tempting to upgrade from my ivy bridge, but then I'm reminded that intel's last decade has been such a dumpster fire that everything from the last decade may be more or less the same. What does libreboot mean these days ? Does T480 do native RAM init ? Or does it still need FSP ? It may be easier to use coreboot directly. I don't think libreboot does anything more than coreboot these days. This is also exciting as T480 is the same as T25, so you may be able to use T25's keyboard with it. That's the old style keyboard that they don't make any more.
But you are giving very little to the ISP to begin with. You can use encrypted DNS and most web content has TLS. The only gap there is SNI, which we should be able to close with TLS ECH. I don't know why ECH has been so slow to roll out.
These rankings are going to be meaningless and littered with blog spam. VPNs as a category are mostly snake oil. The only real world use for vpns is circumventing censorship if you live in a place that censors. The only privacy you're gaining is that from your ISP.
You'll lose any apps that use play integrity or other similar checks that check for a non-google OS. Some banking, media, or gaming apps may use those checks, but I haven't encountered many in the US. Other than that, everything will work as stock if you use the sandboxed play services. If you don't use play services, there's perhaps a longer list of things that won't work, including notifications for most apps that rely on FCM. The OS supports different types of isolation schemes like private spaces and additional user profiles. So you can find some middle ground on whether or not you want play services, which accounts are logged in where, etc.
Yes, traditional social media requires me to create an account on its website and jump through various hoops before I can contact the person. Social media is also geared towards broadcasting and will discourage you from DMing people. Mastodon is closer to email, but hardly anyone uses it.
The early stuff (Larabee, KNL, KNC etc.) was hamstrung by x86. Wrong architecture for the types of things GPUs are good at. Their igpus have generally been good but that's not competing in the compute segment. Then they acquired a few startups (Nervana, Habana) that didn't really work out either. And now they finally have a discrete GPU lineup that is making slow progress. We'll see.
It's also sad that we've given up the ability to contact people directly although everyone is online. The only people I can contact directly are authors of papers whose emails are still published in the papers. For everyone else, you would have to go through an intermediary (social media).
Europe has its own version of this nonsense (GDPR cookie banners), but that stems from a different misguided belief. Europe believes that banners can affect markets. The US believes that banners can affect the law. Both are wrong.
No, the US is the main country that loves these messages. Have you seen the size of universities or the government ? It's just clerical staff doing make believe work. Go to any .gov website. They'll throw up a wall of bs before you log in (e.g., https://ttp.dhs.gov/ ).
This is the wrong strategy. Every year some or the other group begs the copyright office for some minor exception and most of them get denied. This is the wrong game. To win at this, you need to create your own market and succeed in it. And then you can buy your own politicans. Imagine if uber had asked the taxi board for exceptions for ride sharing. Or if Tesla had waited till states allowed them to sell (they didn't; they started selling on Indian land). Begging for morsels from the government doesn't work.