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"We produce the Leiden Ranking for policy makers, research managers, researchers, journalists, and anyone else with an interest in the scientific performance of universities. The Leiden Ranking does not consider the performance of universities in terms of teaching. We therefore expect the information provided by the Leiden Ranking to be of little value for students, and we advise students not to use the Leiden Ranking to choose where to study."

https://www.leidenranking.com/information/general

Another article mentions: "The project is a part of a campaign, designed to coincide with April Fools’ Day, to raise awareness of the implications of not amending the law requiring married couples to share the same surname."

https://japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/01/japan/society/sato-...

Don't confuse 1095-A (ACA marketplace health plans) with 1095-B or 1095-C (employer and other health coverage). Also don't confuse the premium tax credit with the individual mandate.

Because of the premium tax credit, most taxpayers that receive Form 1095-A are required to file Form 8962.

https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8962

IRS Direct File doesn't let you file if you have marketplace insurance, presumably because it's not supporting this form.

https://directfile.irs.gov/insurance

Not sure why OP linked to a fork instead of the original. But the original has a bookmarklet version if you would prefer an alternative.

https://github.com/jswanner/DontF-WithPaste?tab=readme-ov-fi...

If you're curious how Google is detecting this, the indictment [1] is an interesting read.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1341356/dl?inline

More context:

https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-10/20...

https://www.id.me/privacy

https://www.id.me/terms

I don't think you'd be able to find a real equivalent in Japan.

* Rail passes do exist, but they are mostly for tourists. They are short-duration, can be relatively expensive, and often specifically exclude Japan residents.

* Night trains have mostly disappeared. Buses and airplanes have proven to be more competitive options.

[1] https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2357.html

[2] https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2356.html

Firestone is from Harvey S. Firestone though. Interesting that two companies with similar names had different origins, yet one would acquire the other many years later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Tire_and_Rubber_Co...

(2022)

Some other relevant reading:

https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/03/number-tax-delinq...

https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-03/20...

The Tokyo city government launched its own dating app recently.

News article: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3248989/will-j...

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39060790

What happens if you try "my time" or "local time"?

I'm a bit surprised that the author went to the trouble of faking the CNN "screenshot", but allows it to look off. It purports to be viewing a page from an old version of MSIE on Windows, but it doesn't pass the sniff test.

* The URL bar displays http://www.cnn.com, but the true URL is http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/17/g4.ban.idg/

* The images aren't loaded. This is naturally expected of an article loaded 20+ years after publication. But if the screenshot was grabbed in the past, you would expect the images to also work.

* The font is "Times Roman" used on Apple devices, not the "Times New Roman" on Microsoft ones. Subtle differences in letters like "5" and "S" exist: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Roman_vs_Times...

Parent comment is correct: They are talking about the "filing fee", which had always existed, and should not be confused with the $10 registration fee.

The situation pre-2020 was that it was more difficult to enter the H-1B lottery compared to now, because the employer had to prepare all the paper forms and write checks for at least several hundred dollars. Now, they can enter a trivial amount of information online and pay a trivial fee, and they only have to do the full filing for employees actually selected.

Here is another article describing the pre-2020 situation: https://web.archive.org/web/20221129013748/https://hackingla...

Also, a comment in the DHS final rule pretty much says the same thing as the parent comment:

> One commenter asked how the nominal fee will prevent large outsourcing companies from gaming the H–1B system, when their revenue is in the billions. A professional association stated that the addition of a $10 registration fee will not sufficiently deter speculative and/or fraudulent filings. Another commenter noted that requiring employers to pay a more substantial fee may protect employees from predatory employers and that we should include a provision barring employers from passing the fee on to their employees or garnishing it from their wages.

It sounds like it's talking about accounts using physical passbooks.

> A Lloyds Banking Group spokesperson said it started talking to customers last year to help them get familiar with how accounts operate without passbooks ...

> Virgin Money told us it was in the process of removing passbook accounts from its range ... affected customers can typically keep the account they have and operate it as a statement-based account instead of using a physical passbook.

Another article with more context: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/202...

I also think that multiplication and division by 1 should be pared down (if not eliminated). In general, it'd be nice to favor larger numbers instead of using 1/2/3 so much.

There is a solution. Your 1 and 7 should be swapped.

I don't understand why the author dismissed hydroxychloroquine as a "malaria drug".

Of course he doesn't have malaria. It's pretty likely that the rheumatologist prescribed it to treat a potential autoimmune disorder [1], which is information that can be found in the Google searches that the author mentions performing at various intervals.

[1] https://rheumatology.org/patients/hydroxychloroquine-plaquen...

CJK characters occupy a vast portion of the printable Unicode characters. [1] Two of the largest blocks include

* U+3400 to U+4DBF

* U+4E00 to U+9FFF

Your string decodes to \u57d2\u6111\u48d4\u6a64\u3930\u3099\u37cd\u7a26\u7366\u0999\u60dd\u44c7\u5f37\u681b\u4ccc\u06ec\u4303\u0329\u4f7c

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs

Agree, and to add a bit more context:

* The contest has 15 problems and a time limit of 3 hours, giving only an average of 12 minutes per problem.

* The average score is 4.83/15, from the official statistics [1].

* The statistics noted that only 5.17% of test takers answered this problem correctly, making it the second-hardest problem out of the 15 on the exam.

[1] "AIME 02/08/2022" https://amc-reg.maa.org/reports/generalreports.aspx

Related news coverage: https://www.ft.com/content/6e299bef-a475-4f6b-9430-d4a8c9772...

Some prior papers linked from the above news article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22146...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1659189

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3341835

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-679X.12428

Note that the individual in the linked article is different from your family's case because she naturalized as a US citizen.

Japan seems to enforce loss of citizenship more strictly in these cases. If your children are dual citizens from birth, different laws apply. As an example, despite Naomi Osaka publicly declaring to choose Japanese citizenship, she has not been reported to appear in the US government's "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen to Expatriate". [1] [2]

[1] https://www.ubitennis.net/2020/12/naomi-osaka-and-a-tale-of-... [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/16i22mh/dual_citizen...

Just clearing up some terminology: You're talking about Social Security "Totalization Agreements" [1], which are separate from tax treaties. Romania, for example, does have a tax treaty with the US [2] but not a totalization agreement.

Setting up a corporation suggests that the business should pay the worker "wages" or a "salary". [3] One key difference is that wages are considered earned income, allowing the taxpayer to use the foreign earned income exclusion, while dividends are not.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/federal-state-local-...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/international-businesses/roma...

[3] https://ustax.bz/how-to-structure-your-non-u-s-business-or-p...

If you're not a US citizen, abstaining sounds wise.

> while laws governing marijuana in individual U.S. states and other nations may change, CBP will continue to enforce U.S. Federal Law, which prohibits the possession of marijuana ...

> Aliens must overcome all grounds of inadmissibility, including admissions of past violations of controlled substance law. Possession and/or admission to the use of marijuana by an alien may result in the refusal of admission.

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/202...

Note that if the country of birth is not explicity listed, such as Canada, the intending immigrant must use the column "All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed".

For example, a EB2 applicant born in Canada filing today would be backlogged because the date of filing is listed as 01JAN23.

Every country is backlogged. At best, you are less backlogged than others.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-pr...

Per the grandparent comment: "Young people often use full sentences today because that is what works."

Searching "BPAP chemical", "BPAP chemistry", etc. seems to work fine.

The certificate [1] linked on the page provides more detail. Some quotes:

> This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended primarily for use in validating methods for determining proximates, fatty acids, calories, vitamins, elements, amino acids, and aflatoxins in peanut butter and similar matrices. This SRM can also be used for quality assurance when assigning values to in-house reference materials.

> SRM 2387 IS INTENDED FOR LABORATORY USE ONLY, NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

> The SRM is a creamy peanut butter prepared by a manufacturer of peanut butter products.

> Source and Preparation: SRM 2387 is creamy peanut butter containing roasted peanuts, sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (48 % rapeseed, 40 % cottonseed, and 12 % soybean oil), and salt, and was prepared for NIST as part of a larger production run.

[1] https://tsapps.nist.gov/srmext/certificates/2387.pdf

Incidentally, the name comes from a region in Japan. A university named after the same region changed its English name to "Kindai University" to avoid this issue:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/21/kinki-univ...

At the very least, I'm going to contend that it's not a DIY thing. It's something that you should hire a tax pro for, so they can properly assess your situation and present your case.

> In a number of recent Tax Court cases, taxpayers have raised the argument that they relied on Turbo Tax software as a defense to the imposition of the accuracy-related penalty. With one notable exception, the so-called “Turbo Tax defense” has been rejected by the Tax Court.

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...