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Re:Updates to H-1B on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @02:50PM (#42454278)
Ooh yes, let's address next how US top universities are all profit machines incentivized to take as many foreigners as possible, driving up the tuition they can charge so US citizens can't afford to get degrees. Let's do talk about how if you get a part time job to be able to pay for college then they yank your financial aid.
Re:CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @11:20AM (#41247125)
Right, the author skipped right over human-readable TSV files which play nicely with sed/awk/grep/sort pipelines, and are supported by all CSV parsers and spreadsheet software.
The only way this can turn profit is if you make it into rideshare and recruit hobbyist pilots to become Uber drivers.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024) on Thursday August 01, 2024 @11:29PM (#41135862)

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