namirez

Good points! I’m not an expert, so I’ll wait for people who know more to weigh in. But as far as I know: (1) they still need to import basic necessities like food and medicine, and (2) despite heavy investment, they haven’t managed to build an intranet that’s fully isolated from the internet.

Hard to make it airtight without tanking the economy. Since the economy is already tanked, I guess they don’t care anymore.

Astroturfing much? I haven’t been able to talk to my family for three weeks. Friends who manage to connect are hopping from one workaround to another because IPs are routinely blocked.

Well, even Blake knows that Overture is highly unlikely to survive as a product. Best of luck to him with this pivot. I really wish him success. He has spent more than a decade of his life on this project.

What is exactly the point of this post? How is related to HN? Wish you best of luck in your surgery but this post if off topic.

There isn’t much value in gravity assists from Uranus or Neptune since they move much more slowly than Jupiter and Saturn.

Again, it doesn't matter. You could apply for 100 candidates hoping to get one candidate accepted. For these firms, individual candidates don't matter. They want to get X number of cheap employees into the US per year. And they never file for a green card.

Unfortunately that doesn't work in practice since the consulting firms submit multiple applications for multiple candidates to get one candidate in. I believe charging extra for each application is a good way to discourage this practice but I'm not sure if $100k is the right number or not. To me it seems a bit too high.

The largest and the most regressive tax since it impacts mostly the lower economic class that's already struggling with the cost of living.

That was the point of TPP which the US withdrew from in 2018.