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Asgard's Wrath took me about 40 hours for my first play through. And the internet seems to suggest about 29 hours just for the main story and up to 80 hours for the completionist

Yeah, this is true, but there are also people on L1 visa which are tied to the company all the way until GC.

Also worth adding that interviews or hires from the PERM process would significantly add to length of the PERM process, if I remember correctly.

Google Fi from iPhone to Android worked after a long delay. Failed the other direction :|

I just learned that the US classifies my masters degree as a bachelor degree equivalent for the purposes of immigration, putting me in the EB3 rather than EB2 category, having a big impact on the timeline. It seems to be based on a central system, is this something that's possible/worthwhile to fight as I strongly disagree with this decision (won't go into details here). And have you seen previous successful changes of that categorization?

The key in that case is that the other reference frame that from our reference frame will measure a different distance to the black hole. It might be 25000 light years away from them, but we would not be 25000 light years away (but longer I believe) in their reference frame.

This can happen for instance with extreme differences in relative velocities. Someone else can probably show an example with the math, but a key concept here is the that distances also change when you move real fast or are in a deep gravity well.

Protip for anyone considering moving to the US. Make sure you open an Amex card in your current country at least 3 months before moving. Amex has a system where as a customer from another region they will let you open one card without needing US credit rating! Make sure you pick a card that doesn't have an annual fee as your first card, since a component of most credit scores is the age of your oldest card, so you want to keep this card open forever, so a fee would suck.

I'm approaching 2 years in the us and this has been quite helpful, however I'm still in the situation someone else mentioned. My credit score is high, but I have gotten rejections from "not long enough history" (chase)

But getting an Amex platinum after the fact was no problem to get in on the whole Airport Lounges US credit card thing.

The problem with subway systems is that they are great once they have enough reach and stops to reliably and frequently get you were you need to go without needing a car. However, a small subway system with infrequent service and only a few stops isn't all that useful. If we take the claims here at face value (not saying we should) then this is a solution that provides value immediately for people commuting by car, and if the network becomes widespread enough it becomes easier to rely on it as a pedestrian. Essentially it might be a great way to bootstrap a transition to public transport in car-centric systems.

Also note that if you get an increased amount of people commuting in these tunnels without their own cars, new public transportation built by the city becomes a lot more valuable as well, since there's already a lot of people getting around without cars.

That said it is funny how private companies seem to rediscover public transport. Looking forward to Uber Train.

Furthermore, Sweden and Denmark have similar outcomes, without the oil and gas

Thanks for that link, well worth the read.

This is an interesting question to ask in these "how far away is AGI" discussions:

I was once at a conference where there was a panel full of famous AI luminaries, and most of the luminaries were nodding and agreeing with each other that of course AGI was very far off, except for two famous AI luminaries who stayed quiet and let others take the microphone.

I got up in Q&A and said, “Okay, you’ve all told us that progress won’t be all that fast. But let’s be more concrete and specific. I’d like to know what’s the least impressive accomplishment that you are very confident cannot be done in the next two years.”

There was a silence.

Eventually, two people on the panel ventured replies, spoken in a rather more tentative tone than they’d been using to pronounce that AGI was decades out. They named “A robot puts away the dishes from a dishwasher without breaking them”, and Winograd schemas. Specifically, “I feel quite confident that the Winograd schemas—where we recently had a result that was in the 50, 60% range—in the next two years, we will not get 80, 90% on that regardless of the techniques people use.”

I would guess it's closer to a Daydream or GearVR type experience. Which is a significantly better experience, even if it's roughly the same hardware as a "google cardboard" device. What makes it better is better sensor/OS/system integration (as well as good enough sensors and the right screen tech).

Unrelated tangent: It always baffle me how people view exchange rate as something that can "eat away your salary" and when you see people making statements like "it's so expensive in the UK, a pound is like 130% of a dollar". Makes me wonder if people who are only used to currencies that are roughly on the same scale view currencies in a different way than people who are used to 10x / 100x differences in currencies.

Don't mean to pick at your comment, but it's something I've seen around lately and makes me wonder.

And now these simple ifs can say stuff like "if(photo of a yorkshire terrier){}"