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Comment Re: The Best People (Score 1) 529

by deadfwd on Saturday April 21, 2018 @04:16PM (#56479399) Attached to: Senate Confirms Climate Denier With No Scientific Credentials To Head NASA

Agreed. After reading the other comments all I can do is shake my head. It only takes a couple hours to pull the 'studies' down and do the basic 6th grade math. Done it. There is nothing there. I can see the knee jerk issue however from those born after 1990(ish). If you were told from the day you were born from the 'wise ones' (politicians, lib teachers, etc) that climate change is real it is like telling the rest of us that smoking is bad for you. Is smoking really bad for you? I smoked for 10 years, no issues. Yet I have never bothered to pull any studies and look at the research for myself. Mainly because I quit smoking and secondly because I was told alllllllll my life it is bad. Now its too damn expensive so a moot point but same phenomena I believe. Another great point, science is never 'settled'. The whole point of science is to learn, test, re-test, and see if you can break prior beliefs and learn more.

Comment Re:Who knew (Score 3, Interesting) 51

by deadfwd on Saturday April 21, 2018 @04:01PM (#56479325) Attached to: Lycos Finally Discontinues Its Free Email Service

Oh the memories. I remember using Excite, AltaVista, Lycos, and Yahoo. You would start at one and search, then pull up the others in different windows and by the time you got back to the first query it was finally finished loading at 2800bps. Those were the days for sure.

Submission + - Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: The H-1B was created in 1990, part of an immigration overhaul signed into law by President George H.W. Bush that also created the EB-5 investor visa—the subject of a fracas involving Kushner Cos. seeking Chinese investment—and the diversity lottery, which Trump has attacked. Today, an estimated half a million H-1B holders live in the U.S. No one tracks exactly how many ditch their skilled visas for the permanent residency Canada offers, but during the first year of Trump’s presidency, the number of tech professionals globally who got permanent residency in Canada ticked up almost 40 percent from 2016, to more than 11,000.

In 1967, Canada became the first country to adopt a points-based immigration system. The country regularly tweaks how it rates applicants based on national goals and research into what makes for successful integration: A job offer used to come with 600 points, but now it’s worth just 200. Other factors like speaking fluent English or French—or, even better, both—have been given more weight over the years. Country of origin is irrelevant. In 2016, Canada increased national immigration levels to 300,000 new permanent residents annually. Last year, in consultation with trade groups, it created a program called the Global Skills Strategy to issue temporary work permits to people with job offers in certain categories, including senior software engineers, in as little as two weeks. Since the program started in June, more than 5,600 people have been granted permits, from the U.S., India, Pakistan, Brazil, and elsewhere.

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