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  1. I believe there is a very straightforward solution available: set a floor on H1B salaries. The pros of skilled immigration are self-evident, just look at the names of the contributors to literally any research paper of…

  2. I have an escalating concern as it relates to using Chinese software, but it's becoming increasingly unavoidable. My concerns are rooted in 3 principal reasons, among others: - Within the last 5 years, our governments…

  3. I don't know what's happened. This isn't an issue with hitting the rate limit or anything like that. I'm not getting any errors at all, the request will just hang indefinitely, even with as simple of a request as a few…

  4. "Exploring a space by explicitly seeking out terminal paths prior to advancing to new territory." Algorithmically, I would describe it as "depth first search, while attempting to predict and prioritize the shortest…

  5. Even if you're using a VPN, shouldn't an ISP have access to more than enough data to determine that X packets of roughly Y size, sent with roughly Z timing is 99% likely to be S service? They have the training data...Am…

  6. CO2 is basically poison within the context of our respiration. How has there been no serious biological/performance implications from such a drastic change in atmospheric composition? Obviously as a percentage of…

  7. What should be the role of the state in regards to the content of our technological platforms? Does it have a role in securing the ability for all opinions to be expressed? Does it have a role in explicitly restricting…

  8. CosmosDB has a few really interesting features. It has 5 different consistency models, ranging from strong to eventual. It has an SQL, Graph, Mongo, KV, and Cassandra interface out of the box. It has scalable…

  9. Virtually every keyboard available on Android that I am aware of has internet access, and openly sends ALL text inputed by users to their servers for "pattern analytics." "Better autocorrect" is probably one of the…

  10. If we're storing and sending them as strings, why not take up less space by bumping up the radix to harness more available characters? Going from hex to Base64 alone would be a seemingly obvious place to start, since…

  11. Question went over the character limit slightly, so I pasted it here: http://pastebin.com/raw/J6f86KVP