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Date: November 16th, 2008

H-1B or not H-1B? That is the Question.

16 November, 2008 (04:49) | Education, Science-general | 1 comment

Solving the H-1B Visa Issue
I think the solution to the problem is really simple. The US should grant permanent residency to anyone who graduates from a qualified four year university with a computer science degree. If you are concerned about people gaming the system, you can start out by limiting it to people [...]

Just When You Think You’ve Gotten Over It

16 November, 2008 (04:49) | Business |

The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.

The End
I know it’s been covered to death, but I found this scary and sickening, and yet couldn’t stop reading. Banks making loans they knew [...]

This Will End the Controversy

16 November, 2008 (04:47) | Antiscience, Other science |

Yeah, right.
Tech puts JFK conspiracy theories to rest
“The question we were trying to answer is, given the spatter evidence in a vehicle, and knowing an individual was sitting at a particular location, is there something we could use to determine where the shot originated?” said Steve Schliebe, a blood spatter and trace evidence specialist with [...]

Eye of Neut

16 November, 2008 (04:46) | History, Physics |

Dark Science
The short tale of the demon core, at Futility Closet

 

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