The MDM does not give your employer a way to retroactively unlock the phone. Depending on the MDM solution and capabilities they allowed they may be able to install an application though. But most people that have accepted MDM on their personal device from their employer, the only thing the employer can do is remotely wipe the device.
I don't think this is correct, Jamf has a "Clear Passcode" option that I have used with success, although it does require the device to have an internet connection.
I’d like to see if anyone with Fatal Familial Insomnia has been treated with this pattern. I expected that insomnia stops this glymphatic clearance, and that’s what eventually kills them.
I’m not aware of the root cause. I thought they just stopped being able to sleep, and the buildup of whatever junk in the brain eventually caused death.
No, you have the causality reversed. FFI is a prion disease. The insomnia is a consequence of the damage the prion proteins cause. The prions themselves will kill you, regardless of whether you were able to reproduce the biological effects of sleep in a patient. Insomnia is also also caused by other acute brain illnesses, like rabies.
I’d like if the study would track the monthly rental prices for the lowest end of the rental market - studio apartments in subprime neighborhoods. I expect those landlords were the major beneficiaries of the minimum wage hike, and the actual workers were left with the same amount of monthly spare cash after rent.
I expect the slumlords are the major recipients of increased minimum wage, not the workers. In a perfectly inelastic market, such as Southern California housing, landlords can keep raising rents until the lowest end of the market can no longer afford housing.
You can't threaten global security in one hand while relying on it with the other. It's as simple as that. India (or more precisely, Modi) have several suppliers to choose from, and by standing by Russia they make themselves a legitimate target of economic sanctions. I'm sure Modi and the incumbents want to market it as a persecution complex by the rest of the world, but from an outside perspective it's very easy to see how one person's petty choices can hold back a billion-person nation. Nobody forced India to defend the revisionist and genocidal hermit kingdom besides their own leader. It's a tragedy.
India's free to make their own call, but the rest of the world is fully within their right to call it what it is. Remember Turkey? They gave up the chance to buy F-35s at sticker price because they wanted to be buddy-buddy enough with Russia to import S-400 systems. Rational military strategists are not looking at the war in Ukraine and feeling good about Turkey's decision right now. Ironically, the PR consequences of India's backwards defense strategy probably benefits adversaries like Pakistan more than it threatens them. This behavior is burning the political "soft-power" that India relies on to furnish international support.
This is the most frustrating news I’ve read about taxes. As an American, I’d like to think that our tax system was designed to be fair. Yes, Warren Buffet’s secretary famously paid a higher tax percentage than he did, because all of his wealth was in unrealized gains. I’d accepted that - with the understanding that upon Warren’s death, estate taxes would be paid, and “fairness” would be restored to the system. But, lobbying for tax loopholes, wealth left to charities where heirs are awarded outrageous management fees, etc are ways for the extremely wealthy to avoid ever paying these estate taxes. When I heard the democrats push for a billionaire tax, I was quite cynical, as I thought the fairness issue would be resolved through estate taxes. This $7B being an anomaly, suggests that the wealthy are engineering their way around paying these estate taxes. I thought those problems were limited to “step-up” in cost basis type of giveaways to the wealthy. Now I’m reading that even the basic estate taxes aren’t being paid. I’m livid. Hate to say this, but I may now support the democrats plan. It’s a horrible plan, but apparently estate taxes aren’t working either.
Building a business empire your entire life, taking loans against that business, having step up cost basis upon death, leaving everything to your heirs - without estate taxes - isn’t “fair”
Fair would be if everyone would pay a the same percentage on their income, no more brackets. And it should be no more than 10-15% of gross income. That's it. No estate taxe, no inheritance tax, no nothing tax.
I am pretty sure that those 10-15% are more than enough to have a functioning government that is able to serve the public pretty well.
What makes trust fund children more deserving of resources than anyone else? When these estate taxes are avoided, yes, illegitimately through lobbying, then the rest of society shoulders their burden. The difference between a trust fund baby and a welfare mother is just which bank account is sending money to them.
I’m not suggesting to eat the rich. Far from it. I’m suggesting to leave the hard working rich alone, and tax them at the end of life. Their children are no more deserving of their riches than anyone else.
Bought an iPhone 16 pro max on launch day. Went to the Apple Store with my iPhone 15 pro max, and was encouraged to transfer my data in the store. I sat there for 7 hours, with both phones connected via hard wired Ethernet, and was still not successful. The only use case I can come up with for higher speed physical is direct phone to phone data transfer during these upgrade cycles. I’m appalled by how much doesn’t work on my new phone - passwords that need to be re-established, music that needs to be downloaded. It’s not a traditionally clean “it just works” Apple experience. I’d like to plug a USB cable into both phone, and within 15min, have my new phone exactly like my old phone - exactly the same. It was so bad, I may skip future refresh cycles - and the reason Apple may thing about actually fixing the experience.
It's not as if Android offers anything either. Third party tools like syncthing can be used to backup the camera folder, but the root android folder is protected against copying because of permissions issues that Google refuses to fix. Same if you connect it to an external SSD. You have to root your phone truly be able to make a simple, complete backup. But that comes with a lot of disadvantages for financial apps, security, etc.
Last android phone I bought (my current device, got it as a refurb, ill never buy new again its a waste of money) supports high speed usbc with display and data out. Usb3.2 gen2 I think it is. I specifically chose this phone because of the high speed usb transfer rates. I use the 128gb storage for data transfer all the time and I also like being able to plug it in to usbc monitors and use it as a desktop when I need quick compute functions and don't want to lug a pc around or boot up my actual desktop.
I make sure most of my clients whenever they buy new monitors get usbc hub monitors. The price is bugger all extra and once I show them what I can do with my phone they basically want the same. Not to mention I haven't installed a laptop workstation space that isn't usb c one cable to plugin and go in about 3 years now.
If you use iCloud backups, you get that. Downloads your settings first, then restarts and download all your content. Your phone is an exact copy of what you had before minus the debit/credit cards in Wallet.
And your Google Authenticator TOTP records. Not sure if that’s changed recently, but it caught me out badly a few years ago that it didn’t save them to iCloud.
Why doesn’t our H1B system adjust the yearly number of slots based upon these metrics? From a tech worker, I just see the H1Bs as flooding an already saturated market.
I think that we should entirely abolish programs like H1B that leave people tied to a specific employer for a long period of time (and similar visas like the SWV in the UK).
These programs mean you have literal second class citizens in a the workplace who desperately need to avoid losing their jobs for fear of their life being completely upended. This disrupts the labour market and internal corporate culture significantly. Instead we should have work visas lead to permanent status much faster, but give them out more sparingly.
USA should adopt the EU model: The visa is not tied to the employer but to profession. You are only allowed to do work in the professions that is described in the original visa/residence permit reasons for up to X years, which should avoid the "in the employers mercy" situation.
EDIT: this also relieves a lot of burden on the system, as you can easily change jobs between companies by simply mailing the job change documents to the foreigners office - they will just take a look at the new position that you have taken up and simply send back the confirmation that the residence permit is still valid, instead of trying to issue a new visa with all bureaucracy that comes with.
I think that's a totally reasonable compromise which would reduce abuse both by employer and employees. However actually determining what a specific job role entails is quite complicated. Take a look at the SOC codes in the US or NOCs in Canada. Even if you figure that out, auditing people to make sure their day-to-day matches their notional job code is pretty hard.
Well, at least in Germany, the "profession" field is a free text field, there are no codes. The official is only interested in that whatever you are working as closely matches the original profession on your visa, so you can easily argue that your new title of "SRE Engineer" matches the original "Software Engineer", which they will accept as long as you are a working person in the IT Field.
The Swedish visa system is a compromise, at least when I moved here 10+ years ago.
My first work visa was tied to the company who sponsored my move, it lasted for 2 years and in that period if I changed jobs the new employer would need to sponsor me as well. After 2 years I renewed my work visa, this 2nd visa is not tied to an employer and I could freely move jobs.
As cheap as employees are they can always be cheaper. Labor costs are a huge input cost in many businesses, cost savings there adds up to a large amount of money for very few people who can pay politicians to act in their interest.
Which is why H1B wont be curtailed and why employees are blamed for inflation.
"I opened the window to listen to the news. But all I heard was the Establishment's Blues." - Sixto Rodriguez (This In Not A Song, It's An Outburst)
My hot take on the whole Amazon RTO thing is they are trying to ramp up visa workers
Amazon is the no.2 in h1bs in the US, and no. 1 in i-140.
1) Layoffs mean they have to pause both of those. Amazon even had to stop all I-140s in February until 2025. So instead of more layoffs just RTO 5 days a week. If everyone stays, great.
2) If people leave / no one applies to new jobs - now you have a case to bring to the US govt. that Americans with the required skills aren't applying
I wonder if that sort of measure would have far too much lag to be effective. Also, what signals do they go off of? Ask workers and there's too many, ask industry and there'll never be enough.
I think there are some labor board requirements to report layoffs? Maybe that could be used. Could implement some rule where you can't do layoffs at all while employing visa holders. No way that an industry going through massive layoffs needs to bring in people on visas while unemployed citizens can't get hired.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine suggests that Russia may be willing to go down that path. If China invades Taiwan, I can absolutely see a scenario where this happens. China, being export driven, would likely have a harder time than it expects. Russia’s petroleum exports are enough to disrupt global supplies, and the reason they’re still allowed to trade.
Thinking about this in terms of a Gaussian distribution, is a 1 MOA gun one which shoots 2 std deviations within 1 MOA? 3 std deviations? A simple 5 round group seems like it would provide some information, but not enough to fully characterize the distribution.
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