~400,000 GB * 8 bits/Byte = 3,200,000 Gb at 1Gbps that's 3,200,000 seconds or about 888 hours or about 37 days. If that's 400TB * 1024, instead of 1000, then it's a bit longer, pushing 38 days.
So it's 1099 GB vs 1000 GB which is a solid 10% difference. Your TCP overhead is not anywhere close to 10% unless you are sending with an MTU of 240...
I would agree democracy and governance is work, the schlep is never ending. Government is accountable to its citizens, citizens are accountable to keep government on task and honest.
Government is us, hence the inherit nature of this all being a system held together in tension. There is always hope, with my apologies to Banksy.
I have been using the 1 second a day app from 2016. Today will be the 8th year of my journey, and it feels very nice to look back at the compiled videos. I don’t remember life in 214/15 because of much stress, but 16 onwards is a colorful memory.
It's not about physical distance but social distance, i.e who talks to whom, and how many degrees of separation there is there between who's making the decisions and who's doing the company's core work (for Boeing that's building & designing planes).
In a company with offices, social networks will mirror the physical layout because people will tend to talk to people nearby them in the building and not people in different buildings. By moving management further away physically, they also moved them further away socially.
But in a fully remote company it's not so clear, and more about the org chart and who's in the same Slack/Teams rooms or meetings.
This is why you should start the conversation with "I have drawn up a plan to save the company $14M per year. I will execute this plan in exchange for $7M upon completion."
If they say no then just go back to your regular duties.
Very few companies would make this deal at 0.7M, 0.07M, or even 0.007M. Direct sharing a % of savings with the responsible employee is simply not the way most companies work. Consultants, now, that's different...
But was that your job? Because if so, you really got salary+bonus. And if you'd found nothing you'd still have got salary. So you can look at it several ways.
John day! I visit this place almost every summer. Its remote with true dark sky and almost no cell range. You can find some truly gem of places to see around here.
My good memories from 2017 solar eclipse are still etched into my brain:)
Ugh , wait till you hear about green card process for Indians. Despite living here legally for past 15 years, I might have to wait for another 10 to just get permenant residency.
And if it is going to be this hard, why do I have to pay social security and medicare taxes? I call it a donation/yearly fees at this point, working with such a shady system.
From the Congressional research service's report on immigration backlog [1] (note: this was before covid), for applicants from India, the projected backlogs for various employment-based green card applications applying in 2020 were:
EB-1: 8 years.
EB-2: 195 years.
EB-3: 27 years.
Projecting out to 2030, the report says (for Indian applicants):
EB-1: 18 years.
EB-2: 436 years.
EB-3: 48 years.
I performed a linear extrapolation using the 2020 and 2030 estimates. Two points and a straight line through them gives:
All numbers in years. The numbers are rounded up to the next highest integer. Note that a straight line through these two points isn't necessarily the correct model but whatever. Also, the covid era immigration policy moved a bunch of dates around, so this may not be as accurate. But it is still the best numbers I could find.
In any case, it is reasonable to assume that anyone with a priority date of 2017 or so will likely retire before your priority date is current.
You (and me) will probably spend an entire career paying for social security and never be eligible for it.
> citizens of India can receive Social Security benefits with 10 years of work.
This is about exceptions to the rule preventing payments outside the United States after 6 months, and is based on more than 10 years of work by the qualified worker.
But the actual worker needs to be a citizen or a legal permanent resident (“green card” holder) [0] to be eligible to either receive benefits themselves or have dependents receive benefits based on their eligibility.
[0] Actually, there’s a few other categories like certain refugees and asylees, but not, general dual-intent non-immigrant visa holders (like H-1B workers.)
Again, note this is about payments for people who have qualified for them either as a qualified worker or as a dependent of one while the recipient is outside of the United States, it is not about the status required to be the worker on the basis of whose eligibility payments are made.
This could be just the reason why Congress is turning their attention to work visas.
IIRC green card problem began simultaneously with H1B problem, between 2005-2008. It makes sense: if the major entry to the immigration pipeline ends up 75% of Indian nationals, of course the exit for India-born (due to per-country diversity rule) is jammed.
I know backlog growth has a few unrelated causes adding up together, but at least 90% of the mess correlates very well with overuse of H1B and L1B (transfers) by odd consultancy businesses. Other factors don’t seem as important, for example, China has the same population size as India, but its wait time has been growing several times slower. Both problems are clearly connected.
You could have gained Swiss citizenship in less than that (12 years realistically, that includes waiting for 2 years to get interview, could be less). Sure, you have to learn new language to cca decent level (B1), but that's a minuscule effort compared to big picture.
Much more free time for ie visits back home (basically everybody has 25 days of paid leave + various public holidays, and I can be off sick for a long time without any any effect on paycheck), you have top notch medical and school system for free, retirement savings are forever yours and yours only and accessible from anywhere. CHF is stronger than ever, country is historically most stable in the world for past 800 years, extremely low criminality compared to US.
Being treated with respect regardless where you come from or how you look like and bureaucracy working well are additional features. More real freedom than you could ever dream of having in US (maybe unless you are a proper gun nut) is just a cherry on the top of the cake.
> Being treated with respect regardless where you come from or how you look
How about being treated as a Swiss regardless of where you come from or how you look? Say what you will about America, but it is a place where you can become an American in all senses of the word within one generation.
This is an extremely powerful fact about north america (the USA and Canada) that many miss. All of the old world is based around ethnicity. You are either fully accepted and equal or you are not - all based on ethnicity.
This is not the case in the US and Canada. each country has an ugly past but their true strength is in the ability for anyone from anywhere to become fully integrated and equal in their societies.
This is only because America has no real culture. America has global technological monoculture, which gives you infinite freedom as long as you comply with the state’s laws. No wonder adoption is so easy.
> Ugh , wait till you hear about green card process for Indians. Despite living here legally for past 15 years, I might have to wait for another 10 to just get permenant residency.
Unless you marry someone who's not from India (does not have to be a green-card holder or an American either). Indians really get screwed by their cultural expectations to marry someone who's also from India.
They can be an Indian citizen who grew up in India, but as long as their birth certificate is from a country other than China & India they can get a green card in a reasonable amount of time.
These days, a lot of folks do undergrad in India, then a masters in the US, OPT -> H1B and were definitely not coupled up or married before they came to the US...
> And if it is going to be this hard, why do I have to pay social security and medicare taxes? I
You don’t; no one is requiring you to reside or work outside your country of citizenship; presumably, you have chosen to do so because it provides economic advantage over your other alternatives. (Also, no one is prohibiting you from taking the necessary steps to qualify for a different immigration category, including the unlimited ones that have no quota and therefore no backlog.)
Because you chose to apply to a system that limits the total percentage of recipients taken by nationals of any one country? The USA is pretty public with this information along with publishing applications numbers so if it's a process you are interested in understanding or that could impact you personally you had a lot of information to inform you how it all works and what your odds/wait would be?
Dunno if you are aware of the racism behind this. US limits this by country by birth not citizenship. Just being public about this doesn't make it fair or equitable.
Took me twenty years to get it and the only reason it happened in 20 was the increase in number of available green cards due to covid. $5M+ earnings, leading teams of 30+, generating hundreds of millions in income for companies.
Citizenship of India by naturalization can be acquired by a foreigner (not being an illegal
migrant) who is ordinarily resident in India for twelve years (throughout the period of twelve
months immediately preceding the date of application and for eleven years in the aggregate in
the fourteen years preceding the twelve months) and fulfils other qualifications as specified in
third schedule to the act, 1955.
In addition:
1) A copy of valid Foreign Passport
2) A copy of Residential Permit/LTV
3) A copy of Bank Challan in original amounting to Rs.1500/- deposited in the State Bank of India.
4) One affidavit from self (applicant) and two affidavits from two Indians testifying to the character of the applicant in the prescribed language available in the application form. Affidavit to be allotted by Notary/Oath Commissioner/ DM.
5) Two language certificates certifying the applicant’s knowledge in any one of the Indian languages specified in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. (A language certificate from a recognized educational institution or from a recognised organisation or from two Indian citizens of the district of the applicant).
6) Two newspaper (circulating in the district in which the applicant resides) cuttings of different dates or of different newspapers notifying his/ her intention to apply for citizenship in the prescribed language available in the application form.
regarding social sec & medicare, it is straight up robbery of legal worker. I understand as a nation you have the right to limit immigration as you see fit but if you really are as morally sound as you claim all this money should be refunded to an immigrant if their application is rejected or dropped because the wait was longer than a reasonable human carrier (40years). This is straight up immoral and punishes people who actually played by the rules.
you are missing the larger point, it is often heralded that illegal immigration is immoral & the right thing to do is to wait in line and do it legally. Also, America absolutely claims moral high ground on international stage regularly and uses it to justify use of force when needed.
In case there is any doubt about this, the founding war cry for the country was taxation without representation is basically equivalent to slavery. And then civil war with southern states for the same. How is taking away money from people's paycheck for a service that they'll never use and have no representation into not mini-slavery. I mean if you want to steal that money from down-on-their-luck immigrants then why not just create a new taxrate slab for migrant workers so they have a clear view of what they are getting into.
My current experience in FAANG for last decade has been anecdotally similar. I have come to one conclusion about people and I put them in 3 categoties-
1. one who have tons of ideas and just enough motivation to implement them.
2. One who are good at maintaining the existing product and are so scared of breaking the boundaries that they often add roadblocks to first category people.
3. People who don’t know jack, and are effective at management, politics and rest and vest.
Often at FAANG, being the beast that they are, the leadership is filled 2nd and 3rd category people. Perhaps that is why you find them good at keeping the lights on, and they satisfy the 1st by buying out the competition.
I, not hyping myself consider to be of first category, but I found going down this path of carving out your ideas is extremely hard. The people at leadership, management are extremely good at politics and portraying themselves bigger than they are. As a result, you need either lot of eng and support team to build anything, or find your way out to develop things on your own and get bought back into FAANG.
