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Comment Efficient (Score 3, Insightful) 49

I started weighing out food while cooking a few years ago. One thing that struck me was how light weight most plastic packaging is. A plastic bag can hold easily hold 100 times its weight, making the packaging weight basically negligible for transporting food.

Unfortunately, disposing of plastic packaging is not a negligible task...

Comment Re:I mean sure (Score 1) 150

My take on reading the summary is that doctors should try to separate more classifications of "autism".

I feel there are a lot of diseases like that, such as Alzheimer's. Why do we assume two people with the same symptoms have the same disease? They could be totally different diseases that present the same way.

Comment Re:This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 3, Interesting) 231

Fortune 500 company - bottom half of that group is all I will say about them - laid me and some others off in a big layoff a few years ago. Yeah, they got rid of a few H1-Bs in the layoffs, but the vast overwhelming majority of layoffs were white American males over 40 years old, who just happened to be making good money. In my department, only Americans got laid off and not a single H1-B was impacted by the layoffs. I've been told that this is supposedly "illegal", but it's exactly what happened. They kept the H1-Bs because they make less money and they can't leave unless they want to return to India.

I had the exact opposite experience. The Fortune 500 company I worked at had layoffs, and shortly afterward the government started inquiring why H1-B workers weren't let go. All H1-B applications were rejected for the next 2 years and those people either found new sponsors or moved back to their country of origin.

IMHO the best way to avoid H1-B abuse is to put a floor on the salary across the board, and verify it through the IRS.

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