So just being on H1B is bad now?

No? I neither said nor implied anything negative about the character of h1b's.

Bloomberg writes article about Cisco's bias for hiring h1b's over US workers.

I mention my anecdotal experience with Bloomberg where nearly everyone I interacted with was not US born and had thick accents.

I thought the irony was funny. Don't twist my words.

Sure it's end-to-end encrypted.. But Facebook doesn't have to get in the middle to look at your messages. Facebook is sitting at both ends, reading the messages after they are decrypted. It is already monetizing these messages and the ads are shown in Facebook instead of Whatsapp. Whether the opt-out functionality for this feature is honored properly by Facebook I'm not sure.

It's not end-to-end if Facebook can read them after they are delivered.

Facebook only have access to the metadata.

> And the open question is what they learned in the process

They were the biggest corporate sponsors to open source and also Linux kernel in the past few years. They acquired github, the biggest place for open source devs to meet and contribute code, and promise to keep it independent. How open of a question is this really?

I guess the question is if they actually changed or just retreated back to the Embrace phase with plan B.

Really? I hate skype for business because I can't copy-paste any body of text to co-worker because it gives a dialog box saying "the message is too big to send".. I don't know a single IM app that does this. Apparently I'm in 1980s.

> Upper middle class

Anyone who can afford the cheapest Android phone is not exactly upper middle class

Diversify your digital currency with litecoin and other cryptocurrencies

I'd imagine fraud checks, regulation, monitoring, fee collection etc

Almost all of those checks tend to happen after the fact and lead to transactions getting rolled back, rather than being checked in advance.

(Whether that's a desirable approach is a reasonable question, but that's already a thing that happens today. The only thing that needs checking in advance is "is there enough money".)

"Get an approval to buy a home or refinance your mortgage in minutes."

https://rocket.quickenloans.com/

If they can do it for buying a house ...

If Bitcoin can do it in 10 minutes globally, we can do it faster in a centralized system.

Edit: ... Not to mention many other developed nations' banking systems.

Edit: Not sure about the downvotes, but really- please don't pretend sending money instantly within one country is rocket science. The reason we're in this mess is mostly banks wanting to hang onto float, and legacy. Both our neighbors to the north and south have much speedier internal banking systems than we do, as do countless other countries.

Try to get anything out of a Bitcoin exchange in 10 minutes.

To fiat that'll take a while, but moving it around the space cash world is often very quick, on GDAX anyways.

I do it for a living.

How do you query the card balance and transfer the funds? Do you actually get cash out of the card, or do you have to resell it as a store credit to someone else?

Long story, and it very much depends on the brand. Re: cashing out, we do both transfers and resale, depending on the user risk profile.

Can you give an example of a fraud check that needs to take an hour?

Yes. Windows 10 would be the last OS from MS. I think they confirmed it.

I imagine Office, VS etc are too big to "port" to Appstore model. Also people still use these applications in Windows 7 and so that would mean having two parallel versions of the same app and release features and support for both.

Office will be "store only" on the upcoming version for Windows 10, check Build presentations.

Isn't that just wrapped for the store in their AppV model not a true UWP app?

While it isn't a pure UWP app, it is a step into that direction and already a big difference from being a standard desktop app.

The distinction of what makes a "true UWP app" certainly gets blurrier with the "Centennial" desktop bridge, but it's still rather more "true UWP" than AppV is/was.