Isn't this a well known problem? I can't remember a time when bots weren't ruining eBay auctions. They've been ruining concerts and shows for years, driving up prices to multiple times what they cost direct from the issuer.
Well, costs have been exploding for many years. Is the decline new since Trump?
How does the exploding cost compare to the rise in income in countries like China and India?
The US is rightly seen as hostile which keeps people away, and countries like China are rapidly becoming powerhouses of their own, leaving less reason to come.
Actually they don't. There's a fairly small amount of dependent employers. They just recruit US workers too. Of course, for many, they're hiring MS or greater and paying high salaries so they're exempt.
Except that the requirements you claim are completely imaginary. They're often claimed by US workers who dislike the system but don't actually know anything about the rules.
Unless the employer is H-1B-dependent, they can hire all the H1-B workers they can get and not make even the slightest effort to recruit an American worker.
Now, if you want an employee-sponsored green card, then the employer will have to do recruitment, but that's an entirely separate process from the H-1B and occurs years later.
This is entirely incorrect. Only H-1B dependent employers are required to recruit US workers.
The recruitment requirements only kick in when/if the perm process is started.
It can be extremely difficult, especially for older people. Many of them never even had a birth certificate, or if they did, it has some error on it. Getting that sorted out so they can get an ID is a nightmare. And yes, it disproportionately affects minorities, because they're the ones who were most impacted by the lack of (correct) documentation.
Firing is not harsh. It's the standard at big tech companies. I guarantee I'd have been escorted off campus had I handed over piles of SEMs and TEMs to non-employees.
My first reaction upon reading this was, "Wow, that's a game changer. Time to embrace Google." This would be fantastic for someone like me who is routinely around people speak little to no English.
Then I remembered that Google Translate mostly churns out total nonsense when going to/from Chinese, and I was less excited.
Let's get a little more granular...
There are companies who get breached and don't know it
There are companies who get breached and know it and tell those effected
There are companies who get breaching, know it, and conceal it while execs cash out
Bingo.
I'm very glad the Windows has a good way to run Linux programs. Why? Well, I don't want to waste an afternoon figuring out which three lines I need to write to handle something that any reasonable desktop OS would handle with no hassle.
Or, they're doing the obvious thing and making Windows more attractive to people who use *nix-based tools extensively in their work. It's meant to attract a developer crowd that would otherwise use macOS.
But let's not let a totally reasonable and obvious explanation get in the way of a paranoid conspiracy theory...
You're right. Stallman's position is that of an extremist fanatic. The only reason Linux and OSS has gotten any traction is because people ignore Stallman and do what is practical instead of clinging to ideological purism.
So, what exactly is your point? That we shouldm't even consider the potential risks of having Russian software on US computers? Obviously if they can do it, they're not going to do so without a good reason, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't even think about or plan for the threat.
Every office worker?
This is particularly nasty. You need one person to fall for it and stick the file on a SharePoint site or wherever. The rest is easy - people are conditioned to having to click the trust document button (or whatever it's called) every single time they open up an Office file. It's just a routine step in opening a file.
Mostly they don't get work done. They sit around in their company-branded t-shirts and company-branded hoodies, drinking company-supplied beer as long as the VC money lasts, and then it's on to the next startup that's also doomed because it's run like a frat house by people who have never held down a real job .
Pretty much this.
A lot of those mining communities are connected only by crappy roads and the schools are garbage.
Training is a decent place to start though. It'll help places along major highways and eventually that can flow out to the less well-connected places.
It's going to be a long, difficult slog to make things better though.
Actually improving the situation is hard, so they vote for the liar who promises them prosperity without effort instead, and then they continue to suffer.
The extreme social conservatism doesn't help, either. Even if people realize that coal is not the future, they still vote for people who are committed to not helping them, simply because doing so means some minority might get screwed even harder.
I consider myself very, very lucky to have gotten out.
Pretty much spot on.
I've worked in academia and high tech manufacturing. Cobbling together something only you will ever use is pretty easy. Making a single novel-ish transistor isn't terribly difficult either. Scaling either up to mass manufacturing is an entirely different story.
I suspect that leads to a lot of startup failures. People who have never held down a real job are thinking that work will basically be like college except with a constant inflow of money. They've never had to deal with suppliers, troubleshoot weird issues that fuck up 1% of goods, write solid documentation that end users can understand, etc. Getting products to market simply requires an entire skillset that you're not going to get unless you actually have experience.
Just getting the things made is a giant amount of work. Then you have to deal with chip support and work with banks if you want it to be anything more than a really fancy card-shaped decoration that doesn't actually do anything useful.
That's always the problem with these sorts of statistics. Whoever is crunching the numbers is doing so with an agenda and comes up with something that strains credulity. They're just going for shock value, not attempting to convey any useful information.
Ultimately it detracts from the real problem. Housing throughout the bay area is, in fact, incredibly expensive. It strains the budgets of pretty much everyone who isn't bringing home six figures, and even 100k isn't enough to afford a nice place. To get even a small condo, you need a couple people making fairly high salaries.
The situation in the bay area is not sustainable, but I fail to see how a shock headline claiming 1/3 of school children are living under bridges in cardboard boxes does anything to change that.
This mirrors my experience pretty well. I got a Thinkpad X200 and put Linux on it. Things were mostly fine, until I tried to connect it to an external monitor, at which point Gnome lost track of where everything should be. Audio generally worked okay, except, of course, when it didn't. Sleep sort of worked, except when it failed for no apparent reason. Updating resulted in a non-bootable system. Wireless was fine, as long as I was willing to disable/enable it every hour or so.
All the little things added up to a rather crappy experience, like being trapped on some late 90's consumer crapbox running Windows 98. Eventually, I ended up with a MBP running OS X and suddenly everything just worked, and I got to keep the Unixy goodness.
Perhaps people would be less annoyed with Mozilla if while they were bumping version numbers and breaking things every few weeks, they bothered to fix some of the bugs in Firefox (like that nasty one that makes combo boxes collapse when scrolling in OS X 10.7).
Silicon gets used because it's well-understood. However, it's actually a pretty terrible absorber (indirect gap, smallish absorption coefficient), so you need a lot of it (drives up cost).
Also, making crystalline materials is not the cost-driving thing you seem to think it is. It's often simply a matter of heating up the substrate during deposition (in the case of a thin film). Sometimes (metals, layered chalcogenides, for example) it's actually pretty difficult to make an amorphous material.
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What tech? The company is a scam.
Isn't this a well known problem? I can't remember a time when bots weren't ruining eBay auctions. They've been ruining concerts and shows for years, driving up prices to multiple times what they cost direct from the issuer.
Doesn't seem questionable to me. It seems like the Pixel Buds just suck in real world usage.
It's irrelevant if they can translate when used in a noise isolated room with a native speaker who speaks perfectly.
Well, costs have been exploding for many years. Is the decline new since Trump?
How does the exploding cost compare to the rise in income in countries like China and India?
The US is rightly seen as hostile which keeps people away, and countries like China are rapidly becoming powerhouses of their own, leaving less reason to come.
It doesn't sound like you've ever actually used Windows 10. Or seen it, for that matter.
Actually they don't. There's a fairly small amount of dependent employers. They just recruit US workers too. Of course, for many, they're hiring MS or greater and paying high salaries so they're exempt.
Except that the requirements you claim are completely imaginary. They're often claimed by US workers who dislike the system but don't actually know anything about the rules.
DOL Fact Sheet #62O
Unless the employer is H-1B-dependent, they can hire all the H1-B workers they can get and not make even the slightest effort to recruit an American worker.
Now, if you want an employee-sponsored green card, then the employer will have to do recruitment, but that's an entirely separate process from the H-1B and occurs years later.
This is entirely incorrect. Only H-1B dependent employers are required to recruit US workers. The recruitment requirements only kick in when/if the perm process is started.
It can be extremely difficult, especially for older people. Many of them never even had a birth certificate, or if they did, it has some error on it. Getting that sorted out so they can get an ID is a nightmare. And yes, it disproportionately affects minorities, because they're the ones who were most impacted by the lack of (correct) documentation.
Firing is not harsh. It's the standard at big tech companies. I guarantee I'd have been escorted off campus had I handed over piles of SEMs and TEMs to non-employees.
My first reaction upon reading this was, "Wow, that's a game changer. Time to embrace Google." This would be fantastic for someone like me who is routinely around people speak little to no English.
Then I remembered that Google Translate mostly churns out total nonsense when going to/from Chinese, and I was less excited.
Wait, since when does the government require you to share your SSN with financial institutions?
What drugs did you have to smoke to arrive in that alternate reality?
Let's get a little more granular... There are companies who get breached and don't know it There are companies who get breached and know it and tell those effected There are companies who get breaching, know it, and conceal it while execs cash out
Bingo. I'm very glad the Windows has a good way to run Linux programs. Why? Well, I don't want to waste an afternoon figuring out which three lines I need to write to handle something that any reasonable desktop OS would handle with no hassle.
Or, they're doing the obvious thing and making Windows more attractive to people who use *nix-based tools extensively in their work. It's meant to attract a developer crowd that would otherwise use macOS. But let's not let a totally reasonable and obvious explanation get in the way of a paranoid conspiracy theory...
You're right. Stallman's position is that of an extremist fanatic. The only reason Linux and OSS has gotten any traction is because people ignore Stallman and do what is practical instead of clinging to ideological purism.
So, what exactly is your point? That we shouldm't even consider the potential risks of having Russian software on US computers? Obviously if they can do it, they're not going to do so without a good reason, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't even think about or plan for the threat.
Every office worker? This is particularly nasty. You need one person to fall for it and stick the file on a SharePoint site or wherever. The rest is easy - people are conditioned to having to click the trust document button (or whatever it's called) every single time they open up an Office file. It's just a routine step in opening a file.
Mostly they don't get work done. They sit around in their company-branded t-shirts and company-branded hoodies, drinking company-supplied beer as long as the VC money lasts, and then it's on to the next startup that's also doomed because it's run like a frat house by people who have never held down a real job .
Pretty much this. A lot of those mining communities are connected only by crappy roads and the schools are garbage. Training is a decent place to start though. It'll help places along major highways and eventually that can flow out to the less well-connected places. It's going to be a long, difficult slog to make things better though. Actually improving the situation is hard, so they vote for the liar who promises them prosperity without effort instead, and then they continue to suffer. The extreme social conservatism doesn't help, either. Even if people realize that coal is not the future, they still vote for people who are committed to not helping them, simply because doing so means some minority might get screwed even harder. I consider myself very, very lucky to have gotten out.
Pretty much spot on. I've worked in academia and high tech manufacturing. Cobbling together something only you will ever use is pretty easy. Making a single novel-ish transistor isn't terribly difficult either. Scaling either up to mass manufacturing is an entirely different story. I suspect that leads to a lot of startup failures. People who have never held down a real job are thinking that work will basically be like college except with a constant inflow of money. They've never had to deal with suppliers, troubleshoot weird issues that fuck up 1% of goods, write solid documentation that end users can understand, etc. Getting products to market simply requires an entire skillset that you're not going to get unless you actually have experience. Just getting the things made is a giant amount of work. Then you have to deal with chip support and work with banks if you want it to be anything more than a really fancy card-shaped decoration that doesn't actually do anything useful.
That's always the problem with these sorts of statistics. Whoever is crunching the numbers is doing so with an agenda and comes up with something that strains credulity. They're just going for shock value, not attempting to convey any useful information. Ultimately it detracts from the real problem. Housing throughout the bay area is, in fact, incredibly expensive. It strains the budgets of pretty much everyone who isn't bringing home six figures, and even 100k isn't enough to afford a nice place. To get even a small condo, you need a couple people making fairly high salaries. The situation in the bay area is not sustainable, but I fail to see how a shock headline claiming 1/3 of school children are living under bridges in cardboard boxes does anything to change that.
This mirrors my experience pretty well. I got a Thinkpad X200 and put Linux on it. Things were mostly fine, until I tried to connect it to an external monitor, at which point Gnome lost track of where everything should be. Audio generally worked okay, except, of course, when it didn't. Sleep sort of worked, except when it failed for no apparent reason. Updating resulted in a non-bootable system. Wireless was fine, as long as I was willing to disable/enable it every hour or so. All the little things added up to a rather crappy experience, like being trapped on some late 90's consumer crapbox running Windows 98. Eventually, I ended up with a MBP running OS X and suddenly everything just worked, and I got to keep the Unixy goodness.
Perhaps people would be less annoyed with Mozilla if while they were bumping version numbers and breaking things every few weeks, they bothered to fix some of the bugs in Firefox (like that nasty one that makes combo boxes collapse when scrolling in OS X 10.7).
Silicon gets used because it's well-understood. However, it's actually a pretty terrible absorber (indirect gap, smallish absorption coefficient), so you need a lot of it (drives up cost). Also, making crystalline materials is not the cost-driving thing you seem to think it is. It's often simply a matter of heating up the substrate during deposition (in the case of a thin film). Sometimes (metals, layered chalcogenides, for example) it's actually pretty difficult to make an amorphous material.