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  1. Trying to confuse enforcement of law and patriotism with racism says more about you than anything else.

    If anything, there need to be painful-to-approach barriers to using foreign help for a while - to the point where it starts looking like the dotcom era for decades.

  2. Wipe the smirk of the business' face. on 97 Tech Companies Including Apple, Google, Microsoft Call Travel Ban Unlawful In Rare Coordinated Legal Action (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not just "no American", it's "no American available to fill the post" for a given price

    The citizens are quite available, the companies have to quit being picky.

    while stats keep saying that these companies that are supposedly abusing the system are mostly whit

    Easy to say that when the firm contracts out to a body shop, thus rendering any and all calculations invalid.

    You can argue that companies should be required to help Americans move to fill posts

    Even if it's entry-level work, I'd have no problem with that.

    Make it such a royal PITA to not [directly] hire a citizen for an FTE position that they don't bother with non-citizens.

  3. The hostility towards citizens in tech (if not just Silicon Valley) isn't more obvious than this. They depend on a steady stream of people that they can easily control in ways not possible with US citizenship. If these firms really cared about immigration, they would encourage them to become citizens, not transients working for some foreign paymaster.

    Never mind that the list includes about every major abuser of guest worker law, especially "forced training for severance" Disney. I hope that Trump turns the dial up to 11 and uses the laws that are available to him.

  4. So Sweden will cease to exist in 2045. on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The only thing these measures do is create a two-tiered system where the nomenklatura still drive and fly as they please while imposing everything on regular people.

  5. So Reddit protects (favored) criminals on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not surprised. Reddit will protect criminals of all types, provided that they're leftists.

    Some of them apparently think enough to protect the narrative on Slashdot by modbombing.

  6. Windows RT, Part Deux. on First Screenshots of Microsoft's Windows 10 Cloud OS Leak Online (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently, Microsoft wants to double down on failure.

  7. MS can take a long walk off a short pier. on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As much as they have abused guest worker provisions to the detriment of citizens, the only valid response is to deny them an exemption.

  8. A bit of truth. on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Once a site starts to ban its own users, many other users will have to try self-censorship to keep their accounts.
    That gets boring and feels like work. Why stay on an interactive social media site if you have no free speech or freedom after speech?
    As a site becomes more safe, more regulated by teams of SJW, more boring users will seek fun, interaction and content on other better sites that support freedom of speech.
    The fun, desire for and enjoyment of real free speech does not go away when teams of SJW ban users and accounts on one site.
    The site that had the SJW censorship will just be used as a safe space for brands, governments, faiths, cults and celebrities.
    A bland safe space for marketing, brands, advertising and big government does not attract fun new users.
    What will the teams of SJW like to ban next? Cartoons that would be considered blasphemy? Politics? No mention of Tiananmen Square and 1989?
    Do SJW have a long list of words, terms they want banned? Protect all celebrity marketing by ensuring only positive movie reviews can be found?

    The only people that like INGSOCJUS are the ones that practice it on others.

  9. So Reddit protects (favored) criminals. on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Not surprised. Reddit will protect criminals of all types, provided that they're leftists.

  10. Re:Kind of naieve statement for him to make on Elon Musk Thinks We Will Have To Use AI This Way To Avoid a Catastrophic Future (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll take Transcendence over Watson any day of the week

  11. For once, a non-destructive AI use. on Elon Musk Thinks We Will Have To Use AI This Way To Avoid a Catastrophic Future (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike Watson, it helps humans do their work without the unnecessary destruction.

  12. Get a citizen to do it. on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want something done right get a citizen to do it.

  13. The more reason to do it. on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Since we're receiving flak from the offshoring bodies, it means that this would be an effective enough measure.

  14. Trump's Next Immigration Move To Affect H-1B Visas; Require Tech Companies To Try To Hire Americans First

    The more they complain about Trump's measure, the more it should be applied.

  15. So Mr. John Flynt wants to double down on failure. on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    It didn't work the first time around for her, it's only going to be worse to think he's any more important by being a Congresscritter.

  16. Yes, but that doesn't mean you can't start with a good sensor that can largely stand on its own.

  17. You never had an HTC One M7 or Sony Xperia then. on Google's Pixel 2 To Feature Improved Camera, CPU and Higher Price, Says Report (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Software trickery (like Google) doesn't always save the day while more megapixels can be done well.

    HTC relied too much on Google's path and ended up with a lower overall quality camera.
    Sony uses some of their high-end, high pixel sensors and ends up not doing too badly with it - better than Google's "software tricks".

  18. We're further told that the phone's camera will "not have large MP size," but will rather "compensate in extra features".

    The last time a manufacturer did that, the camera ended up being worse for those features.

    Then again, Sony keeps on outdoing both HTC and Google on the camera front.

  19. Globalist retribution. on Microsoft May Halt the Expansion of a UK Datacenter Due To Brexit (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    Another entity that wants to keep them in the EU than having to deal with an independent Britain.

  20. If they want US protections, they play US ball. Even if that means actually having to hire US citizens en masse.

  21. If IBM thinks itself to be invulnerable, time to disabuse them of that notion.

  22. Re:Sounds like Diversity Candidates are a religion on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    For such people of "tolerance", the leftists seem to express it in a violent, intolerant, and [somewhat] inconsistent way.

  23. Compute, utter bullshit. on Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Elite "Scientists" Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity

    It's already destroying jobs at a faster rate than they can be created, much less not creating them for the displaced.

    Why should we trust them with the idea that they'll not include *people*?

  24. Wright State would have loved this. on New Senate Bill Would Give US Grads Preference In Receiving H-1B Visas (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Wright State University was caught using university students to perpetuate H1-b fraud. They effectively were saying that the training that students were doing was worthless.

    This bill would only cement that idea.

  25. Sounds like Diversity Candidates are a religion. on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Go on to Jonesville if you wish.