What's the difference. Aren't they both benchmarking apps? I used passmark scores to decide on a CPU during my last round of upgrades and it seemed pretty in line with what I experienced when I owned the CPU.
for their parents, even at immigrant prices. They're relying on Medicare or family members or just plain hoping for the best that their parents don't wind up dead. Send the immigrants away and maybe they can afford it when they get new, better paying jobs. But even if they can't they're no worse off than they were before.
This is the problem with abandoning your working class. It creates warped incentives like this. As Trump put it, "What da ya got to lose?". The answer for a _lot_ of rust belters is nothing, nothing whatsoever.
but nobody's complaining about your targeted advertising. What we _are_ complaining about is your practice of selling questionable data to equally questionable third parties.
In my old city there were tons of posts for jobs. It turns out it was the same 3 recruiters posting the same jobs over and over again. There were actually very, very few tech jobs. Meanwhile I left behind several friends who bought houses and got stuck in really shitty dead end jobs when they found out how bad the job market really is. Meanwhile I left behind several friends who bought houses and got stuck in really shitty dead end jobs when they found out how bad the job market really is. They're trapped. Upside down on a house as the job market got worse and/or not making enough money to save for the move.
I got lucky. I was born there but left for a job I happened to land by a combination of skill and dumb luck. Thing is, I've got a kid in college. As long as I'm willing to live like crap in a big city then the high pay lets me pay for her school. Had I not landed the job I have now I'd still be trapped and she'd be going to a shitty community college and on her way to a crap career.
So unless Pittsburgh has the jobs for real then techies had best steer clear. And it's damn hard to tell. Maybe fly out there and try meeting with people at the local computer club.
so I don't think he'll be doing it, so no worries there. But there's an easy solution to the problem you raised: Pay an H1-B 5x-10x the prevailing wage. If they really do have skills critical to the company that no American has or can be trained to have in a reasonable time then that's not a bad deal. It needs to be that high or the money savings from zero training and the ability to work them longer hours maintain the imbalance.
points out that they've contributed billions but may never reap the benefits. Just like everybody in this country...
Seriously, if you want people to stop fighting immigration you need to make it so that some of the wealth they generate makes it into their hands too. Right no immigrants contribute a lot to the economy but all that wealth winds up concentrated at the top.
What I"m saying is this: Kicking the immigrants out will hurt a sector of the economy that your average Trump voter is completely isolated from (Wallstreet mostly). Meanwhile their entire quality of life is dependent on getting jobs. Fewer immigrants means more demand for their labor. That's just supply and demand. They're making a perfectly rational decision given a completely irrational world.
tl;dr. Fix our screwed up supply side economic system or expect more twisted distortions like this.
there's been a lot of job losses to immigration. Yes, immigrants contribute heavily to the economy, but unless you own your own business employing those immigrants you're not benefiting from that. Now with our supply side economic system. Maybe if we had single payer healthcare, a fully funded social security and a proper safety net you'd there's be a point. But for the vast majority of native born workers the immigrants don't help, they hurt.
Ignoring that fact is what got Trump into the Whitehouse. It's why the Dems keep losing seats (1000 in the last 8 years) in all major government races. Right now both parties are heavily in favor of whatever helps the mega corps most. That means supply side economics, low taxes, war profiteering and cuts to social services.
All of these things mean a winner take all economy where the only determining factor in your quality of life is your job. And therefore anything that gets in the way of a good job is pretty much the worst thing ever. It's a twisted system to be sure, but we're not accomplishing anything by failing to acknowledge the reality of it and writing people off as xenophobes.
it'll marginally raise the wages but it won't eliminate the main reason companies want H1-Bs: zero training. They don't even have to maintain the school system anymore. Other countries do it for them. Worse, those countries churn out employees with highly specialized skills. When tech changes those employees either fall by the wayside or they work 90/hr/week on their own time/dime to keep their skills current.
You'd need to increase the cost of an H1-B by a factor of 5-10x to account for the full scope of training (well funded and subsidized high schools and colleges, continual uptraining during working hours, extra employees to cover while you're out training, etc, etc).
all of the tech sited in the article involve efficiency increases. It reminds me of stuff like this. AI doesn't have to replace workers to leave us screwed. Just keeping the number of new jobs stagnant is enough. Like how inflation eats away at your income.
especially since when they can't get it locally they get to apply for a visa and bring in somebody making 70-80% of the prevailing wages and work them 60 hours/week...
it's not over supply, any more than there's an over supply of musicians. Actual scientists just plain love doing science. That makes it easy for people to take advantage of them. Same as musicians get taken advantage of. And sports players. And video game programmers. And pretty much anyone who obsessively loves doing a job. There's always a few breakout successes (often times because a spouse or family member is handling the business side of things and keeping them from getting screwed) but for the most part we shit all over the rest.
This is one of the reasons minimum wage laws exist and need strict enforcement. It's also one of the reasons academia is heavily subsidized. These people will do really, really useful work if you let them. Or they'll get ground into dust if you let the suits have their way.
the last spending bill was $1.3 Trillion, of which nearly $700 billion is military. 700/1300 = 53% (rounding down since 'nearly'). And if you think the next spending bill will be any different you haven't been paying attention to who's running the government.
that 52% pays more of their income as a percentage than the 48%. You're talking about the poor. And yes, the poor do pay taxes. Sales tax. Property tax (if they manage to own anything). Vehicle tax. State Income Tax. Meanwhile the 1% in that 48% receive the lion's share of civilization's benefits for doing basically no work. If you want to start bringing up parasites (which is implicit in your little crack about 48%) how about the Hilton Family? Or the Koch Bros? Or Bain f'n' capital? What exactly do they do that makes them worthy? If you're just in favor of winner take all, no morals capitalism that's fine to, but come right out and say it.
there is a single payer. It's the government. So I am calling it what it is. This is how insurance bloody damn well works. Everybody pays in and everybody gets taken care of when something goes wrong. The current for profit system is just missing the 'gets taken care of '.
minimum wage laws stop the race to the bottom. They buoy up wages leading to consumers who can purchase your goods and services. Without them a handful of robber barons monopolize everything. Great if you end up one of the barons, but that's highly unlikely.
around minimum wage and overtime laws. There's no other purpose. If you're a worker then you should be deeply opposed to this. Unless you're in a strong union they _will_ eventually come for you too. And the only strong union left I know of is the AMA. Lord knows us tech workers don't have anything of the sort.
The only potential good that might come out of all this is America might wise up and vote single payer healthcare in. But right now the party in charge is completely opposed to it and I don't see them getting kicked out anytime soon. We're still arguing over assault rifles and abortion for Pete's sake (hurray for wedge issues!).
You don't really think things through, do you? They're not taking online classes. They're using smart phones to look up the answers to things they don't understand and that their overworked/underpaid teachers didn't have time to teach them. And yes, that's a huge pain in the neck compared to using a computer to do it. But they can barely afford a $100 smart phone. So they make do.
for one who clearly knows so little? I don't understand the benefit to proof of mining. As far as I know it's just there to add artificial scarcity to the system in order to control the crypto-currency equivalent of inflation. Are these calculations being used to solve some other math problem (like Folding at Home does or the SETI stuff)?
You allude to Bitcoin Cash 0-conf solving my other problems. I think you mean transaction delays and fees. As far as I can tell it still means going through a processor, who is going to charge fees that are probably equivalent to a debit network. If I'm wrong can you explain it to me in layman's terms? What little I found on google seemed to be complex Proof of Concept stuff, not anything practical.
there's folks in the rust belt for who that $9.25 subsidy is the difference between eating that week and not. If you're in one of the blasted out cities in America where the manufacturing base moved to Mexico post NAFTA it's not uncommon. If you're lucky you work 20/week at a burger king for just enough money to keep the lights on. Should they have internet? A lot of them do so their kids can do their homework. They skip meals for it.
If anything we ought to be doing more for these people. And to devil with religious objections and let's just give them free birth control already.
they've been doing that for Europe for years. The problem with fuel efficiency is that we subsidize gas with our military, using it to keep a lid on the cost of gas by stabilizing the flow of cheap oil from the middle east (yes, I'm aware we are currently a net exporter, but the oil market is global, and if the price of oil out of the mid east shoots up then US producers will sell overseas at higher prices and the domestic price goes up as a result, globalism's a bitch).
Anyway for my money anything that reduces the need for those subsidies is a good thing. >half our budget just went to the military. That's not defense, that's empire.
Also false. Americans were richer in the 70s. Wealth isn't about big TVs, it's about stability Yes, I can buy a nice TV for $200. But a house is $300,000+ unless I want to live in a slum and drink lead. Health care and education costs have massively outpaced inflation. Food has shot up too in the last 10 years thanks to deregulating the commodities market. Real Buying power is down. Way down.
that whole "Nastry, Brutish and Short" part of life until recently. Most women died in childbirth (fun fact, there are stories of Voltaire's mistress "putting her papers in order" because she got preggers at 40 and it was basically a death sentence. Spoiler, she died). Then there's the elements. And water. And avoiding famine.
When folks talk about what they don't need they mean cell phones, tvs and internet. Those things cost very, very little. Housing, food, basic transportation, education. These are the things that eat the bulk of our income. Unless you're willing to go back to that nasty/brutish/short life there's no easy answer here.
This is not to say we have to work nearly as hard as we do. We already produce enough food to feed every one, and in 10-20 years the world ain't gonna need ditch diggers what with automation. But we _do_ need to come up with a better system for distributing wealth in a world where people don't need full time jobs (and where the's not enough of them to go around anyway). Or we could just let 80% of the population regress to abject poverty and use military drones to keep 'em in check. That works too.
but Linux tech tips just benchmarked that new iMac pro and even with all it's cooling there was still some throttling. Laptops are always going to be a tradoff in that regard. Maybe if there was a special enclosure that opened the mobo to air...
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What's the difference. Aren't they both benchmarking apps? I used passmark scores to decide on a CPU during my last round of upgrades and it seemed pretty in line with what I experienced when I owned the CPU.
for their parents, even at immigrant prices. They're relying on Medicare or family members or just plain hoping for the best that their parents don't wind up dead. Send the immigrants away and maybe they can afford it when they get new, better paying jobs. But even if they can't they're no worse off than they were before.
This is the problem with abandoning your working class. It creates warped incentives like this. As Trump put it, "What da ya got to lose?". The answer for a _lot_ of rust belters is nothing, nothing whatsoever.
but nobody's complaining about your targeted advertising. What we _are_ complaining about is your practice of selling questionable data to equally questionable third parties.
In my old city there were tons of posts for jobs. It turns out it was the same 3 recruiters posting the same jobs over and over again. There were actually very, very few tech jobs. Meanwhile I left behind several friends who bought houses and got stuck in really shitty dead end jobs when they found out how bad the job market really is. Meanwhile I left behind several friends who bought houses and got stuck in really shitty dead end jobs when they found out how bad the job market really is. They're trapped. Upside down on a house as the job market got worse and/or not making enough money to save for the move.
I got lucky. I was born there but left for a job I happened to land by a combination of skill and dumb luck. Thing is, I've got a kid in college. As long as I'm willing to live like crap in a big city then the high pay lets me pay for her school. Had I not landed the job I have now I'd still be trapped and she'd be going to a shitty community college and on her way to a crap career.
So unless Pittsburgh has the jobs for real then techies had best steer clear. And it's damn hard to tell. Maybe fly out there and try meeting with people at the local computer club.
so I don't think he'll be doing it, so no worries there. But there's an easy solution to the problem you raised: Pay an H1-B 5x-10x the prevailing wage. If they really do have skills critical to the company that no American has or can be trained to have in a reasonable time then that's not a bad deal. It needs to be that high or the money savings from zero training and the ability to work them longer hours maintain the imbalance.
points out that they've contributed billions but may never reap the benefits. Just like everybody in this country...
Seriously, if you want people to stop fighting immigration you need to make it so that some of the wealth they generate makes it into their hands too. Right no immigrants contribute a lot to the economy but all that wealth winds up concentrated at the top.
What I"m saying is this: Kicking the immigrants out will hurt a sector of the economy that your average Trump voter is completely isolated from (Wallstreet mostly). Meanwhile their entire quality of life is dependent on getting jobs. Fewer immigrants means more demand for their labor. That's just supply and demand. They're making a perfectly rational decision given a completely irrational world.
tl;dr. Fix our screwed up supply side economic system or expect more twisted distortions like this.
there's been a lot of job losses to immigration. Yes, immigrants contribute heavily to the economy, but unless you own your own business employing those immigrants you're not benefiting from that. Now with our supply side economic system. Maybe if we had single payer healthcare, a fully funded social security and a proper safety net you'd there's be a point. But for the vast majority of native born workers the immigrants don't help, they hurt.
Ignoring that fact is what got Trump into the Whitehouse. It's why the Dems keep losing seats (1000 in the last 8 years) in all major government races. Right now both parties are heavily in favor of whatever helps the mega corps most. That means supply side economics, low taxes, war profiteering and cuts to social services.
All of these things mean a winner take all economy where the only determining factor in your quality of life is your job. And therefore anything that gets in the way of a good job is pretty much the worst thing ever. It's a twisted system to be sure, but we're not accomplishing anything by failing to acknowledge the reality of it and writing people off as xenophobes.
it'll marginally raise the wages but it won't eliminate the main reason companies want H1-Bs: zero training. They don't even have to maintain the school system anymore. Other countries do it for them. Worse, those countries churn out employees with highly specialized skills. When tech changes those employees either fall by the wayside or they work 90/hr/week on their own time/dime to keep their skills current.
You'd need to increase the cost of an H1-B by a factor of 5-10x to account for the full scope of training (well funded and subsidized high schools and colleges, continual uptraining during working hours, extra employees to cover while you're out training, etc, etc).
all of the tech sited in the article involve efficiency increases. It reminds me of stuff like this. AI doesn't have to replace workers to leave us screwed. Just keeping the number of new jobs stagnant is enough. Like how inflation eats away at your income.
especially since when they can't get it locally they get to apply for a visa and bring in somebody making 70-80% of the prevailing wages and work them 60 hours/week...
it's not over supply, any more than there's an over supply of musicians. Actual scientists just plain love doing science. That makes it easy for people to take advantage of them. Same as musicians get taken advantage of. And sports players. And video game programmers. And pretty much anyone who obsessively loves doing a job. There's always a few breakout successes (often times because a spouse or family member is handling the business side of things and keeping them from getting screwed) but for the most part we shit all over the rest.
This is one of the reasons minimum wage laws exist and need strict enforcement. It's also one of the reasons academia is heavily subsidized. These people will do really, really useful work if you let them. Or they'll get ground into dust if you let the suits have their way.
in the nude. If they're gonna spy on me let them pay for it in the worst way possible.
and all the other ad networks do? Congrats adobe, you're building tech from the 90s. Somehow that's fitting...
the last spending bill was $1.3 Trillion, of which nearly $700 billion is military. 700/1300 = 53% (rounding down since 'nearly'). And if you think the next spending bill will be any different you haven't been paying attention to who's running the government.
that 52% pays more of their income as a percentage than the 48%. You're talking about the poor. And yes, the poor do pay taxes. Sales tax. Property tax (if they manage to own anything). Vehicle tax. State Income Tax. Meanwhile the 1% in that 48% receive the lion's share of civilization's benefits for doing basically no work. If you want to start bringing up parasites (which is implicit in your little crack about 48%) how about the Hilton Family? Or the Koch Bros? Or Bain f'n' capital? What exactly do they do that makes them worthy? If you're just in favor of winner take all, no morals capitalism that's fine to, but come right out and say it.
there is a single payer. It's the government. So I am calling it what it is. This is how insurance bloody damn well works. Everybody pays in and everybody gets taken care of when something goes wrong. The current for profit system is just missing the 'gets taken care of '.
minimum wage laws stop the race to the bottom. They buoy up wages leading to consumers who can purchase your goods and services. Without them a handful of robber barons monopolize everything. Great if you end up one of the barons, but that's highly unlikely.
tl;dr. No man is an island.
around minimum wage and overtime laws. There's no other purpose. If you're a worker then you should be deeply opposed to this. Unless you're in a strong union they _will_ eventually come for you too. And the only strong union left I know of is the AMA. Lord knows us tech workers don't have anything of the sort.
The only potential good that might come out of all this is America might wise up and vote single payer healthcare in. But right now the party in charge is completely opposed to it and I don't see them getting kicked out anytime soon. We're still arguing over assault rifles and abortion for Pete's sake (hurray for wedge issues!).
You don't really think things through, do you? They're not taking online classes. They're using smart phones to look up the answers to things they don't understand and that their overworked/underpaid teachers didn't have time to teach them. And yes, that's a huge pain in the neck compared to using a computer to do it. But they can barely afford a $100 smart phone. So they make do.
for one who clearly knows so little? I don't understand the benefit to proof of mining. As far as I know it's just there to add artificial scarcity to the system in order to control the crypto-currency equivalent of inflation. Are these calculations being used to solve some other math problem (like Folding at Home does or the SETI stuff)?
You allude to Bitcoin Cash 0-conf solving my other problems. I think you mean transaction delays and fees. As far as I can tell it still means going through a processor, who is going to charge fees that are probably equivalent to a debit network. If I'm wrong can you explain it to me in layman's terms? What little I found on google seemed to be complex Proof of Concept stuff, not anything practical.
there's folks in the rust belt for who that $9.25 subsidy is the difference between eating that week and not. If you're in one of the blasted out cities in America where the manufacturing base moved to Mexico post NAFTA it's not uncommon. If you're lucky you work 20/week at a burger king for just enough money to keep the lights on. Should they have internet? A lot of them do so their kids can do their homework. They skip meals for it.
If anything we ought to be doing more for these people. And to devil with religious objections and let's just give them free birth control already.
they've been doing that for Europe for years. The problem with fuel efficiency is that we subsidize gas with our military, using it to keep a lid on the cost of gas by stabilizing the flow of cheap oil from the middle east (yes, I'm aware we are currently a net exporter, but the oil market is global, and if the price of oil out of the mid east shoots up then US producers will sell overseas at higher prices and the domestic price goes up as a result, globalism's a bitch).
Anyway for my money anything that reduces the need for those subsidies is a good thing. >half our budget just went to the military. That's not defense, that's empire.
Also false. Americans were richer in the 70s. Wealth isn't about big TVs, it's about stability Yes, I can buy a nice TV for $200. But a house is $300,000+ unless I want to live in a slum and drink lead. Health care and education costs have massively outpaced inflation. Food has shot up too in the last 10 years thanks to deregulating the commodities market. Real Buying power is down. Way down.
that whole "Nastry, Brutish and Short" part of life until recently. Most women died in childbirth (fun fact, there are stories of Voltaire's mistress "putting her papers in order" because she got preggers at 40 and it was basically a death sentence. Spoiler, she died). Then there's the elements. And water. And avoiding famine.
When folks talk about what they don't need they mean cell phones, tvs and internet. Those things cost very, very little. Housing, food, basic transportation, education. These are the things that eat the bulk of our income. Unless you're willing to go back to that nasty/brutish/short life there's no easy answer here.
This is not to say we have to work nearly as hard as we do. We already produce enough food to feed every one, and in 10-20 years the world ain't gonna need ditch diggers what with automation. But we _do_ need to come up with a better system for distributing wealth in a world where people don't need full time jobs (and where the's not enough of them to go around anyway). Or we could just let 80% of the population regress to abject poverty and use military drones to keep 'em in check. That works too.
but Linux tech tips just benchmarked that new iMac pro and even with all it's cooling there was still some throttling. Laptops are always going to be a tradoff in that regard. Maybe if there was a special enclosure that opened the mobo to air...