Explain workers being laid off and having to train their H1B replacements then?
It is easy to see specific jobs that are filled by immigrants, but immigration can still bring a net gain of jobs across the entire economy. The displaced tech worker can find another job at a comparable salary. Meanwhile, the immigrant is setting up a household, buying furniture, groceries, etc., which generates jobs for construction workers, grocery store clerks, etc.
Historically, countries with liberal immigration policies have experienced lower unemployment rates than neighboring countries with more restrictive immigration policies. A recent example of this is when Poland joined the EU. Britain and Sweden allowed Polish workers to immigrate, while every other EU country restricted Polish immigrants over the objection of economists. Over the following years, Britain and Sweden had the EU's greatest improvement in unemployment rates.
This survey proves that American workers aren't being harmed by workers with H-1B visas.
Nonsense. You cannot "prove" anything with statistics. We don't know what the salary range would have been if H1B visas didn't exist. In that alternative universe American tech salaries may have been higher. Or they may have even been lower if entire teams were shifted abroad. We just don't know, and this survey "proves" nothing.
The real reason there's so much objection to the H-1B program is rampant racism
There is no difference between "front end" and "back end" anymore. The same person does both of them, and, alas, the salary doesn't change.
Indeed. Every place I have worked, the same people do both. You need to have a fast edit-test-debug cycle without waiting for someone else to fix the server side.
Also, whenever I have filled out a salary survey, I bump my salary up by 30%. If everyone does that, I can show the high result to boss when I ask for a raise to a "competitive" salary.
I really don't understand the FSF anymore. "Let's go after the symptoms instead of the disease! Let's divide our own supporters!
This is nothing new. The FSF waged a civil war for over a decade against "Open Source Software" as opposed to "Free Software" despite them being just two different terms for the same thing.
Their quantum computer works, and that explains why the CEO doesn't know his revenue. They do their accounting directly on the quantum computer, and the revenue figure is still in a superposition. Asking the CEO "What's your revenue?" is like asking Schrodinger "How's your cat?"
Commercial fishermen could harvest any fish, not just lionfish.
This robot is only useful for reef fish, not open water where most food species live. Fishermen going after reef fish are usually capturing for the aquarium market, and they currently use dynamite or chlorine bleach to stun the fish indiscriminately, while destroying the coral. If they switch to robots, it would be a vast improvement.
I think its more accurate to state that they looked the other way for short term profits
If they "knew" the mortgages were bad, they could have made WAY more money buying CDSes and shorting the housing market. Some people got filthy rich doing exactly that, but other than Goldman, they were not "bankers".
You disable all remote access until you are certain...
You can never be 100% certain. Otherwise, we wouldn't have events like "Pwn2Own"... and those don't even have a malicious insider involved. Give any decent hacker a year of root access on a system, then there is no way that you can ever be "certain" that it is free of backdoors without a complete wipe and re-install.
The banks failed due to writing mortgages which they knew were bad.
They did not "know" the mortgages were bad. Only the shorties knew that. If the banks had "known" the mortgages were bad, they wouldn't have needed a bailout. The banks (along with everyone else) "knew" that the mortgages would be fine as long as property prices continued to climb... and everyone "knew" that the housing market never went down.
The bankers were not as smart as you think they were.
Look at a rubbermaid mop bucket at Home depot. Then look at a rubbermaid mop bucket at Walmart. Then tell me their is 'no evidence'.
As long as the Walmart bucket is "good enough", I prefer to save money. If I need a bucket to take on an expedition up the Amazon I might pay extra. But to clean my kitchen floor, the Walmart bucket will suffice.
something with the intelligence of a 2-year-old...
"Intelligence" has little to do with being a good driver. When was the last time someone with a PhD won a NASCAR race?
Often the most important factor in avoiding an accident is reaction time. For a human, the time between an event occurring, and the brake being depressed is 1500 ms or more. At 70mph, that is 150ft, before the reaction even starts. For a computer, the reaction time is about 1ms, which at 70mph is a few inches.
The link works fine for me, although it takes about 15 seconds to load. Georgia law is also available for free at the Library of Congress website.
Anyway, TFA is total baloney, and their main point that Georgia is using copyright to restrict access to their laws is false. The summary and headline are even worse. Fake news and garbage journalism, designed to manufacture outrage and generate clicks, rather than inform.
Congresspeople, especially socially conservative ones, have gotten a LOT of mileage over crowing about how pure and morally upstanding they are
Liberals tend to misunderstand what conservatives care about. The most popular conservative ever was Ronald Reagan, who was divorced and very rarely went to church. The current Republican president is a thrice married philandering pussy grabber. The evidence is that Republicans don't care about personal behavior any more than the Democrats that dismissed Bill Clinton's womanizing.
Neckties constrict blood flow to the brain. Taking an IQ test while wearing a tie lowers your score by an average of 3 points. Neckties make you stupid, at least while you are wearing them.
In America, about 20% of public schools require uniforms. This is an increase from around 12% in the 1999-2000 school year. Uniforms are more common in low income areas where classroom control and gangs are bigger problems.
I'd imagine with information like that we could successfully alienate every constituent group
It won't alienate me. I couldn't care less what my congressperson Googles. I also don't care what TV shows he watches, how many interns he screws, which email server he uses, or how many pussies he grabs. Here is a complete, exhaustive list of the things I DO care about:
But as with radios, you *should* get an FCC license
1. Most drones use 2.4 and 5.8 GHz open spectrum. Requiring them to be licensed for that makes no more sense than requiring you to register your router. 2. What if a drone follows a pre-programmed route, or (hypothetically) has an AI to make its own decisions, and doesn't broadcast at all? Should that require no license?
It seems to me that the need for a license has nothing at all to do with "broadcasting", and if only low power open spectrum is used, there is no reason for the FCC to be involved at all. The real issues here are public safety (for larger drones) and privacy. Those are not FCC issues. Safety is an FAA issue, and privacy issues probably should be left up to local jurisdictions.
"Someone can already hide in a tree and view you with a long lens without your knowledge."
That's illegal
No. Except for a few very narrow circumstances, using a telescope is not a crime, even when looking at other people. Using a drone should not be a crime either. If my kid wants to fly his $59 quadcopter in his own backyard, he should not have to register with the government to do so.
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Explain workers being laid off and having to train their H1B replacements then?
It is easy to see specific jobs that are filled by immigrants, but immigration can still bring a net gain of jobs across the entire economy. The displaced tech worker can find another job at a comparable salary. Meanwhile, the immigrant is setting up a household, buying furniture, groceries, etc., which generates jobs for construction workers, grocery store clerks, etc.
Historically, countries with liberal immigration policies have experienced lower unemployment rates than neighboring countries with more restrictive immigration policies. A recent example of this is when Poland joined the EU. Britain and Sweden allowed Polish workers to immigrate, while every other EU country restricted Polish immigrants over the objection of economists. Over the following years, Britain and Sweden had the EU's greatest improvement in unemployment rates.
With 11K in South Asia you can live with the same quality of life as someone making $120K in the US.
Yes and no. You can't afford a car, but you can easily afford a live-in housekeeper and nanny for your kids.
This survey proves that American workers aren't being harmed by workers with H-1B visas.
Nonsense. You cannot "prove" anything with statistics. We don't know what the salary range would have been if H1B visas didn't exist. In that alternative universe American tech salaries may have been higher. Or they may have even been lower if entire teams were shifted abroad. We just don't know, and this survey "proves" nothing.
The real reason there's so much objection to the H-1B program is rampant racism
Self-interest is a more plausible explanation.
There is no difference between "front end" and "back end" anymore. The same person does both of them, and, alas, the salary doesn't change.
Indeed. Every place I have worked, the same people do both. You need to have a fast edit-test-debug cycle without waiting for someone else to fix the server side.
Also, whenever I have filled out a salary survey, I bump my salary up by 30%. If everyone does that, I can show the high result to boss when I ask for a raise to a "competitive" salary.
They're not the same.
They are the same in every way that matters to anyone except an FSF pedant.
Are you trolling, or simply just clueless?
... and the civil war continues. Purity over progress.
increase in population. Seriously though, is this just the new administration's doing?
Trump's policies on climate change should help the manatees. They benefit from warmer temperatures, and will be able to expand their range northward.
I really don't understand the FSF anymore. "Let's go after the symptoms instead of the disease! Let's divide our own supporters!
This is nothing new. The FSF waged a civil war for over a decade against "Open Source Software" as opposed to "Free Software" despite them being just two different terms for the same thing.
A good compiler will warn you if you use '=' in a test.
... and a better compile will allow you to make it a compile-time fatal error.
Like this:
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Werror foo.c
Their quantum computer works, and that explains why the CEO doesn't know his revenue.
They do their accounting directly on the quantum computer, and the revenue figure is still in a superposition.
Asking the CEO "What's your revenue?" is like asking Schrodinger "How's your cat?"
Commercial fishermen could harvest any fish, not just lionfish.
This robot is only useful for reef fish, not open water where most food species live. Fishermen going after reef fish are usually capturing for the aquarium market, and they currently use dynamite or chlorine bleach to stun the fish indiscriminately, while destroying the coral. If they switch to robots, it would be a vast improvement.
I think its more accurate to state that they looked the other way for short term profits
If they "knew" the mortgages were bad, they could have made WAY more money buying CDSes and shorting the housing market. Some people got filthy rich doing exactly that, but other than Goldman, they were not "bankers".
You disable all remote access until you are certain ...
You can never be 100% certain. Otherwise, we wouldn't have events like "Pwn2Own" ... and those don't even have a malicious insider involved. Give any decent hacker a year of root access on a system, then there is no way that you can ever be "certain" that it is free of backdoors without a complete wipe and re-install.
You should read this: Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust.
Can you give an example where the net neutrality rules actually did anything useful in terms of stopping an ISP from doing something they should not?
It is too bad for you that goalpost moving is not an Olympic sport. You would win the gold.
The banks failed due to writing mortgages which they knew were bad.
They did not "know" the mortgages were bad. Only the shorties knew that. If the banks had "known" the mortgages were bad, they wouldn't have needed a bailout. The banks (along with everyone else) "knew" that the mortgages would be fine as long as property prices continued to climb ... and everyone "knew" that the housing market never went down.
The bankers were not as smart as you think they were.
Look at a rubbermaid mop bucket at Home depot. Then look at a rubbermaid mop bucket at Walmart. Then tell me their is 'no evidence'.
As long as the Walmart bucket is "good enough", I prefer to save money.
If I need a bucket to take on an expedition up the Amazon I might pay extra.
But to clean my kitchen floor, the Walmart bucket will suffice.
something with the intelligence of a 2-year-old ...
"Intelligence" has little to do with being a good driver. When was the last time someone with a PhD won a NASCAR race?
Often the most important factor in avoiding an accident is reaction time. For a human, the time between an event occurring, and the brake being depressed is 1500 ms or more. At 70mph, that is 150ft, before the reaction even starts. For a computer, the reaction time is about 1ms, which at 70mph is a few inches.
That link goes to a blank page.
The link works fine for me, although it takes about 15 seconds to load. Georgia law is also available for free at the Library of Congress website.
Anyway, TFA is total baloney, and their main point that Georgia is using copyright to restrict access to their laws is false. The summary and headline are even worse. Fake news and garbage journalism, designed to manufacture outrage and generate clicks, rather than inform.
Aaron Schwartz is a sad case, but what does that have to do with copyrighting public law?
TFA isn't about copyrighting public law either. It is about copyrighting ANNOTATIONS AND COMMENTARY. Fake news.
Congresspeople, especially socially conservative ones, have gotten a LOT of mileage over crowing about how pure and morally upstanding they are
Liberals tend to misunderstand what conservatives care about. The most popular conservative ever was Ronald Reagan, who was divorced and very rarely went to church. The current Republican president is a thrice married philandering pussy grabber. The evidence is that Republicans don't care about personal behavior any more than the Democrats that dismissed Bill Clinton's womanizing.
And even the high executives shouldn't.
Neckties constrict blood flow to the brain. Taking an IQ test while wearing a tie lowers your score by an average of 3 points. Neckties make you stupid, at least while you are wearing them.
In America, about 20% of public schools require uniforms. This is an increase from around 12% in the 1999-2000 school year. Uniforms are more common in low income areas where classroom control and gangs are bigger problems.
I'd imagine with information like that we could successfully alienate every constituent group
It won't alienate me. I couldn't care less what my congressperson Googles. I also don't care what TV shows he watches, how many interns he screws, which email server he uses, or how many pussies he grabs. Here is a complete, exhaustive list of the things I DO care about:
1. His voting record
thylacines were more than capable of dispatching a dingo one on one.
Except it wasn't "one on one". Thylacines were solitary. Dingoes run in a pack like wolves.
But as with radios, you *should* get an FCC license
1. Most drones use 2.4 and 5.8 GHz open spectrum. Requiring them to be licensed for that makes no more sense than requiring you to register your router.
2. What if a drone follows a pre-programmed route, or (hypothetically) has an AI to make its own decisions, and doesn't broadcast at all? Should that require no license?
It seems to me that the need for a license has nothing at all to do with "broadcasting", and if only low power open spectrum is used, there is no reason for the FCC to be involved at all. The real issues here are public safety (for larger drones) and privacy. Those are not FCC issues. Safety is an FAA issue, and privacy issues probably should be left up to local jurisdictions.
"Someone can already hide in a tree and view you with a long lens without your knowledge."
That's illegal
No. Except for a few very narrow circumstances, using a telescope is not a crime, even when looking at other people. Using a drone should not be a crime either. If my kid wants to fly his $59 quadcopter in his own backyard, he should not have to register with the government to do so.