While Apple is the big name attention getter in all this the real drivers for this are the farmers. They NEED the Right to Repair since they're locked into support contracts for their equipment. They can't replace any part without a service tech showing up and telling the thing that it's OK to keep working.
Full time farmers tend to be skilled enough to do most repairs to their own equipment and having their combine stand inactive for a day or three until the tech can/will show up is a real problem. Especially since that tech doesn't have to do anything besides that software blip.
If dragging Apple into court so they can show how little sense it makes to have vendor lockout on purchased equipment makes the law go forward I'm all for it. Heck I'm all for it because they're being jerks. But keep your eye on the ball - the farmers who actually produce something necessary to live.
I find it interesting that Comcast feels that it has Constitutional rights as a company. There's two pieces to that. They're a corporation - not a person. Vermont is also only requiring these changes within their state so even the commerce clause doesn't apply if Comcast wanted to stretch it that far.
These requirements aren't unreasonable. Build out the network like they're supposed to do anyway, add the public access content to the online guide like they do in other states, provide for live transmission when it's practical, and be a part of a proceeding to determine if public access content should be broadcast in HD.
This has no impact on their carrier status. It actually fits right in with it. They're being told that they have to open their network to content. Vermont isn't asking for anything that hasn't been done in other states. There's no actual burden on Comcast except for having restrictions tied to their license.
As at least one other commentor has said - if they don't like it they can decline the license and let another cable operator take over their monopoly. Or withdraw and let the municipalities manage their own infrastructure. But this is the cost of doing business and they need to suck it up or leave.
I'm lucky enough to have a chain of thrift stores where I live that provides quality product. All the clothes have been cleaned and the junk never makes it to the racks. They also display by sizes. I bought my entire work wardrobe there at a fraction of the cost of new with a much higher quality of items. The older stuff seems to be better made out of better materials. And by buying used I know the exact size and color it's going to be in the future.
I don't really care about fashion. I don't care if teal is 'out' this year. I want quality clothing that fits me and doesn't break the bank.
I could pay $60 for a pair of dress slacks and hope they don't shrink or fade in the wash or I could spend $5 for a used pair that fit in the color I know they'll stay.
I donate to them as well as long as it's in the same condition as I would purchase it in. Otherwise it goes in the trash (after removing buttons and zippers of course) if I can't use it for cleaning rags due to fabric content.
I wish she could have multiple husbands! Get somebody else to pay the bills and do all the work at home that I do, and then I can go fishing all day.
And you would quickly find yourself on the doorstep because you lost the competition. Perhaps you were attempting to be funny but if I had three husbands and one was acting like that then I would have two husbands who cared about our marriage and one ex husband who might try harder the next time he finds someone willing to marry him.
This assumes there are equal numbers of men and women...
In many societies there are not equal numbers, for instance in China thanks to the one child policy and the preference for male children there is an imbalance and yet no civil war... On the other hand, in a country which is fighting a war war it is usually the men doing the fighting, and thus dying, resulting in an imbalance of women.
Interesting that I was just thinking about the Chinese and the problem with gender imbalance. I have no idea why I was thinking about it but I was.
One thing I was thinking is that the Chinese would upend their entire culture if they practiced polygyny - one woman has multiple husbands. Suddenly the power shift would be towards the females since they could pick and choose their spouses.
What would happen if that were possible? If multiple spouses, regardless of the primary gender, was accepted? How would that go over in the male dominated societies when women suddenly held the power to decide who they would marry. What traits would they consider in spouses?
Just a random thought while riding the train into work.
Another problem is that you can't trust Excel to do math properly, especially when dealing with rounding. We found this out when testing a commission system. The SQL code used a precision of 4 decimal points through all the math and did the rounding at the very end. Excel looked like it was doing the same thing but the numbers kept differing by a penny either way.
Turns out Excel was doing implicit data type conversions in the process. The tester had to go back through every step and explicitly change the precision. After that our numbers matched.
The most difficult part was getting the tester to believe that their numbers were wrong and the SQL code was correct.
Store the data somewhere and use appropriate tools to mine it out.
Crossover’s Sanjeev Patni insists that workers get over the initial self-consciousness after a few days and accept the need for such monitoring as they do CCTV in shopping malls.
“The response is ‘OK, I’m being monitored, but if the company is paying for my time how does it matter if it’s recording what I’m doing? It’s only for my betterment,’” he said
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Bull pucky. Of course he's going to say that. He's the one trying to sell his product. And what employee is going to be honest and say "You're being a complete and utter dick for using this product." when they don't have their next gig already lined up?
If I'm a freelancer and find out I'm going to be subject to measurement by keystrokes and random photographs then there's no way I'm taking that job. And I'll make sure to tell every other freelancer I know that this company is a bunch of controlling jerkwads.
I have no issue with the company I work for monitoring and limiting internet access, keeping my company email on their server, etc. That's their right and their systems. But this is beyond the pale. Some random algorithm is telling my employer how 'productive' I am.
If you can't trust your employees then hire new ones. If you can't trust yourself to manage a remote work force then get a job that has butts in seats so you can swagger through your drones and feel that you're providing leadership.
If you can't tell I think this is a very poor solution to a niche problem.
More to the point, those 4.25 Million people are likely the ones living in apartments or crime prone neighborhoods where rightly paranoid people currently shy away from delivery to the home due to theft fears. If people are already frustrated by difficult delivery issues Amazon will become a disproportionate winner with those customers.
This means that the property owners need to agree to installing the lock and camera. If you're living in a neighborhood with rampant package theft then it's a pretty good bet that the property owners aren't interested in your losses.
They will distort reality to entitle themselves to whatever the fuck they want, paint you misogynist, and then sue you in a case with worldwide visibility.
If you had never hired them in the first place, then you wouldn't owe them anything and you wouldn't have to deal with this shit.
Seriously... you want to be treated like an equal? Take your lumps like the rest of us and stop making a big fucking stink out of the fact that you are a woman.
Get off your fucking high horse. I'm a female coder and have been for 25 years. I'm treated like an equal because I fucking demand it. I don't have to put up with ANY of your shit because I'm female. You need to get over the fact that we have different plumbing and deal with the fact that I'm just fucking better at it than you are.
Gee? Did that sound hostile? Because when I'm confronted with regressive morons like you I tend to react appropriately and bitch slap you until you wise up to the fact that we're peers. I don't expect concessions because I'm female. I expect professional behavior. Get used to it.
His last couple books were crap, and I say that as a fan who has bought/read them all. But considering what he was facing it's understandable and I didn't hold it against him.
I blame his editors and his agent who were trying to squeeze every last dime out of his books before he died.
Men reported side effects that are minor versions of what women get with birth control pills and it's enough to stop the study. Fucking wah.
If they're serious about male birth control pills they would conclude the study as planned.
Of course no intelligent woman is going to trust a random guy who says he's on "The Pillz(tm)" because quite frankly no intelligent man should trust a random woman who says she's on the pill. These would be for stable, trusting relationships and peace of mind for the guys. None of which is bad.
I don't know about what's legal and illegal to ask and officially consider in the hiring process for EU countries. But here in 'Murica you can't ask about things like marriage, sexual orientation, children, religion, etc.
That having been said there's nothing to stop a potential employer from looking at an applicant's social media and finding out answers to all those pesky illegal questions without ever having to ask them. And then using said quasi-legal information as part of the decision making process for hiring.
This is paper tiger legislation because while the law says they can't do it there's no real way to prove they did. They search, they get info, they make a hiring decision. They never tell you why you didn't get hired.
Per the official Twitter post she's bringing the site back up. It's just take a long time due to all the photos and links. So it should back tonight.
She's also getting legal counsel to handle this. She makes her living from this blog and referrals she's received so Zillow is threatening her livelihood over fully credited pictures used in critique and parody. Given the publicity they've received for trying to stomp on a student blogger they've probably been advised to quietly drop this and stay far, far away from it in the future.
The biggest push for this is in the flyover states. Farmers are raising a major fuss over not being able to repair their own equipment. The software doesn't allow them to replace anything without the vendor showing up and telling the software it's all OK.
Unfortunately this is in the flyover states. Since they're not deep pockets and/or high profile they don't get the same level of attention. People don't think about farms - food comes from the grocery store.
As much as I hate lobbyists I hope they can hire some good ones to make the necessary deals to support the patent office in this odd outbreak of common sense.
Personally I think VidAngel needs to die a quick and painful death as a company. Their self-righteous attitude of deciding what is socially acceptable is quite frankly unacceptable to me. But enough about that.
How will content streamers like Netflix and Amazon take to having a company sit on top of their services and filter content? I think the answer is "not well". This isn't a DVR situation where people can choose to skip parts of the content. It's a third party editing and filtering their content for commercial purposes.
The other side of this coin is Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Those were/are legal and are derivatives of the original works. Cliff's Notes are another one. I would be interested to know if they pay for the ability to sell modified copies or if they're different enough that they are exempt. But it's the same concept - the edit the content.
I just looked at Backblaze based on your suggestion. It's not $10 per year. It's $50 per year which is a $10 per year savings off the monthly price.
Amazon Cloud was removed as a Plex cloud source because it's too darn slow. And probably Amazon saw people throwing terabytes of movies out there expecting to access them in a timely manner.
As with every single 'work remote' article and discussion since it became feasible the answer to whether or not a person/department/job function can effectively work remote is "it depends".
It depends on how much the person has to interact with people in their local office. It depends on what kind of work they're doing. It depends on whether or not they have the ability to work remote without distractions. It depends on if the person can be depended upon to do the work. It depends on corporate culture. It simply depends.
I'm the only person from my team in my location. The rest are in another time zone. Could I work remote? Probably with the right equipment. Will I get to work remote? Probably a couple of days a week if I want. Do I want to work remote? Depends on the expectations and schedule.
Some companies will allow it. Some won't. It depends.
I am too disabled to go to the cinema and $50 is too much for someone on welfare to waste on a single film. Holywood is basically letting down their disabled fans by not allowing reasonably priced films at home without having to wait. This forces people to illegally watch CAMs of films
As comments before have stated - you don't have to watch first run movies. Since you say you can't go to a theater and ALSO can't afford the price for first run at home then you'll have the compliant option of waiting for it to go to DVD/Blu-Ray.
I have a difficult time finding sympathy for you because you're not able to enjoy a luxury.
They tried the copyright route with SCC and got shot down. They tried the patent route with Impression Products and got shot down. What other options will their lawyers try to dig out before they realize that their cartridges WILL legally be resold and refilled?
Banks have forced full time off to stop embezzlement
I'll vouch for this, at least when I was working for a bank. We were required to take 5 consecutive days off every year. During that time we weren't to have anything to do with work. The intent is to have someone else do your job for those days to see if anything hinky is going on.
And it works. An AVP got called back on day 4 of his mandatory 5 because he had been kiting checks for a client and it got caught out while he was gone. He left with his stuff in a box.
Monitoring IT folks is more difficult due to the amount of automation we can build into our jobs but we're also rarely near where the money moves around. Regardless - work for a bank, mandatory 5.
Am I missing something here? Isn't it the SAME? I earn 35k as a UBI where I don't have to work to make a living wage or I can work 40hr/wk to make 50k. So again, my 40 hrs of work is only a marginal gain. Also, a UBI would appear from the outside to be extremely unfair to certain groups based on the COL for the area they live in. If I live in San Franciso, I would need probably a $70k UBI using bankrates COL calculator, where someone in Dubuque, IA would only need $35k. From the outside that seems an completely unfair distribution of funds. Even though equivalently they are identical.
I don't think you're missing anything. I think you're seeing what should happen. A UBI is the same across the board. Want to live in San Francisco? Get a job that raises your income. Otherwise move to somewhere it covers the cost of living you want. It's not meant to eliminate jobs. It's meant to make sure that there's a base level of income to support a base level of lifestyle.
The biggest difference between this and welfare is that working won't reduce it. That's a big disincentive for those on public assistance to look for additional work. Once they try to improve their lives the assistance is lowered so they're not doing any better than they were. What's the incentive to work when you make the same (or more) by doing nothing?
If it was a blood drop was left at the scene of the crime then you would have to give them consent in order for them to take a sample (or they would have to convince a judge that it was likely enough to be you in order to get a warrant).
If a blood drop was left at the scene of the crime the police would run it through various state and federal databases that store DNA from legally approved harvesting methods. Your comparison would apply only if they singled you out as the person of interest and your DNA wasn't in the system. If it got to that point then they would probably have enough for a warrant.
First and foremost this is NOT Artificial Intelligence. It's machine learning and neural networks. Those are very different things. It's just that calling it machine learning isn't as attention grabbing and fear mongering as implying that these are intelligent systems.
The article does briefly correlate the two when stating that the opacity of machine learning makes the results almost impossible to trace back. That's a big consideration. I don't feel like looking up the article where a major hospital used their entire medical record database to feed the neural network and found that the system was significantly better at diagnosing schizophrenia. The problem is they don't know how the system does this, what indicators are being used, etc. But they've used this information to assist doctors in treating patients.
The way to go at the moment is to let these systems run and learn but give the results to real, trained doctors for diagnosis and treatment. Consider them another screening test. When the doctors have entered their diagnosis and treatment, plus how well the patient responded, the systems will learn a bit more. It's going to take a lot of years and a lot of medical records for these to become even marginally trusted. That doesn't mean they can't be fired up and start crunching the data now.
Visas should only be allowed for positions posted with a salary of $250,000 or higher. There's plenty of qualified and/or trainable talent for jobs under that level.
Placement companies should get 1% of the annual take home pay for the candidate upon retention. One payment, one time.
By taking away the low cost incentive to the hiring companies and the huge profit from the consulting company the visa program will dwindle pretty quickly.
When I've got the time I do go to the clickbait sites. Then I find the link back to the Reddit thread they scraped and post it in the comments. I find it very satisfying to perform this service for people who are interested in the topic but not enough to click through all the pages and ads.
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While Apple is the big name attention getter in all this the real drivers for this are the farmers. They NEED the Right to Repair since they're locked into support contracts for their equipment. They can't replace any part without a service tech showing up and telling the thing that it's OK to keep working.
Full time farmers tend to be skilled enough to do most repairs to their own equipment and having their combine stand inactive for a day or three until the tech can/will show up is a real problem. Especially since that tech doesn't have to do anything besides that software blip.
If dragging Apple into court so they can show how little sense it makes to have vendor lockout on purchased equipment makes the law go forward I'm all for it. Heck I'm all for it because they're being jerks. But keep your eye on the ball - the farmers who actually produce something necessary to live.
I find it interesting that Comcast feels that it has Constitutional rights as a company. There's two pieces to that. They're a corporation - not a person. Vermont is also only requiring these changes within their state so even the commerce clause doesn't apply if Comcast wanted to stretch it that far.
These requirements aren't unreasonable. Build out the network like they're supposed to do anyway, add the public access content to the online guide like they do in other states, provide for live transmission when it's practical, and be a part of a proceeding to determine if public access content should be broadcast in HD.
This has no impact on their carrier status. It actually fits right in with it. They're being told that they have to open their network to content. Vermont isn't asking for anything that hasn't been done in other states. There's no actual burden on Comcast except for having restrictions tied to their license.
As at least one other commentor has said - if they don't like it they can decline the license and let another cable operator take over their monopoly. Or withdraw and let the municipalities manage their own infrastructure. But this is the cost of doing business and they need to suck it up or leave.
I'm lucky enough to have a chain of thrift stores where I live that provides quality product. All the clothes have been cleaned and the junk never makes it to the racks. They also display by sizes. I bought my entire work wardrobe there at a fraction of the cost of new with a much higher quality of items. The older stuff seems to be better made out of better materials. And by buying used I know the exact size and color it's going to be in the future.
I don't really care about fashion. I don't care if teal is 'out' this year. I want quality clothing that fits me and doesn't break the bank.
I could pay $60 for a pair of dress slacks and hope they don't shrink or fade in the wash or I could spend $5 for a used pair that fit in the color I know they'll stay.
I donate to them as well as long as it's in the same condition as I would purchase it in. Otherwise it goes in the trash (after removing buttons and zippers of course) if I can't use it for cleaning rags due to fabric content.
And you would quickly find yourself on the doorstep because you lost the competition. Perhaps you were attempting to be funny but if I had three husbands and one was acting like that then I would have two husbands who cared about our marriage and one ex husband who might try harder the next time he finds someone willing to marry him.
Interesting that I was just thinking about the Chinese and the problem with gender imbalance. I have no idea why I was thinking about it but I was.
One thing I was thinking is that the Chinese would upend their entire culture if they practiced polygyny - one woman has multiple husbands. Suddenly the power shift would be towards the females since they could pick and choose their spouses.
What would happen if that were possible? If multiple spouses, regardless of the primary gender, was accepted? How would that go over in the male dominated societies when women suddenly held the power to decide who they would marry. What traits would they consider in spouses?
Just a random thought while riding the train into work.
Another problem is that you can't trust Excel to do math properly, especially when dealing with rounding. We found this out when testing a commission system. The SQL code used a precision of 4 decimal points through all the math and did the rounding at the very end. Excel looked like it was doing the same thing but the numbers kept differing by a penny either way.
Turns out Excel was doing implicit data type conversions in the process. The tester had to go back through every step and explicitly change the precision. After that our numbers matched.
The most difficult part was getting the tester to believe that their numbers were wrong and the SQL code was correct.
Store the data somewhere and use appropriate tools to mine it out.
Bull pucky. Of course he's going to say that. He's the one trying to sell his product. And what employee is going to be honest and say "You're being a complete and utter dick for using this product." when they don't have their next gig already lined up?
If I'm a freelancer and find out I'm going to be subject to measurement by keystrokes and random photographs then there's no way I'm taking that job. And I'll make sure to tell every other freelancer I know that this company is a bunch of controlling jerkwads.
I have no issue with the company I work for monitoring and limiting internet access, keeping my company email on their server, etc. That's their right and their systems. But this is beyond the pale. Some random algorithm is telling my employer how 'productive' I am.
If you can't trust your employees then hire new ones. If you can't trust yourself to manage a remote work force then get a job that has butts in seats so you can swagger through your drones and feel that you're providing leadership.
If you can't tell I think this is a very poor solution to a niche problem.
This means that the property owners need to agree to installing the lock and camera. If you're living in a neighborhood with rampant package theft then it's a pretty good bet that the property owners aren't interested in your losses.
Get off your fucking high horse. I'm a female coder and have been for 25 years. I'm treated like an equal because I fucking demand it. I don't have to put up with ANY of your shit because I'm female. You need to get over the fact that we have different plumbing and deal with the fact that I'm just fucking better at it than you are.
Gee? Did that sound hostile? Because when I'm confronted with regressive morons like you I tend to react appropriately and bitch slap you until you wise up to the fact that we're peers. I don't expect concessions because I'm female. I expect professional behavior. Get used to it.
I blame his editors and his agent who were trying to squeeze every last dime out of his books before he died.
Men reported side effects that are minor versions of what women get with birth control pills and it's enough to stop the study. Fucking wah.
If they're serious about male birth control pills they would conclude the study as planned.
Of course no intelligent woman is going to trust a random guy who says he's on "The Pillz(tm)" because quite frankly no intelligent man should trust a random woman who says she's on the pill. These would be for stable, trusting relationships and peace of mind for the guys. None of which is bad.
I don't know about what's legal and illegal to ask and officially consider in the hiring process for EU countries. But here in 'Murica you can't ask about things like marriage, sexual orientation, children, religion, etc.
That having been said there's nothing to stop a potential employer from looking at an applicant's social media and finding out answers to all those pesky illegal questions without ever having to ask them. And then using said quasi-legal information as part of the decision making process for hiring.
This is paper tiger legislation because while the law says they can't do it there's no real way to prove they did. They search, they get info, they make a hiring decision. They never tell you why you didn't get hired.
Per the official Twitter post she's bringing the site back up. It's just take a long time due to all the photos and links. So it should back tonight.
She's also getting legal counsel to handle this. She makes her living from this blog and referrals she's received so Zillow is threatening her livelihood over fully credited pictures used in critique and parody. Given the publicity they've received for trying to stomp on a student blogger they've probably been advised to quietly drop this and stay far, far away from it in the future.
The biggest push for this is in the flyover states. Farmers are raising a major fuss over not being able to repair their own equipment. The software doesn't allow them to replace anything without the vendor showing up and telling the software it's all OK.
Unfortunately this is in the flyover states. Since they're not deep pockets and/or high profile they don't get the same level of attention. People don't think about farms - food comes from the grocery store.
As much as I hate lobbyists I hope they can hire some good ones to make the necessary deals to support the patent office in this odd outbreak of common sense.
Personally I think VidAngel needs to die a quick and painful death as a company. Their self-righteous attitude of deciding what is socially acceptable is quite frankly unacceptable to me. But enough about that.
How will content streamers like Netflix and Amazon take to having a company sit on top of their services and filter content? I think the answer is "not well". This isn't a DVR situation where people can choose to skip parts of the content. It's a third party editing and filtering their content for commercial purposes.
The other side of this coin is Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Those were/are legal and are derivatives of the original works. Cliff's Notes are another one. I would be interested to know if they pay for the ability to sell modified copies or if they're different enough that they are exempt. But it's the same concept - the edit the content.
I just looked at Backblaze based on your suggestion. It's not $10 per year. It's $50 per year which is a $10 per year savings off the monthly price.
Amazon Cloud was removed as a Plex cloud source because it's too darn slow. And probably Amazon saw people throwing terabytes of movies out there expecting to access them in a timely manner.
As with every single 'work remote' article and discussion since it became feasible the answer to whether or not a person/department/job function can effectively work remote is "it depends".
It depends on how much the person has to interact with people in their local office. It depends on what kind of work they're doing. It depends on whether or not they have the ability to work remote without distractions. It depends on if the person can be depended upon to do the work. It depends on corporate culture. It simply depends.
I'm the only person from my team in my location. The rest are in another time zone. Could I work remote? Probably with the right equipment. Will I get to work remote? Probably a couple of days a week if I want. Do I want to work remote? Depends on the expectations and schedule.
Some companies will allow it. Some won't. It depends.
As comments before have stated - you don't have to watch first run movies. Since you say you can't go to a theater and ALSO can't afford the price for first run at home then you'll have the compliant option of waiting for it to go to DVD/Blu-Ray.
I have a difficult time finding sympathy for you because you're not able to enjoy a luxury.
They tried the copyright route with SCC and got shot down. They tried the patent route with Impression Products and got shot down. What other options will their lawyers try to dig out before they realize that their cartridges WILL legally be resold and refilled?
I'll vouch for this, at least when I was working for a bank. We were required to take 5 consecutive days off every year. During that time we weren't to have anything to do with work. The intent is to have someone else do your job for those days to see if anything hinky is going on.
And it works. An AVP got called back on day 4 of his mandatory 5 because he had been kiting checks for a client and it got caught out while he was gone. He left with his stuff in a box.
Monitoring IT folks is more difficult due to the amount of automation we can build into our jobs but we're also rarely near where the money moves around. Regardless - work for a bank, mandatory 5.
I don't think you're missing anything. I think you're seeing what should happen. A UBI is the same across the board. Want to live in San Francisco? Get a job that raises your income. Otherwise move to somewhere it covers the cost of living you want. It's not meant to eliminate jobs. It's meant to make sure that there's a base level of income to support a base level of lifestyle.
The biggest difference between this and welfare is that working won't reduce it. That's a big disincentive for those on public assistance to look for additional work. Once they try to improve their lives the assistance is lowered so they're not doing any better than they were. What's the incentive to work when you make the same (or more) by doing nothing?
If a blood drop was left at the scene of the crime the police would run it through various state and federal databases that store DNA from legally approved harvesting methods. Your comparison would apply only if they singled you out as the person of interest and your DNA wasn't in the system. If it got to that point then they would probably have enough for a warrant.
First and foremost this is NOT Artificial Intelligence. It's machine learning and neural networks. Those are very different things. It's just that calling it machine learning isn't as attention grabbing and fear mongering as implying that these are intelligent systems.
The article does briefly correlate the two when stating that the opacity of machine learning makes the results almost impossible to trace back. That's a big consideration. I don't feel like looking up the article where a major hospital used their entire medical record database to feed the neural network and found that the system was significantly better at diagnosing schizophrenia. The problem is they don't know how the system does this, what indicators are being used, etc. But they've used this information to assist doctors in treating patients.
The way to go at the moment is to let these systems run and learn but give the results to real, trained doctors for diagnosis and treatment. Consider them another screening test. When the doctors have entered their diagnosis and treatment, plus how well the patient responded, the systems will learn a bit more. It's going to take a lot of years and a lot of medical records for these to become even marginally trusted. That doesn't mean they can't be fired up and start crunching the data now.
Visas should only be allowed for positions posted with a salary of $250,000 or higher. There's plenty of qualified and/or trainable talent for jobs under that level.
Placement companies should get 1% of the annual take home pay for the candidate upon retention. One payment, one time.
By taking away the low cost incentive to the hiring companies and the huge profit from the consulting company the visa program will dwindle pretty quickly.
When I've got the time I do go to the clickbait sites. Then I find the link back to the Reddit thread they scraped and post it in the comments. I find it very satisfying to perform this service for people who are interested in the topic but not enough to click through all the pages and ads.