Better this AI generated crap than the cute animal stories and videos where the animals are abused and hurt and then the abused pretends to heal them to gain sympathy views and money.
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If H1Bs were so destructive to the software industry, why would the software industry, which has the highest prevalence of H1Bs, be the industry with the highest growth in salaries for basically the past 2 decades?
Also, the idea that eliminating H1Bs will bring more jobs makes absolutely no sense.
If a company is asked to eliminate all their H1B positions, what do you think is more likely:
- they hire a completely new employee in the U.S. at a similar, or if the critics are right and H1B is suppressing salaries, higher salary, or
- they hire the exact same person but now with that person back in their home country and pay them a tiny fraction of what they were paying them in the U.S.?
There may be a handful of jobs where the employee needs to be in the U.S. where sure, a few more Americans will get jobs. But the overwhelming jobs will simply move abroad with the H1 employee, and along with that a whole bunch of dollars that were being spent within the U.S. and was paying US taxes will move abroad and be spent abroad and pay taxes abroad.
Whether working collaboratively in an office was beneficial or not, employers certainly believed it to be so. They believed it so much that employers, pre pandemic, were willing to hire employees a single time zone away from SF, and then pay them a significant one time amount along with a much higher annual salary to relocate them to SF.
This belief in higher productivity when teams were geographically collocated was the entire basis for which employers were willing to pay American employees several multiples of what they would pay employees abroad.
But the same employees who were benefiting from this decided they didn’t want to keep that advantage anymore.
And now since WFH has become the norm in the US, employers are realizing there’s no need to pay to keep employees in the U.S. and outsourcing to significantly cheaper locations instead.
If someone raises their human kid “to be eaten”, that would be the purpose of the kid.
Does that make it ok to eat the kid?
Neither you nor I get to decide what the purpose of another sentient being is.
I guess you should just be pro child slavery and enslaved some kids to do your housework then?
Cars kill 50k Americans a year. I guess we are just ok with killing peoplr and therefore shouldn’t be against murder either?
It doesn’t even take philosophy 101 to understand there’s a significant moral gulf between killing deliberately and incidentally.
We rightfully find these immoral and don’t engage in them.
That’s not a defense of the immoral act. It’s just words to describe the immoral act.
One that’s dependent on the company’s servers to operate? Almost no f’ing way.
But the administration is likely to impose even higher tariffs on India, so that doesn’t help either.
Those other brands will see price hikes that are slightly lower than 10% then.
And that’s even before we consider that the current administration has shown a tremendous affinity for enemies and dictators while putting the hammer down on allies and friends.
And I nearly forgot the appointment of individuals to the highest positions in charge of state secrets and intelligence, who are either already compromised or highly sympathetic to those enemy regimes.
yet…
I get where that’s coming from. However, I don’t think these complaints are the same.
Let’s not approach this from the youth, but from the technology that’s supposedly corrupting the youth.
Stack Overflow, C compilers, Python are all mentioned as previous examples of technologies that were supposedly making people bad developers. And while true, none of them was hailed as a genuine game changer the way AI is. And why is AI hailed as a game changer? Precisely because AI takes the thinking out of the achieving. It does the thinking for you (it’s right there in the name…artificial INTELLIGENCE).
None of those other technologies pretended to take the thinking out of the achieving.
Now it may turn out that AI is overhyped and it doesn’t actually able to think as well as humans beyond a certain point. But the point still stands that AI, if it exists, is fundamentally different from other technologies and can genuinely have some of those concerning effects on developers that those other techs did not.
I bought a Kobo Clara years ago, and it supports regular MOBI and ePub files.
My book purchases are no longer liked with the reader and I’ve never had a problem in all these years. And this wasn’t even the best or best value for money device I could have bought.
Today there are so many other better alternatives in all price points and form factors.
It’s NYSE Chicago rebranding.
Talk about Orwellian.
American cars are expensive because Americans have been convinced buying big SUVs is AMERICAN and patriotic, and even the Americans who aren’t dumb enough to fall for that nonsense have to buy bigger cars because we’re in a car size arms race and it’s outright scary driving a normal hatchback around these massive Trucks masquerading as cars.
This has lowered demand for smaller and cheaper cars, giving auto manufacturers the perfect excuse to stop selling small cars in the U.S. especially since SUVs are just not profitable because they’re unsophisticated and yet super expensive.
Things tend to be much closer than they are in the U.S.
What a wonderful phrase that came into prominence to euphemise the killing of hundreds of thousands to millions of innocent Afghans and Iraqis.
I believe your use of it here is equally appropriate considering what you’re suggesting.
I’m guessing none of you our your loved ones will be affected by that “collateral damage”.
The administration made a decision with absolutely no thought about what it would entail, and then realized (fortunately) that it would fuck up the entire US economy because the customs system was totally not prepared to inspect every package that was making it to US shores and even attempting to enforce this would gum um all the ports and lead to skyrocketing prices and the destruction of trade and economic activity within the U.S., and then “paused” an order they passed barely a few days ago.
It’s just a ridiculous way to run a government.
And it raises severe concerns about the other decisions they’re making which may not have as stark and as immediate a feedback loop, but may be far more consequential and detrimental over the longer run.
At this point even my American groups have become largely WhatsApp because Android exists.
This study has done nothing to remove survivorship bias.
That in itself makes the study results contradictory.
If, for example, we assume egg consumption increases the risk of CVD, as other studies have shown, then if you’re someone who made it to the age of 70 while still consuming eggs you’re likely to be someone whose other factors, such as genetics or the rest of your diet, or your stress levels makes you less likely to get CVD. Even in that case, given a sufficient number of CVD related mortality events before the age of 70, this study would still show a negative correlation between egg consumption and CVD events on those over the age of 70.
A further issue is that people who stop eating eggs completely are very likely to have done so for health reasons. In that sense, this study is very similar to the studies showing a slight health benefit to drinking 1-2 glasses of wine daily as opposed to not drinking at all. Once you account for the fact that the reason most of the non drinkers are non drinkers is because of bad health outcomes in the past in the first place, the wine drinking benefit disappears, and you get back to the positive correlation between alcohol consumption and ill health.
Yeah the dollar is stronger which is great to buy imports.
But you cannot import housing, most healthcare, most services like cooks, cleaners and bartenders.
Not said often enough is that we DONT WANT to make much of this stuff in the US.
People seriously don’t get how remarkable it is that the U.S. is able to get other countries to send them actual usable stuff in return for pieces of paper that the U.S. prints. And how much richer this makes Americans.
I don’t believe the U.S. should be fully free market. Clearly it went too far away from industrialization to the point that the U.S. was reliant on China for critical stuff and has lost the capacity to scale if it needs to. The CHIPS act was the first tiny step towards changing this.
But these actions and the industries targeted needed to be strategic and not random.