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> [Citation needed]

Perhaps you could attempt to steel-man why point-based immigration allocate and de-allocate points for certain professions over time? Or why temporary visas exist in the first place.

> If it does, then it won't be appealing to the class of person you're seeking to attract.

Such is the nature, complexity and self-contradicting character of any large-scale public policy; and it's "classes" (plural) because immigration cuts across social strata, not just your software and service industry "rockstar" geeks.

> Me buying food from restaurant would make the owner richer, but would also employ more people at the restaurant

What of one of the employees at the restaurant had your job, and they bought food there? Or are you declaring only you can do your job?

> I think the problem is that people aren't cloud capacity you spin up / down

Visa issuance the world over are designed to work exactly this way: to scale (foreign) labor up and down as needed. You may scale just the intake (if it is for permanent residency, like the much praised point-system used by Canada), you can also spin up or spin down the entire temporary visa labor force by changing the renewal and first issuance numbers.

> I am sure some of the people who you may have come across were not deserving of it...

The contention is pretty clear to me: the law currently says hiring companies should look for Americans who can do the jobs first (not best), and only sponsor visas if they can't find them - but tech companies behavior ranges from being nationality-blind (i.e. hiring "the best" interviewer), to actively hiding opportunities from American job-seekers.

Sure, immigration is hard, stressful and gruelling fight against an an uncaring system. But the damaging aspects of widespread illegal corporate[1] conduct shouldn't be ignored.

I'm saying this as someone who believes American should increase its immigration and end widespread gray-area tolerance that harms the immigrants - who have the least power of all parties involved, which employers love to exploit. Sadly, partisanship makes otherwise smart voters really dumb, with one party lying to its base and the other going along with it and avoiding hard discussions about why America needs immigration.

1. Or farmer/roofer/construction

The argument at its core says wealthy immigrants are preferable, which is predictable bias on on a forum frequented by tech workers.

I agree! People can't recognize regex-replace statements anymore! a forum commenting tradition that goes back decades.

> Curious how he got planning permission. Or if he got planning permission.

The answer lies in your first sentence:

> 300k in Tilehurst for a house with a pool is incredibly cheap.

> You can find better deals in the US, but probably none with tunnels

I once came across a middle-of-nowhere midwestern house auction listing by the US government. It came with a detached 5-vehicle garage, and an attached multistory underground hole I assumed was a missile silo. I can't remember the exact starting price, but it was significantly lower than $400k IIRC.

Sony Rootkit II: Rockstar edition?

McKinsey and other management consultants exist to launder decisions made by upper management that management do not want to face consequences for. "It's not my fault, the consultants advised me that was the best option"

> Iran has expressed a willingness/eagerness to nuke Israel and the US.

Source? The last Supreme Leader of Iran issued a fatwa against nukes, way before he and his extended family where bombed in their home in a failed attempt at a decapitation strike.

> Even in "low tax" states like Texas. And even more so when you consider "unofficial" taxes.

"Low tax" states just shift their tax base from income to something else - usually property or energy.

For color, the author was signatory #199 in the letter[1] by the majority of OpenAI employees to OpenAI's (former) board, demanding Sam Altman's return after his brief deposal.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/20/technology/le...

Oh, my bad for not considering that America has never had any attempts to meddle with elections[1][2][3], or a bloody coup attempt. Its institutions are strong and irs system of checks and balances is unimpeachable.

1. One of Jimmy Carter's autobiography mentions how corrupt Georgia's elections were/are

2. Jeb Bush stole the election for his brother

3. America has a long history of disenfranchisement

> To combat corruption these countries need to educate their population of its effects plus hefty penalties, including capital punishment, to get it under control

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

A lot of people who didn't know how corruption works in practice are getting a crash-course with the second Trump administration: in what order should your recommendations be applied to the Trump admin, and who's going to do it, seeing the DOJ is part of the executive branch and is partisan?

When did he last have a QB that wasn't ass? I assume the Brown's coaches weren't spending time in Minecraft over the same period.

> The idea of any NFL head coach having time to do this, especially a winning one, is absurd.

Don't let the "gridset" bros lie to you: one can simultaneously have hobbies and leisure time while being productive and successful.

> This is basically what people were saying about Microsoft versus Google and other upstarts in the early 2000s.

They would have been right if Google's marquee product was an Office Suite.

Google was the AI company before AI companies were a thing. The comparison with Microsoft and IBM are misplaced because they failed to capture new territory; ML/AI is Google's stomping grounds. The criticism that Google is bad at consumer chatbots is true, but that's not where the real future value lays.

> Of course, I wouldn't do these on a school-specced Chromebook that costs $200, but $700 Chromebook would easily suffice.

I have used linux VMs on a an old $200 Chromebook (with a $50 Costco discount) and it's perfectly fine, Linux can go a long way with only 4GB RAM/32GB eMMC. It doesn't receive updates anymore, so I use the latest Firefox from Devian repos to browse the Internet instead of the stale Chrome that has many open CVEs

English media also routinely violates house-style by using the passive voice when reporting actions by Israel: "50 civilians killed in Gaza" vs "Hamas/Syria kills 50 civilians". Boo English media

> US could simply sign a favorable (for Iran) deal while waving a white flag emblazoned with "Mission Successful

Trump is constitutionally[1] unable to do that. He cant compromise or look weak, or it'll conjure the ghost of Fred Trump calling him a loser one more time. Ironically, this fear of losing is how becomes a loser: first against(!) Covid-19, when he thought wearing a mask made him look weak, and now against Iran.

1. His make up, not the document

> Nobody wants to hear this but there is no solution for the security risks posed by agents today

Operator culpability and a damage multiplier for negligence will fix 99% of the risks.

> There absolutely no reason that AI written code can't or won't become battle tested.

I can think of 2:

1. Low trust: I'm not going to trust some rando's AI-generated code/PR when I can make my own AI generated code. Maintainer will (rightly) not trust my awesome AI-generated PR because I'm a rando to them.

2. Fragmentation, if a lot of people are doing (1), they wont contribute to the same upstream codebase like they would in the past, which means each codebase only runs through a small subset of potential environments.

The interplay between 1 & 2 will result in a lot of siloed code, with no accounting for taste (i.e. sensibilities developed by maintainers)

You're the best kind of correct, but to be clear, for most income forms submitted to the IRS, the IRS prefers the proprietor file once as an individual and use their SSN.

>>The EIN is just to avoid putting your personal SSN on invoices.

> In order to do that, your LLC has to elect to be taxed as an S-corp, which requires it to file its own return

I think your interpretation is wrong and you have stripped the context on your IRS advice you quoted, changing the meaning. At the start of the paragraph containing your quote, it says "For federal income tax purposes, a single-member LLC classified as a disregarded entity generally must use the owner's social security number (SSN) or employer identification number (EIN) for all information returns and reporting related to income tax."

IMO, this has has to do with how one files their income and/or report to the IRS - as a pass-through entity, the IRS expects the human behind the single-member to file the income under their own own SSN even as after are distributing invoices with their LLC's EIN. IANA(Tax)L

Single-member LLCs may reincorporate as any other type of corporation to meet growth, or other needs.

You are presenting a false dilemma: Neovim could have easily done both without the deletion. Willful negligence is morally very bad when it can cause user harm.

> Are you unable to make backups or use Git?

Ah yes, the old perty theft justification as applied to intentionally-inflicted data loss; "They won't mind if I take/delete this, they (should) have insurance".

A duopoly is not "a market"

First order thinking works really well when dealing with spherical cows and ignoring air resistance. Once nuance and the fractal complexity of the real world come into play factors come into play, empirical phenomenon and experience become much more important. How much weight you gove to first principles depends on how theoretical or practical your domain is, e.g. science vs engineering.

> We have fast food and junk food advertising targeting kids.

The government is also heavily subsidizing corn, which made corn syrup the cheapest sweetener.