The smartphones we have today were copied from Apple. The only real comparison before then are Blackberries and Windows phones, both of which are very different implementations.

Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO at the time, was on Apple's board during the time Apple created the iPhone. He was later fired from Apple's board for conflict of interest. It's well known that Google copied other products from companies such as Microsoft. It's clear that Google took the ideas for it's smartphone from Apple.

When Google was founded, they were only a search engine. Android phones didn't come until years later when they stole the idea from Apple.

No, it's what tech leaders such as Zuckerberg have been stating publicly. It's why they're making predictions of AI taking over jobs.

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American AI companies dominate the world in this technology. That tells me the American AI engineers are doing their jobs at the highest level in the world. Stating that American engineers are not "trying hard enough" is pure nonsense.

Right now, American tech companies are laying off workers. That includes companies such as Microsoft laying off engineers who work on everything across the company, including AI. American tech companies are legally required to provide work to Americans first before hiring anyone from outside the country. There's a shortage of work, not a shortage of workers.

So maybe focus on working in AI in your own country instead of trying to find your way into mine.

Remote work enables a race to the bottom. Why pay you a decent salary to work remotely when we can hire someone in Poland or India or China to do the same job for far cheaper? Maybe they're not as good as you as a coder. But, they can query AI just the same as you and get damn near the same result. Oh, and we can hire 5-10 of them for what we'd need to pay you.

The purpose of the H1-B program is to fill labor shortages in specialized fields in the US. We both agree there are no shortages. Therefore, there is no need for H1-B workers.

Regardless, the H1-B is an American program. Since it looks like you’re not an American, we don’t need your input on our laws and how we implement them.

If you would like to hire these workers, then please discuss that option with the leaders of your own country.

You like hiring folks at the peak of confidence on the Dunning-Krugar chart. They've learned just enough to become extremely confident in their own skills. In reality, they've only covered a fraction of what a graduate from a CS program has covered over 4 years.

I've worked with multiple people with this background. They can be very good when working in areas they know and have experience. Problem is that their knowledge is limited. They're often painfully ignorant in certain areas where it's obvious they haven't studied. They can be extremely difficult to instruct because they consistently want to reinvent new ways of working. It gets worse when they achieve any level of success on the team and get to the point where they can influence decisions. This becomes especially problematic when approaching topics such as security and authentication where there are known good standards to follow and not following those standards can result in catastrophic failure. I literally had one graduate of a javascript coding academy argue with me that his security proposal should be a new security standard. He literally wouldn't listen to me when I told him that's not how that works and to just implement OAuth 2. He was the front-end lead and wouldn't accept my answer.

There's too many workers in the market. We no longer need foreign workers for those jobs. Stop the H1-B program for tech jobs.

Those popular urban markets were the ones hiring all the software engineers a few years ago. Now they're not.

Taiwan IS independent of China and has been for decades. It’s not something I have to support. It’s already true.

It’s only in the mind of Chinese communist party officials that Taiwan is part of China.

And no, China is a politically backwards, authoritarian, communist regime. Yes, I’m sure they have all kinds of “statistics” showing citizens love their government. Who collected those statistics? Right the government. Those aren’t reliable. Neither are they based on truth. Chinese people tell the government what they want to hear.

China has done well economically since the 1990s because they partially moved away from strict communism to a more market-based economy and partially because American business moved their factories to China. Either way, it was help and influence from America that improved the lives of the Chinese.

India is a democracy. It's neither communist or fascist, unlike China where these phones used to be made. China is also increasingly hostile to the US due to it's support of Taiwan. As an American, I'm much happier supporting production in India than China.

American companies view extroverted personality traits as "management material." They're sociable, talkative, outgoing, confident, positive, friendly, and open. Managers are extroverted. Extroversion tends to increase as you look at managers higher in an organization. Your C-level executives all tend to be the most extroverted people in the company.

Education matters when looking for a managerial position. But, hiring managers downplay education all the time. What matters most of all are things like "company fit," aka personality. Do you act like a manager? In the US, that often means: are you extroverted?

Companies would rather promote an extroverted employee with some job experience over any introverted MBA regardless of the MBA's job experience. That extroverted employee just has "management material" written all over him.

Hell, it could be LLMs from different companies all using the site for training data.

One of the interesting features of mRNA technology is that new vaccines can be made on the existing production lines with minimal changes. So, the cost of ramping up a new mRNA vaccine is minimal since the existing factory can be used to produce the new vaccine, unlike with other pharmaceuticals.