Having worked with H1Bs and overseas I have never met people who put in more hours, worked longer hours, were better educated, and more dedicated than workers in the US. Europeans are probably second, then the Chinese I interacted with, and dian the bottom of the barrel. Though the Indian women I met were often pretty sharp.

Stating the fact that difference countries measure infant mortality differently is "known nazi propaganda"????

Wow, you really need to work on your trolling to at least make it a little bit plausible...

Riot.im honestly has more features than Hangouts at this point, when I go back to message people on Hangouts for instance I tend to find myself surprised I can't just attach arbitrary files for example.

in my post. Are you stalking me? Cool, I got my first stalker!

Anyway, I'm not opposed to killing ICE. Like I said above, We already have immigration enforcement. ICE was created _post_ 9/11. And like the patriot act that freaks me out. I can't help but wonder why we didn't just put more money into existing structures. To be blunt, it makes me wonder if ICE is going to turn into the American Version of the SS.

Here's a crazy thought about The Wall: What makes you think it's there to keep people out? Germany had one. They used it to keep people _in_.

Throw in language, cultural, and quality of education differences and the savings are illusory.

The ongoing opioid problem appears to be a blunder in the medical management of pain (at least in part.) I think this will become less of a problem as protocols to handle pain improve and technology provides superior alternatives.

That doesn't solve the problem of people who buy opioids to get their jollies, but that's a societal/mental health problem which will be hard to improve.

Wages should be hire for *everyone*. Impoverishment of everyone, in the US or overseas is flat out wrong esp. when profits are soaring and wages in real terms are dropping. To think otherwise is unethical and immoral.

I said that overprescribing was addressed in the worse possible way, not that it shouldn't have been addressed. There were a few issues that absolutely needed changes: prescribing opiates for minor conditions, criminal pill mills, and not having a tracking system to prevent doctor shopping. It is wrong to refuse to treat pain, to cap dosages, to force people down or off (and then onto suicide or street drugs). You could have addressed the problems without doing by creating those others. Nothing about those problems had to be addressed by forcing people onto street drugs causing an OD spike and leaving people in severe pain to suffer, OD, or kill themselves.
Opiates, especially the common ones, actually have a good therapeutic index (LD50/ED50 (ED=Effective Dose)); like for oxycodone, ED is 5-10mg in an opiate naive patient, it's not lethal until 80-100mg. You have to be deliberately abusing it, taking a lot more than directed usually in combination with contraindicated drugs, to overdose. This is something abusers have to worry about, not pain patients, and abusers are *more* at risk of an overdose when they use street drugs, which they're absolutely going to get.

I have good news and bad news for you.

The offset value we log isn't the actual difference between your clock and the peer clock, and the logged value is seconds, not milliseconds. If you see 0.08 in the log, that means we're *assuming* that you're about 0.08 *seconds* off from that peer.

If you ping a server "thousands of miles away", you'll notice each ping takes a different number of milliseconds. That difference in ping times, or jitter, is pretty much a hard limit on sync accuracy with the NTP protocol. If you get a response from a server thousands of miles away saying "it's exactly midnight", we don't know if that packet was generated 30ms ago or 35ms ago. So that loses 5ms of precision.

Back to your peerlog. The last four fields show the assumed offset, delay, dispersion and jitter (root mean square). Take delay, multiply by 0.25, then add the jitter, and that's roughly the accuracy you can expect. If you're using ntpclient, add the dispersion, as that's the dispersion of the server. If you're using ntpd, your dispersion value is arough estimate of your accuracy - in seconds.

The good news is, your ISP's DNS server and gateway are many milliseconds closer, and ine or both are probably NTP servers. You CAN get much more accurate time, you just need to use servers that are much, much network-closer to you, such as your ISP's DNS or gateway.

I'm pretty sure your social score will be affected if you drive to somewhere a lot of low social score people are gathered, just a heads up there.

Brings a new meaning to "dive bar" as your score plummets enjoying a quiet drink in a place with character.

There's patents, trademarks, and copyright - three completely unrelated classes of artificially protected work

You left out trade secrets. They are all related in that they vest certain limitations on what other people can do, and are producible solely as the product of the mind (until you get to registration/enforcement, which can be expensive.).

none of which bears any similarity to property.

I dunno. It seems as real as a share of stock or a bank account. They can be bought, sold, rented. They have no physical manifestation. They're assets confiscatable under bankruptcy and usable as collateral.

Heck, I'd like to hear how it's any different from owning a vacant building in a city you never visit. I mean, seriously, please try to explain the difference.

Maybe you don't understand why he's bad. Here's the list of bad things he did:

- not a good talker
- caused people prone to hysteria to become hysterical
- prompted people who hate him to get really angry
- made the news media sad
- ???

Maybe some policy stuff too. Perhaps someone could make a substantive list.

Clearly budget deficits haven't gotten better, for example. Some people like to say those matter — mostly when their side isn't spending the money.

telegram still sucks, because it is based on phone number as an identifier

Well, you can get very slow and crappy dial-up, satellite, etc. if they are available. :P

American Organized Crime

Most notably, the Kennedys.

The alternative is to set up software hubs in those other countries.

Then watch your cutting-edge company dull and rot, as the 10-minute turnaround time for Q-A turns into one day due to the near-half-day time offset.

(It's especially a scream to watch management try to use Agile techniques across a 12-hour offset and a giant culture gap, too.)

And that's assuming you find exceptionally competent help. (Hint: There ARE really competent engineers in, say, India. But they're pretty much all employed, and paid substantially more than the bulk of the body-shop fodder which are most of what you get now.)

One way to solve the time gap issue is to move the whole operation, including architecture, design, and admin, offshore. But then your IP is over there and NOT over here. If they're not competent you're left with restarting from scratch or an older snapshot when you realize they've blown it (and you're now months or years behind in the race to the window). If they ARE competent, watch for them to quit and start their own company (with your IP, under their IP laws and (non-)enforcement), leaving you in the same position but with a new competitor.

Even with engineers of ordinary competence and the project split across the pond, offshoring can be of negative value: Your designer spends a bunch of time breaking off a chunk to be done overseas, then ends up doing the work himself anyhow, when the module doesn't arrive in time. So the added worker cost both his own pay plus a bunch of the time of the local guy on the critical path without any benefit from his work product.

The invisible hand will get around to swatting the company - perhaps into the dustbin of history. But that takes some time.

= = =

But, speaking of the invisible hand: I'd like to see if we can get its input.

A company "needs" a foreign talent? It's not just using H1Bs to get cheap labor? OK. Then the talent is worth a lot of money, and should be paid it, right?

So lets try this:
  - A cap on the number of H1Bs, some number N.
  - And each year they go to the N candidates (or as renewals for those already here) being paid the highest salaries (with preference to those already employed in case of ties.)

Cooking in any variety of fat is unhealthy. People do need a variety of types of fat, but high temperatures degrade the fat and encourage the formation of toxic chemicals such as acrilamides.

....says that not accepting cash is perfectly fine:

https://www.expertlaw.com/libr...

For myself I wouldn't bother to do business with such an establishment, but hey.....it's a free country.

Ferret

The SEC does not concern me. No, not even a bit.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

There's probably arguments that you don't need addresses at all, but I think the arguments for non-street addresses are nerd masturbation. What they totally fail to grasp is that in most cases a local reference is sufficient, for an analogy with date and time "Tuesday at two" is usually meaningful in context, you don't have to go ISO 8601 and say 2018-12-04T14:00:00 because it's obvious you mean this year and the coming Tuesday and two in the afternoon not two in the middle of the night and on the strike of the hour. Unless it's not, in which case you append as necessary. Same thing with global coordinates, you don't need a globally unique address to deliver me a pizza. I don't want an address where a lisp or typo sends me halfway across the world. I don't want to constantly repeat "planet Earth, Solar system, Milky Way galaxy". The "old way" was way, way more fault-tolerant .

because Dell sells the exact same hardware year after year? what's inside the box stays the same because the model number on the plastic case is the same?

nope and nope

You are exactly right. The sooner that the Justice Democrats which you constantly advocate for stop their campaign to dismantle ICE, the better. It's hard to take them seriously as a viable party when they take these kind of moronic positions.

To make up some numbers, if 10 million immigrants had an average death age of 45 in 2016 and 11 million immigrants had an average death age of 45.1 in 2017, they'd still be causing a lowering of the national average death age of 75 in a population of 330 million.