Yep. I support a company who have a presence here but every new hire I see added to the system appears to be working in India or the Philippines.

I have no idea how a small to mid sized domestic-only company manages that without running afoul of any number of government regulations. Especially privacy legislation.

But I only keep the servers running; to me, an Indian employee is just someone who needs to be able to connect from a different range of IP addresses and might be a bit difficult to understand if I have to get them on the phone to resolve an issue.

It's unlikely to be a giant conspiracy. It's more likely just shared motivations resulting in shared behavior, with lesser players following the lead of the big ones we read about in the news.

They don't want to pay, they just want the labor, so they're all very motivated to look for whatever excuse they can find to treat you more like a disposable slave than they already do.

>The Starship cant land on the moon or Mars

SpaceX is currently the only source of proven large scale tail-landing rocket technology. While there are currently no prepared landing sites on Mars, we have a lot of time to scour current maps and look for nice flat spots of hard rock.

I don't think we'll see SpaceX landing anything on Mars anytime soon, but the inability to adapt their current technology to the task won't be the reason.

If Trump starts another tariff war and another round up of brown people into camps it will hit the American economy by removing cheap labor for jobs Americans don't want from sources both foreign and domestic. And why wouldn't he when he started last time and is likely to have less resistance this time?

The US is still very much a major factor in the global economy. When things start going downhill in the US, even those countries he's NOT trying to attack will feel it.

It was never part of your salary or wage, and this is obvious because it didn't vary based on the length or expense of your commute.

Remote work is a perk... but remind me again how common it was for companies to compensate you for your commute unless driving was part of your job or you were upper management?

You're paid for performing a task. That task has a value to the company. Calling remote work a perk is correct, it's a perk for the company that doesn't have to pay for office space for you and doesn't have to worry that you won't show up due to traffic or mild or moderate illness.

They really ought to be giving a bonus to you for saving them money by not requiring their infrastructure. I'd say a subsidy of your home Internet connection is appropriate, and they don't even do that.

It's weird how WfH is awesome when it saves the company money and horribly unproductive when the company's trying to lay people off. It'll be nice in a generation when the companies that allow WfH for WfH-suitable jobs (that haven't yet been automated... but that's another discussion) have used their profit advantage to out-compete the dinosaurs.

Apparently my post wasn't clear enough for you, because I wasn't correcting the parent post.

Then again, maybe you're just a fucking reactionary idiot.

Slight tangent:

English doesn't have enough tenses. There needs to be an efficient way to say, "I met the woman who would later become my ex that way"... because obviously, she had yet to become your ex when you first met.

We need a prefix indicating "is now but wasn't at the time".

> How to break a problem down into manageable chunks that make logical sense and result in code modules that can preferably be re-used in multiple places in your project.

In fact, that process is a fundamental that should be taught regardless of whether the kid has or will ever write even a single line of code

Your very first exposure to programming doesn't need to involve coding at all. Basic project management is the real first course.

Not even funny - for both boys and girls, and later men and women... It's a way of suppressing inhibitions.

The Moon is far away, but you can chuck stuff off it fairly easily and cause a lot of issues. Gravity might be light compared to Earth, but it's enough to be a solid foundation for whatever else you want to put up there.

Whoever controls the lunar surface has a LOT of military power over Earth's access to space in general. Whether it makes sense or not - and really, all military spending is a waste except that you have to because the other guy is wasting money too - the Moon is a military issue that can't be dismissed as access to space gets drastically less expensive.

The science is just the byproduct of that stupidity that benefits the rest of us.

Current, we have every reason to believe we can't survive on either the Moon or Mars without constant resupply from Earth... and a willingness to sacrifice anyone who doesn't get returned to Earth shortly after arrival.

The only reason to have a manned presence off Earth right now is military, and that means the Moon. And it'll bring some science benefits so why the hell not?

Other than that, if we're actually serious about living somewhere other than Earth, we need to be doing a lot of medical research that we haven't even started yet on terrestrial biology in low-g (not freefall) long term. It might be no better than freefall for us, which is nowhere near good enough. It might be fine. It might be a sliding scale and maybe Mars will be OK and the Moon's still a no-go.

We won't know without orbital centrifuge experiments and so far we have a grand total of one small-scale, totally insufficient Japanese effort on the ISS that was never followed up.

A minimal presence for research is required to progress, but anything more - even the ISS is too much - is a waste.

We need to be doing basic research on low g and terrestrial biology, which means centrifuges in orbit. Radiation shielding testing doesn't require freefall, so that can be done right here on Earth.

But until we can survive long term off Earth, building permanent habitats is just an expensive joke. Even short term tourism will wane once everyone realizes it's nausea, back pain and vision damage. It's better to take a near-space weather balloon ride for the same view at a fraction of the risk, cost, and discomfort.

Ever see the TV series, 'Dinosaurs'?

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Nerds get married all the time. Sometimes we even figure out how to procreate.

If you can't find a partner, it's not 'nerdiness'. It might be the degree of nerdiness, though. The nerdier you are, the worse your social skills are likely to be. There's likely a threshold below which your social skills are so poor you couldn't find a partner if someone did it for you and locked the both of you in a room together with a 'get to know each other' Q&A script.

But without the Ubernerds, how would we ever know if Star Trek was better than Star Wars?