I agree. I am a "lib" and don't agree with much the Trump administration does. H1B has been abused for decades. Tech companies use it to hire workers at low rates and then abuse them as they become "indentured servants," afraid of getting fired in which case they have to beg for new employment and sponsorship to stay in the country. The system has been gamed for years. Want to hire an H1B and get a lawyer? The lawyer will tell you two things: Make a job ad which basically asks for the exact resume of your H1B candidate. Exact versions of VMWare, Python, etc you name it...be precise. Then post it in a print newspaper, not online on any job boards or a place a normal person would look. Voila! No American applicants. If you do interview Americans, all you have to do is say "candidate did not have required skills" with no real justification. No one checks. I once consulted at a bank and they literally had an entire floor of Indians on H1B with one white person in the corner office supervising them. I had plenty of friends that would have been qualified to work those jobs. The H1B system has been terrible for some time and needs dismantling. That said, all this will do is cause these companies to hire people in other countries to stay there and work remotely, for even less money than H1B. There also needs to be restrictions on outsourcing labor that can be done in America by Americans.

You're jumping to completely incorrect conclusion about me. No, I don't believe that subspace will be used for FTL communications Star Trek style anytime soon. I however, did have a longtime interest in radio. I have an EXTRA license for HAM radio, although I don't do much with it anymore. Obviously, that means I know morse code. I visit the KPH maritime radio station in Marin County about once a year and have some knowledge on how to use the extremely old equipment, including the old longwave Marconi and shortwave Zepp antennas.

As you should know, longwave transmissions (which use AM) are far superior in reach to the medium-wave commercial AM frequencies. Cars sold in the US with AM radios don't even support the longwave frequencies! Also, jamming the medium wave frequencies using electronic warfare equipment is easier than the longwave ones.

So that said, the commercial AM bands on radios sold in cars are a crappy solution to the problem you posit of internet being disabled and a conflict zone erupting.

It also has nothing to do with my comment about how commercial radio radio has been enshittified for generations.

Do you even radio, bro?

I park my full size sedan all the time in SF. There's usually a parking garage of some kind. Street parking can often be found. There are a couple neighborhoods like the Mission where parking can be tight, but, most neighborhoods it's pretty easy. Back in NYC years ago, we used to joke the C suite paid more for parking than they paid us techies. It wasn't even a joke, they actually did. Parking in SF is a breeze compared to NYC and other east coast cities. Just have to know how to pair on hills and which way to turn your wheels.

This is absolutely correct. As someone in their 40s (so not even a younger generation), I never listened to AM growing up but did listen to FM a lot. I ditched it for mp3s, Napster etc and burned CDs to listen on my discman in high school rather than have a radio. I got the iPod first gen and never looked back to radio. FM radio was so corporately enshittified by the 90s, even the "alternative" radio stations they kept pushing pop rock and the Backstreet Boys nonstop. Despite hating them, I still know the lyrics to too many backstreet boys songs as a result. This is around the same time they enshittified MTV. AM radio back then still consisted mostly of dry news like listing stock value movements, narration of sports games you could just watch on TV, and right wing opinion nonsense going on about how awful having gays in the military was and how Clinton was going to destroy America. Not much has changed on AM since then.

Paying the publishers, not the authors. Whoever actually wrote it, researched it, invented it, or created it still gets squat.

Uhm, automatic cars absolutely will roll backwards on a steep hill. The idle force isn't enough when releasing the brake to keep it in place, let's say at a stop sign on the crest of a steep hill. If you don't hit the accelerator extremely quickly after releasing the brake, you will roll back. Heck, I have a Mercedes with "hill assist" for this reason, you hit the brake twice and it displays HOLD, so when you take your foot of the brake it stays in brake until you hit the accelerator. This is to prevent rolling back. So Europeans do know about this....

Dude, come to San Francisco. We are a city with hills. Old men who could barely handle a Prius with Porsche 911s. Young guys who should be in a Corolla have Tesla model S's and drive like idiots. Tourists with rental cars who don't know at the crest of a hill, one should hold steady on the accelerator rather than brake...or else, without quick reaction you might roll back and hit the car behind you. Waymo can be annoying to get stuck behind but it's not unpredictable, aggressive etc like the humans.

This is absolutely true. In instances where the good cops report the bad cops, I've personally seen vengeance happen in a couple instances. For example, have their friend in a higher position transfer the reporting cop somewhere else, or find something minor about them they've done and make a huge deal of it and get them brought up on tribunal for misconduct. A relative of mine was in internal affairs and was known as incorruptible. He got early retirement because the cops he reported for drug dealing threatened him and his family. Death threats came pouring in phone calls and letters for years after his early retirement. They included pictures of the kids at recess in school. The early retirement did lower his expected pension and he had to change careers and keep working until nearly 70. Others would have remained quiet and gotten their full pension and had an easier life.

I think you're the third person to post this quote in response but the only one who didn't note it is wrongfully attributed to Mark Twain. Actual source unknown but it first enters the historical record decades after Mark Twain had visited SF. If you utter this quote in SF most people will knee-jerk "Mark Twain never said that!"

You are absolutely right about the inland South Bay and I stand corrected. I admit to spending most of my time in SF, Marin, Oakland/Berkeley and sometimes down to about Mountain View but rarely spend time in the South Bay/San Jose area. I do recall going to Antioch once and thinking it was so hot they must have exploded the namesake Holy Hand Grenade here.

You apparently did not read the source materials. Let me quote the Anthropic threat report for you:

And also, you didn't read:

I'd implore you to stick to the facts and actually read the source materials before accusing others of 'peddling bullshit.' Your claim that AI distillation doesn't use hacked credentials is patently false.

I am certainly unhappy that everything I've ever written online at StackExchange, Reddit, the open web, and Slashdot has been used to train AI models, which in turn have been distilled by China to train their own competing AI models; so that they can automate the jobs we've done and leave our children without the same routes to employment. In China's case, it's also to try and take over global hegemony from the United States. Ordinarily I'd think eating into US hegemony would be a good thing for the world, but if the entity taking over is China ..which surveils and censors its citizens almost at the Orwellian 1984 level, well, sheat.

I, for one, welcome our new human-exterminating AI overlords who will solve this problem: there will be no more guys at all.

I grew up in New York, when winters were even colder like the infamous Blizzard of 96, and lived in SF for over 15 years. I can say it's very different at first l, I didn't have the wind chill and fog tolerance so evenings in summer made me chillier than in NY in late autumn. But there's nothing in SF like fullon scarf/gloves/thermal underwear weather which would be much of Dec-Feb in NY. The thing is it's moderately warm during the day in SF until the fog rolls in, so people (especially visitors) are unprepared and don't bring hoodies etc. I always say you can spot the tourists, anyone wearing shorts clearly not coming from the gym or on a run is going to regret their decision come night.

Just reading the temperature from Europe won't tell you how it feels. On July 4, a thick soupy fog rolled in along with a bunch of wind, causing significant chill in the humid air so it felt much cooler. A French friend of mine once said to me "In New York in the winter, I am not as cold as I am at night in San Francisco in the summer." When you feel it for yourself, you'll understand. I saw unprepared European tourists by the waterfront desperately wrapping themselves in blankets. It feels MUCH colder than the temperature suggests.

That question reads like Krugman's 1998 argument, why would anyone want to use the Internet when they have nothing to say to each other, when the fax machine is perfectly good?