Woops yeah sorry. Been so long I posted on slashdot the thread UI got me confused.

You're assuming all foreign universities can't tech properly and just issue degrees without any knowledge of the field the degree is in, that it's a sham. Having gotten degrees in the US and abroad, I can tell you that your notion is pretty fucked up. China has an incredibly high tech knowledge being taught. So does India. Or Europe. The "top 10" university rankings in any one field are usually biased by the metric used to suit the national narrative of superiority. So screw your biases towards foreign universities. The real issue is the school treats before university, where the rest of the world has a fundamental advantage: their education programs don't underfund them, and have national government exams and curriculums to guarantee a graduate from one tiny out of the way town knows the same as someone from the capital. It's a gap that universities cannot bridge. You (presumably) with in IT, so you sounds be familiar with the concept of crap-in-crap-out. So suck on that thought for a while, as it applies to universities too, not just your IT systems.

The panels fitting is a visible aspect of the quality of assembly.

If an issue that has been largely resolved by the industry decades ago is still present in this luxury segment (Model X *is* a luxury car), then I'm wondering what other build quality issues they may have in areas that are not visible...

I don't know about continual improvements in Tesla's case.

I was sitting today at a stoplight behind a brand new Tesla Model X and couldn't not notice how the gap between the hatch and the body was maybe 1/8 of an inch on the left side and almost 1/2" on the right side...

Not even early Kias had such a bad body fitting.

I seriously doubt that many current /. users will understand your excellent joke...

and no water, something that a silicon fab is using in large quantities

You drank too much...

The really sad part is that *that* side keeps saying "we should help people" but in reality never does. It's all talk, but when push comes to shove they're morphing into the *other* side...

If you really can't see that bideN, pelosI and mcconnelL are part of the same party (the party of grifters), then you're not aging well and should test your cognitive skills.

You're deluding yourself, are outright disingenuous, or were born yesterday. The threat of deportation may be an incentive for the H1B visa holder to work harder, but the major motivation is to depress the salary expectations for a particular skill set. If the talent required was so scarce locally that you had to import someone with the skills, you should pay them accordingly, not less just because you "own them" until they can get a GC.

This is an old topic that /. has been reporting about since at least 2000, and nothing has ever been done about it. Until now.

I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but my experience in the middle of the Bay Area doesn't fit at all your rosy narrative. The value of my home dropped by about 20% (as assessed by the bank when I tried to refinance), while the County acknowledged 5% drop; of course, when the market rebounded, the County was very quick to get back to the original trend of keeping increasing the tax base like nothing happened.

Again, the only time when a fair assessment can be made about the value of a property is when it's sold. Everything else is arbitrary. I don't watch ads, but I'm looking at who is pushing for Prop15: realtors and government people who can't wait to get their hands on a huge windfall to piss it in the wind with their pet projects. I am sure that they're pushing this just to right a wrong, no self-serving interests in it, no Sir!

What would be the impact on the companies affected? that is mentioned nowhere in the Voter's pamphlet I received, only how much money can be extracted. Pure greed.

Yeah, like the little bone thrown at us with Prop19. That bone is small and rotten, who wouldn't want to let their kids have that?

I do not trust the taxman to be honest when assessing the "actual expected market value". My past experience during the hard times of 2008-2011, when the housing market value saw a significant drop yet the counties barely adjusted the tax basis, shows how they're just greedy and callous.

Repealing Prop13 is just a money grab attempt; government is salivating at the thought of how much money they could get their hands on, only to waste it on more ridiculous pet projects.

Prop15 is a sneaky attempt to sever one of the two legs Prop13 stands on. Vote NO on Prop15!

One can only hope.

Unfortunately, that useless bag of meat with hair gel on top has a good chance to get into the really safe seat of US Senator, which was vacated by KH, so we will get stuck with him for a long time.

Who are the idiots who marked the Parent comment as Flamebait? It should be either Insightful or Ironic.

Stop Anthropomorphizing Earth! She doesn't like it!

The signing mechanisms are there to prevent hash collisions from allowing someone to pay malicious code out... So it's actually completely legitimate.

Yeah autocorrect strikes again. I meant a build signing mechanism. Again, no, the build script is not faulty if that build key has to be signed with a certificate validated by a restricted set of build systems. Think CAs for binaries.