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Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 1) 229

Raw data is here: Department of labor raw data
Here is a paper on the topic
1. Expand "Disclosure Data"
2. Scroll down to "OFLC Programs and Disclosures"
3. Row titled "Prevailing Wage"
4. Download PW_Worksites_FY2025_Q3_new_form.xlsx
You can filter by job, location, and employer name. I just filtered by SOC_TITLE containing "Software" and the range is from 47,424 to 226,158, avg = 131,800.

Also: H1-B visa applications by employer.
The top are: Amazon, Google, JP Morgan Chase, Tata consulting, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Deloitte, Walmart

Comment Exactly Forward (Score 1) 39

I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

Comment Re:Government should not own businesses..?? (Score 1) 105

The US typically approaches this by purchasing the products from the companies, or using trade pressure to make another country purchase products from them -- rather than by buying them out. The US government isn't talking about buying ExxonMobil, Raytheon, Boeing, etc. This is definitely weird.

Comment Re:Government should not own businesses..?? (Score 1) 105

and GOP became socialist.

As everyone in that reddit thread pointed out, that quiz is about fascism not socialism. The open debate is: Does the author of that reddit post not know the difference, or are they intentionally confusing the two as a form of misdirection? The post has merit even though it mislabels things.

Comment Re:Other metrics (Score 1) 200

If America really cared about their citizens, the Unemployment rate should consist of All Americans divided by the number who work. Getting that number to one would be amazing.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes that number. It's called the employment-to-population ratio. Since there many different opinions on how to interpret the data, the BLS publishes it every which way. Most press reports what is called the U-3 number because most economists agree that it is the most useful one.

Comment Most cities really need this (Score 2) 108

Having a wimpy direct path that just goes from Airport - Downtown - Convention center is perfect for a huge number of cities.

So many places it can be really rough to get from the airport to the downtown area any time around rush hour (which in a lot of cities is around a 3-4 hour window).

Some places with rail kind of have this - like the train that goes from Midway into Chicago. But even THAT has a lot of stops and is not great for travelers, even if it's nice for residents.

I also have to say that a system where you are riding in smaller vehicles I am a big fan of because it eliminates the problem where homeless people are just handing up on the train which create danger, nasty messes, and of course awful smells. Though awful smells is not restricted to the homeless of course, that can be any other passengers also so nice to be removed from them too.

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