If their own people can't figure it out 18% of the time, then there is something objectively wrong with the approach.

I have been told that "very difficult" in Japan means "I will not do the thing." It isn't a reason, it is a colloquialism because direct refusal is considered ruse. So don't come back later and expect that they have started on it.

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

Agreed: The first one is a policy based on real economic reality. The second one is an unsupported conspiracy theory which ignores the reality that US companies that do the exact same thing.

You are 100% correct.

For human interactions, the LLM seems random not only because most interfaces set the temperature to a nonzero value, but also because seemingly irrelevant changes such as spacing or punctuation will change the LLM output.

allo literally defined it in the post:

Just like what happened when the US government purchased GM, Chrysler, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac?
(I actually agree with your points, but this reply is the obligatory counter to your post and needs to be addressed.)

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.

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.

I sometimes use it to archive especially insightful conversation on reddit. ...yeah it is a rare event, but it does sometimes happen. *casts furtive glance around Slashdot*

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.

This has happened to many a developer over the years because the shell scripting languages ignore errors. No AI required.
cd /
cd $targetdir # Oops! Targetdir doesn't exist!
rm -rf * # Deletes files from root directory

Somewhere between 1 and 3.

Those are the kinds of moments where the population finds out if their nation is truly democratic or not. Any government that decides that turning off the ability to communicate is not doing so for the benefit of its people.

It's standard operating procedure in dictatorships to flip the "internet kill switch" as soon as something happens where the government needs to control the media.

Oh, and just to add one more thing . Some network protocols just fundamentally can't work under NAT. Ex: FTP. So party of the reason this seems to worn is because we changed the way we design protocols to be NAt compatible. That's dumb. The Internet should just work.