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Comment Trump is basically the second coming of Christ (Score 2) 32

So there's your rationalization.

The right wing is about hierarchy and structured order with some people at the top some people at the bottom and of course never ever ever anyone on the right wing at the bottom.

Trump can do whatever he wants for the exact same reason God can do whatever he wants. It's literally Divine command theory.

If Trump does something it is good because Trump did it and if you think it's bad it's just that your feeble mind can't comprehend the 8d chess

It's the same reason the tribal war god of Abraham can commit multiple genocides and endorsed slavery and turn women into property and it's all okay because it has to be because God did it and God is inherently good.

Comment Push too hard and they'll open offices there (Score 1) 165

A one time fee isn't too effective. There will probably be a billion loopholes and the big players won't end up paying much. A smarter route is a salary floor...10% above US median wage would be far more effective if you wanted to curtail abuses...even matching it to median US salaries would do a lot. However, you do have to consider 2 things:

1. You can import the best minds the world offers and have them spend money in your local economy or
2. You can incentivize companies to open overseas offices and hire there.

I think we get the better deal having the workers here. Even if they're not importing the best and just importing slop to fill their openings...that slop can spend money here or overseas. As an American software engineer...the industry that abuses this the most, I've never had issues finding a job. I don't personally care if they import shitty H1Bs. I think we get the better deal than the H1B holders and it ensures the greatest companies are started here...can you name a single Indian Tech company that's not an outsourcer? I personally can't. I even googled it and only found outsourcers. I am sure there has to be SOME real tech company running out of India exporting goods to the USA, but I don't know of one.

If it wasn't for H1Bs, I am sure there would be a lot more in Asia.

Comment The call is coming from within the house (Score 1, Insightful) 57

Republicans have repeatedly cut funding the schools and especially school lunch programs because the thought of hungry children excites them.

When my kid was in high school there was 45 kids to a class and the last 10 had the stand during the class. Several schools have been closed due to funding.

The Republican party actively sabotages public education to fool you into privatizing it so that they can profit from it.

They think you're stupid. Are you? Don't answer me. It's the Republican party you need to answer come to midterms.

Comment Fun fact about egg prices (Score 1) 35

The problems around bird flu were solved ages ago, it was just good old fashioned collusion among the egg producers to keep prices high.

I'm not quite sure why Joe Biden didn't act. I get that he was old but he wasn't that far gone. I suspect he underestimated how big of an issue it would be and it is remarkably hard to enforce antitrust law in america. Plus Democrats are fucking obsessed with following process and procedure and any enforcement action would probably end up involving the doj and well, biden's biggest mistake was putting a republican in charge of the doj in an effort to be bipartisan...

The point is high prices are a political issue not an economic one

Comment Re:Murdercars (Score 1) 23

Before the year 2000, zero US presidents had ever live past age 92. Now it's 4 (Reagan, Ford, GHW Bush, Carter). You can't tell me that's not advances in medical technology.

I'm genuinely curious, while you make a good underlying point for which there is plenty of data to back it, why on why would you pick an example profession that has such an insanely low sample size, and a profession known for its mortality too. Seriously dude, we have huge aggregated datasets showing how average across the population there are improvements. WTF would you use an example subset of 45 people to make your case.

Comment Re:Murdercars (Score 1) 23

As long as the cars are using machine learning, there is never going to be a fix that actually fixes all of the instances of even a single problem. The whole idea of being able to have a conclusive fix in an "AI" system is nonsense.

Cars aren't using machine learning. Learning is done elsewhere and a model is applied to the car. That model is equal across all cars where it's applied, no different from any other algorithm. Fix a problem in that model and you fix it equally in all cars.

Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 1) 165

isn't typically a world-class expert on anything

Skilled working visa schemes like H1-B are not about attracting world-class experts in anything. They are about attracting skills in specific areas where there may be shortages. The idea of raising the wage limit is a good one, but the reality is H1-B can be any speciality requiring a minimum of a masters degree. Heck there's even a cave out for fashion models to get H1-B visas.

I have mixed opinions on recent graduates needing visas to work, and I'm a bit dubious about the fee structure.

This one will serve only to drive talent off shore. Imaging training people and then exporting that knowledge to another country by disincentivising working locally.

Comment Honestly there's not a lot those guys can do (Score 1) 165

That Americans can't. We don't bring in a lot of super geniuses on the H1B Visa program. Hell not sure if they're still around but there were other Visa programs for the Albert Einsteins of the world.

What you got instead is some folks who were pretty good at math and ended up in routine coding jobs.

Buddy of mine who never graduated college but is intelligent but unfortunate landed a coding job for about 6 months before getting replaced by an h1b. He'd been doing the job just fine for the pay and they replaced them. On paper the H1B was more competent because they had more credentials but there was no issue with the work my buddy was doing, and he got offered a position full time instead of the contract gig he was doing until one of the higher-ups caught wind of it and decided to intervene.

It's one thing to hear about stories of Americans getting replaced but I've watched it happen to somebody I know pretty closely. Maybe they would have shipped the job overseas but I doubt it. As far as I know the job is still there held by an h1b. Although by now the guy is probably got his green card

Comment The Republican party has been sabotaging education (Score 2) 64

Since reagan. So yeah no shit be born on happy with the situation.

It's the classic right wing trick where you take a government program that's working just fine and maybe needs a few touch ups and then yank all the funding while methodically sabotaging it in devious ways and then tell everybody, see we tried to have public services but she just can't do it like the private sector can.

Then you privatize it and get the skin 10 to 20% off the top for your own profit. They have been dancing that Charleston with us for a long time and we just keep letting them do it.

Comment Fine by me (Score 0) 165

You can have the house in crisis they cause. Which you already do because your government brought in over a million of them in the country with 40 million people. Which is why Canada backed off a bit.

You already have a housing crisis and like America you can't do anything about it because your boomers won't let you.

I don't care what the GDP is. If you're a Canadian you should understand a high GDP that's not immediately create a high standard of living. Canada overall has a higher standard of living than America but a lower GDP and per capita income.

That said I predict this won't have any effect whatsoever except for Trump to get a little bit more money in his pocket by routing it to himself through tax cuts.

At least Trump is finally a billionaire thanks to the 2 billion dollars the UAE bribed him with.

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