It also links you to other people's devices. I started talking about a political viewpoint I don't have in front of a friend's phone, and I started getting ads for that viewpoint within the hour.

Does anyone really care that an adult bought a (perfectly legal) magazine for another adult?

I'll come back when I can have a la carte subscriptions to quality content without ads.

Using regulation to keep people out of the market just means that businesses will do business elsewhere. India and China are large, emerging markets and space isn't US territory. Good on the team for not taking "no" for an answer. Regulatory hurdles that keep them on the ground are at least as big a threat to their business as a government that won't let them off of the launch pad.

Why is that? Why are we training people to wait idly for jobs that may not come? Why are we not teaching them how to make more jobs?

I watched a friend struggle with a premature birth. The baby was born at 26 weeks, just barely past the point of viability. She's very lucky that her child is totally healthy, but it was a long struggle. This kind of technology could save a lot of suffering, and maybe even a lot of effort and expense. Her child needed constant monitoring and interventions to develop somewhat normally. It would have been terrific to be able to put him back into a plastic womb and finish developing that way.

... to take time off for family.

If your systems are *that* important, you should mirror them across multiple geographic locations. I've seen the same story in multiple forms several times now. The cloud is not a magical place in the ether. There is a computer somewhere with your code on it. That computer can catch fire, lose power, be destroyed in a hurricane, etc. This is what happens when you don't account for that reality.

As much as Slashdot likes to believe that sexism is imaginary, this behavior is pretty common in tech. Frankly, I've seen worse.

That's under the H1B salary minimum of $60k/year. You don't pay enough. Even the "body shop" contracting agencies pay more than that for junior devs in 3rd tier cities. I lived and worked in one of the poorest cities in the US and starting contractor wages were $28 an hour as a w2 consultant through an agency. You are very much out of line with the market and that's why you have a problem. Even during the worst of the recession, that wage would be very bad.

This will be a good thing. I like good things. More good things please.

He made a mistake and is now stuck. It is presently his best option, as we have not invented time travel yet.

This desperation is what happened when factories left the Midwest. The good jobs are gone for the unskilled. The remaining jobs need training that the unskilled can't afford. This is the guy's best option right now. If he could just stop being poor, he would. His best option is to sleep in a parking lot where he could freeze to death in a Chicago winter. Think about how bad things must be to have that as your best available option. This man isn't the only one making this choice. There is a bigger problem, and telling people to just stop being poor won't solve the bigger problem.

The goal of the H1B program is supposedly to bring talent to this country that simply cannot be had otherwise. Talent like that should be rare and paid accordingly.

See if you can turn that part time position into a full time position. Everyone I've ever met has had a crappy first job. You are lucky in that you at least like yours. Once you get some kind of work experience, you have a much easier time finding the second job that you really like. Even if the current job is a dead end, you can easily find hackathons, programming contests, and meetups to learn new skills. This is a habit you'll need to pick up anyway, so start doing it now while you're not important to be busy all the time. There are so many companies out there that make themselves look good on paper, but unless you start networking you won't know which ones are faking it and which ones are the real deal. Building your network not only saves you from this, but it will come in very handy later when you know what you really want to be doing.