This site. Became a left wing echo chamber long ago. Remember all the complaining about politics infecting our technology discussions? We were rudely told off that the personal is the political and there can be no neutrality in the age of King George W., the president who was literally Hitler. Remember when we used to have actual NASA scientists comment on space articles? Drove them all off, with the rest of the dotcom era crowd. And I've been reading this site since it was a web log called Chips N Bits. I've been nodded into the dirt by a behind the scenes cabal who silence anyone to the right of Mao. If you wonder why there aren't 500 comments, a decade of far left politics replacing tech topics is the reason. I think I'm about done, too. I eventually left EFnet IRC and I'll leave Slashdot too. A relic of a bygone age. This entire comment thread is the hard Left whining they don't get their way. Politics instead of tech.You killed Charlie Kirk and it's OVER. Americans are sick of your shit. Go find another country, you can't stay here with us, that much is clear. Go now and lick the hand that feeds ye, and may history forget ye were oura countrymen.

The way I read it, the 100k fee is an "investment" in bringing someone over.

You pay it when you get someone in, and it gets recovered over the 3 years that the H-1B is active. Don't know if you have to then fork over another 100k, or if the +3 rollover is covered under the original 100k. After 6 years, presumably the applicant is well on their way to applying for permanent residency, or they've had enough of living in the US and want to go home.

If amortized over 3 years, that's 34k/yr, if over 6 years, that's 17k/yr. Not peanuts, but not an obscene amount of money either.

This would basically be a tariff on foreign workers, I guess? And to your point, yes, it should be indexed to something that doesn't require endless political wrangling to keep at a reasonable market value. At least tie it to inflation, or maybe to a number reflective of the number of US workers attempting to find jobs in the given field...

https://www.theregister.com/20...

"The H-1B program was created in 1990, and presently allocates 85,000 spots annually for temporary non-immigrant workers to come to the US â" ostensibly to fill gaps in the American labor force. Counting other exemptions like those afforded academic institutions, the program awards about 130,000 visas per year to foreign workers, and renews about 300,000 previously awarded visas â" which typically last for three years and can be extended for another three.

The process works as follows: Eligible H-1B applicants, or companies representing them, register to enter the H-1B cap lottery. Some 20,000 advanced degree petitions and 65,000 general petitions get selected. For selected registrants, employers can submit H-1B petitions on behalf of prospective employees. USCIS then processes the selected petitions and those approved can then come and work in the US.

Previously, employers submitted completed H-1B petitions in March and USCIS conducted its H1-B cap lottery at the end of that month to determine which petitions would be processed for the 85,000 slots."

I, for one, am glad SOMEONE has stepped in to defend the evil megabillion dollar corporation and tell off the little guy. But you go! Speak truth to the powerless!

How do you not see this for the obvious publicity stunt that it is? You must have voted Trump.

But it worked, you got enraged and engaged with the content.

Congratulations, you're the problem with the internet today.

Oh, and I am aware of the irony of posting a reply in order to condemn it, so you needn't bother pointing that out.

From Roseanne to Hussein Obama on X, "Remember when you and your wife called Bog Iger to have me fired?"

America was founded in 1916 by white supremacist ideals like slavery, war and genocide. The sooner it comes to do end the better for person kind.

Do you people really get fifty cents per post? Surely it's more than that by now.

Never seen such a panda hugger since someone pointed out that we should have responded to J6 like China did to 6/4at Tiananmen. It lacks the polish of using the A-10s to turn them into pink mist, but calling out the tanks to turn them into pink mash worked well. Just a remincer: when you want to overthrow the government, bring guns. Lots of guns.

How are we going to replace the concepts of clockwise and counter-clockwise?

They need new words, kids can't read clocks. Heck, my freaking phone and watch both want to show me analong hands despite being digital. Just stop showing a leading 0 on the time, dammit! It's 2:30pm, not 02:30.

But they're not. The New York Post broke the true story on Hunter Biden's laptop and was censored off social media. NYT won a Pulitzer Prize for failing to question the Russian collusion hoax. Journalists covered for Biden, concealing his dementia from the public. Shall I link to the article in which the BBC radio journalist complains about "too many white co-workers"?

You think you hate journalists enough, but you don't. -- Micheal Malice

Just say Jews. We know what you mean already. We know, you're BIG MAD about your fascist hero Charlie Kirk getting righteously rubbed out. Netanyahu went on video and denied involvement, so STFU already, antisemite.

You and everyone else on the Left knows damn well why LatinX was adopted: because Spanish is an inhernetly sexist language. The terms Latino and Latina are sexist; hence a neutral replacement was devised. It's the same reason we stopped using he and she and went to they and them as generic pronouns. You'll notice Youtube creators carefully always use them because using the other ones get your videos penalized by your political allies at Google who very firmly believe in rejecting sexism. Remember when they fired James Damore for his anti-diversity screed? All of those people still work at Google. Funny, the biggest, most threatening enemies of theRNC in AmeriKKKa aren't on the Left, they are MAGA. Trump cast out the warmongering neocons and they were furious. Liz Cheney was so angry she started working for Democrats, because at least they're pro-war.

Every single fucking time. China. North Korea. Russia. I don't believe in fortune telling but I've gotten pretty fucking good at predicting the outcomes of investigations of cyber breaches.

You fucking kidding me? The Aunt Jemima logo was an ancient "Mammy" stereotype and was racist as fuck. It was removed for a reason, and it wasn't "liberals" who did it. The root of liberal is "liberty". Liberals believe in free speech. It is Leftists who want to police the speech of anyone they don't like. Like one just did to Charlie Kirk. That's why we had to change to chest feeders and birthing persons. Liberals had nothing to do with that. Leftists despise liberals, just ask them! One of their slogans is "liberals get the bullet too."

Anti US countries are pretty much everyone. And don't say that is Trump, it goes way back to Obama, Bu$hitler and beyond. Ever heard of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment? Project Mockingbird? Bull Connor? The founding of the USA in 1619? The world knows.

While I understand that sometimes it's a communication skill, or a habit thing, I wonder if sometimes the lack of an explanation is itself a red flag that whoever opened the PR or made the commit lacks understanding of what they were supposed to do, and what they actually did...

On the other hand, ticking off a checkbox item so that the linter passes by putting in useless information is the same as a garbage test written to make sure there's sufficient code coverage to make a linter pass. A waste of time and further muddying the waters by forcing someone to read through both the code, the documentation, and the test, to determine that there's no additional value to the documentation or the test over the code.

I guess this would be the point in time to discuss how aggressive to be in terms of adopting forced syntax reformatting, pre-commit and commit linters, and tests? And god forbid, checklists for each commit?