From my math, once you account for inflation, Silicon Valley (and broader tech industry) compensation has declined about 23-30% since 2000, relative to the national average. I know multiple companies where it's basically been flat since 2012, particularly for support roles - $90-100k then is only making $105-110k now in the same roles (with some of the same people, granted, but also new blood).
Considering how many foreigners from specific countries I see in places like Omaha, NE, I'm pretty sure it's not just a problem in Silicon Valley.
That may be true, but it's irrelevant.
They'll 500 500+ Americans from Division A while hiring 500 Indians to Division B.
And then the next quarter, it's fire 500 from Division B (all Americans, mostly white men), and then hire 500 Indians into Division A - because they had a shortage, don't you know.
How was it not fraud?
H1B is/was intended for worker shortages: for roles you couldn't fill domestically. It was not supposed to decrease the wage of the role, but (in theory) keep it at parity. It was always a ruse, but that was the premise.
If you're firing people and then hiring others at a fraction of the pay, you're literally abusing it. You've applied under false premise. That's fraud.
First of all, it is important to remember that, like racism, sexism, etc, ageism most definitely is acceptable when practiced by liberals. It is only evil when practiced by the others. People need to be reminded of this from time to time.
Second, I feel like you already probably know the difference between not seeing a comedian because they are outdated, and calling them hurtful names. After all, they try to entertain. Age is an immutable trait. Surely not even you would advocate offending them because they are old?
Or would you?
Understand that it can be hard to keep up with who it is okay to offend, and who it is bad to offend.
It may be true that older people are less likely to have moral panic attacks than younger people. After all, they have already been through numerous moral panics already, and were probably true believers themselves at some point. Eventually they realized that such panics are rarely organic, and mostly started to serve ruling-class political interests, such as divide-and-conquer. This can make them seem more skeptical when new ones crop up, while younger people are still true believers.
But remember, it is the younger demographic which insists that it embraces tolerance and diversity. Is it wrong that comedians took them at their word? You cannot blame older comedians that the whole thing is a lie.
This 'study' was clearly constructed to create narrative, not to do actual science.
"The study was conducted with 189 people."
And what was the distribution of men and women in that sample? Because that's a very important criteria.
I promise you the results would be significantly different with all-male vs all-female groups, and depend heavily on the attractiveness of the 'male' or 'female' AI persona (assuming it had visuals).
What's next...Trans-Bots and DEI for underserved Bot minorities?!!? H1-Bot....?
>"With permanent Daylight Saving Time, the latest sunrise in Atlanta would be 8:45am vs 7:45am without. If you are trying to get to work/school by 8am, you are up in the pre-dawn hours either way."
Exactly my point I was making. A large majority of people will be in the dark on waking, leaving, driving, and probably even arriving to work/school, anyway. So it isn't going to totally "solve" the issue for most people. Although it is true there will be more times there is light when waking on the thresholds of the changes. Yet they completely gloss over the sleep disturbances that occur for many people when trying to adjust their schedule due to the time changing.
There is no perfect solution. Only tradeoffs, and it will vary by latitude. Hence, let States have all three options and they can decide what works best for them.
Again, is this a European thing? I've never heard of a shed dedicated to storing bikes....I can see this is brewing used as an analogy for something else, but the shed/bike concept itself is foreign to me.
I have a set of 5 Echo Dots around the house and ever since I "upgraded to Alexa+" -- it's a train-wreck. Sure, the AI gives much smarter answers to questions. But they continuously forget my preferences for the voice I chose for them to use. (My wife and I both prefer their "female 2, relaxed" voice, as most similar to the original and more "professional" sounding than the others.) But no, it keeps going back to a voice that sounds like a bubbly, annoying teenage girl. Worse yet, there's no way to set a voice as default for all devices. You have to go around changing it for each one independently.
And that's before all the creepy, info-stealing behavior it has. EG. Someone will come over and ask it a few questions. Next thing you know, it's asking them to share their name since it's a voice they don't recognize.
"Well...it seemed like a good idea at the time...."
Your fault -- core dumped
