I worked for 35+ years with US corporations and had every one of the (in)famous outsourcing clown shows as my vendors, inherited from my US counterparts who found them unmanageable from 10 timezones away.

My job was to get rid of these guys, and replace them with direct hires. Typically a team of 70 (don't ask me why they loved that size) would be replaced with 15-20 directs.

The business model - excluding the h1b issue - is plain and simple: salary arbitrage. In 2008 for example the USD was around 33 INR. Today it's closer to 95 INR.

They continue to pay the same salaries in INR which they paid 20 years ago, dollar for dollar. But corporate revenue trends upwards.

This model is not good for any nation, and only a crisis will get rid of it.

Thankfully I am no longer part of this, semi-retired.

This is the guy who got caught with only $40 million gold (and rising). Imagine how much this agency has skimmed off from US taxpayers over the decades.

And then there's the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit.

Ask them "which two weeks?"

When I had FB, LinkedIn etc accounts I always used them via the browser. Last I checked the LinkedIn app was some 400Mb in size. What is it all doing?

So the WH is poorly written. Maybe Truth Social has "AI" coding agent which Trump used?

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Trump who obliterated Iran, or Amazon?

"Practice makes perfect." - all proverbs are finally stereotypes based on reality.

We lived in Europe for a while and some of the schools had a time limit on homework. Kids were expected to stop at 45 minutes and submit whatever they had finished till that point.

We got regularly called in because our elder one would finish in 30 minutes and was making the rest of the class look bad. (Kid is an MD now, so there's that. We don't brag about the younger ones.)

I heard somewhere that the US MIC runs on a cost plus basis which motivates them to inflate the cost massively. Hence the manual assembly of interceptors and other missiles.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Never expected privacy in the workplace, but never anticipated this.

Wonder a treasure trove of slackness will leak out from one of these models.

The attack on Iran was a distraction from the Epstein files, and this is a distraction from the latest serving of TACO

> "Sending four humans 250,000 miles away is a herculean effort, and we are now just realising the gravity of that."

As a kid I remember watching grainy images of Neil Armstrong et al bouncing around on the moon. How did that happen? Teleport much?

His grimy little hands are everywhere.

Bluesky is already a collection of bubbles, with their advanced filters and blocking mechanisms. It's impossible to have a conversation with any kind of opposing views over there.

So now you can automate your isolation into a LLM generated bubble?

Did I get this right?

What I would like to see is (paid) service which uses an LLM or whatever to generate a custom RSS feed from across the web, FB, X, Bluesky etc per a topic of my specification.

What could be more non-primary than an LLM?

It's the lack of common sense that I'm pointing out. It's the border equivalent of Starbucks asking you the same silly questions by rote - "process" - or McDonald's asking you "you wan fries with dat?"

Your immigration guys are Starbucks employee material.

Hmm. That makes sense.

The Schengen countries don't do this. I noticed that if you entered Germany and your final destination was Sweden (for example) they wouldn't even look at your face. No wonder they have a "refugee" problem now.