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Comment Re:Will Push More Off-Shoring (Score 1) 206

enterprises will move out of the US and then these tariffs will not apply.
Then those enterprises will: (1) Be subject to tax consequences for expatriating.
And (2) Now all the enterprise's products sold to US consumers will be tariffed, so long as their operation is outside the US.
It's just trading a small set of tariffs on remote labor for a much larger tariff expense, and it won't be fiscally responsible for the enterprise to exit the US in that case.

Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 3, Insightful) 206

Those 100k$ may become "H1-B loans, to be reimbursed by the employee

How would that work? These are employees, and the application fee is the employer's liability to the government. An Employer generally cannot make an employee assume expenses that are for the employer's benefit. Even those expenses an employer can make the employee pay cannot exceed their wages such that an employee is paid below minimum wage. Any kind of attempt to extract the costs of the fee out of the employee would be fraud.

Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 1) 206

fill a 100k job with an h1-b worker and only pay them 50k, it's still back to profit after 2 years

That one is actually illegal. The minimum on a H-1B salary is $60,000. But there is an additional requirement that the
salary has to be at or higher than the prevailing wage for the job in question.

But even if they manage to illegally pay only 60k a year... The 100k fee divided by the 3 year term still amounts
to 33k a year. And 33k plus 60k is $93,000.

And that's before thinking of all the other extra compliance costs involved in hiring H-1B.

Comment Re:This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 3, Informative) 206

These guys eventually become employers in our economy and pay a lot of tax.
A H-1B is not the path to that as far as I know. The H-1B lasts for 3 years and can be extended 3 more. After that 6 years the H-1B cannot be renewed, and they're forced back to their own country for a minimum of 1 year anyway.

The only way to stay in the US and become an employer is to get a greencard instead of a H-1B in the first place; or to apply for a permanent residency to change from a H1B to a resident based on major eligibility criteria. The 100K fee is probably not very much for the people who would actually meet that eligibility criteria, and you would still be willing to deal with the fee for the opportunity.

What this will do, is that newly graduated STEM masters and PhD will go back to their home country and we lose out on top talents.
You are assuming newly graduated STEM masters are top talents. I am not sure that has been evidenced. Top talents are people who have demonstrated abilities and expertise in their fields. They don't put you at the top of anything after graduating from a few years' worth of coursework. There is some book knowledge and background you should have to succeed in an engineering field, but skills are acquired on the job, and a classroom is only the starting point.

Comment Re:Will Push More Off-Shoring (Score 1) 206

In theory it could, but Trump is bound to create tariffs for this as well.

If your company or management are in the US, then you are importing labor or services from overseas. Trump can set a tarriff on the fair market value of that work being performed overseas by non-US workers multiplied by the number of hours.

If you move your company overseas to avoid that tariff, then your customers in the US will pay a tariffs on your products or services instead, whatever you are selling.

Comment Re:Ticket Lottery (Score 1) 58

Well Lottery vs FCFS is the major unique thing there.

The advantage of FCFS is more diligent fans actually get a better chance. With the lottery people who are marginally interested and don't jump on the opportunity Day 1 still have an equal chance: Which sucks for the diligent fans who were waiting for months have a reduced chance, because people who are entirely new to the artist and will hear about them for the first time during the lottery period will be interested and sign-up before it closes.. Thus diluting the chances of the more committed fans.

Another approach that could possibly work is staging the sale with phased pricing - time-based reverse auction. For example: Before ticket sales open hold a public auction for the chance to get the first tickets. Supposing the first tickets sell for the $3000, then. For the first 48 hours all other tickets go on sale generally, and the price starts at $3000 per seat reserved. After 48 hours all unsold tickets go on sale for $1500 per seat reserved for next day after the first 48 hours. Phase 3 ticket price decrease sto $1000 per ticket. Then for each 48 hours thereafter: price decreases by 5% of the original $3000, until the organizer's selected minimum price is reached. This possibly should reduce scalping in theory, because it makes sure everyone who feels it is important enough to pay a higher price to make sure they can attend has many chances to pay a slightly less stepped up price to attend the event then people would be willing to pay the scalpers. I mean that in theory it takes away the market from scalpers, so anyone hoping to resell tickets would have to go in at a much higher investment and risk level.

Non-transferrable tickets already exist and are already common in other industries. Perhaps Musical concerts are actually the outlier and unusual case compared to other events?

For example.. Conferences. You register to an industry conference for example, Blackhat conference, or fan conventions/shows such as DragonCon, Quakecon, PAX, EGX, TwitchCon.. Your registration is by name anyways; depending on their policies they either mail the badge, Or they have a badge pick-up desk where the attendee has to prove their identity to either pick up their pre-printed security badge, Or have it printed at the desk, and noone goes in without their verified name badge.

Each organizer makes that decision on their own about transferrabilty and can even exercise their own discretion at their venue.

Airlines. If for some reason a passenger is sick and won't be able to fly - the passenger cancelling may even surrender the ticket, but they can't transfer it. The ticket gets sold by the original carrier to a Standby passenger. (The person who doesn't or Can't use their ticket Does not keep the right to control the seat they would have had nor who it goes to)

Comment Re:Ticket Lottery (Score 1) 58

Personally I think it's maybe the only possible solution to this issue. It simply comes down to the fact that concerts are a once-in-a-lifetime type event and will always be limited

There is a solution: Ticketmaster just profit from resale and don't want to do it.

Basically: Make it first come first serve. Each person can register 1 ticket. You have to supply a name and ID after the transaction. The ticket is permanently assigned to that name just like an airline ticket and cannot be transferred.

If you want to bring a significant other or friend. You can get a selector to request to reserve a restricted number of adjacent seats in addition to your primary before choosing the seat for the primary ticket. You have to enter their legal full name and email address, and choose an option to indicate whether you are paying for them, or whether they will submit payment at checkout.

At the gate for the event the Legal name your ticket is registered to will be verified, and you have to bring proof of ID. If you don't have proof of ID, or the name doesn't match, then you cannot use the ticket to enter the venue or take the seat.

Comment Re:Unreliable data (Score 1) 159

especially if there's no reward for doing so.

Even with a reward for doing so your response rates may be skewed towards people who care about the reward enough. A $1 survey recompense means nothing for some people who earn thousands an hour and just don't want the hassle of another random solicitor bothering them, etc. It's tough to make a reward that is enticing to everyone, unless it waives some kind of annoying requirement everyone has.

Comment Re:Fuck our corporate overlords (Score 1) 41

It is not. We need to ask our legislators to get stronger exceptions for libraries added to the law.

There ALREADY are exceptions, but for some dumb shit reason a lot of digital stuff, such as copying sound recordings to a digital format, or streaming a library copy digitally, is specially excluded from or not covered by the exceptions which are written into the law for libraries that would apply if the library were disseminating the work using an analog medium to someone physically present. The internet archive's very nature is that the patrons of this library are Not physically present. It's a "remote library" -- you visit the library remotely. It seems ridiculous in the 21st century, but there need to be new carveouts in the law to allow for this concept of a physically remote library to exist just like a library you visit in person - and enjoy the same capability to operate. Such as the capability to digitally view or listen to content in the library over an internet connection.

Comment Re:fraidy cats (Score 2) 41

Appears to me as if the record companies were afraid to litigate on this one and establish any additional precedent

Possibly, but it takes two to settle, and the terms are confidential, so we don't know whose paying who or who is conceding what if anything. You have to have the defendant's permission or leave to withdraw a case. If the Archive were so confident about winning and establishing a precendent, then they probably would not have agreed to settle. That means they probably regarded their chances at not significantly more than 50%. An resulting precedent in their favor would be enormously valuable to not only the IA, since they can face other attempts at suit by different music recorders, but also to other libraries throughout the US, and possibly libraries in other countries whose courts may become aware and read about prevailing legal arguments surrounding copyright in other treaty countries..

Comment Exactly Forward (Score 1) 39

I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

Comment Re:Buried interesting point (Score 1) 51

No, because experience isn't a protected category. Age is, but only in certain cases mostly dealing with existing employees. Youth isn't protected at all:

https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discr...

"The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination. It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older."

Comment Re: Holy shit, the logic fail here. (Score 2, Informative) 38

How do you make the synthetic data, dipshit? AI copies real data..

Hey, stupid idiot. AI copies nothing. AI is trained on real data, but the output is new data imputed by a generation algorithm: it is the reverse of a pattern match or categorization, and synthetic data is not a collection of new data from a person. I'd say it is also questionable how they can show the data is truly representative.

In any case: the ethics review is only about data being measured and collected from patients as part of a study. They address issues such as how are you going to make sure the patients are safe and not at risk of physical harm, and are being treated with dignity by your experimental process when you are interfacing with them and collecting their data: for example you aren't collecting samples in a public place allowing them to be seen indecently in public. Once the data has already been collected you could re-use the existing data for as many studies as you want without further review. The review process is about how your experiment uses humans; not how you use the data after the experiment. So it doesn't really matter.. If you aren't physically bringing people in and taking measurements on them or having them directly participate in an experiment, then there is nothing to review.

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