That means one quarter of working adults cannot support themselves. That's about 40 million people. So yeah we don't need to bring more people into this country we have plenty of people. Nobody is going to convince me that all 40 million of those people are too stupid to be trained on the tasks H1Bs do.

And I could care less about innovation in this country. All that means is who owns the patents and it's not going to be me owning the patents so why the fuck would I care? I still have to pay the license fees one way or another.

I like how we're supposed to be nationalistic when it's convenient for the Epstein class and globalist when it's convenient for the Epstein class but we can't do either of them when it's good for us.

Just do some light corporate restructuring on paper and hire them all back under a different corporate entity. Trump will look the other way because he's all about the cheap labor. The right wing has always been about cheap labor. Frankly so have conservatives. They talk a good game but it's just talk. Comforting lies

Dude I don't know how young you think I am but I am not any kind of whippersnapper. I learned the program on a zx81, so you can get right on off my lawn.

Large companies hire these guys through contractors not directly. So this will have absolutely no impact on your ability to get a job in IT.

The only way to stop the abuse is to completely shut down all of the programs. Americans cannot and will not do nuance. If we were capable of nuance as a people Donald j Trump wouldn't be president.

I'm open to other suggestions but I have yet to hear a single one that is both viable and actually works. And in a country with 25% functional unemployment you can't keep flooding the job market with cheap labor. People are going to look for a solutions and when the left and the center don't have any then the fascists are going to step up. They aren't actually going to solve the problem but they will end democracy by promising to solve it.

Interesting that you immediately jumped to censorship. Why is that?

The muh freeze peach crowd are about the worst defenders of free speech I've ever met.

Speech is powerful and dangerous, which is why it is important and needs to be free. Pretending otherwise is to diminish it and erase the need for it to be protected.

Poor poor persecuted white male. *pats head* there there, it'll be alright. Show us on the doll where she touched you and tell use how much you liked it.

I bet you leave all your front door unlocked and open at home since someone could just break a window and therefore your house will never be safe.

Yes and so should you. Why should you be forced to pay extra to someone multiple times through every piece of software you use, because they did some math?

No it begs no such question. But to answer your independent question that wasn't begged, no there's no patent encumberment in JPEGXL, it's defined as an IEC standard, and has a reference implementation free for use under the Apache 2.0 license.

Unused, and no use case for it, no pathway predicting it would become popular, and no reason to develop it further.
That changed when the PDF/A decided to adopt JPEGXL officially. Now PDF readers need to implement JPEGXL and both Chrome and Firefox include PDF readers in the browser. Their hand was forced.

Nothing has turned into a religion. Programming rust is safer than not programming in rust due to the nature of the language and how it needs to be used to create the same class of bugs. That's not religion, that's a simple verifiable fact. No one said it's "safe", they said "safer". There's a previous implementation in a language without memory safety to compare it to.

No one said that. No one said it's "safe". They said it's "safer". Memory-safety makes the whole codebase safer than not having memory safety.

Now go look up what a "comparative adjective" is so you don't say something stupid again in the future.

So you're saying if the question isn't defined before hand the result ceases existing? Not even Schrödinger could justify a comment that stupid.

Anything that challenges your assumptions must be a joke. Therefore you never need to change your mind on anything!