striker
1hr ago
Yes that’s the next step with them - their expert opinion is that the fan is fine, but they’re also out of ideas and they want to replace fan next. I just wanted to try to make my own diagnosis, as I’m not sure I’m fully faithful in their advice right now.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
Pretty much. It's like a lower stakes version of fixing up an old car, there's something satisfying about getting it rolling, but without the specialization. This is actually one of my first experiments in using chatgpt to educate myself on something, which I guess is really part of the fun of the experience, and appropriate given the low stakes involved.
Failing to build in your own backyard and then bailing to go and snipe make work rentseeking fake jobs in the West is not good praxis.
Plus what is 'deserve' in this statement.
Botond173
1hr ago
willing to throw the constitution in the trash
What are you referring to please?
Dean
Flairless
1hr ago
There's a grammar nazi joke to be made here, but I fear it wouldn't translate.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1hr ago
International students are subsidizing (superfluous) university services, wages and administrative bloat. I don't think native students see much benefit from the money at all.
I still have a "Romo's a Homo" t shirt I bought outside the Septa station somewhere in my closet.
But the meanest cowboys joke is going to require some context. Back when Terrell Owens played for the Eagles, when he made a play the whole stadium would chant "T-O T-O T-O T-O, T-O, T-O." Well, after his falling out with McNabb breaking his contract with the Eagles and signing with the cowboys, he comes back to the linc. Not long before it was widely reported that he had attempted suicide by taking too much hydrocodone, and been unconscious by his publicist. Well, he comes back to Philly, and every time he's on the field we all chant "O-D O-D O-D O-D, O-D, O-D" to the same rhythm.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
2hr ago
For whatever reason this has always been a disaster. I can't explain why, there's just something whimsical about the entire field, that makes it resist cookie-cutter solutions, and ends up requiring talented people who are quick on their feet. It's actually counter-intuitive for me, I'd expect IRL engineering would be the thing that would keep falling flat on it's face, due to the inherent dirtiness of the physical realm, but somehow it's the opposite
I think it's the thing where, if you have a cookie cutter solution to a problem, that problem is now solved and your engineers should no longer be spending an appreciable amount of time on it. If you're a civil engineer, and you get really good at determining how to design supports for a bridge on certain kinds of soil, you can (I think) make a career out of it. If you're a software engineer, and you write substantially the same code more than twice, you have almost certainly done something wrong.
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
2hr ago
Have you seen subcontinental domestic economies? If these people were actually given they full opportunities they deserve and are capable of actualizing then the subcontinent would be at least China level today, instead [redacted because I don't want to get banned immediately after coming back].
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
2hr ago
I'm gonna bet that if the fee survives the courts, all 85k h1b slots are still going to be filled even with the 100k fee. Just that those spots will go to the best and not to the slop.
It seems to be a 100k annual fee - some of the slots will be filled, but it seems kinda doubtful that all 85k of them will be. I'll take the flip side of your bet.
Even odds, $100 goes from loser to charity of opponent's choice, bet conditional on h1b fee actually happening for a full year and at least 60k of those 85k visas actually paying the fee? i.e. if there's a "$100k fee except for this category of applicants where the fee is waived" and 90% of the visas go to people in the waived category nobody pays, if courts strike down visa fee nobody pays, if visa fee is live for 2 weeks then walked back nobody pays (unless 60k people pay the fee during those two weeks in which case I pay).
2rafa
2hr ago
The reality is that India is fundamentally broken, in thrall to a legitimate but dysfunctional democracy that serves the interests of the agricultural peasant class, lower and backward castes, tribal people and resentful minorities over the middle and upper classes, who are a small minority.
I don’t believe truly universal suffrage is viable in a country where almost 50% of the population still work in agriculture. Until 1900 fewer than 20% of the total American population voted in presidential elections, in part because even many who could vote didn’t. In India it’s around 45-50% iirc, similar to Western countries. (Around 650-700 million votes cast in the last election).
The problem with India is that emigration acts as a pressure valve on the domestic middle and upper classes. They leave instead of overthrowing the system. To save India, they must overthrow democracy, re-assert the whip hand over the peasants, abolish the perverse system of reservation, abolish price floors in agriculture, consolidate small holding farms (brutalizing any peasant farmer resistance, which they have caved to every time so far) and embark on the kind of infrastructure development projects China did two generations ago.
But that seems like a lot of work when you can just go to America and be a doctor or engineer and have a nice comfortable life. India is probably the biggest example of the failure of democracy in human history.
Ioper
2hr ago
I think you have that backwards. International students are subsidising native students. For cost to come down other things need to happen. University services, wages and administrative bloat needs to be reduced.
One might still believe you have little to gain from them and that they might be bad in some other way (culturally or a security threat).
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
2hr ago
gestapa
Gestapo.
Dean
Flairless
2hr ago
You could add the 'ICE is disappearing people like gestapa!' -> 4th of July attack on ICE in Texas.
2rafa
3hr ago
In the end this had to happen. While illegal immigration and family / chain migration from places like Central America, Somalia and Haiti were and are far more critical (and still aren’t being stopped to the necessary degree) than a hundred thousand Indian programmers a year moving to America, the latter was still an issue.
The H-1B system was designed in 1990 when remote collaboration was nonexistent or in its infancy. Today there is no need to bring highly skilled foreigners to America permanently to collaborate. You can work together on Zoom, over email and instant message, can meet in person for social reasons a couple of times a year. Relocating a family from to America permanently, making all their descendants in perpetuity American citizens, that should be done for reasons more substantial than to add another database guy to the Tata team in Orlando.
I’ve long thought Trump should just make a better ‘America is closed’ speech. We had the era of mass immigration, we settled the country, now it’s ended, it’s not coming back.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
Does the sound come from the speakers or laptop itself? Does it happen when plugged or on battery or on both? Usually those kinds of sounds could be just coil whine, or your outlets in the house are not properly grounded.
Browser
3hr ago
Any reason this is a boon for the UK and Canada instead of the Indian domestic economy? Surely these geniuses will flourish when given an opportunity and motivation to build domestically.
Man_in_White
3hr ago
No, it won't be OK because I am not a high ranking politician.
Fair enough, would you change mind when it's not a politician? 60 Minutes, WSJ
The idea that if somebody is a politician then they are above scrutiny and any crime revealed about them must be dismissed because it's just "dirt"
I don't think it should be dissmissed. But I do think that it shouldn't be politically motivated either. What would change your mind that is intimidation mostly?
phailyoor
3hr ago
I'm gonna bet that if the fee survives the courts, all 85k h1b slots are still going to be filled even with the 100k fee. Just that those spots will go to the best and not to the slop.
s going to destroy the US international student college market
Good riddance. Tuition is insane as it is, and maybe supply and demand will kick in and reduce prices for Americans since demand is down.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
A respectable middle class family man without controversies in his private life, no history of abuse, not a junkie or a person that has spend his life in prison for sexual relations with pre teen boys.
Floyd and Rosenbaum are somewhat harder to sympathize with whereas Kirk was one of the upper middle class people to which being shot at for just talking, just doesn't happen. So for professional politicians and other people that feel that they are in the crosshairs is easier to cross the isle for Kirk.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
4hr ago
Nothing about Nepal?
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
4hr ago
This is an annual $100k fee, it's basically telling H-1B applicants they aren't welcome in the US as nobody is going to pay that much extra. Plus it's going to destroy the US international student college market as outside the very top schools a big part of the draw is a chance to work and stay in the US after graduation and nobody outside of Citadel etc. will pay $100k per year in fees for a new grad.
Good boon for the UK/Canada though as it means that instead of American companies hiring in the US they'll instead offshore the jobs and hire here instead. The country can generally do with some of the over inflated US salaries coming over here too.
I feel the US will regret this 10 years down the line, much like how they are now regretting limiting Nvidia sales to China forcing them to build their own homegrown system.
Jiro
5hr ago
From the point of view of Progressivism, Kirk was profoundly harmful to society.
I think you responded to the wrong post.
But anyway, it's not "did he do bad things" or "did he cause harm". Everyone thinks their political opponents do bad things! It's that he did things that are acceptable ways of spreading ideas in a democracy. Whether these things are harmful is irrelevant here.
Cheers for the curiosity. Will aim to report back on progress. It also happens when not plugged in, so I don’t think it’s the circuits. Environmental issues - will be interested to try to triage those. Radar path, that would be a wow!
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