Honestly I think the guy is just RPing Elon Musk. He dives in with an aloof quip, says everyone else is stupid, alludes to knowing something that “should be obvious”, and then ducks out without elaborating further.

The pattern is so incredibly consistent, im not convinced these aren’t LLM responses.

Keeping anything at any temperature different than whatever it’s interacting with takes energy. Hot or cold.

Audience

I was at a symphony where they were playing a night of video game music (Zelda Mario etc) and the conductor said "you know, some people think video games make people violent "

Some guy from the back yells “WHAT?! We should KILL those people!”

Nobody is questioning the capacity

Sometimes.

In those cases, “there isn’t a yes/no answer to your question because…”

I ask my jrs simple yes/no questions all the time.

Did you open a PR? Does it pass the CI pipeline? Did you write a test for scenario X?

I’m here to help you, but my time is unfortunately limited. If it takes half of our available time just to drag out of you where you’re at we’re all worse off for it.

Dijkstra will settle this

So if someone said “it should be replaced with straight immigration and citizenship” …?

All immigration is human trafficking?

I also appreciate yours. I think a fair number of opponents to h1B are just purely rooted in racism/xenophobia.

This is a case where I wanna hear “what do we replace it with?” From someone before I decide if we’re on the same page or not.

I’m not suggesting it’s beneficial to remove these people.

I’m suggesting that they be paid the market value for thier talents and that their presence benefit that nation, not a specific company.

H1B should be replaced by visas with no ties to a company. That’s it.

When you argue about global markets, i see that as completely unrelated. There is a mechanism for that already and it’s called offshoreing. You wanna move a factory or tech work to an area with a lower cost of living and can pay them less? Go nuts. You want people on shore? Allow them unfettered access to market their skills at the market price of the labour.

Again, I’m not against people who are here (there, the USA), and I empathize with rural Healthcare. As a rural Canadian all of my doctors have been originally from South Africa for as long as I’ve been alive.

This genuinely isn’t an anti-immigrant stance. My wife is an immigrant.

Bring people to your nation and invite them to join your society. The whole idea of bringing people in as second class citizens to be exploited is perverse. I’m not saying don’t have the people. I’m saying empowering those people is in the best interests of abso-fucking-lutely everyone.

Except the CEOs, i guess, but you’ll forgive me if I can’t muster a tear.

H1-B’s, being tied to a company, are extremely exploitive.

In Canada, you get fired/quit you don’t get a paycheck.

In the US, if you’re a citizen or green card holder, you get fired/quit you don’t get a paycheck AND you lose your Healthcare. This is a major way to abuse your workers.

In the US, if you’re H1B and you get fired/quit you don’t get a paycheck, lose your Healthcare insurance, and are ejected from the country. You can’t even just switch jobs. It’s extremely predatory and allows companies to fuck you so badly because you have so much to lose.

If the workers were truly great talent, it’s in the interest of the country to have them working ANYWHERE in the country. If they were TRULY great rare talents in industries starved for workers, it’s counter productive to not let the free hand of the market guide them to the best employers.

That’s the scam.

H1Bs, being tied to a company, provide a clear incentive for abuse by a company to use them to pay people less than market wages knowing there is no recourse. It deflated the market value of local workers. Average workers who’ll work for below average pay, accept unlimited overtime, and not push back on HR violations or even explicitly illegal actions by their employers is a big win for the company.

They aren’t the best and brightest. They by definition can’t be. With the reality of the arrangement, the “best and brightest” can and will and always have found greener less abusive pastures elsewhere.

If you want to be in that arrangement, you’re not that bright. If you can’t find better, you’re not the best.

H1B is a really bad program. Employers mobility would mitigate most of my issues, but that will NEVER happen because from the industry, that’s the whole point

Does being Europe’s richest man imply that he would be the person who would pay the most wealth tax?

If so, the headline isn’t going hard enough.

The title is so bad it’s less “misleading” and more “lie”.

Did NASA announce discovery of life on Mars? No.

Acme anvil, acme time machine… The knowledge that birds evolved from dinosaurs…

The answer is so obvious I’m glad you didn’t debase either of us by asking the question

Wow! The small brain in my butt responsible for nostalgia was blown!

I’m just telling you what was in children’s dinosaur books from the 80s, based on your response of never having heard of it.

What the gap between children’s books and scientific consensus at the time was, couldn’t tell you.

I think this sits in the realm of history more than science. “What were people writing at the time?”

I can anecdotally confirm as a “dinosaur kid” of the 80s, that this was a common tidbit in children’s books of the era.

I’m pretty sure I had a VHS with Fred Savage where they ran through it as well.

The explanation was that the response time if a Brontosaurus got its tail messed with (an anvil dropped on it) was problematicly slow if the nervous system had to send the message such a great distance to the “head brain” and then have the reaction message all the way back. Basically they’d be living with massive lag IRL.

Can’t say I’m surprised that science is backing off the certainty on that. Those same books were also full of “look at all the goofy things previous generations of paleontologists thought”

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won

I’d heard many times from people who were old enough to see them live that it was a completely unique experience, describing how the band fed off the energy of the crowd.

Didn’t fully comprehend the magnitude of that truth until I heard that live album. I’ve heard other live albums from other artists where it was performed roughly the same as the studio version with the further addition of a cheering crowd. This was a completely different animal.

How The West Was Won really showcased how malleable a work is in the hands of truly talented artists.