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whatwhaaaaat··on H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
Why can India make on soil law but not the US?

Should we boycott anything from India because of the on soil laws?

whatwhaaaaat··on H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
No the solution is hiring American workers and implementing strict on soil laws for pii just like other countries are doing (India for example).

I have learned a great deal and been enriched by my friendships with foreign born workers, but to act like h1b workers come “ready to perform software engineering duties” at any higher rate than new grad higher is funny.

whatwhaaaaat··on 7zip.com Is Serving Malware
The recent openclaw videos are the best. “Ten openopenclaw skills that will change your life!” Ends up being useless YouTube metrics and a glorified egg drop.
whatwhaaaaat··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Just technical problems in their “banned topic” identification models. No need to be concerned.
whatwhaaaaat··on AI is a horse (2024)
This seems like an over simplification. Do many newcomers to chess even know about time formats or watch professional matches? From my anecdotal experience that is a hard no.

Chess programs at primary schools have exploded in the last 10 years and at least in my circle millennial parents seem more likely to push their children to intellectual hobbies than previous generations (at least in my case to attempt to prevent my kids from becoming zombies walking around in pajamas like I see the current high schoolers).

whatwhaaaaat··on Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
I hate to blather on about systemd in this decade but how in the world does creating something completely different than sysv init help people shipping software? Now they have to support yet another init scheme.
whatwhaaaaat··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Uh you had ww2 there first no?
whatwhaaaaat··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Uh what? I’m all about American hegemony but let’s not stupid.

Mossadegh Arbenz Allende Goulart Lumunba And Maduro was elected as well though you can go on with it being corrupt if you want.

These are just the ones we directly overthrew who were elected. There are 20 more or so we’ve done so indirectly.

whatwhaaaaat··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
Ok but this thread is about “all tariffs being rent seeking”. Now tariffs are sometimes ok - gotcha.

What has china actually don’t different than America? Was a 10-15 percent subsidy not enough? Were the carbon credits not enough? We’re the limitations on gas cars dependent on ev sales not enough?

As far as I’m aware both china and the us have heavily subsidized ev sales. What’s different?

whatwhaaaaat··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
So then why has china had tariffs on American cars? 15 percent before trumps 2nd term where it skyrocketed to over 125%.

If tariffs are so bad for America why do other countries have tariffs on American cars?

whatwhaaaaat··on Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride
Hair loss drug. Commonly prescribed.
whatwhaaaaat··on Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions
Are you a climate scientist? Do you have any understanding of how co2 lowers alkalinity in a solution or what impacts that might have on the planet? It seems sort sighted to say “it’s not even close”
whatwhaaaaat··on EverQuest
Both of these games are still going. Atlantic has a huge player base. It’s not the cutthroat game it once was but it’s still very much exciting. You can still die and all your shit poof. Housing on Atlantic is still in demand and hard to get if that gives an idea how healthy it is.

Eq has of course had some major server merges but your old account will still be on both UO and EQ.

To me UO is a breath of fresh air after 20 years of trash games except for a stand out few. Seeing my old wood elf ranger with swift wind and lupine dagger still glowing was magical. Almost as magical as re-exploring kelethin.

whatwhaaaaat··on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
Becuase builds are gated by test coverage people write tests for coverage and not for functionality. I’d say a good portion of the inherited tests I’ve ran in to wouldn’t catch anything meaningfully breaking in the function being tested.
whatwhaaaaat··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
Politics isn’t a line. Center in most countries is “fine with whatever the government tells me” from forced medical experimentation to genocide.

You’re right tho in that it does seem like people who reject the lies their government tells them may be slightly more likely to say things that upset you on the internet (since I’m guessing that’s what you mean by persicution)

whatwhaaaaat··on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
Doesn’t hdcp take care of that? 720p over component sure but hdmi has protection for this.
whatwhaaaaat··on Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
You are right my apologies. It only says we paid a quarter of a billion dollars to “study” which in this case meant paying for “non profits” to comb through a bunch of nobodies posts online in addition to paying for government employees to be on site at twitter specifically.

So you’re right it doesn’t say the directly cut a check. Only paid for people to find it. Paid for the people to communicate the offending posts to the social media companies.

In addition to all this the Biden admin “coerced and pressured”.

I won’t accept this if trump does it and I won’t accept Biden having done it. I cannot fathom how anyone would, given how quickly the winds have changed in America. It should be painfully obvious that the tools “your side” uses will be used by your political enemies.

whatwhaaaaat··on Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
Aaaand that is why trump won.
whatwhaaaaat··on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
This is sound advice for keeping yourself free from malware as well. Many of these TVs end up running super vulnerable junk that doesn’t get updated and has known exploits.

I’ve had two devices end up with malware like this. A Sony blue ray player that was uploading 2gig a month before I caught it and a Samsung tv.

It’s worth mentioning you have to block or change WiFi credentials. The device with malware may attempt to connect to any known wifi even if you disable it on the device. I get 45000 auth attempts a day from my tv.

whatwhaaaaat··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
That is not what is happening. Listen to Ursula. She’s telling you what is happening. Eu countries are being “allowed” to go into debt without triggering eu debt procedures. It won’t be reinvestment. It will be dilution of currency though debt. Something all too familiar to Americans.
whatwhaaaaat··on Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion
Can you really make these claims when streamers for months were showing people looting? What about chop? What about that federal courthouse in Portland?

My city had 100s of stores ransacked with groups of cars with 100s of people all working together. Say what you want about opportunists - riots happened.

whatwhaaaaat··on Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix
Yeah I get the idea but I’m asking op for concrete examples. Python has its own environment management options that work well. I’ve read on this site over and over what it can do - I’m wondering if anyone has hard examples of tooling they switch about enough to make it worthwhile.
whatwhaaaaat··on Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix
Just for a giggles, what projects do you work on that require such variation in tooling where something like this becomes worthwhile?

I always see these type of arguments for why nix is so great but it’s never been a pain point for me in 10+ languages and 20 years of development experience. I see your example of bash scripts but this can’t be all for writing scripts.

whatwhaaaaat··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
Are these new products from Rockwell automation?
whatwhaaaaat··on How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
With 100 ikea lights you have to be replacing them monthly or weekly.
whatwhaaaaat··on How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
How long have you been maintaining this?

Everyone starts out thinking it’s wonderful. It’s when it comes to maintenance or troubleshooting that things become tedious. Spending 60 dollars on a bulb that may or may not last 2 years.

After 10+ or so years of messing with these stupid bulbs no one in my family besides me even uses I’ve basically switched back to all “dumb” stuff now. This isn’t even taking in to account the amount of “smart” devices that start with even basic interoperability but then end up locked in a walled garden when money got expensive. Sure you can fashion up an esp garage door opener but do I really need another 20 cobbled together devices to maintain?

whatwhaaaaat··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
Well we will get to find out. Interesting red5 gets the ban after 30 years - days before RFK is on the menu.
whatwhaaaaat··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
Don’t you think it’s possible if drug advertising is banned then perhaps some of our media organizations may be at least slightly more inclined to investigate some of these hostile practices?
whatwhaaaaat··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
Citation needed.
whatwhaaaaat··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
National security risk to which nation? The kids on TikTok seem to understand pretty well why it all the sudden was wrongthink.
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