KolmogorovComplicity
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KolmogorovComplicity
3mo ago
Whether or not her post was intended as a call to action would matter under US law, but the UK crime with which she was charged ('inciting racial hatred') has no such requirement.
KolmogorovComplicity
10mo ago
The best policy is probably to a) maximally leverage domestic talent, b) allow foreign STEM students, but require that they be selected purely on the basis of academic merit and set up incentives such that almost all of them stay after graduating, and c) issue work visas on the basis of actual talent (offered salary is a close enough proxy).
That's not what we've been doing, of course. We have, instead, been deliberately sandbagging domestic talent, allowing universities to admit academically unimpressive foreigners as a source of cash, letting or sometimes forcing actually impressive foreign students to return home after graduation, and dealing out H-1B visas through a lottery for which an entry-level IT guy can qualify.
Against that backdrop, there's probably quite a lot of room to kick out foreign students and still produce a net improvement by eliminating affirmative action and tweaking the rules on H-1B and O-1 visas.
KolmogorovComplicity
11mo ago
Microprocessors, RAM, flash memory, cameras, digital radios, accelerometers, batteries, GPS... a small drone is basically just a smartphone + some brushless motors and a plastic body. You even need the display tech, it just moves to the control device.
A larger drone or another type of killbot might require more — jet engines or advanced robotics tech or whatever — but it will still require pretty much everything in the smartphone tree.
A couple of major socially relevant features of a UBI are that it gives people time to pursue their own ends (for good or ill) and lets them decide where to live independently of work opportunities.
A fake job doesn't allow for these unless it's so fake that you can never show up, move halfway across the country, and keep getting your checks. My guess is these WMATA jobs aren't quite that fake; they're more like 'sit in an office slowly plodding through useless paperwork' or 'stand around on a job site with your six buddies watching the one new guy work.'
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