While I think op is being a little bit histrionic, I strongly agree with the basic premise (I.e. h1b visa very obviously drive down wages and any one working in tech should oppose the, on this basis). A nice example of this phenomenon extended to its logical conclusion is what currently happens in American universities, (maybe it’s improving, I left in 2022) which operate in an open borders environment with their ability to recruit international students. This created a huge race to the bottom where faculty were directly incentivized to hire foreign nationals because, 1, 20-40 k is really good for anyplace that is not America and 2, you get an essentially indentured servant who very much does not want to leave. This obviously displaces lots of domestic students, sabotaging much of the nations scientific pipeline.
dukeleto
18d ago
I disagree, if you are in a city you should just accept that this sort of thing will happen occasionally and that it’s not worth getting upset about absent deliberate malice
dukeleto
3mo ago
Or having another member of technical staff go rogue like this guy did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan
dukeleto
3mo ago
Some times I forget how naive and anti American many of the posters are on this forum. This take hugely discounts the tail risks of having an unstable country with a history of exporting terrorism having these things. What if the leadership changes in the future or some part of their government, or if it results in other middle eastern countries proliferating as well.
dukeleto
3mo ago
I’m sorry about your situation, I’m a very light sleeper as well and my new neighborhoods have shitty dogs that go and bark at absurd hours of the night. Since they absolutely refuse to do anything about I have just started wearing earplugs at night. It took a little getting used to, but I’m mostly adjusted to them now. Might be a good option for you if nothing else pans out.
dukeleto
3mo ago
I mean defer to your pct, but that isn’t particularly high estrogen even if out of range. Your hypothesis that you are overweight is probably correct and that number will almost certainly fall if you get your body fat percentage down.
dukeleto
3mo ago
I agree and I’ll note that Utah (a red state) has by far the most liberal laws about setting up your own pv systems without having to contract with your utility company (in contrast with states like California where a solar system can easily cost 20-30 k, largely driven by regulatory burden)
dukeleto
3mo ago
I’m always nervous about ordering these things direct from China in case my package gets seized, so I end up overpaying from a compounding pharmacy.
dukeleto
4mo ago
I don’t know enough about the guy to know if he is doing this for principled reasons, but this makes me confident that the war is going very badly and that the administration is either going to capitulate, or be forced to endure a long and costly affair. In either case it’s good for this individuals long term career to distance himself from the whole affair. Getting ahead and blaming Israel is also smart: if the conflict goes poorly blaming Israel is a political no brainer for any possible democrat and maybe even (with greater difficulty due to the evangelicals in the coalition) for a republican.
dukeleto
4mo ago
I agree and also respect the Arabs for what they are trying to do. I view places like Dubai, similar to places like Las Vegas or phoenix, as a testament to the idea that you can really just decide to make someplace nice. Even with unlimited amounts of money that kind of infrastructure takes functional governance. It’s sad that in this age I don’t think the us could do as well. For instance do any communities in California besides San Diego have any kind of desalination capacity?
dukeleto
4mo ago
If you size it there is a possibility that you will give it back. I suspect that if they just destroyed it Iran would retaliate by destroying gulf oil infrastructure, which the us certainly does not want…
dukeleto
4mo ago
The fact that the video was taken in Kuwait makes it highly likely that it was.
I agree with this take, nuclear proliferation is an extraordinary global risk and this really seems to be a low cost to way to prevent it.
https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Story-Secret-Nuclear-Trafficking/dp/1439183074
Is a fantastic book which illustrates some of these risks.
dukeleto
5mo ago
To say nothing of the fact that the KKK was most certainly a potent force, and they certainly did engage in bombings and other kinds of terrorism.
dukeleto
5mo ago
That’s a fair point, if you can become the cto for medium sized organization, you must be very smart (or at least very crafty!). It would have been more accurate to say that I was unimpressed with the level of technical knowledge displayed.
dukeleto
5mo ago
I enjoyed reading this, especially the part about your CTO. I am 4 years into my career (31 is still young right?), and I have met my organizations CTO exactly once and he came across as a complete moron, but he had a helper/fixer/(handler?), who actually had real technical competency of the sort I would expect from someone with a CTO job title.
dukeleto
5mo ago
That was an enjoyable read, and I will most likely end up doing the same thing.
I was personally very saddened to learn that the FDA is going to begin cracking down on compounding pharmacies offering products which mimic branded pharmaceutical products. (https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/after-hims-compounded-wegovy-pill-upset-fdas-makary-pledges-crackdown-mass-marketing-illegal) For this who are unaware compounding pharmacies have long offered tirzpeptide, semaglutide and other related compounds at substantial discounts over the branded products. I have personally used compounded tirzpeptide to get down to a healthy weight and am of the opinion that making glp-1s widely available would do more to improve Americans health than basically any other single intervention.
I sort of suspect the administration cut some sort of deal with the drug companies (having this announcement come right after the launch of trumprx is just too suspicious), although I don’t think it will go well for them given how many people have come to rely on obtaining medicine.
Any way, I guess I’ll be looking for recommendations to for where to get grey market tirzpeptide soon.
I don’t follow fed policy that closely but the cut right before the last presidential election just seemed ridiculous, if there is a strong (non political) reason for this I would be interested in hearing what it is.
It’s also very hard to look at someone like Lisa Cooks resume (her academic research as highlighted on Wikipedia mostly sounds like social justice bullshit), and conclude that she was put there for any reason other than political loyalty
The most salient difference is that I’m the us if you get tired of praying at the alter of DEI, there is in fact a political process, repeated every 2-4 years which enables you to select new leadership. Totalitarian states are so centralized that dramatic change can only really happens after the leader dies. What if China’s next leader is more like Mao?
It’s also my understanding that China doesn’t even permit free movement for most people (people can move but are not automatically entitled to receive public benefits), https://www.citymonitor.ai/analysis/china-theres-no-freedom-movement-even-between-country-and-city-2697/
dukeleto
7mo ago
Even if it where in the us interest to sell out(which this administration won’t, have you ever looked at any of Colby’s views?) Taiwan, that number is completely ridiculous. 500 billion, seriously? If the country really needed that kind of money it could get it easily.
dukeleto
7mo ago
The sad thing about that is that failing the class would have ultimately been doing the students a favor. Having to retake a class in college shouldn’t be the end of the world and the ones who did it a second time would have left well prepared.
dukeleto
8mo ago
I’m think that extending the shutdown any longer would have been extremely risky, since we were getting to the point where things actually would start breaking. The most obvious example here is air traffic control. If this had broken down during thanksgiving, wrecking everyone’s travel plans, the backlash would have been immense and contrary to current polling, I believe the democrats would have been largely blamed for it.
I’m in Mi. for a wedding and it’s a real bummer, since it’s normally gorgeous this time of year!
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