Bernie’s right on somethings here and wrong on others.

There’s already a “best and brightest” visa and it’s not H1B. It’s O1.

That said H1B is essentially the only reasonable way for people to immigrate to the United States through employment. Most employers are not going to stick out the convoluted process to obtain an EB2/3 immigrant visa for a worker they haven’t any experience with especially since they can enter the country and immediately work for someone else.

Stuff like this is part of why I stick with iPhone. The Pixel 4A stopped receiving security updates just 3 years after release, and rather than being direct about what battery changes were made and providing reasonable pathways for people to replace batteries, this happens.

Apple does stupid and shady stuff too, it is certainly not perfect, but Google has always had a cultural attitude permeating their organization since the beginning that wanted to avoid doing any sort of real customer support, and preferenced boxing customers into something kafkaesque over doing the right thing.

For all the dumb shit Apple has done, I can walk into any Apple Store and talk to a person and get my problem resolved for a nominal fee (if any), their devices get 5+ years of security updates (usually closer to 7 years) and I upgrade before that ends anyway for other reasons (typically about every 4-5 years), in the interim my device "just works". I've effectively never had a problem with an Apple device since I've switched. I was an early adopter of Android, made my own customer ROMs and shared them on XDA Developers Forum, and otherwise was big on Android, but it became really clear to me very quickly that the app ecosystem is a mess (security and otherwise), the core OS has huge privacy and functional design issues, and Google as a steward and a first-party handset manufacturer is not the company you want to do business with.

This really sucks for everyone impacted, and I understand why many many people (including my wife) choose to stay on Android, but you should really give some thought to this. What do you /actually/ do every day with your phone, and what would better serve you? As someone who wants to spend as little time on my phone as possible, and I use it as a tool, that needs to actually work when I need it, and I travel often, iPhone is clearly a more reliable choice.

But the amount taken from the employee is "total gross salary for employee" - "net payment to employee". Any additional expense borne by the employer due to additional tax is taken from the employer. (Same goes for other overheads such as insurance, cost of equipment, cost of working space.) The distinction is relevant because the employer has other things it could spend the money on, such as giving it all to the shareholders. Or buying more equipment. Or just storing it in the bank for a rainy day. Or maybe even employing more people at the existing salary levels. It's always felt to me that it's counting this particular bit of tax as the employee's money that is the trick.

But, I won't deny that our hypothetical employer could also give people a pay rise. And maybe this would translate into higher salaries generally over time. Not impossible! It's all the same pool of money!

The US will back Taiwan once musk tells trump that's where the AI chips come from. After that there will be no guarantees.

Note that there will not be an official livestream on Youtube. Every time there are some people who fall for scammers pretending to be one and end up listening to an AI impersonation of Elon Musk try to sell them cryptocoins, missing the real launch.

If you must watch on youtube, NSF or Everyday Astronaut typically have good (unofficial) livestreams.

Personally, that's a part of it. I might it find more tasteful if Shotwell and her team (the actual heroes) were ones getting the credit here, but Musk will get the headlines.

But it's not a political knee jerk reaction. It's an actual jerk reaction to him being such an actual jerk. The guy, and his current cohot, are distateful wankers. Excuse my English.

London has many historically swimmable waterways and canals.

Unfortunately 14 years of deregulation by allowing companies to dump waste into rivers have rendered much of these beautiful waterways unswimmable.