Well a significant portion of H1-B immigration occurs due to the pathway to a Greencard it provides. There's a very small subset of people who relocate across the globe without a path to permanent residency, and they typically chase contracts and projects and aren't directly employed by the companies themselves.
What stopped it?
Your entire post begged the question. This practice never stopped.
No one is doing anything illegal here (and even if they were it would be impossible to pin it on the CEO unless they directly stated to do that). The problem is that the intent of the law isn't followed. The letter of the law however very much is which is why these companies were very much getting their visas issued in the first place.
I was a software engineer at Microsoft for 22 years.
So you're saying you were hired in house as the GP asserted?
Microsoft had core developers on every product who were not Microsoft employees.
That's not the question. Now point to a product that was only managed via contractors and you may have a nice counterpoint. The contractors on core products make up only a subset of the employees. Microsoft very much still do employ people directly, you even emphasised that claim yourself.
It was the exact job I got hired in at at the beginning of my career
When was the beginning of your career? I'm not saying this wasn't fraud, but things change. Our hiring standards now are such that there is no way I would get the graduate position I got at my current employer. In fact we are hiring people with higher qualifications than I had 10 years into my career. I would have probably answered what you did, and I would have been wrong.
The qualifications themselves are worthless, but that's beside the point. We now expect graduates to have masters degrees and experience with things that we never needed to in the past, and that applies to local people as well, not immigrants.
That might be true, except everyone who has been paying attention knows that all they have to do is buy enough Trumpcoins and the problem will dry up and blow away without fanfare.
Is Trumpcoins still a thing? I just assumed the ballroom was overbudget.
There is nothing safer in adding a new file format. It increases the potential attack surface.
That's not the question here. There is nothing optional about adding the file format, in fact back when it was optional Google removed it from their experimental Chrome release for exactly this reason. But now their hand has been forced by PDF/A and they will need JPEGXL support in order to ship a browser capable of reading PDFs.
The comparison here isn't between Chrome with JPEGXL and without. It's a comparison between JPEGXL using the rust based library and JPEGXL using the C++ based library that came before.
WTF does this have to do with leopard eating faces for anyone who isn't so incredibly stupid to pre-order untested hardware? Do you make all your purchasing decisions on vibes? Have you already pre-ordered your 2030 Tesla Model S?
There are well established benchmarks that provide insight into what we can expect
The one thing we can expect from CPU benchmarks is that they do not reflect their performance in laptops since in a laptop the performance is almost universally defined by the thermal / power envelope. That's why you can get laptops on the market with Intel i5s that well and truly outperform Intel i7s despite CPU benchmarks claiming the exact opposite.
If you can't put two and two together and see what the benchmarks imply, that's on you.
You're not putting 2 and 2 together. You're putting 2x and 2y together and making a conclusion without the 2nd equation that you need to identify the missing variables.
But hey, if you want to live a life based on ignorance / make decisions based on wrong information you do you. I'm an engineer so I'm biased against that level of stupidity.
They've told us it will require initial registration (like every game on every console right now) and that it'll work offline from there.
Ordinary people do not decide about the pay of others in actual reality.
Yes they do. Management/employers are not some special class of person.
So your reply has nothing do do with the pot it was replying to then. So why reply then?
I for one do not expect (medical) doctors to be experts on everything. Just the things that affect my health that s/he happens to claim expertise on.
The word is "ligature". Either read more crime novels, or learn to play a clarinet or saxophone.
Not to mention typography, surgical techniques, or notations in Renaissance and late Medieval music.
Doh! Never mind, you're saying the guy hasn't been to Paris since 2002. I'll let myself out over here...
I found a 100 F note while diligently scanning a Paris sidewalk to avoid dog shit.
The "F" has been discontinued about 100 years ago... when were you born?
Perhaps in 2002 (or shortly before) which is when the euro was adopted (europe-wide) and the franc was retired (in France.)
That said, there must still be franc notes in existence, just not in circulation. And I dunno, some just might be on Paris sidewalks?
If you can't get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights.
