Maybe the real end of the world, if Trump reacts badly enough.

Population growth is levelling off and we will end up somewhere between 10 and 12 billion by the end of the century. It's sustainable as long as we are careful... Which we tend not to be. Most of the growth is in Africa, which has a lot of scope for it.

In fact the main reason population is still growing is people are living longer. The global fertility rate has dipped below 2.1, the steady state level due to childhood deaths.

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.

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.

So you're saying you were hired in house as the GP asserted?

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.

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.

Is Trumpcoins still a thing? I just assumed the ballroom was overbudget.

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?

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.

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.

Not only did she develop software without the aid of modern debugging tools, on a new architecture that was limited in ways that most modern embedded developers can't even imagine, she pioneered a lot of the software safety techniques we still use.

Poor poor persecuted white male. *pats head* there there, it'll be alright. Show us on the doll where she touched you and tell use how much you liked it.

I understand the myopic that makes this happen. Amazon gets a marquee event, and supposedly boosts its stature and hopefully drives viewership. Everything a corporate vice president wants. The Emmy organization gets the most money, that they use for⦠whatever. Win-win right?

Well, no. Viewership will drop because now people have to get an Amazon prime subscription as opposed to simply having basic cable, or (gasp!) an antenna. They wonâ(TM)t even know when it happens because they wonâ(TM)t see the ads for it on a competing network. And so what used to be yearly appointment viewing cultural touchstone dies.

See also: Apple and the Charlie Brown specials.

I bet you leave all your front door unlocked and open at home since someone could just break a window and therefore your house will never be safe.

Yes and so should you. Why should you be forced to pay extra to someone multiple times through every piece of software you use, because they did some math?