acalmon

What a stupid, nearsighted proposal. This would kill innovation in the US. The US is one of the few countries in the world that does not suffer from brain drain. Quite the contrary. Some of the best minds in the world end up in the US (even from the US's "enemies" such as Iran, China, etc.) to the detriment of their homecountry's development.

There is ample evidence that foreign students who come to the US, in particular those who are in STEM and qualify for OPT, generate more jobs than they consume.

This fee would simultaneously break research in US universities, destroy our innovation ecosystem, and give a huge leg up to our adversaries that will more easily retain their smartest individuals.

We maintain our global leadership by denying our adversaries and competitors their top talent.

I don't think Americans understand what a long-term benefit it is to be an attractor of top global brains. Tesla, NVIDIA, Google, eBay, OpenAI, WhatsApp, Chobani, Pfizer, etc were created by immigrants or kids of immigrants. In fact, most fortune 500 companies was created by immigrants: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/fortune-50...

I will go against the trend here and give a big thanks to the whole Julia team for all their wonderful work.

I've been a heavy Julia user for +4 years and adore this ecosystem. I use Julia for parallel computing, modeling and solving large-scale optimization problems, stochastic simulations, etc. During the last year or so, creating plots and dashboards has become much easier too.

Julia makes it surprisingly easy to go from "idea" to "large-scale simulation". I've used it in production and just for prototyping/research. I can engage with Julia as deeply as I would with C code or as "lightly" as I engage with Matlab/R.

I'm excited to see what comes next.

I’m not sure if you are being ironic, but Benjamin Franklin was a pretty good composer: https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/polyphonic-archive/article/ben...

Abortion restrictions do not reduce abortion rates. They only reduce safe abortions. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/21/health/abortion-restricti...

How about faculty? Professors are, on average, more than 40 years old. Do you think they should teach in person?