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of course it is. how else are they going to increase their margins. Apple TV is a multi billion dollar dumpster fire that keeps losing money. as long as they find suckers to manipulate they will keep lobbying. https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

US Coast Guard: balls of steel

Valid question. if you started programming dynamic languages like Python you don’t have to worry about memory control.

We are precipitating towards the Chinese Communist model of group think and censorship.

'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.'

This applies to all “as a service” products. Unless you can’t provision a server and stand up open source services on your own there is no reason to use 3rd party services.

That probably means they are cooking the books for the pre IPO investors and don't want to go jail after public listing.

Awesome !!

From the "podfather" himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry

It would nice if there was terrestrial fiber map which shows fiber lines in cities and towns. Also is there is a map available that shows where active fiber connections are available by address. FIOS doesn’t have a coverage map.

@dang could you consider not allowing one sided political narrative on HN ?

Amazing. My 5 year old was raising caterpillars that have woven cocoons. The fabric seems similar.

The same could be asked of the 72M Americans. Just because you say “what’s wrong with them” doesn’t make you right.

Has China signed on to this if so, have they shown verifiable reductions?

Adding additional context from the article. It primarily impacts Indian outsourcing companies registered as US companies such as Infosys, Cognizant, TCS, HCL, Tech Mahindra, Wipro etc. These companies have been gaming the system and making billions by underpaying their imported staff.

> An analysis [PDF] of the new rules by non-partisan National Foundation for American Policy noted that the H-1B wage minimums will require foreigners to be paid much more than American citizens on market rates. That's not a problem for the likes of Facebook and Apple, though it will be disastrous for organizations like Infosys, that import immigrant workers, as well as small and medium-sized businesses.

Basically the administration turned the tables on Big Tech. They primarily import H1Bs to dilute the employment pool to let the market take care of wage depression. There is plenty of tech talent pipeline inside the country. Just look at the eager undergrads looking for employment and other US citizens looking to step into tech field via boot camps. Increasing the threshold for the wages to paid for “specialty occupation for which several attempts have been made to hire US Citizens” aka H1B makes the test true to the spirit of the law.