That’s what they have now, through a treaty of some sort? America can already put more bases there

If America smokes all of them and takes Greenland, Europe will just pretend it didn’t happen a la USS Liberty

I am glad that they are ending their hunger strike. I was worried that the UK would prefer to see them to die than negotiate

This creates a tragedy of the commons situation where nobody speaks up and the ones that do speak up get punished.

tyvm

Give me my fell for it award emoji please. I donated recently

Slap on the wrist

“Pwease stop pretty pwease”

“What do you mean we have to put money into the physical infrastructure? What the fuck! I want money right nowww!”

• The most patient American executive

Just take a look at the 5 day graph for Chevron. They knew.

Trying to prosecute a leader of another country with National Firearms Act violations is nuts

There’s a flag on the play, Maduro must be put back into power. It is now second down! 🗣️

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 RULES WERE NOT FOLLOWED PROPERLY 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨

This has been my experience too.

I think it says more about America’s self inflicted destruction. I agree with your analysis, so the only remaining option is for America to actively make itself worse than India

Agree. I am not sure why.

I did interview with a company recently that has a development team in Brazil so perhaps it is changing, slowly.

Companies already were shifting work to India. The offshore/onshore cycle has been going on since like the late 90s. The decently skilled ones would get an H1B and get relocated to the United States as a reward/incentive for good work, but in my experience there were plenty of American citizens that could do the same work that they did. Companies preferred H1B’s because they were cheaper and because the company controlled their immigration status so they had huge power over the workers. But honestly in my field the work quality was subpar.

This is just companies crying that they can’t have indentured servants anymore in the US and they have to deal with offshoring again.

The tradeoff always was to use higher level languages to increase development velocity, and then pay for it with larger and faster machines. Moore’s law made it where the software engineer’s time and labor was the expensive thing.

Moore’s law has been dying for a decade, if not more, and as a result of this I am definitely seeing people focus more on languages that are closer to hardware. My concern is that management will, like always, not accept the tradeoffs that performance oriented languages sometimes require and will still expect incredible levels of productivity from developers. Especially with all of nonsense around using LLMs to “increase code writing speed”

I still use Python very heavily, but have been investigating Zig on the side (Rust didn’t really scratch my itch) and I love the speed and performance, but you are absolutely taking a tradeoff when it comes to productivity. Things take longer to develop but once you finish developing it the performance is incredible.

I just don’t think the industry is prepared to take the productivity hit, and they’re fooling themselves, thinking there isn’t a tradeoff.

but the UI into a cross-platform library (written in, say, Rust)

Many have tried, none have succeeded. You can go allllll the way back to Java’s SWING, as well as Qt. This isn’t something that “just do it in Rust” is going to succeed at.

As soon as Jack Welch and his cadre took over business and government in the United States, that signaled the beginning of the end. The ruling class of the United States only conceives of the future as the end of the current quarter.