make sure it writes a requirements and design doc for the change its gonna make, and review those. and, ask it to ask you questions about where there's ambiguity, and to record those responses.

when it has a work plan, track the workplan as a checklist that it fills out as it works.

you can also atart your conversations by asking it to summarize the code base

8 U.S. Code § 1325 of the Immigration and Nationality Act makes it illegal to enter the country without authorisation. Are you implying that these people didn't know it was illegal, or are you arguing that the country should have no borders?

If you are an illegal alien you can be detained by virtue of being in the US illegally, that's my understanding.

This concept hinges on everyone walking around with ID at all times. If you don't have it on you we'll throw you into a concrete box for 8 hours while we sort it out. Cool? Oh you were a home birth in Wisconsin you say? Sounds vaguely Canadian.

This is why the 4th amendment exists. It is my favorite amendment. I wish people would take it more seriously.

As far as I understand, people are ID'd all the time in US. If police stops you, they will ask for an identification document; if you don't have it, they will ask for your SSN and if you can't remember it, they will run your name and address until they match you with a photo id on their systems. In the meanwhile, you're detained and you're not free to leave. Immigration aside, how are they supposed to identify you?

They can't detain you forever because they can't ID you. You can't be compelled to own an ID or carry it around with you all the time. Many naturally born americans have no passport, birth certificate, or even state license.

So many homeless here have zero identification.

They are basically just going after people who are too brown and even ending up grabbing people who are just here on vacation, legally.

This is illegal, notoriously, police can only request AND detain someone to provide ID if they are actually suspected of committing a crime. Potentially being illegal, a neighbor calling the police or stuff like that does not give them permission to detain. They can nicely ask, but that's all.

That's specific to ICE though, where they need a "warrant", not from a judge but just from some other ICE "supervisor".

I agree that in practice there is some kind of loophole: ICE gets a "warrant" for someone that by definition has no ID, so there is no point in identifying a detainee - the immigration court will do that, later. Effectively, they seem to get away with snatching people off the street that vaguely may resemble any "warrant" they have.

Okay, the president has decided to revoke your citizenship. You're now an illegal alien. What do you do now?

If I'm not born American, I suppose the right way of handling that would be negotiating a date to voluntarily leave the country (I think it's called self-deportation), which leaves you a bit of levee to put your things in order. If I was born American and I only have American citizenship, that would be a strange situation to be in. I suppose a bunch of other countries would have offered me instant citizenship just to spite Trump. I'm not sure what does it have to do with people who entered the US illegally and were never citizens in the first place though.

he is the guy in power making changes, shouldnt this be flipped on its head?

if you want to make changes, you should make a convincing argument to do so

ive got a different thought in response to this:

is all this ammortization stuff bumpkiss? not just for sorftware developmeent, but everything else that's required to be ammortized?

software has been the growth area of actually making stuff for the past 20 years in the US. is it ammortization rules that have held back other investment?

Amortization/depreciation is actually pretty important for understanding the performance of a company. Imagine a firm buys a piece of software to run its business. In year 1 it pays $10M for the software then $1M per year in maintenance thereafter. The software enables the firm to make $2.5M Revenue in year 1 and ramp up to $3.5M thereafter. Assume no other expenses. Without amortization of the software expense, it would look like the business lost $7.5M in year 1, then made $2.5M per year for next 4 years. With amortization, the business makes $0.5M per year consistently which better reflects the stable nature of the business.

Note: ($10M / 5 years =2 m·$/year ). Year 1: $2.5M Revenue - $2.0M amort = $0.5M profit. Years 2-5 have $3.5M revenue - ($2.0M amort + $1M maintenance)= $0.5M profit.

the required thing here of "lay off or fire all the developers" isnt a great result though

you could test this by looking for MIT licensed code on github?

i generally think they should be counted to the company as a sales tax. amazon is losing the money, because theyre paying it to the government and not the employee, ao they need to increase the pay accordingly if they want the employee to have a certain amount.

for the big companies, this makes enough sense, but theres been new businesses opened since 2017, who did not benefit from that tax holiday. why should they be dealimg with this tax hike for everytime they grow their business?

i dont know how this is anti-worker? it's an extra cost to growing the number of people youre hiring, where you need them for 5 years. i guess businesses should start witholding RSUs and starting bonuses until youve been there for 5 years to match your tax ammortization?

with different tabulators, it wouldnt have happened, because they would have refused, and protested to make sure no scabs went in to do that work.

workers, especially professionals, have a duty to not do that bad work, and to make sure that that bad work doesnt happen