Not to be confused with the far less populous and less famously immigrant-friendly Boise.
On a more serious note, I'm curious what connection you see between immigration and tax evasion. Is Buenos Aires known for certain kinds of immigration?
It has a huge immigrant population. Lots of Latinos, but also folks from all over Asia and Europe to work at Micron. It also has an ever-growing number of Californian expats.
Yes, I wasn't presuming otherwise, which is why I specified "less famously immigrant-friendly" instead of "less immigrant-friendly." I simply haven't heard as much about the immigration there even though I'm American, probably because Buenos Aires is a much larger city.
EDIT: Also, in case my "on a more serious note" didn't make it explicitly clear, that entire sentence about Boise was a joke.
EDIT 2: I might as well add that I looked this up [1], and Boise ranks 175th in immigration as a percentage of the metropolitan population or 101st as a percentage of cities, just among metropolitan areas (MSAs) or cities in the US. That's not exactly a "huge immigrant population" by my account.
I understood you were joking. And, as with any forum of smart, nerdy people, there is an inevitable percentage who will point out how some part of your joke does not fit with observable facts.
I've spent a fair bit of time in Boise, as I have family there. The truth is more complicated than a word. The "city" is friendly in terms of favorable policies; the people who live there aren't uniformly friendly to immigrants. In the late 90s, my cousin was upset that his high school banned (iirc) jackboots and cuffed jeans, until he learned that the style he'd unwittingly adopted was equivalent to skinhead gang colors; the ban was a result of actual skinheads popularizing the style. Then, last June, the literal nazis marching downtown. Granted, it's much worse in Coeur D'Alene.
I'm a non-white non-immigrant in the US. They're not mutually exclusive. That's why I edited my sibling comment to include a source listing that Boise is also very low on the percentage of immigrants in the population, both in the city and metro area (MSA).
Does immigration to South America is still a thing at all? For people besides Latinos.
South American countries seem to have had so many false starts. The moment they have a few decades good run, and it seem the country is finally starting to take off they either have a revolution, putsch, junta, or a communist government.
I don't think you should get downvoted, it's a good question. I live in Buenos Aires, and there is definitely a general perception that the country is hopeless. But for some reason we do get a fair share of immigrants from more prosperous countries such as South Korea and China. There's also a lot of people coming in from Africa, mainly Senegal from what I've heard.
China still has huge wealth disparity. So, while China might seem overall more prosperous than Argentina, Chinese emigrants are often from parts of the country with a standard of living below Argentina's.
And there are other reasons to move too, like air quality, a pressure cooker educational system, extremely high housing cost as a multiple of salary...
Sure, but there's plenty of starving people in Argentina as well, not all the country is as wealthy as Buenos Aires. So the question is, why do they come here instead of going to a bigger chinese city? My guess is that they already have a support network here. That's why many of them end up working in the same businesses, such as running small supermarkets.
I've never been to Sao Paulo, but it has a reputation for being very violent and controlled by gangs. Buenos Aires is actually pretty safe (at least the city itself, the suburbs are worse, but still nowhere near the number of murders that Sao Paulo had at its worst).
Uruguay and Chile have been surprisingly solid for a few decades (not withstanding Chile's recent riots, which are resulting a new constitution). Argentina can usefully be thought of as a country with first world commerce and third world government. Southern Argentina though is more reliable.
I imagine if you wanted to 100% stop buying or using products from FANNG (+Microsoft & Twitter) it would be impossible without doing anything short of living completely off the grid.
Imagine, you ditch your smartphone. You switch to Linux. You stop using _search engines_ because all of them use Google or Bing in the backend. You abandon Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, GitHub, and Gmail. Before you go to a website, how do you know if they are going to load an asset from AWS or GApps? Maybe the server loads an asset from AWS and redistributes it to you, so you can’t just blacklist IPs. How do you know if your Bank’s ATMs are using AWS? Or your hospital’s digital records? Eventually someone you do business with will do business with FANG and you’ll be indirectly supporting them.
I don't believe in "vote with your wallet" kinda dogmas. I mean watch the news right now..
We need regulation and government investment in open tech and software. The App/Play Store are anti-competitive, but Apple and Google have a Duopoly in the mobile market. There can and should be rules regarding this. I don't see how they should be even allowed to profit off these markets. Like at all. Every app there increases the value of their platforms by itself.
Even if you use F-Droid, you then have to compromise on security deeply embedded into the Android OS.
Platforms should be allowed to be repairable, open and documented and users should be allowed to do whatever they please with them.
The market won't fix this. You need to become politically active.
I’m not typically one to “vote with my wallet”, and I think it’s very impractical to do so with all of big tech.
I do however tend to buy products and services that align with my values and shy away from products and services that go against my values. For example, I’d be more inclined to buy a Tesla and install home solar panels then I would be to buy a VW because Tesla is emissions free and VW lied on their emissions tests. VW lost some long term customers because of that incident and Tesla is continuing to attract new buyers that are concerned with climate change. Due to this trend we are able to deploy more electric vehicles then government regulations require.
Tesla right now is ignoring worker rights in Germany. They will learn like Wallmart before, that you cannot roll the same shit here, as you do in America.
Elon Musk is the richest person on the planet. You really do not need to prefer either of those companies for anything but the products they sell. Your decision does not matter.
What matters is single entities like Musk, VW, Bezos, Wallstreet and Gates not having the undemocratic mandate to form the world to their liking, "good" or bad. Nobody should have that much power.
If you want to change the world with money, invest in those who consider having 100$ or 1000$ more or less life changing. Pay for FOSS, invest in local communities. Strengthen the collective.
It is interesting that when Facebook and Twitter are confronted over some censorship they will often talk about needing to be more transparent over and over and over and over...
Also “management” and “devops” needs to trust every dev to push out a high quality update. Twice daily deploys don’t happen if QA goes through a 48 hour test process for every release.
the devs at factorio have developed an amazing test suite automation system to automate regression tests. I wouldnt be surprised if this is what gives them most of their confidence to do twice daily releases. I thought it was newer, but they seem to have had it for the past 6 years. So i guess my point is they dont need to 100% trust every dev (while I'm sure they could with such a small team) they can instead trust in the tests.
Wait, this went from twice-daily “updates” to release too fast. One is a blog post / tweet, the other is software related ;-) Where did you get twice daily _release_ from?
Release notes for updates pop up when you start the game. Last weekend I was starting the game twice a day. New release notes popped up every time. The "twice daily release" came from two or more updates being pushed out per day running up to the official 1.1 release.
Since the 1.0 release last year Wube has published what, 2 or 3 blog entries including the 1.1 release announcement?
Mind that the amount of QA you ought to have heavily depends on what game you're making - e.g. with a story heavy game, you 100% want give or take 3 weeks on every update for localization checks, or for a MMO you probably want to run new clients/servers with your testers first for about a week to make sure nothing catastrophic happens, which is especially important in online games(lots of bad PR and real money invested by players - you really don't want to have to roll back "saves").
All depends on budget and quantity of course, but this is what's usually planned for from my personal experience working in that sector.
Not a dev: " Twice daily deploys don’t happen if QA goes through a 48 hour test process".
Why does that matter, surely it's pipelined. If you feed in RC packages to a 48h QA twice daily then after 2 days lag you're getting tested code twice daily.
I'm not suggesting that's realistic for large software houses, just that the logic seems wrong?
I think the QA process isn't usually as pipelineable as you're suggesting. On a website it's often easy to QA changes that happen on page A at the same time you QA changes on page B. But in a game, especially one like factorio, it's probably a lot harder to find features that can be tested and deployed simultaneously with other features.
It would be easy to test changes to the design of Level 3 at the same time as changes to the design of Level 5, but it would be hard to test changes to the way inserters work at the same time as testing changes to the way conveyor belts work.
If the QA cycle is too long the developer gets out of the zone in that area - two days isn’t bad but some places you won’t get review or reports for weeks after submitting code.
Physics engines and graphics engines take a lot of resources. Games that invest enough resources to develop their own highly detailed physics/graphics engines are almost by definition AAA. So what you’re suggesting is that AAA games should spend less time/money on the thing that makes them a AAA game.
It’s okay that AAA games exist, because there is still room in the market for games like Factorio, which has experienced a long and successful life.
As it was said in previous days: they (the originators of the squeeze) can remain irrational longer, than the other side (hedge fund managers) can remain solvent.
True, but if they sell a massive position and the stock tanks, and a bunch of little guys are left to hold the bag, I could see the SEC definitely investigating it as a pump and dump.
If the bunch of the little guys invested each just few hundred, it is not that a big loss. So if they end up holding the bag, it will be distributed among big crowd, where each member would be missing just a little.
Of course, if someone went above that and invested an amount, where losing it would hurt, that's different.
I know plenty of people benefiting from the stock market with average and less than average IQs. This is a matter of classism not intelligence. If you have enough money to invest your benefiting, and the more money you have to invest the more you are benefiting.
Of course, there are a few outlier founders, CEOs, and stock traders that are benefiting much more then average. What separates these outliers from others isn’t IQ, because there are plenty of people with very high IQs that are doing about average economically.
One small design suggestion. You should include a battery so that if the electricity were to go out you could still see the time or be alerted at the time of the alarm.
Additional small design suggestion: fade in the beeper too instead of starting full blast.
I'd suggest checking out the Android app Talalarmo, which gets most things right (no snooze, same time every day). Specifically my fork, which adds press-and-hold-to-dismiss. I can build you an apk if you don't have an Android environment set up https://github.com/smichel17/talalarmo
Fading in the alarm is the only way to go, IMHO. I don't even use my alarm clock, I just set my phone. The stock Android clock now includes a fading in feature, and lots of aftermarket ones have it as well.
Dr. Fauci’s salary is good but not fantastic for any person with an MD. Considering his level of expertise it’s safe to say he could make much more in the private sector.
The fact that public roles pay less than private roles opens them up to corruption and makes it harder to attract the best talent. Go look for tech jobs available at your local and state government and you’ll start questioning who would take up such a position.
I wonder if there was some tax evasion happening...