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Double down. Tell all competitors that USADA will be handling drug testing for any Olympic event held in the US and if there's any pushback, we won't grant a travel visa for it. WADA and the Olympic Committee can figure it out on their own.

I was an internal Tech Recruiter for almost 10 years focused on pre-IPO tech companies. Hit the lotto a couple of times but after the most recent company (which was an awesome place to work) IPO'd, COVID, and just general career trends in that role, I burned out.

Then I spent 6 months doing nothing and decided to learn to code. It currently pays nothing because after a year, I'm only just on the cusp of starting to apply. I enjoy coding a lot more than recruiting, but my educated guess is that I'd enjoy entrepreneurship more than working at a company. Either way, it's exciting and challenging in a way that recruiting never was.

Weird that they'd do this with so many SWEs out of work. There are definitely non-SWE STEM occupations that need this but hard to see this overly-broad definition as anything but an attempt to drive down wages.

Just saw this was already posted as I was typing my comment. Not sure if I should delete or let this filter out?

Rescheduling STEM occupations allows companies to skip attempts at finding domestic workers to fill openings before they're allowed to hire folks on visas.

There are definitely many non-SWE STEM roles that need foreign talent but this seems overly broad.

When I was a tech recruiter, I might have been more ambivalent about this but the market has changed so drastically over the last couple years. I'm sure leadership at many companies would prefer to hire cheaper foreign talent and drive down salary spend.

If you don't want your art to exist beyond you, destroy it. Once you die, whatever remains is fair game.

Elon is truly the genius that we deserve and I tip my fedora at him.

I don't know about what chips Tesla uses but if they're using the right chips and have enough storage on board, this might actually be the first time this idea pays off (other than the plethora of crypto miners).

I mean who hasn't come up with "what if we use peoples' phones, computers, etc. to do compute while they're not using it?!?" as a startup idea?

I just want to point out that there have been stop and start efforts to regulate tiktok for years. Also this exact bill (or verisons of it) has/have been kicked around the hill for at least 2 months so its not like it came out of nowhere.

There's also no "free speech at all costs" clause. I've always wondered why we allow Chinese companies almost unfettered access to our market when we don't get the same in return. It used to be part of the deal but China was a special case and we held out hope they'd moderate. They have not, so we no longer have to be the one playing by the rules.

That aside, we're not forcing Tiktok to shut down, just forcing them to find a new owner. We're not stopping anyone from posting online, nor are we stopping anyone from posting on tiktok. If anything, this will be good for speech on tiktok, surfacing topics that were banned or deboosted by a company that has to follow the CCP rules.

Tesla and Apple aren't social media companies. They're also American companies. I'd be against the bill if American companies had as much access and freedom to operate in China as we give Chinese companies operating in the US. Since that's not gonna happen, fine with forcing bytedance to divest.

Very interesting. I'd always felt that real-name policies made for more civil but less vibrant and dynamic discussion. Moderation seems to be the key for any platform that allows for pseudonyms but the idea of stable pseudonyms makes intuitive sense.

n9 does make some excellent points about this study. So what does this boil down to? Moderate heavily and put up barriers to discourage bad actors, which is what everyone knows and is kinda boring.

There's a degree of push/pull on government and industry as far as encryption is concerned. Government shouldn't be injecting vulnerabilities into algos but they also need a way to read messages from criminals and terrorists. Industry wants some way for customers to feel safe using their product to message or whatever their (legal) use case.

Without some local pressure, this cedes encryption commercialization to the US. Sure academics will still love their novel algos but until someone can make money from them, they'll sit in papers, ready for the enterprising american dev to turn into the next big encrypted chat app that is more secure than Signal or something like that.

Honestly, their hostility to pornography is hurting retention. I've been meaning to write an article about it but pornography is an incredible booster for VR tech.

Everyone watches it at some point, many multiple times per day. It's immersive and novel.

Even better, people are used to bridging perceived gaps in their head. By that I mean people care less about things like resolution or story or frame rate. As long as monkey brain sees skin the brain will do a lot.

There's also just a ton of content out there - professional, indie, and amateur content producers are (or were, last time I checked, which has been a while) pumping it out (no pun intended). Most of it can be found for free!

Meta has been spending a lot of money on VR, and I suspect a significant portion of that is getting mainstream content producers to do stuff in vr - NFL/UFC/etc. putting vr cameras at events, game studios spending time and money to port games to vr (i don't think bethesda would have done skyrim vr entirely on their own dime). With porn, you have tens of thousands of hours of VR content, growing daily, that most users are able to find for free. They'll come back daily for that.

The issue is the difficulty on quest. You can download one of the browsers and do it there, but last I checked firefox reality was dead and I couldn't get wolvic to work on my quest 2. Not sure if things have changed since I last checked but there just weren't a lot of options.

I get that they want to be the gateway to VR content on their devices so they can get a cut of it but it's not really helping. I'm also not gonna buy a VR device specifically for porn, so after having the quest 2 for a few years (and not using it for at least a year), I'm just gonna sit back and wait a couple generations. There are some good games but I feel like this is a field of dreams situation - if you build it they will come. Build a platform that lets people do non-illegal things in VR and they'll come.

Like right now no one is using VR for work. They're using it to 1. game, 2. watch porn, and a very far 3. is consuming other content like experiencing events in VR.

Embrace it! Unsure why this corporation has suddenly found morals but only for pornography. Think of how much money an onlyfans app would make esp. if they started selling VR cameras.

I used to tell all of my new lead or new manager reports to start with Rands. I even offered to buy them a set of my favorite books - a couple rands, High Output management, manager's path, etc.

There are some fantastic other suggestions in comments though, and it looks like all my suggestions already accounted for.