Suggest passing the cost and the openai api calls through to us. eg we provide an openai api key. Just make it very easy for us to stay in control.
If your target audience is techie, you could maybe provide us a short python proxy script, that we run on our laptop, and that calls openai for you. Your website then connects to this somehow.
This would reduce load on your server, improve lag for us, and avoid cost issues for you.
Unless we implement a new visa for graduates of American universities we experience brain drain. We would be exporting American educated individuals to other countries rather than making use of them ourselves.
It also doesn't account for the fact that H1B isn't just for engineers. Not all highly skilled professionals get paid salaries commensurate with the IT and CS industries.
So now we also need to split it by job type.
There's a lot of overhead involved in getting this proposal to just be as good as the current system, and even more to make it better. If we do all that, sure. But I'm not sold on the idea that we would.
So these industries have unfilled positions but are unable to charge enough to get the cash flow to pay more and fill these positions? That sounds like these industries perhaps aren't all that vital.
Or perhaps the people that can best fill these positions are foreign nationals and the wages have already been driven higher in competition with the number of them coming in for engineering positions? People have mentioned foreign language expertise as a big need for these where the pay is not commensurate to SV-style companies, and this includes positions in education, non-profits, etc.
Even in for-profit industries, margins are not always high enough and competition is often fierce enough that they cannot afford to raise prices to raise salaries.
There are a lot of important industries where margins are quite slim.
No it’s not. These are skilled positions we’re talking about. Skills that take enormous social and economic contributions to develop. The US economy will always benefit from having more skilled workers.
I am incredibly grateful for having had the opportunity to participate in the American job market right out of college. I imagine shutting the door on qualified promising foreign candidates for jobs isn’t a good strategy, if only because it would completely bar people like me from the amazing opportunities that I have had.
Note that looks like you are assuming 4% investments after retirement. Per the passive investment chart, this implies a fairly high level of risk? I'm unclear if you're also assuming we will live forever?
* It is looking at a 30 year time horizon. For longer periods you'd need a but more money, but not double. 3% is incredibly safe, and wouldn't take that much longer to acquire once you're at 4%.
* Slight reductions in expenses during down years have a huge effect on the overall success of the portfolio. If you could reduce expenses to 3.5% during severely down years, that would significantly help the success and longevity of your portfolio.
also: broadband. It originally contrasted with narrowband, and they describe modes for propagation of light through fiberglass cables... I thought it was really weird when I heard people on mainstream radio discussing such things. Eventually I realized they were using broadband as a synonym for 'fast internet' :P
I agree with your wider point, but the antonym of broadband in networking context is actually baseband.
'Narrowband' is a good example of a word that came into use to fill a perceived gap in the lexicon. A gap which didn't really exist, but the word became more widely used because it was not challenged by people who should know better.
Another example is 'bandwidth' which has so many colloquial meanings now that it is unusable in any general context. It's just a collection of letters that can mean anything you want. Also 'hacker'.
This is not the evolution of languge, it is its destruction. Overloading words with so many contrary or ambiguous meanings that language fails at its primary purpose of conveying meaning and intent.
> believe that question was cleared up once they responded to me that they were going to see their boyfriend/girlfriend.
This sentence is kind of interesting. So, you were 'just making small talk', until they told you they had a boy/girlfriend, and then, you just ... stopped 'making smalltalk'? :-P
It sounded that to me too. That he assumed the issue is cleared and that he can continue conversation without worrying that she would interpret it as hitting.
Because since he now knows she has boyfriend, therefore he is not hitting, therefore logically she is unlikely to interpret further conversation as hitting. Incidentally, that is remarkably similar to the way people on spectrum "logically" interpret humans - have hard time imagine other person perspective (here he knows he is not hitting therefore she knows too) - and get into trouble despite really not having bad intentions.
I see, I was interpreting the GP comment as that the OP stopped talking altogether after knowing she had a boyfriend. But you are right, it can also be interpreted that after the OP knew she had a boyfriend he changed from "small talk" to some more interesting subjects cause he felt more at ease of not being misunderstood as hitting on her.
If your target audience is techie, you could maybe provide us a short python proxy script, that we run on our laptop, and that calls openai for you. Your website then connects to this somehow.
This would reduce load on your server, improve lag for us, and avoid cost issues for you.