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From your own citation: "Counterfactual simulations based on our model suggest that immigration increased the overall welfare of US natives, and raised workers’ incomes by 0.2% to …

The lack of perspective and basic reasoning on this is staggering. > shitty wages, hours, and work environment. A "shitty" wage is better than being unemployed and making 0k. Perha…

that doesn't change the economics at all. the money paid to the worker through a middle-man has no bearing on the labor market as seen by the company and their bottom-line. You cou…

epoll (and even kqueue) is not aio and was never intended as such. While epoll had some early snafus, those have long been fixed (offering ET and LT) and it works well for its inte…

I read your comment history... something about TRS-80s. So probably older than 40 and American. I am truly amazed that someone could live that long with economic means to post here…

I mean it is pretty true that most frontend developers do not have the inclination to go trodding into a C++ code base making syscalls without a wrapper. Even taken uncharitably se…

I mean, I think that was a bit of a joke. It's ironic that you rail against this dude for "code that's hard to understand" in reply to a long-form prose article about understanding…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_emergency_codes#Code_... Code blue is not literally used everywhere... many places in the US use a number these days like 99 for "Blue" and t…

> didn't guarantee it'd call you at the specified timeout, the contract was that it'd invoke the callback no sooner than the specified timeout! This is the contract for sleep on ju…

Nothing in the generic spec for a "sleep" function specifies you can't drop to a low power state if there is nothing to do. To varying degrees that is how sleep functions work on g…

Oh dear, you sound quite confused. https://linux.die.net/man/3/usleep https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/n... Which is POSIX, which is supported by a number…

> Do colleges exist to promote education and intellectual curiosity or to train workers? When college cost in the US what it did in the 1960s this sort of little bit false-dichotom…

If i'm making a list as a reminder to actually pick up items.. coconut will suffice.

>> Haiku is an OS that basically no one uses for any purpose. > By your logic, since macOS has ~1/10 the install base of Windows, Does not follow. MacOS use relative to Windows is …

Not a great idea. Upvotes don't really tell you shit about testing, quality, or trust. I mean how many votes does acroread have (hint: a lot). The votes is merely to give arch some…