No, you're wrong. Every wishlist is a guaranteed sale on launch day. When people see that number tick from 0.5937.5 to 1.0, they can't help themselves. It doesn't matter if they wishlisted it 10 years ago and forgot the game exists. The trick is, they have to see it on launch day in an automated email. Otherwise the sale is lost for good. Literally every true gamer knows this.
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They already can, but a local and well trained/vetted workforce has benefits that are worth the extra cost.
You're surprised that Trump isn't paying his debts?
Which is exactly what H1Bs are supposed to be for.
They already can. How is hiring an H1B any different than outsourcing? For a higher cost, you get a local workforce in the same time zone with a higher quality of work. That's the same proposition as hiring citizens. Sure, if H1Bs didn't exist, or were made more equitable such that H1B workers are fairly compensated, some percentage of the current H1B jobs would be outsourced. But I bet it'd be a low percentage since that option already exists yet companies have decided that a local workforce is worth an extra cost.
They can't make up the difference, they pay them less than $100k. This could work out if it makes hiring H1Bs more expensive than hiring citizens. After all, the reasoning behind H1Bs is that the skills are so specialized that companies can't find citizens to fill the positions, so it's only logical that such skill would cost a premium (it doesn't because it's being abused to exploit immigrants and suppress wages for everyone).
H1Bs are temporary, the workers are going back at some point. And with the job market as competitive as it is, do we really need to bring in more workers?
I'm sure this will be astonishingly poorly implemented, if it ever gets past the "say random shit to distract from other issues" phase. But the core of the idea is solid.
Very true, but that will fade as platforms mature
Other people have mentioned it, but I'll mention it too because it's such an awesome feature. Piefed idebtifies duplicate posts across the fediverse and presents a combined comment section for them. It's amazing at tackling the duplicate content and endless cross-posts issue.
Piefed has some great features for discoverability, like feeds, but afaik every fedi reddit clone still suffers from the problem that someone from your instance has to subscribe to a remote community before it shows up at all. So if everyone just picks an instance and sticks with it, the federation never happens. It also promotes a more centralized fediverse because more populated instances will both be more likely to have a local community for a topic and to have at least one user subscribe to any given remote community.
As an individual, it's difficult/impossible to keep up with everything or to discover new things because there is no true r/all equivalent. You'd need to browse multile instances or use external tools regularly to check on fediverse activity.
Now if only Sync for Lemmy would get updates 😭
I see. Video games cause violence. Guns had nothing to do with it. Mandatory id, facial scanning, and government reporting on all video game platforms is totally cool and justified. /s
Yeah, H1B people are people too. They're capable and looking to better their lives. It's a better deal for them to come and work in the current conditions than it is for them to stay home, otherwise they wouldn't do it. But the problem is, they're stuck in their jobs under threat of deportation, and companies know that treating them like shit is still better for them than going home. Companies use it as a way to extort them, pay them paltry wages, and to lower the leverage of citizens so they can pay them less too. So we either need to make the H1Bs less appealing to companies so that employing H1Bs is not preferrable employing citizens (i.e. add massive cost), or give the H1B people additional leverage so that if companies treat them like shit, they can work elsewhere.