Still have my W800. It was a marvel at the time, still is really. The only thing that irked me what the proprietary connector - which has perished now.
Of course it depends on the nature of the business but push that too far and you can lock yourself out of projects that require work to be performed on US soil.
I work for a very small company and we've seen by that stipulation a couple of times on anything _remotely_ close to defense/MIC/security.
And the administration can tighten those screws further if it desires.
(I am the only H1B in the history of the company, now a citizen. It would have been impossible to have taken this path with this alleged financial burden)
They are surprisingly durable. I have a tape I made in 1990, it's followed me across
continents and been in cardboard boxes, basements and attics. It still plays flawlessly.
Not wanting to push my luck, I archived it. On Minidisc.
I have quite a large CD collection. Two albums from the same era are unplayable due to oxidization, same band Banco De Gaia, pressed at the same plant in the UK too.
I am not convinced that a camera fixed in place is equivalent to eyeballs with 6 degrees of freedom. That freedom significantly boosts the available parallax for depth and distance perception something fixed in place cameras lack.
If this is what AI is going to look like in practice it's a big letdown.
Science fiction has been predicting what an AI would be like for over a hundred years, there was even one in a movie in 1927. We're so far from what we dream that, to me, it feels like a mere leaf blowing in the wind compared to the Wright Flyer.
Yep. I have had myopia since my teens and by the time I decided to consider LASIK at 40 my optician told me it wasn't worth it because my vision will start to adjust toward far sightedness within 10 years.
Fantastic advice! A few years later my prescription started to drop and I wear glasses less and less.
If I had LASIK I'd be looking at glasses or more LASIK already.
I do have low prescription inserts for VR because one eye is slightly weaker and I found that more noticeable than IRL.
Considering we spend most of our lives trying to increase the standard of living for ourselves and for others it's not all that surprising people resist reducing it, is it?
I bought a house while on H1B in 2014.
If the climate was like it is now back then, I would have waited for my GC or, for everything to calm down.
But I wouldn't have left...
Edit: BTW it was far far from a low-risk venture in 2014.