It isn’t just a lack of ethnic bias, it’s a belief in capitalism or professionalism or “enlightened self-interest”: hire the best person for the job, and everyone will be better off.

The hype is exceeding the actual day to day impact.

Much of the hype is focused on functional limitations, where the real payoff is speed.

We can now do some basic - and increasingly more advanced - things much much faster.

For experienced programmers, this isn’t new. It’s a cycle that began with compilers and most recently hit with containerization and cloud computing.

But the public discourse isn’t based around the reality, it’s based around a projected future.

For those with experience, the projected future is a combination of sci-fi and back of the envelope estimates.

Yeah seriously if ADF gets elected do you cancel German contracts?

> Almost every country has amazing universities with software tracks.

Simply not true. It’s questionable what “best program” means for software engineering. It’s a hard craft to teach in classrooms and apprenticeship/mentoring model is reputable. Even if every country had such a system today (far from it) it wouldn’t produce devs with 10 years experience until 10 years from now.

> Governments should greatly favor products created by the students of their own universities.

Simply not true. Go with the best tool for the job. Favoritism for domestic industries is fatal in highly innovative industries. Even if your own product is better (American Gopher was far superior to European HTTP, American UNIX was superior to Finnish Linux, American Perl was superior to Dutch Python), adoption matters.

Looking backward it seems really bizarre to favor locals, doesn’t it?

The alternative is building the capacity to evaluate and mitigate risk.

Ok fine. In the long run nativising has limits.

A good model is 5g WiFi: trust the foreign dumb parts and provide your own smart parts.

But that requires excellent state capacity. Specifically intelligence sharing with domestic regulators- which many countries struggle with.

At the the end of the day, the processors won’t be designed locally, and trusted computing is quite rare.

AIs are really good with Bash. I think it’s because Bash doesn’t rely as much as organization and context.

Then why are so many people moving to Texas?

Because it's cheaper, partially because yes taxes are lower but also because it's just cheaper. The weather makes Texas less desirable than California, and it's almost as if they tax based on that.

Many people are just sick of the liberal politicians and liberal extremism of CA.

So they move to the complete opposite end of the spectrum where not three years ago Texas was human trafficking migrants to other states? Quite the change of hearts.

I believe the correct term is “illegal aliens”, not “migrants”.

They weren’t “trafficked”, they were “relocated”.

A lot end up moving back and are upset they don't get their prop13 savings. California becomes cheaper the longer you live in it. Texas doesn't

If I remember Venice took out debt worth 200% of GDP to build the fleet. They were leveraged up to their eyeballs.

Yeah this is nice - also helps with grepping dump files.