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by an_cap 9y ago
Yes. And I am looking for an answer that couldn't then be used to argue that it's also ethical to encourage White companies to hire Whites. And I'm not even asking that you don't "encourage" American companies
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by an_cap 9y ago
Suppose we lived in an America in which if a black person wanted to work in the tech industry they had to get a special license from the federal government called the H-1Black license. Nobody here on HN would then be discussing if companies
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by an_cap 10y ago
A simple solution for the consulting companies would be a rule requiring all employers to have at least 51% of their domestic staff be Native-Americans. That would ruin the whacked out business model of the body shops and return to a fair p
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by an_cap 10y ago
"That kind of work is degrading even for the engineers who don't get any raises, are overworked and have very few benefits. But this is how things are." My sister recently completed a coding boot-camp in NYC but had to go bac
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by an_cap 10y ago
I hate to be the one to say it, but this is a major contributing factor to the election of Donald Trump. This problem will only be exacerbated by an unlimited flood of low-skilled, poorly-educated women, legal or otherwise, into the traditi
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by an_cap 10y ago
Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Connery
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by an_cap 10y ago
I just wanted to thank you for putting the point of view of an aspiring immigrant into the conversation. Just recently my sister completed a coding bootcamp in NYC and would gladly accept all the 'abuses' associated with being an
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by an_cap 10y ago
Imagine if we lived in a world in which all forms of discrimination based on circumstances at birth was considered beyond the pale. Or conversely, a world in which it was okay to say about blacks what we say about foreigners. For instance,
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by an_cap 10y ago
The article quantifies the major cost of increased immigration as "the earnings of [high school dropouts] dropped by between $800 and $1,500 each year." It describes the benefits to immigrants as "Immigrants, too, gain substa
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by an_cap 10y ago
I hope you realize that in addition to being bad for those who exploit grad students, it is also bad for the marginal grad student who is no longer going to be able to go to grad school. For a lot of us foreigners, grad school in the US is
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by an_cap 11y ago
I find it very disheartening that you and other commenters in this conversation are so happy to brush away the the real harm to the foreigner who doesn't get to work in the first world. You for instance summarize the benefits of free m
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by an_cap 11y ago
I see. My bad! Let me try to explain the analogy to apartheid South Africa. I didn't mean to suggest that people are against the H-1B system because they are racist. I mean to claim that restricting foreigners from competing in US labo
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by an_cap 11y ago
I didn't really spell out an argument in detail so let me try to clarify my argument and then we can productively disagree? 1. There are lots of people who would be better off (using any reasonable definition of better off that you cho
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by an_cap 11y ago
Sort of like how the 'slight benefit' of allowing the most capable blacks to go work in predominantly white companies had disastrous effects on blacks? Also, I'm not arguing that H-1B should be restricted to only the most cap
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by an_cap 11y ago
I happen to be one of these 'foreign indentured servants'. Or rather someone who would gladly be a 'foreign indentured servant' if only the H-1B lottery picked me. I am also pretty sure that there are probably millions i
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by an_cap 11y ago
We have the same problem here in apartheid South Africa. For clarity i've had to give my job over 3 times in my career to black South African employees, including for Cisco (my last employer before the current one) The rules are not be
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by an_cap 11y ago
Snark about 'actual statistical evidence' notwithstanding, people losing their jobs is entirely compatible with an increase in the number of available jobs because, unsurprisingly, not all jobs are fungible.