anjc

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by anjc 10y ago
I can't see what you mean in the Table. I can only see 30% of people who had no work experience in the year in question. I presume that you aren't adding up both years. And I presume that you also noticed that ~15% have a disabili
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by anjc 10y ago
You're probably right there. And there's presumably shortages and surpluses in different regions of the US. A telling statistic is the amount of people who graduate with IT or STEM degrees, have intentions of working in their resp
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by anjc 10y ago
Where are you getting 60%? Are you adding up the two years? And I presume you're in the US, but from an external observer's perspective, 'poverty' in the US is extreme and is almost incomprehensible to people the rest of
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by anjc 10y ago
Surely most aren't. I know in my graduating class in the late 2000s, maybe only 10% had any experience upon graduating. My point here is that the H1B policy has put these grads into an impossible situation, whereby they're compet
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by anjc 10y ago
The last major study I saw on this showed that a large proportion of IT and STEM graduates had to move into unrelated industries due to an inability to find employment. This meme that there are hordes of people who would choose poverty beca
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by anjc 10y ago
It seems like you're agreeing with the line you quoted? That there isn't a talent shortage? Anyway having said that, good studies check for shortages and overproductions in more complicated ways than just totting up numbers blindl
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by anjc 10y ago
If your contention that it rose is based on your experience in SV or NY or similar, then you're probably not getting a complete picture of the state of the industry.
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by anjc 10y ago
There are studies performed on this stuff by actual economists out there, to save you using self-reporting surveys from online recruitment companies. http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...
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by anjc 10y ago
Well...it IS happening in the Schengen Area and in the EU to a massive extent. Why do you think thousands of migrants choose to live in squalor and filth in 'jungle camps' on the northern border of France for months/years, ra
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by anjc 10y ago
Reading this interpretation of the immigrant history of the US, and how this means corporations should be able to dictate public policy now, just shows how arrogant and entitled these companies are, and how necessary it is that this means o
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by anjc 10y ago
> Furthermore, your whole implication that the companies care about this from primarily a financial point of view is deeply cynical How can you be so naïve. You just have to look at the charges against tech companies regarding displaceme
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by anjc 10y ago
Very cool
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by anjc 10y ago
Good point. 128kbps was more than enough for me in those days. 160 was hedonistic.
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by anjc 10y ago
Ha wow, now that's dedication. At least now your car can have bluetooth and Siri integration...which lets you play music from Spotify...when you have reception...or tracks from your $500 16gb iPhone which can store a few albums...ugh.
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by anjc 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken, you can't drag tracks around though. Whereas in Winamp I often found myself creating 'mini playlists' within the master list, which morphed as my tastes changed.
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by anjc 10y ago
I went through a whole heap of players on Windows 10 trying to get consistent playback from my Onedrive collection, and only Zune worked consistently for some reason. I don't know why.
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by anjc 10y ago
I don't know if this is how Winamp was meant to be used (I suspect it wasn't) but its default behaviour from its launch - with all of your music in a big giant list which you could muddle around, and a randomize play-order button
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by anjc 10y ago
So essentially you're disappointed by your own misinterpretation of a title
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by anjc 10y ago
Cool trick, but difficult to grasp on first glace. I'd personally rather see pages of 'if' statements if it makes it easier to reason about.
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by anjc 10y ago
The first is people incorrectly using the dictionary definition of the word without understanding Organisational Strategy. The second is the "canonical" definition of the term as defined extensively by Christensen. The state of th
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by anjc 10y ago
Would that not demonstrate the point then? You're saying wages aren't stagnant anymore, occurring at a time when the demand for workers has finally outstripped supply because not enough visas are issued. So don't blame it on
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by anjc 10y ago
You'd expect wages to rise when it's in industries with supposed skills shortages, which necessitates major corporations lobbying government for more visas. If wages rose, companies couldn't just uniformly cut back on project
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by anjc 10y ago
Good. This should be unanimously supported by the developed tech world.
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by anjc 10y ago
Why would it drive wages down?! It'd be the exact opposite, and is the reason that wages have been stagnant in STEM, and is the reason for the wage collusion scandal. Companies would have to increase their offers to attract talent from
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by anjc 10y ago
Of course I know the type of people Google hire. Google are irrelevant...Google campaign for an extension of H1B issuances full stop...not for more just for great companies. The abuses and pitfalls of these visas are open for you to examine
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by anjc 10y ago
He's campaigning in favour of the H1B scheme, not in favour of H1Bs for Google. This will continue to suppress wages and continue to displace workers.
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by anjc 10y ago
Of course it does. The H1B scheme isn't a Google scheme. They might campaign for certain parameters within the scheme, e.g. required skillset, minimum pay, but ultimately they're campaigning to extend the scheme. Which leaves it o
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by anjc 10y ago
I'm in your position but even worse off, so I'm not a US citizen and am not just being exclusionary. Of course it's rational for people to go to the US on H1b visas. I would be of the exact same opinion as you in this sense.
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by anjc 10y ago
Yeah I'm only speculating too, so I'll stop also. My main issue was just with a poster saying that they had an obligation to give this donation. It's really only an obligation to fund social issues if that's what their
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by anjc 10y ago
Yeah absolutely. I'm guessing that "Oppose Trump" isn't in the memorandum of association though. I'm putting myself into the shoes of a large investor who isn't getting returns.

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