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by bijowo1676 9d ago
Its not an extreme example, you can google or ask chatgpt for more example of foreigners who founded the biggest companies and created trillions of dollar of value. For ex Microsoft was a failing company and losing market share under white
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by bijowo1676 10d ago
re "historical case studies you are using as dramatic rhetorical example": It is very easy to undermine American big tech. If tomorrow China comes up with cheaper version of American tech products it will be over. Same way TikTok
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by bijowo1676 11d ago
You dont know jack shit about how arbitrary the USCIS asjudication process is, thats first. Please dont ever comment on visa and paperwork matters, unless you went through that hell yourself. Second, this admin (steven miller et al) and lou
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
there is no smart argument to ban H1B. Its all pure jingoism and racism. There is really nothing else here. The fact that America is global tech leader is thanks to foreigners, all these FAANGs and MAG7s and OpenAI and Anthropic, the pape
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
the offshoring of manufacturing started in the 50s and 60s and accelerated in the 80s. the reason is that US wanted to do specialized high value manufacturing, and was offshoring everything low value and low margin, because of increasing co
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
top talent is different visa (O-1). H1B is merely specialized worker, not top tier global talent. Nursing does pay a lot and conditions havent changed much over the years. Certified anesthesiology nurses get paid like $132/hr, and st
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
Elon Musk was H1B after his study at UPenn, since then he created a lot of companies, jobs, and wealth for investors and himself. Do you think Elon Musk (and every other foreigner who founded US company) diluted supply of labor, or expanded
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
US has shipped all manufacturing jobs to Asia, including China and got the Rust Belt in exchange (and huge corporate profits). and China is now a manufacturing powerhouse. Partly that push was created by the labor unions, who pushed the cos
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
Employers have only one job: to maximize profits, thats it. It is not employers' fault that US is unable to train tech workers, despite spending $30-40k per pupil in school system only to end up #27 in PISA ranking. The problem with al
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
its a matter of building a sustaining tech ecosystem: colleges, employers, investors ecosystem. Once they figure out the ecosystem Canada can arbitrage away the broken US immigration policies and anti-immigrant bigotry. Just as manufacturin
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
Canada was bad for tech specifically because of H1B. Now that H1B pathway is being blocked, Canada can build an alternative tech center and ecosystem. They can do it, Canada has very strong CS programs and is a birthplace of AI and deep lea
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
the problem is H1B is not only tech, there are nurses, some medical professionals, non-tech specialized workers. Stack rank would just give all the visas to big tech and starve US hospitals and every other industry
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
the candidate for Canadian PR has to secure a job offer beforehand, so the Canada's plan is that US tech workers move their US jobs to Canada, and big tech employers expand their existing tech offices in Canada, rather than being force
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
Canada is jumping on this opportunity to invite the US tech workers who are frustrated with US H1B visa restrictions and GC backlog by offering an express permanent residency in 10 days https://canadabychoice.com/services&#x
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
these BMW twin turbos are marvels of engineering, 567 horsepowers. The best engine BMW has ever made. This engine allows you to have a huge family hauler (BMW X7) and drive like a BMW M3 like you stole it. Imagine hauling 3 kids and ski ge
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
like Peter Thiel said: competition is for losers. Monopoly is for winners
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by bijowo1676 12d ago
I own BMW and all BMW V8s (engine models N63, N63TU..N63TU3, S63) require 10 quarts. Same for Mercedes V8 engines models M156..159 that require 9-10 quarts
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by bijowo1676 13d ago
most of V8 engines need 10+ quarts
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by bijowo1676 14d ago
How would you use sql to move data from three excel files (some of them may have arbitrary number of worksheets), pack of json files, two csv files, one mysql, one postgres db, some parquets, some of them in S3) ??? And in the end save proc
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by bijowo1676 14d ago
Strongly disagree with the author. For dumb simple select group by OLAP queries on medium data ? Sure clickhouse local or duckdb works perfectly well. But if you need to construct dataset ? Or process existing dataset, do heavy filtering, t
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by bijowo1676 14d ago
AWS acquired DuckLabs recently, there is a chance they will release a product competing with CH/Snowflake as a new RDS offering
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by bijowo1676 15d ago
military industrial complex
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by bijowo1676 15d ago
why would Exxon allow export ban and lose exorbitant profits ?
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by bijowo1676 15d ago
Trump is just accelerating the course of history. The fall of American hegemony, the humiliation of the MIC, the petrodollar, the fossil fuels, the USD as reserve currency is like speedrunning the historical events to reach the next more ba
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by bijowo1676 15d ago
the reason China was using stockpiles is they want to time the gasoline price shock right to the midterm elections. The moment they stop using stockpiles and start purchasing the prices will jump
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by bijowo1676 16d ago
this might be a AI driven attack and readthedocs was just a test target. What surprised me is how easy it was to evade the cloudflare defenses. I know it was easy to evade CF, but I would expected CF to do a better job at blocking L7 DDOS.
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by bijowo1676 16d ago
the cc fraud (and fraud protection) is THE main selling point of Visa/MC credit cards. it is that different treatment of debit/cc fraud that pushes people towards high fee cc. it is cc fraud protection that justifies high cc proce
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by bijowo1676 22d ago
excellent article, very thorough and nuanced explanation.
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by bijowo1676 29d ago
I miss Windows 98/XP and its fully keyboard driven UIs

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