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by breadwinner 1y ago
Ha! And who worked at Bell Labs, the US company? Immigrants. Mohamed "John" Atalla, raised in Egypt, and Dawon Kahng from Korea, who together invented the MOSFET transistor, which underpins modern electronics and computing. Both i
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by breadwinner 1y ago
“I believe the shortage of U.S. talent, and the U.S.’s unwillingness to let companies bring in more global talent, has been a huge factor in why U.S. technology companies are increasing their Canadian footprint.” https://vancouve
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by breadwinner 1y ago
$15K extra per year? Absolutely. $100k pre-payment? No. That's impractical since the visa holder may get hit by a truck or return home due to an emergency, etc.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Why does America have all the tech jobs in the first place? It is because of people like Elon Musk immigrating to the US and building the tech industry.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
You seem to be saying only Native Americans should remain in America, everyone else should leave?
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Yes, see: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2024/09/16/the-micros...
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by breadwinner 1y ago
If visa rules prove too onerous, companies pivot north to Vancouver, BC. [1] Canada is rejoicing for the new boost to its economy. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2024/09/16/the-micros...
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by breadwinner 1y ago
No, it is every time you petition. So every time you apply for the visa.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
It will be too much if the worker leaves after a month, or gets hit by a truck.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
No, Chinese will stay home instead of immigrating to the US. China draws mainly on the talents of the best of its billion+ population. But America has had its pick of the best of the world's 8 billion people. If people stop immigrating
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Why would locals not want high paying jobs? The question is whether qualified people can be found locally or not.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
This is good news for China: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3318178/tale...
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by breadwinner 1y ago
$25K annual fee per H1B worker as opposed to $100K one-time would have made more sense. It would have made even more sense to have employers compete (within their own sector, such as tech, aerospace, etc.) such that whoever offers the highe
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by breadwinner 1y ago
> nationalist xenophobia the true most important priority for this administration It is a little more complicated than that. It is what around 40% of American population want. (Then another 9.5% or so voted for Trump based on the price
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by breadwinner 1y ago
For those who are reluctant to install a Google product on your computer (who knows what it will hoover up and associate with your Google identity), you can use Lucene to index your files: https://github.com/wisercoder/
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by breadwinner 1y ago
With anything Google you have to worry about privacy. Where is the privacy policy? Does it associate information it finds on your PC to your Google identity?
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UC Berkeley Gives Names of Students and Faculty to Government for Antisem Probe(nytimes.com)
67 points by breadwinner 1y ago|24 comments
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by breadwinner 1y ago
How about ranking on salary but by profession, so there should be a separate rank for software engineers vs. biomedical researchers.
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EPA to Stop Collecting Emissions Data from Polluters(nytimes.com)
58 points by breadwinner 1y ago|19 comments
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Not if they file dozens of lawsuits challenging the election results and loses all of them .
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Denying election results, for example.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Violence should not be how we settle our disagreements. But if someone is genuinely a threat to democracy we should be able to express that opinion. Fear that someone may act violently should not cause us to suppress our genuine fears about
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Right, thinness doesn't help with anything. I want smaller width and height (i.e., a iPhone 17 mini) so that the phone will fit better in my jeans pocket.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
OK, I meant at least have a roundabout, and I meant in England not in London.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
As an American tourist in London I found the roundabouts very interesting. In big cities and small, all intersections have a roundabout. Compare that to the US. You have Stop signs which are easy to miss. Sometimes the Stop signs are ignore
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Do not confuse strong language with strong argument. Yours is the former not the latter.
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by breadwinner 1y ago
If it is publicly available information it is legal to scrape it, regardless of what robots.txt says. See: https://www.webspidermount.com/is-web-scraping-legal-yes/
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by breadwinner 1y ago
If you look at the source code of a program, learn how it works, and then you make your own program with the same functionality, is your program "based on" the original, or is it independent work?
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by breadwinner 1y ago
Back in those days, software was just an accessory to hardware, not something that was valuable and could be sold by itself. So they would not have thought to secure their dumpsters. Bill Gates played a significant role in jumpstarting the
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by breadwinner 1y ago
I don't see any credit being given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) upon whose work this is based [1] [2] [3]. The quotes below only talk about OS source code, but they found language interpreter source code as well, see register

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