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by davidf18 10y ago
Of all of the political candidates, only Trump and Sanders spoke out against H1-B visa abuse used to depress wages. (Former) Presidential Candidate Senator Marco Rubio of Florida wanted to triple the number of H1-B visas to 250,000 from 85
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Well, the car companies and other companies need to open up offices where tech workers want to live as some firms have already done. Sorry, but a lot of tech people don't necessarily want to live in Detroit or parts of Michigan. They
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Silicon Valley Hedge Fund Takes on Wall Street with AI Trader(bloomberg.com)
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The high cost of housing is simply cause by the market failure or market inefficiency of zoning density restrictions which benefits landlords/land holders over the renters and those who wish to buy housing. Prices are higher because o
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> "The solution is a steady increased supply of market-rate housing." Politically induced zoning density restrictions which benefit landholders over tenants and those who wish to buy housing should be reversed and then allow ma
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Scarcity leads to higher prices and in the case of the high cost of housing in NYC, DC, Boston, London, SF, LA (and perhaps much of CA) is political use of zoning density restrictions to create artificial scarcity which benefits land owners
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Higher energy prices lead to less electricity use which leads to less greenhouse gas emissions.
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> "Which is why we cannot mess with immigration." This context is the proper use of the H1-B visa. Providing technical talent for which Americans can not fill the role. But almost all of H1-B is abused where immigrants are use
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Many of the Intel processor chips are designed in Israel as is the Apple iPhone/iPad processor. Intel employs about 10,000 in Israel and I think Apple around 800. There are many, many other US firms represented in Israel -- often for
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Details on the Target and Home Depot attacks that would have been prevented by the upgrade from Windows XP embedded to Windows 7 embedded or later: http://www.dailytech.com/Appalling+Negligence+DecadeOld+Wind...
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See: http://www.dailytech.com/Appalling+Negligence+DecadeOld+Wind...
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Sometimes one has to pay that price. Can you suggest an alternative that reduces complexity?
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Shouldn't these stores standardize on vendors? Why would they use different vendors which only adds to complexity unless they've bought out a different store chain and are integrating existing systems? Also, they should pay the v
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The point-of-sale terminals have vendors that produce them in large quantity and they should have the expertise to upgrade the software of the machines that they built. One can always hire experts with a proven track record to help with the
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Interesting, readers of HN should know that upgrades to the newest version of Windows and updates is essential for reasons of software security. Newer versions of Windows incorporates security measures not in older versions -- sometimes ev
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by davidf18 10y ago
Not really, because quality software development generally requires teams to be in close proximity. As has been discovered by many firms, moving operations overseas is "penny wise and pound foolish" For example, Disney of Florida
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I'm getting TLS 1.2 using anaconda on the latest update of Mac Sierra (10.12.3). The openssl is one installed by the conda command of anaconda, openssl version: 1.0.2j-0 I also have homebrew on the system, but not used in this case.
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by davidf18 10y ago
I was simply replying in the context of the article which is regarding abuse of H1-B visas and a fix. Actually it applies to the larger category of all of STEM, not only IT. I don't think it is right to drive anyone's wages down
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> "I don't know if you can claim as facts that Trump represents American workers over the elites or that Rubio was bought by Disney." I didn't say that Rubio was bought by Disney, but that 'Rubio was "bought
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According to law, H1-B Visas are only for those jobs which cannot be filled by Americans, that is no American has the skill to perform them. The law has been greatly abused, but that is in fact the law. I find it really, really hard to bel
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> " That's shitty for everyone but hte company." Not true. The limitation in "job liquidity" means less competition for Americans for jobs that immigrants might underbid. If the law were rigidly enforced so that
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> "I agree on the intent for the H1-B visa, no issues there. That does not mean that immigrants should be barred or Americans always chosen over the immigrant. The selection should happen based on their competency" No, America
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Why was this downvoted? It would be helpful if someone stated the reason why. What is clear is that Trump represents American workers over the elites that want to depress wages. What is also clear is that Rubio was "bought" by
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by davidf18 10y ago
From the quote you gave, "What is going on is he is effectively giving Green Cards to people on H-1B visas who are unable to get Green Cards due to the [annual] quotas… it could be over 100,000." [emphasis added] The article sta
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Actually, never heard the guy talk. :-)
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If you read the entire article, you can see that President Trump is on the side of the American IT worker and President Obama was working against Americans by allowing more immigrants to work here outside the legal H1-B Visa system through
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But most immigrants from Mexico do not drive down IT workers wages. But abuse and increase of H1-B Visas does down IT worker wages.
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> "Don't assume whether my wife is an immigrant or not." From the context you supplied earlier, it seems she is not allowed to work here, therefore, not a US citizen. > "Anyway, my point was that the US as a whole
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> "Majority of techies there are foreign born" Do you work in human relations at Google? Otherwise how would you know this. It hires many, many engineers. The issue is the abuse of the H1-B Visa system to hire employees at lo
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This is an article about 250 Disney of FL jobs that were displaced by H1-B Visa abuse. Trump was clearly against the abuse and spoke out against it. Rubio on the other hand was for tripling the number of Visas to 250,000 and had Disney as

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