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by geebee 10y ago
The median salary for a dental hygienist in San Francisco is also about $110,000 a year. That salary level qualifies for direct housing subsidies for a family of 4 in San Francisco. So why are we taking claims of a desperate shortage of d
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by geebee 10y ago
Think of it this way: I would like to trade my right to run a hotel out of my house in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that my neighbors won't do this either. I should like to have this enforced through a set of rules, in
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by geebee 10y ago
I guess the question I'd ask is, do amafaceooglesoft contract out IT work to companies that use the H1B visa, and were any of these roles previously handled in-house. I'm not sure of the answer, but it could be that these companie
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm not sure how this works at google, but often, when a company replaces positions with H1B visa workers, they often contract out the work. As a result, the H1B who is doing work for google wouldn't be considered a google employ
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by geebee 10y ago
It really is unwarranted. Every now and then I like to take the opportunity to say this as well, since I am very critical of the H1B program. The US doesn't have a good immigration system, and if you don't have family reunificati
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by geebee 10y ago
Wow, do I ever disagree with you. I'm not a market fundamentalist, but supply and demand are still relevant concepts here. The market would demand far more developers at $50,000 than the market would supply. It would be the opposite
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by geebee 10y ago
The economist proposes getting rid of the rule that requires H1B workers remain within the company that sponsors them That sounds reasonable, but why then require that a company sponsor an immigrant in the first place? Why not let that imm
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by geebee 10y ago
fair enough. they do identify and locate Toronto on the map, so technically it does contain a bit of Canada.
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by geebee 10y ago
That's a good point. It's also worth pointing out that percentages may not matter as much as absolute numbers. As a contrived example: it's worse to spend 50% of your income on rent than 30%. But if you earn 200k a year and
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by geebee 10y ago
This is great advice, but you have to be more entrepreneurial, or at least have more personal initiative, to take option 2, especially in high tech. Here's the problem - if you apply at a company that follows the standard "technic
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by geebee 10y ago
I'd take a softer stance against the statement, though I do disagree with it. As a Californian, I'd have trouble signing away my right to leave the software field for the next 7 years, or granting to my employer the right to have
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by geebee 10y ago
Yeah, it is a little strange. People make statements about a "shortage" of workers without mentioning pay and working conditions. Or, if they do, they'll discuss a shortage at the "market rate", without considerin
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by geebee 10y ago
In San Francisco, softare developers earn at the median $117,700 a year. Keep in mind, that qualifies for subsidized housing for a a family of 4 in San Francisco. This salary is a bit higher than the median for dental hygienists, and consi
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm coming to this late, but I do want to point out that the US takes 1.2 million immigrants legally into the country every year, in a process that has essentially nothing to do with the H1B or employer controlled work visa programs. T
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by geebee 10y ago
Tech leaders need to take some time to think about their role in bringing all this about. Truth is, we've all known there were serious problems with the H1B visa for some time. It was clearly conceived and sold to the US public (and c
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by geebee 10y ago
Can we agree that the US citizens who are capable of becoming programmers are making a rational economic decision to do something else? If so, why hasnt tech competed successfully for them? I think open offices, poor autonomy, career issue
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by geebee 10y ago
I think the argument is that if a company didn't get more value from its programmers by locating them in San Francisco, they wouldn't pay more to locate them there. For instance, christmas tree light manufacturers don't locat
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm not as convinced about these cost of living arguments. One could argue that pay is higher in SF and NY because developers create more value in these locations, not because these locations are more expensive. In short, why should s
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by geebee 10y ago
Honestly, I don't think it's too high at all. If you view the H1B the way it was sold to the US public - as a visa to get very high talent people who can't be found in adequate numbers among the existing US workforce - 130k
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by geebee 10y ago
I agree. Skilled immigration doesn't have much of a downside for the US in my opinion, but immigrants do need to be free to decide what skills they choose to pursue, in response to market signals. If silicon valley finds that people w
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by geebee 10y ago
They way you ensure they must pay a competitive wage is by retaining free labor markets. If immigrants are free to decide what to study, where to work, who to work for, what jobs they wish to pursue, and so forth, then SV will have to pay e
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm surprised Sergey Brin's involvement in the no-hire collusion wasn't more deeply harmful to his reputation. I tend to agree with the protesters here, but I absolutely agree with you that there isn't much downside for
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by geebee 10y ago
That's interesting, and true. In the early 80s, the middle class abandonment of cities running at full throttle. New York and San Francisco had enough of an urban core to retain some of their middle class, but yeah, a lot of people l
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by geebee 10y ago
As someone with two school aged kids in SF, I can say with some confidence that you are overstating this. I live south of 280, and I've gone to a ton of playgrounds around glen park, sunny side, mission terrace, and the sunset. Yes,
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by geebee 10y ago
Not sure if you're still reading, but there's definitely a life pattern to this. I'd say SF is great for 0-5: Fine to be in SF, doesn't make much of a difference. Parents take you everywhere, but it's all pretty co
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by geebee 10y ago
I agree with you. I currently have two kids in SFUSD as well. The lottery system has some problems, but also brings some benefits. I got lucky as well. However, I find a lot of people erroneously believe that San Francisco schools are ge
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by geebee 10y ago
"There's never a point where going up a tax bracket means you'd take home less money than you would have before your raise." I'm not sure if that's true, but I think the real issue is the loss of government sup
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm definitely not a member of the ultra liberal crowd in terms of my politics, I'm friends with many who are. The remote possibility that he'd be president is more of a nightmare for them than a wet dream.
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by geebee 10y ago
I wasn't under the impression that Zuckerberg had a sterling reputation among the ultra liberal crowd in California.
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by geebee 10y ago
Yes. I've been on projects that I believe would have succeeded if we'd approached them differently, with less debt. One was due to magpie syndrome - influential architects who enjoyed working with bleeding edge technology and co

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