jacobriis

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by jacobriis 6y ago
Or just also quota H1B.
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by jacobriis 6y ago
Looks like about 25% of software developers (broadly defined) are on H1B visas. 254k/365k of H1B petitions in 2017 were for computer occupations (those are predominantly in software development and computer programming). If we assume t
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by jacobriis 6y ago
Are you defending the article's claim that "In short, immigration creates more economic opportunities for everyone: a win-win scenario"? That's a tall bar to clear. "More [house cleaners] makes it easier to [clean m
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by jacobriis 6y ago
The authors are making the very popular claim that the "lump of labor fallacy" and that migration is not "zero-sum" conclusively demonstrate that any permissive migration scheme is undoubtedly beneficial for everyone in
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by jacobriis 6y ago
A list of mostly European-origin people and almost exclusively European-origin and Asian-origin people is not likely to be well received these days as evidence that a US migration program is successful.
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by jacobriis 6y ago
"Hong Kong is only part of China because the CCP agreed to the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration" It isn't true the "only" reason Hong Kong is a part of the PRC is because they agreed to that declaration.
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by jacobriis 6y ago
Low percentage of men is nuanced, low percentage of women is racist.
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by jacobriis 6y ago
This is cool thanks. What you do with days that the ECB doesn't publish rates (weekends and bank holidays)?
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by jacobriis 6y ago
You only need to swab the edge of your nostril for this test. https://www.pixel.labcorp.com/covid-19-sample-collection
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by jacobriis 7y ago
Many countries without an extensive history of colonialism have achieved similar prosperity to the great European colonial powers: Spain (29k per capita gdp), Portugal (23k), Netherlands (52k), United Kingdom (40k), and France (41k). Consid
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by jacobriis 7y ago
You may have missed Spanish flu being used a few times in this thread. Please also fight racism against Spanish people. You are doing important work. Gracias!
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by jacobriis 7y ago
When you say empathy, what do you mean? I'm not a native English speaker and I am confused when I see this word used in political conversation a lot in a way which is not clearly related to the dictionary definition.