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by jodah 11y ago
The H1B program is very clearly NOT meant to be a mechanism for importing workers to swap directly into existing jobs at lower pay. This is the crucial point of the article and of Disney's wrongdoing.
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by jodah 11y ago
That's referencing the H1Bs that Disney employs directly. This article involves hiring a company to import replacement workers on Disney's behalf. They don't need to be prominent in Visa lobbying since they can just hire comp
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by jodah 11y ago
Whether Disney's actions mirror those of other companies acting badly (they do), they clearly violated the purpose of the H1B program.
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by jodah 11y ago
I'm not sure that outsourcing is the appropriate term, at least not in the usual sense, when your replacement is brought in to sit in your exact chair.
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by jodah 11y ago
> I find mainstream hostility towards skilled workers really interesting because if you had replaced this group of people with any other group of people like women or other ethnic minorities, you can really start to see how outright host
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by jodah 11y ago
> To me, this doesn't look as horrible as the article makes it out to be. > Am I missing something in the numbers? Whether it's horrible or not, the point of the article is that Disney (via it's subcontractor) is violat
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by jodah 11y ago
They weren't fired for failure to carry out their duties, they were fired because they were more expensive than their H1B replacements, which clearly violates the purpose of the H1B program. So, was it legal for Disney to fire them? Pr
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by jodah 11y ago
The point of the article isn't that someone else got their job, it's that someone else was imported to take their job under the guise of a program that is intended to fill labor shortages at the prevailing wage, not as a means of
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by jodah 11y ago
But that's different than having your replacement come here, to US soil, to sit in your exact chair as your replacement on an H1B. Whether you find this offensive or not, it's a clear violation of the intent of the H1B program as
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Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements(nytimes.com)
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by jodah 11y ago
It's funny, the parallels between Putin and Blatter. They both have tried hard to hold onto power, knowing that when they lose it the skeletons will start flying out of the closet.
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by jodah 11y ago
He has a shot, and it's great to see him taking this stand, but he's a flawed person/candidate in many other ways.
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by jodah 11y ago
You mean the journalists, who vetted and chose to publish the material, disclosed this. As has been discussed exhaustively, Snowden didn't disclose anything himself, opting to rely on the expertise and judgement of partner journalists
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by jodah 11y ago
> They couldn't exist otherwise. Policing in other western countries indicates otherwise. For example, if police were held personally liable, as a strict matter of law, for the cost of their mistakes (just as individuals in the priv
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by jodah 11y ago
People are vilified for breaking the law. Wearing a blue shirt doesn't change that.
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by jodah 11y ago
Consensus can be used for a variety of problems including membership, ordering, and atomic commits.
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by jodah 11y ago
Key takeaway for me: "crash-restart durable storage is a prerequisite for most consensus algorithms, I have a hunch we’ll see stronger guarantees as Elasticsearch moves towards consensus on writes." It seems like ElasticSearch is
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by jodah 11y ago
- Location/remote. - Work/life. The two are very closely related as overall quality of life is effected by both. Life is too short to: - Overspend it at work - Overspend it on a commute - Delay it due to cost of living (ie: delay
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by jodah 11y ago
Among the many well-known statistics cited in the article, absent was the less known point that half of California farms still use open ditch irrigation. It makes many of the other discussions about crop selection and municipal conservation
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by jodah 11y ago
"When I asked one of the higher-ups, a lieutenant, what he was doing to ensure that the law was being followed, he told me bluntly: “They are violating your rights. And everyone here knows it.”"
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My 49 hours in a Baltimore cell – for being a reporter(theguardian.com)
2 points by jodah 11y ago|1 comments
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Cops Charged in Freddie Gray’s Death Receive Lower Bails Than Teen Rioter(slate.com)
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by jodah 11y ago
Management in particular. It's unfortunate that new personnel always feel the need to push their own vision rather than the previous guy's, often just for the sake of it.
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by jodah 11y ago
Agree with others - any relationship with your immediate superiors is already toast. Anyone who would retaliate against you for doing good work can never be trusted to treat you fairly again. Considering that you want to stay at the company
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by jodah 11y ago
Apathetic, but true. In the case of teachers versus bankers, it's more about the institutions than the individuals, and the protections that come with working for those institutions.
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by jodah 11y ago
Update the version of the "jepsen" dependency in project.clj to 0.0.3. You'll need to do this for each of the test projects you want to run. FWIW, this was filed the other day: https://github.com/aphyr/je
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by jodah 11y ago
Drama aside, Riak and Swift are not in the same league.
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by jodah 11y ago
They're not the only ones: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/2488#issueco...
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by jodah 11y ago
"Here’s a shocking statistic that doesn’t get enough attention: nearly one-half of California’s farms still use 'flood irrigation'" This should be the incredible, head-lining statistic. It turns out that CA does have eno
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Stop Vilifying Almonds(slate.com)
2 points by jodah 11y ago|1 comments

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