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by kfprt 5y ago
The green card infinite extension is just a bug in the system. H1B was very much supposed to be a temporary program while the company can train an American. It's almost entirely misuse bar a few PhD's.
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by kfprt 5y ago
> The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals Large tech companies emp
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by kfprt 5y ago
Facebook does not get a vote. Whether or not they can afford something is immaterial. On a separate note America's real competitive advantage is size. America can clone tiktok if need be.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Do we need everyone to be a software developer or just a few more? I'm sure we could increase the numbers if we actually tried.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Surely I would be amenable to such an argument if the frontier was still open, the safety net nonexistent, and retirement age death. We must face facts, the conditions of the past are not the conditions of today nor can our policies reflect
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by kfprt 5y ago
"Promote the general welfare" is written in the constitution. It is my understanding that this is the point of government. https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/preamble
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by kfprt 5y ago
I think that's an excellent description of the market dynamics at play. What I disagree with is the assumed lack of agency on the part of the buyers in the labor market. If the market determines it's not advantageous to pursue a S
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by kfprt 5y ago
Tether is just shady which is not a word people generally want associated with their money.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Pure speculation but I'd wager they have a position involving a 3rd party hedge fund etc with a sizable crypto position.
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by kfprt 5y ago
So most Americans are lazy and stupid? Only 7.7% of Americans work in tech, what about the other 92.3%, what are they? Note that's 7.7% of the workforce not population. https://connect.comptia.org/content/research
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by kfprt 5y ago
America is a nation of citizens, not an international charity. Nor is it a corporatocracy in the legal sense.
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by kfprt 5y ago
If you have both money and time and can't/won't find a solution then your business deserves to fail. That's capitalism. If everyone plays by the same rules then there is no competitive disadvantage. I am an optimist and
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by kfprt 5y ago
I've yet to see an argument as to what the problem is that they can't fix in 6 years and an amount of money equal to a tech salary. It seems more likely the problem is that they want to underpay. If H1B was restricted to advanced
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by kfprt 5y ago
I think it fizzled out because people bought an OEM PC, a console, or built their own PC. It was just too competitive a market and not running windows was a negative value. I agree it's the right time and might be a success because the
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by kfprt 5y ago
They claim they are in desperate need and that's why they have to hire foreigners. Surely 6 years is enough time for them to rectify the situation if it were as desperate as they claim. If they can't find a solution in 6 years the
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by kfprt 5y ago
Traits? What traits? Is the implication here that Americans aren't hard workers? That's the only interpretation that parses.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Valve seems to be putting far more effort into the Deck initiate than they did with Steam Machines. I assume Deck compatibility will be shown to all users regardless of platform much like VR. Great long tail advertising. Year of the linux d
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by kfprt 5y ago
While that is how unemployment insurance works, it is only temporary. Unemployed in the statistical sense means actively looking for work or on unemployment while in common parlance it refers to any person not currently employed. The cost
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by kfprt 5y ago
Couldn't companies also use the 6 years that they employ a foreigner to train an American worker to fill the position? A bachelors program is only 4 years and the company could sponsor it if they were in such desperate need.
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by kfprt 5y ago
More people and fewer of them are in the labor force than in living memory. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART I should also note this isn't the 1960s when women were stay at home moms keeping the particip
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by kfprt 5y ago
I call this entropy. Once the products are dispersed it takes a lot of energy to bring them back together like they were in the supply chain. I'm not sure it will ever be solved purely because of the physics.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Spare a link or two?
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by kfprt 5y ago
Yeah, it's a bad fit. Doesn't mean that wasn't the corporate intent.
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by kfprt 5y ago
That's not what I'm saying. If a company hires a foreigner instead of an American then that American doesn't have a job. If they don't have a job they are unemployed. If they are unemployed then they are a net cost to me
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by kfprt 5y ago
Dependency https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by kfprt 5y ago
I don't know enough about battery chemistry specifically but I don't see how separating from a rich ore could be more expensive than a mined ore.
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by kfprt 5y ago
>Are you talking about the ridiculously expensive universities(and higher education in general)? Maybe fix that? Interesting question that. I think the issue is that corporations realized training employees was a cost center and decided
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by kfprt 5y ago
Isn't most recycling just breaking down batteries to their elemental state? That would imply there couldn't possible be a difference between new and recycled.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Glasses are a huge ripoff due to the industry being a monopoly with no help from the government.
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by kfprt 5y ago
And I want a low unemployment rate so I can pay less in taxes due to the costs of welfare.

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