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by shas3 11y ago
I can think of few large companies that don't strategize that way, yet there is usually room for widgets.
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by shas3 11y ago
Heh I didn't say that. Automation just means available jobs will get increasingly higher skilled.
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by shas3 11y ago
No! Honestly, I think it is the exact opposite. You need more than 16 years of education for the jobs of the future. Vocational teaching cannot teach you statistics and linear algebra required for machine learning, which itself again, canno
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by shas3 11y ago
One can come up with a completely alternative explanation for what's happening with Trump/Sanders, Farage/Corbyn, Modi, etc. based on constructs like 'end of average' and income inequality. These are social conseque
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by shas3 11y ago
> No, the shortage is only in from a much smaller subset of primarily programming related skills. Heh? Have you tried hiring quants, materials scientists, fluid mechanics experts, RF engineers, supply chain experts, etc.? I have, and kno
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by shas3 11y ago
Funnily, due to country quotas that 7-9 yr wait on employment-based green cards is almost exclusively Indian problem.
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by shas3 11y ago
[Citation needed] for your capital flight claim. It is not as simplistic as you think. Super rich people in China or India use similar financial instruments as those in the US to diversify, ensure good ROI, etc. Yes, US is a more stable eco
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by shas3 11y ago
HN conversations, on the whole have almost none of the bigotry (racism, homophobia, misogyny) of other forums. Yet, thread after thread seems to contain xenophobic posts. Usually it is in discussions about H1B or foreign students in the US.
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by shas3 11y ago
Umm, no. The opportunity exists because the economies of India and China are growing, and the elites of those countries emphasize education. Whether governments cut their budgets or not, universities will grab such an opportunity with both
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by shas3 11y ago
Unlikely to be an exaggeration! I know engineers with 5-10 yrs experience having little choice but to buy homes that cost $1-1.5e6. Can they afford it? Probably so, but certainly at the cost of lesser savings.
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by shas3 11y ago
There is a crucial distinction between the multitude of things we utilize in our daily lives and machine learning/high-dimensional data analysis: we aren't equipped to intuit the workings of high-dimensional advanced-math statisti
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by shas3 11y ago
This could be a real problem in their respective careers (or not). Here's the analogy: scientists who use statistical tools as blackboxes are the ones responsible for the whole problem with misusing p-values. Similarly, poor intuition
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by shas3 11y ago
The game play among human competitors is sure to change just as in chess, as new players will train on AlphaGo, etc. whose gameplay will differ significantly from accepted norms in a purely human playing field. For instance, chess programs
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by shas3 11y ago
A real estimate is available for JMLR, a reputed machine learning journal, about $10 per article (!): https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-j...
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by shas3 11y ago
How is it corporate welfare? The objective is a legal framework to allow companies to hire skilled international workers: pharma scientists as much as Ruby-on-rails wizards. It is also corporate welfare if you are indirectly loading the die
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by shas3 11y ago
Not everything can be acquired by training. You are assuming an unrealistic utopia where every skill can be learned. Unfortunately most CS and EE students cannot be trained in AI/ML. Only the subset with strong and deep backgrounds in
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by shas3 11y ago
>I'm not aware of a huge pool of <blah> What's the snark about here? There are lots of Indian grad students in CS and EE departments across the US. Modulo OPT, they're at the mercy of H1B lotteries. I know of PhDs fr
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by shas3 11y ago
Ok
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by shas3 11y ago
Huh? Because you can live a king's life for $100k family income in Kentucky, while you can barely afford rent in Bay Area with the same salary. Also, manufacturing, logistics, have other reasons for being located where they are.
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by shas3 11y ago
An auction is impractical. It will shaft smaller companies. Even in larger companies, the hiring decisions are based on group/division budgets. Who decides how high to go on the bidding in a big company? In a small company, where will
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by shas3 11y ago
In the current structure these are the kinds of jobs that are getting harder to fill with H1B shortages. I personally know several experts who couldn't get O1 (and some who did) and had to leave the country after losing out in the lott
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by shas3 11y ago
If only a PhD credential was all that you needed to get a job! Seriously, that is one of the reasons the "shortage" argument breaks down. You want the best graduates and 1) they aren't necessarily always US citizens, 2) not a
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by shas3 11y ago
Frankly your vision is limited to the outsourcing industry. Would it surprise you to learn that many many big companies (GE, Msft, GOOG, FB, pharmas, etc.) that form a large percentage of the US economy also hire people with specific skills
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by shas3 11y ago
...which would suck for the supply chain expert hired at some company's Kentucky logistics center. And yay for the software engineer in SF?
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by shas3 11y ago
I'm using the definition of "high-skilled" used by the article, which clearly claims Disney used H1B for routine jobs.
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by shas3 11y ago
The skills shortage issue, in my experience is the inability to find someone with the specific skills and talents for a given job. It is real, as anyone who's tried to hire in certain areas can testify. It is not a strict commodity mar
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by shas3 11y ago
Yours is such a tangential comment, it doesn't remotely relate to anything in the Gates's letter. You have just repeated the same old blah about corruption, safety, and infrastructure. All that Bill and Melinda are saying is that
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by shas3 11y ago
There's a bit of naturalist fallacy there. Evolution optimizes for rates of success far below what we desire for comfortable living today. For instance, if 70% of humans were made for hunting and long distance running, that is an evolu
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by shas3 11y ago
That would be linear only if the inflation is 0. Inflation adjusted growth rate will not be fully linear.
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by shas3 11y ago
Financial terminology doesn't distinguish between linear and exponential. Linearly growing companies would simply be assigned very low (close to 0 / positive) CAGRs.

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