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by the_mar 4y ago
No one is advocating for no borders here. Most people are saying that the time given to h1b visa holders to find a new job is too short. Opening US borders for a free-for-all would be of course a disaster. But even that is a bit of a stretc
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by the_mar 4y ago
Stop it! He’s already dead!!!
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by the_mar 4y ago
Your outrage is misplaced. I am an immigrant tech worker, I too can't afford shit in San Francisco. I do not think immigrants are the problem here
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by the_mar 4y ago
> Looks like there's already a 6 year max that is obviously being abused. How is it being abused? E.g. it is perfectly legal to apply for a green card after your H1B and there are quotas for immigrants from each country. Alternative
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by the_mar 4y ago
I’m sure someone somewhere compiled the stats per region or per company. Average h1b SWE salary is $109K, average SWE salary in the US is $108K Of course average does not particularly prove one thing or the other. You can however look up yo
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by the_mar 4y ago
Are you claiming that an employee with decades of experience can be replaced with a new grad willy-nilly? That's a false equivalency. A lot of things you seem to believe are incredibly backwards. Please educate yourself, because you do
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by the_mar 4y ago
What you say holds true. Of course the US nationals have to be prioritized. But the reality is they already are. Hiring someone on H1B results in lawyer fees and visa fees. Every company is already incentivized to hire domestically. Which I
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by the_mar 4y ago
I encourage you to look at H1B salary stats, you will see that majority are not even remotely low wage. Your argument about “the more skilled workers there are the cheaper the labor” is also backwards, this means we should all be trying rea
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by the_mar 4y ago
So you want to lift up impoverished people in the US by exploiting immigrant labor? There are many reasons why companies hire H1B people and if you do as you suggest you remove any incentive for anyone to want to pursue H1B. The effect will
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by the_mar 4y ago
Right fuck those people who want to live outside of the place they were born in. /s
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by the_mar 4y ago
Btw people on work visas have no access to welfare, despite paying taxes that fund the welfare just the same. Permanent residents have some access to welfare, but there isn’t a straightforward path from work visa to green card. Who is sugge
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by the_mar 4y ago
Because clearly people who weren’t born here are unworthy of being treated equally. And because “they took our jerbws”
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by the_mar 4y ago
Whoa whoa, 4 years is not remotely short term. Why would anyone want to uproot their life and move here for the mere opportunity to live in the US for 4 years and have to uproot your life again? Are you supposed to be celibate for 4 years?
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by the_mar 4y ago
Most countries have a path to permanent residency after 5 years of gainful employment in the said country. In the us it is a quota based on your nationality or a lottery system. Why should it matter how many other people from X country app
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by the_mar 4y ago
I mean yes, but there should be some incentive to keep the H1B workers that are already in the country, and have been in american workforce for a few years. Considering barriers to actually interviewing and assessing someone who is abroad,
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by the_mar 4y ago
As an immigrant, because you’ve built your life here, because you managed to be a positive contributor to a society for years, because you are clearly aren’t here to abuse american benefits (that you can’t even get).
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by the_mar 4y ago
Story time. I graduated into the recession (2009) and got a grueling EE job on my J-1, after about a year and some change I could not take it anymore. Hundreds of applications and many months later “you are pretty good but we aren’t going t
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by the_mar 4y ago
For real, as a person who had to sift through entry-level candidates for menial off-shore positions on occasion, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys holds true in pretty much any country
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by the_mar 4y ago
I have the same issues with my birth control. I thought I was becoming a conspiracy theorist, because it was entirely undocumented. But I know what I feel. I took the same name brand pill since I was 13, then I moved to the US at 21, had t
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by the_mar 4y ago
Slightly off topic, I found out generic of my birth control pill is not mono-cycle, meaning not every pill in the pack has the same dosage, it fucked me up for months. It's not documented anywhere
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by the_mar 4y ago
2.7% of SVB deposits were FDIC insured
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by the_mar 4y ago
I’m not hating, there is of course progress being made. It’s a tough problem, but I would not call it “come a long way”. https://twitter.com/irapolis/status/1631926001700835328?s=20 And https://sfstanda
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by the_mar 4y ago
Probably strugglins with zipper merges, unprotected turns, and inclement weather… … so same
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by the_mar 4y ago
Thalo Labs | Carbon capture | https://thalolabs.com | NYC | Full-time Hiring a software engineering lead, technician, process engineer, chief of staff and a business lead. Thalo Labs a New York City-based company focused on acce
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by the_mar 4y ago
do you have source for that?
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by the_mar 4y ago
OTC ibuprofen works just fine for a lot of these cases btw. People think that opiates is like the only way to relieve pain. I don't think what I am sayin here is that you will get addicted after taking 10 Vicodins, of course not. But
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by the_mar 4y ago
how is wisdom teeth removal the same as a root canal? Teeth extraction is orders of magnitude more painful in recovery.
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by the_mar 4y ago
For real, filling a prescription with mouth pain is not such tragedy people are making it out to be. Not to be a dick, but I find it very interesting that people expect to go through life without experiencing pain.
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by the_mar 4y ago
Root canal (the garden variety kind) is not really dental surgery. Root canal is not painful after the procedure, because the procedure removes the nerve that feels pain. The injury to surrounding tissue is so minor (a hole of about 1.5mm
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by the_mar 4y ago
But for a lot prescription meds is the gateway drug to cheaper stuff

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