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by tisu32 5y ago
That's funny, I was going to mention that, but without the reference to Gide, which I didn't know about :-)
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by tisu32 6y ago
That is not always true: top tier companies like FB (the subject of this article), Google pay internationals the same as locals. As for the issue of rights I fully agree: much better to instead give foreigners much more security when they i
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by tisu32 6y ago
My point is not that the US should act directly in the interests of citizens of other countries. My point is instead that the US should act in its own interests. The US is a successful country today in large part due to its companies (a lar
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by tisu32 6y ago
That's not what I said. Yes, some students (a small minority) will be acting in the interests of other countries. Overall, the US is a net winner in terms of benefits vs costs of foreign students. This is one of the reasons many colleg
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by tisu32 6y ago
You can boost the local education all you want (definitely worth it), you will never to grow locally the large volumes of talent necessary to run a globalized economy. Researchers, highly trained SEs etc are in high demand and there is simp
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by tisu32 6y ago
That's not quite true in my opinon. Take your example of academia. Many students will chose to stay in the US after (if they can, because salaries tend to be higher than in many other countries) rather than depart. Also, instead of &qu
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by tisu32 6y ago
That's true, but there are many ways to "serve the nation". Note that a foreigner who comes to work in a country will also be a tax payer, the same way a US citizen is. In addition, given the barriers to entry, they might be
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by tisu32 6y ago
Alternatively, hiring internationally should be made a lot easier for highly technical roles. Facebook pays its foreign hires the same as Americans, so as to retain them. Making it easier to hire the most suited person (without thinking abo
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by tisu32 6y ago
An easy way to solve this issue would be to just liberalize the whole immigration process: for e.g. software development, research and any technical field, make it equally easy to hire either Americans or foreigners (whichever person is bes
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by tisu32 6y ago
From what I can tell as a complete layman, the title is quite sensationalist: the only process being reversed is telomere lengthening, which has a tenuous relationship with aging at best.
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by tisu32 6y ago
I found the article independently, linked on this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/longevity/comments/jwnqvu/aging_hyp...