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by zjaffee 8y ago
That's just not true, the thing to note is that no software engineers have been displaced to date in any clear way as a result of new tools. In the same exact way that software engineers are able to do far more complex work through the
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Think about how many people know how to use SQL or Excel functions. While the number of people knowledgable about writing C++ or Java won't reach this high of a level, there will be tools that are widely understood that enable people t
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The big issue with moving jobs to other countries more than anything else is timezones and language. Distributed teams across the US isnt much of a problem, but try working with people that have an 8 hour timezones difference and it's
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This also implies that the vast majority (if not all of their) loss is sales and marketing.
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Most of these companies aren't managing their own data centers at least for areas that use a large amount of compute. Banks and the like that have their own data centers, generally are still using some type of contractor to manage the
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It's believed that it would be cheaper for Twitter to have used cloud services (Snapchat spends less then they do on data center operations). There are certainly examples for big companies that benefit from having their own infrastruct
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Debt is the backbone of US GDP growth, money enters the economy as debt, is used to purchase something like a car or a house, subsequently it then reenters the banking system as the person who is being paid deposits their check, and then ge
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Deflation, which given a growing population would always be a given. In turn deflation makes the entire debt system collapse , which is the backbone of economic growth especially in the developed world.
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Economic growth is very heavily tied to increases in the money supply less inflation for developed countries. Without this debt, the cost of doing anything in our economy would be way too large and it would be very difficult for our society
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A country can engage in import substitution practices without large scale protectionism. Economies benefit from foreign direct investment, but suffer from excessive reliance on imports.
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How do you think roads get built? The vast majority these sorts of projects are built by contractors, where the public largely just employs full-time workers for the design/finance side of things and then also maintenance.
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Sea level rise is not a concern for the vast majority of countries for at least a century even in the most cynical climate change scenario.
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Traffic quality analysis is often far worse at a lot of these sorts of companies than you'd expect. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have an accurate analysis on the full scope of bots on their network.
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This is an unfair comparison, Amazon would've put HQ2 in Manhattan if they didn't get the tax deal. The tax break is specifically for bringing jobs to long island city.
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Because it is, these same politicians are the ones who created the tax breaks that amazon later decided to take advantage of. These are also the same politicians that in the past year designated the same area Amazon is going to be located i
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I don't agree with the poster above, but one common cited example is that emergency rooms are required to treat all patents regardless of their ability to pay. So they have to raise prices for everyone else in order to manage the risk
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One could argue that the level of data this network effect allows businesses to collect allows them to create a trust around advertising, which is in some sense true.
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It's that these companies have been VC funded for most of their existence, as they focus on going public, they realized they need to cut back.
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Right now H1B are equally exerting downward pressure on salaries at the top, middle, and bottom of the market. Salaries then in turn are falling by a relatively equal amount for everyone. If it is only targeted at the top, that hurts the ce
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There are more job codes for software engineers than just the one listed on that fact table. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... Additionally, you can see what degrees people are gradua
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by zjaffee 8y ago
You're wrong, look at the data. There are 75,000+ graduates of bachelors and masters programs in the US each year, with many more in related majors and in bootcamps, where the BLS data predicts an industry growth for software developer
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This would weirdly exert a greater downward pressure on salaries, as companies will have a higher supply of higher skill workers rather than just workers as a whole.
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A person with a PhD can easily get a green card, and if there was an amnesty law that passed today I'm sure it would be just as open to H1Bs as it is to any other illegal immigrant.
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This is only true for experienced professionals, and is something that will change in the next ten years given current metrics. Hiring new graduates whose qualification is that they have a computer science degree isn't difficult given
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You understand that the predictions for industry growth on those pages are virtually the same as the number of CS bachelor's degree graduates every year. We don't need to important more labor that that which is getting educated in
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Except it's not true that the US education system isn't producing enough educated prospective software engineers, the deficiency is entirely people at the higher levels. The predicted job growth by the BLS over the next ten years
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From an economics perspective, unless the hiring of more software engineers results in an increased demand for software engineers (i.e. there being a significant latent demand), H1B absolutely then lowers the earnings potential of engineers
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Do you have a source on these studies you are saying talk about how immigration increases wages. It's the general understanding that increase imigration would lower wages for those towards the bottom of the pay band for any given profe
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Also add on the fact that in Seattle the tipped minimum wage is 12/hr, where you only need to serve 20 dollars an hour worth of food in order to be making above minimum wage with tips should you also be busing your own tables.
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It should also be noted that the need to tip for the perspective of workers having a decent standard of living varies a ton from place to place. In Seattle the tipped minimum wage is 12 dollars an hour at small employers and doesn't ex

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