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BiologyRuleson Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program

Define lower middle class -- the median household income in India and China is $3000 and $6000 respectively. What is the average net worth of the households who send students to America?

BiologyRuleson Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program

Yes, but the original poster indicated that a masters from an American institution is typically required for STEM workers from developing countries. Only the wealthiest, not necessarily the best, can afford those masters degrees.

BiologyRuleson Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program

You make an interesting point. A master's in the United States, correct me if I am wrong, costs around $50,000. That sum is large for American students, but that sum seems unimaginable for middle class foreigners.

Are we getting the 'best and the brightest' with the H1-B (which we all agree is a good thing), or the richest and wealthiest willing to pay whatever it takes to get a visa?

BiologyRuleson Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it supposedly made money from

I interviewed at Theranos a year ago, and found the employees to be smart and dedicated.

However, the company was the most secretive I've interviewed at and the employees complained about being overworked. The fact the founder sold C++ compilers to Chinese universities when g++ is open-source sounded odd.

But I still had hope in them even after they passed on me -- a Silicon Valley company actually making a difference in the people's health. I WANT TO BELIEVE.

If this turns out to be smokes and mirrors, I'd be very saddened. Theranos' failure would confirm what everyone interested in biotech knows but wishes wasn't true: that advancements in this field do not move at the speed of the digital economy.

BiologyRuleson Government-backed egg lobby tried to crack food startup, emails show

Hampton Creek's plant based egg replacement is supposedly 18% cheaper than real eggs. A major advance if true.

BiologyRuleson How to Get Tenure

He says:

"Applying the cold logic so common in computer science to the cell biology of the disorder, we’ve started predicting therapies, some of which have since come to bear fruit and improved my son’s quality of life beyond measure."

I curious to read his research on this, but I haven't been able to find it here:

http://matt.might.net/#papers

It's mostly security/GPU/Static analysis stuff.

BiologyRuleson Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish

Looking at some of the studies in diseases that interest me on clinicaltrials.gov, I find most of the studies are very uninspired.