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anpk··on Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program
I agree its based on illegal practices. But quite a few of the businesses (not all obviously) do it for survival because that is the only way for them to stay in business.
anpk··on Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program
I agree the H1B program is abused, but I dont believe there is enough local talent to replace the tens of thousands of h1b workers.

It will result in a lot of small and mid size business closing down. Unfortunately I dont have any suggestions on improving the h1b program.

anpk··on Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program
> If the "most talented and highly-skilled" people only get "very mediocre salaries", it sounds like there is not actually a dire shortage of them

It's not always black and white. The same argument has been used against mexicans in low paying jobs. However you kick the mexicans out, farms and restaurants will collapse.

anpk··on Ask HN: Why isn't all stock trading done by algorithm?
I've been trying to find patterns (http://newsp.in). I dont believe its an exact science yet, but its always fun to try.
anpk··on The Buddhist Priest Who Became a Billionaire Snubbing Investors
> In a 2004 book on his philosophy, he questioned Japanese people’s increasing tendency to value leisure time.

That makes one of us.

anpk··on Read deleted comments on Reddit
On another article, I got an email from the hn mods (maybe bot) to repost as it was interesting but didn't get traction the first time around.

So I dont think its frowned upon.

anpk··on Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off
And making sure there is nothing cached
anpk··on Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day
Hate windows, but windows 3.1 was ground breaking for the tiime and was primarily the reason why computers took off.
anpk··on India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
I can access cryptbin from mumbai so I dont think the ban has been enforced.
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