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bystander2026··on Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom
Let make British East India Tea Company Great Again!
bystander2026··on Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom
No problem, the American military will now have a job to invade other countries for its new colonies. I support going back to colonialism. This time it will not be the British East India Tea Company. Can we call it American East India Tea Company?
bystander2026··on Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom
Wrong. I'm SE Asian background but American. Why should Americans compete with Indians from India in America? Just because globalists enable it, it doesn't mean Americans are OK with it.
bystander2026··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
But we don't want 50 million Indians in the USA. Is that balanced? We should have 1% each from all countries in the world. We don't want USA to become mini-India!!!
bystander2026··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
What does it mean to be an American citizen? Do we even have a country anymore if we allow millions of H1B from India to come? Do you even think what is the right number of eventual immigrants and from what country? Do we want the USA to be half India?
bystander2026··on Iran is going after America's debt it's targeting the $40T America owes
Ghalibaf for Nobel in Economics??? How's about Nobel Prize for keeping a medieval system running in the 21st century?
bystander2026··on Iran is going after America's debt it's targeting the $40T America owes
This discussion is entirely stupid from the view of Iran.

What is Iran's situation? Spent money on weapons and spreading terrorism in the Middle East. Spent money to build ballistic missiles and nuclear weapon. What is so special about this country vs North Korea? It has oil.

Now it can't export oil or accessing its money on international state.

Don't bother trying to compare to the USA. We have a different problem. Which country you rather be in? Iran or USA?

bystander2026··on Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
The US Constitution would be dead if the USA has 51% of people like Ankit Gupta! Money and wealth mean nothing if we do not have the country of the American people, by the American people, and for the American people. I came here as a 14-year-old kid from Vietnam. I have lived in this country for 41 years. I am still in awe thinking of the American soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen who went through what they did during ww2 to provide us a stable world in the last 81 years.

I grew up immersed myself in American history. I told countless people in my life: I am grateful for America, and I came here to be American.

bystander2026··on Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
Congress is the problem:

John Miano, an attorney with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), said the debate speaks to fundamental questions about the role of the United States and its immigration system.

"The center of this dispute is over what America is. I, and I think most Americans, believe America as a nation state; a commonwealth for the improvement of its citizens. Mr. Gupta clearly views America as an [economic] zone. The graves at Arlington and cemeteries around the world are not the product of Americans fighting and dying to save an economic zone. I would not want to share a foxhole with Mr. Gupta," he told Fox News Digital.

He added, "There is no such thing as the [Libertarian] ideal of economics without borders. I would wager that Mr. Gupta opposes open borders regarding intellectual property. The H-1B program is designed to replace Americans with cheap foreign workers. The U.S. Congress is apparently the only national legislature that has voted to make it explicitly legal to replace citizens with foreign workers, as it has done with H-1B. The H-1B wage system is designed to allow employers to pay H-1B nonimmigrants extremely low wages. The biggest problem with H-1B is that it works exactly as Congress designed it to work."

bystander2026··on Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon also weighed in, sharing a lengthy post criticizing what she described as abuses of the H-1B program and other foreign-worker programs.

"Our federal (and most state) employment laws mandate a level playing field for American workers vis-à-vis foreigners — yet many American tech (and other) companies prefer to hire cheaper/exploitable foreign workers to do routine jobs Americans could do, and they do this by failing to post jobs on their normal hiring channels (PERM violations), letting foreign-born hiring managers pipeline cheap foreign labor from body-shop mills over American workers (H1-B abuses), lie about their eligibility for no-cap H1-B hiring, abuse other visa categories such as J-1 visas (we see you, universities!), abuse OPT hiring to get cheap, exploitable foreign labor, and sometimes — getting super arrogant, gaslight laid-off and sidelined Americans while doing any of the above," she wrote.

bystander2026··on Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
And Indian bosses will bend over backward to bring the next Indians in over Americans. I have seen it at where I work.
bystander2026··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Too much political noises and not enough fact.

Why would any country not to have the following:

Industrial based

Customers based

Stop focusing on exporting too much.

bystander2026··on AI makes programming differently difficult
I am tired of all these AI is so smart vs AI is not so smart. AI is a tool. It is like CNC machine tools or robotics in manufacturing.

How's about a test? Put all the smart AI researchers/developers onto an airplane that its software was entirely created by AI. Now tell that airplane to travel around the world with airborne refueling and land at an airport. When will this happen and how many of AI advocates will get on this autonomous airplane?