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That's comparing Apples to tortoises. If an investor wants to invest/gamble on a startup, it's their prerogative. Same as if Bob's uncle wants to give him a small loan to buy into a franchise. I still expect both of them to pay rightful living wages to their employees. Owner's business problems are not the employees problem

What happens when private industry colludes to decide what "market" wages are?

This has literally happened even in Big Tech, leading to lawsuits within the last decade.

If a business can't pay a person working full time to satisfy their basic needs, their business model is not viable. If they can and don't pay so, it's plain exploitation. Ex. Walmart employees can't support themselves and rely on social services despite having a full time job.

Firefox has been far faster for me than chrome ever was (I have way too many tabs open that the same number would make chrome chug). It is also an interesting take to have while defending a browser that is actively hostile to the user.

So you want talented individuals to come in to prop up the economy for decades with their output, but forbid them trying to establish a normal family life in the country?

To be clear, ANY US Citizen or Permanant Resident can eventually bring in some families after an arduous and long process.

This is a non-existent issue with H1-B.

The current wait times for an H1-B from the Rest of the World(ROW) is around 10+ years to be a citizen. For India/China/Mexico, it's around 12-27 years to become a Permanent Resident if they applied for their I-140 before 2020. If they applied after 2020, it's currently estimated at 34-75 years!

Oracle is the one to look out for if/when the bubble bursts. Most of the big tech will be fine, albeit hurting for a while. For Oracle, this might be existential.

Could also be the hack and slash layoffs are starting to show its results. Removing crucial personnel, teams spread thin, combined with low morale industrywide and you've got the perfect recipe for disaster.

What do you do with your phones that it doesn't last more than 24 months? I've had only two iPhones for almost 11 years. An iphone 6s and currently an iPhone 13 mini there entire time. They're solidly reliable

Have you tried cleaning out the lint in your phone's port? For me, that was it and my Mazda CX-5 connects fine every single time after I did that.

Unless your firm is offering a solid paycheck and a 6 month severance package a la Netflix, no rational candidate is going to bet on a place that'll boot you in 3 weeks because they felt "the vibes are off". You'll be self selecting for only the most desperate candidates in the market trying to get a job.

Fun test. 4/10

I never realized how absolutely massive a blue whale can be!

5-7 years isn't that long ago and it was just as terrible back then. Yeah, the same "leaders" now have infected other tech companies with their culture and are actively ruining the industry.

E-1/2/3 visas are treaty investor visas. These are pay to play visas.

We're talking about EB-1/2/3 which are not visas.

O-1 is a real visa, but also really expensive and limited to niche conditions, also not what we're talking about here.

I know this sounds crazy, but Wikipedia is completely wrong calling it a visa. It's a "visa classification", you still need an underlying visa to enter into the country. Most O-1 Visa holders and some H1Bs get classified under EB-1, individuals with advanced degrees, experience get classified under EB-2 but hold H1-B / L1 visas, etc. You can be under H1-B and not have a classification (no PERM).

If you don't believe me try to find an image of an actual EB-1/2/3 visa, I'll wait.

Source : Former F-1/H1B visa holder classified under EB-2, with over a decade of experience dealing with USCIS paperwork.

There's no such thing as an EB-1/2/3 Visa. These are filling classifications for green card processing. 80% of H1Bs fall into the EB-2 category when they file for PERM.

The HN generated headline turns this into clickbait. The actual headline is really ".. White House (says)". This headline just turns it into a qualified fact when it isn't.

Maybe we should fix that instead. Even the playing field for all, so there's no real incentive to hire H1B over a citizen. They can still hire H1Bs where the is a real shortage of talent. By providing H1Bs a bigger timeline like maybe up to a year to find employment in cases of layoffs, they won't be forced into crappier working conditions.

Or just really hard to detect with existing technology. Combine that with the vastness of the universe, it's not a unreasonable take.

Most of the world does pharmacy dispensing of medicine just fine or much better without the byzantine bureaucracy that it is in the States. Pharmacists in the US is the epitome of regulatory captured job security.

No it's not. The absolute vast majority of professional and personal emails go through the big 3, Gmail, Yahoo, msn/hotmail/outlook. What we need is better laws to ensure email is treated similar to utilities with strong consumer protection and appeal system, not victim blaming.

Coming into the comments section after reading the article to find the prime example of the "smart" person is just so amusing to me.

Japanese waiters will literally refuse your money of your try to tip. It's literally insulting to them if you offer more than asked for

No, it's not. The limit of new is universally capped at 85k. They can request as many applications as they want. The lottery still only picks a total of 85k

I've tried my absolute best to not buy from Amazon and it's incredibly difficult.

A lot of manufacturers just point to their Amazon page to buy. The few you think isn't, will just ship from Amazon based on the boxes that gets sent and quite a few times I ended up paying more for this pleasure. A lot of stuff just isn't anywhere else either.

If manufacturers really care about getting out of Amazon's vice, they should first start to do their part of the heavy lifting.

How does that even work? If labor has no income to spend on goods and services. where is the return on capital coming from? Isn't this halting velocity of money, thereby making it useless? Can someone smarter explain this to me.

The vast majority of foreign born founders and CEOs have come from the H1B or L1 programs (L1Bs tend to transition over to H1B most of the time unless they get their GC early). The ones with an easier avenue to acquire a GC do so before they become founders. If not, they tend to go with the transient H1B program, or move to another VISA that is more appropriate for entrepreneurs.

Legal, medical insurance, and the general understanding that you're an employee of the company and it comes with all the benefits of being one. True, you can get fired at anytime for no reason at all, why would anyone with any option choose a place that says they will maybe explicitly fire you after a certain period? Might as well get hired at Netflix which has a similar perform or out culture where you are guaranteed a very high salary and a generous severance.

Just go to a regular place of employment. I've never seen any place with these kinds of deviant methods and process end up be a remotely successful company or an actual good employer.

> ... put AI into the hands of the right people. That is, this powerful but dangerous tool must be developed responsibly and safely by a stable democracy, such as the UK.

What level of delusion is this supposed to be? I don't like big corps in control of AI either, but a nation that previously colonized and enslaved large swaths of the world's population didn't sound enticing either.

Ola is an Indian homegrown version of Uber/Lyft. They have pretty identical flow of hailing a cab via an app. There's some localized features like hailing autorickshaws, hailing motorcycles for single person riders. Not sure if they still have it but for a while they did have an implementation to hail via SMS for smartphone users with limited/slow data connections.

I don't know how you managed to equate it to ambition. But for what it's worth, the people I've seen climb to apex positions -- Principal Engg, Architect, Director, etc. tend to be the ones that stayed at the same company for a long time. They tend to have substantial amount of influence that even the higher ups didn't.