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1.what fraction of the job market H1B workers took away?

2.among these jobs taken, how many were taken by H1B workers that are brought in directly from other countries?

3.how many are people who went through college/master/PhD eduction in the US and followed the rules and got H1B?

It must not be hard for DHS to gather these stats, right? It would be a lot easier to counter arguments/come up with strategies using these statistics.

It might be ok to make people with bad credit harder to purchase non life-essential stuff such as cars (you heard it, cars are not essentials in many countries), but they shouldn't be treated as criminals.

- a Chinese dragon because my father is born in the year of dragon (Chinese Zodiac)...

- a snake because my mother is born in the year of snake...

- a guitar because I like playing guitar...

- a gear-powered sun because I like steam-punk stuff and I like outdoor activities, a.k.a sunlight (link to the tat https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf4lxG3gNTG/?hl=en&taken-by=jaac...)

They are all rather superficial but I would unlikely regret having them.

A couple of years ago before I came to US as an undergrad, there were these test prep schools (e.g.New Oriental Education) in China that specialize in teaching students tricks about taking SAT test without actually studying the subject/course materials. Given that CollegeBoard has been doing poor job keeping the question bank updated, the prep schools would hire people to take the SAT exams in Hong Kong or other Asian countries and memorize the questions, in order to observe patterns and collect questions from the Collegeboard question bank.

I spent a summer at New Oriental prep school in Beijing and learned absolutely nothing in terms of actual subject materials, but all these tricks about how to "guess" answers without understanding the questions/statements for the reading section, which is the weakest point for a lot of Chinese students. For writing, we were taught to memorize famous people's life stories such as Jack Welch, Bill Gates, the founders of Starbucks, etc, to fill up bulk of our essays (wouldn't the graders grow suspicious if a lot of people are citing Jack Welch's life story in their essays??). Math is whatever. Most high schoolers in China wouldn't have much problem with SAT math.

I quit the prep school half way and did self-learning instead, and I am glad I did that. My score wasn't fantastic, 2040 compared to all the 2300s and 2400s out of that prep school, but not until I came to college did I find people with perfect SAT scores but could barely communicate with people in English, read, not to mention understanding lectures, etc.

I understand that from a nowadays developer perspective, innovation is held in high regard and rightfully so. However, NO ONE can innovate constantly and forever. A competition race such as the cloud pricing Google vs. Amazon he mentioned is actually a good thing for customers from a economic standpoint. At some point, all companies have to slow down innovation and focus more on competitions and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That usually means refining existing products, rethinking strategies, retiring things that do not work and expanding to a new market space with a "me too" product (a "me too" product is a common strategy to tread new territory with relatively low risk).

I agree that people need SOME time to learn the ropes but with proper training, 2 years is enough to be good. Note that proper training doesn't mean practicing certain technique, scale or etude hundreds of times. Nowadays there are systems designed over the years by schools such as Berklee effective enough to make someone a good jazz musician within 2 years, similar to many athlete training systems. No system can make legends, but decent musicians for sure.

haha, this is an appropriate description about playing from free jazz pioneers like John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman

This is a good point.

I minored in music at college and studied both jazz and classical composition/theories. One key takeaway I had from my education is that notes that may considered to be dissonant in classical music are in many cases acceptable in jazz, given the chordal context and how a player chooses to resolve it as progression goes.

I'd even expand a bit further and say that not only musician's brains work differently, but also brain activities of the audiences might differ when listening to jazz and classical pieces. Typically a classical audience might be a bit uncomfortable hearing a dissonant note and treat it as a "wrong note" while a jazz audience might think a dissonant note as being temporarily "out of box" to create tension and expect it to be resolved later.

most likely all these assistants will give you the "sponsored" results first. The sponsored products always appear before highest rating ones whenever I do a search on Amazon, Google, etc.

http://www.ros.org/

This Reddit comment is pretty spot on regarding this case.

One of the attacks happened in a train station in Kunming where my parents' home is close to and caused mass casaulty in 2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack). Surveillance in the Uyghur area has got a lot tighter since. Just like the Middle East issues to US and other western countries, Ugyhur issues to China are quite complicated. However, if the bottom line on stability/security of an area is crossed by a particular ethnic group (Uyghur Muslim in this case), maximum surveillance/crackdown would be imposed.

Areas such as Tibet, Xinjiang and Yunnan tend to get heavier surveillance treatment given their track record of independent movements. Yunnan once had its own independent military force called Dian Jun (滇军) but it soon got acquired by the Chengdu military force after the Sino-Vietnamese war due to trust issues between the Yunnan local government and the central Chinese government.