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woemon Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones

Could the wireless carriers track phones even if they were carrier unlocked or factory unlocked?

woemon Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

Could you please explain how the article is conflating the minimum with wages actually paid? It gives the number of H1Bs by wage level in Table 5. So, wage level 1 would be those with wages between 17 and 34 percentile, right?

woemon Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

A Software Engineer in the SF area with 4+ yoe would need to make $250k+ in base salary.

woemon Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

About 86% of H1Bs at Amazon, and 55% of H1Bs at Google won't make the cut anymore.

source: https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wa...

woemon The most prized degree in India became the most worthless

This is precisely why most top tech companies in India only hire from the top colleges (IITs, BITS Pilani, IIITs, NITs, etc). It's usually not worth their time to even interview someone who did not graduate from one of these.

This is also evident in the compensation for new grads. CS grads from lower ranked colleges typically make $5k-$10k per year, while those from these good colleges make $20k-$40k per year(gross). Exceptions exist of course.