explainthisth

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by explainthisth 10y ago
These claims have very little in common with the facts on the ground. A Google engineer can afford a condo five miles away in Sunnyvale ($700k), or a house ($1M) if they have a partner earning decent money too. These prices are absurd, and
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by explainthisth 10y ago
Because the visas are distributed by lottery, and the largest number of applications are filed by Isfosys-type spammers. People with >$130k jobs in SV are being denied due to the $70k body shops spamming the lottery. If the spam goes awa
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by explainthisth 10y ago
This decision is not relevant to something like an AWS instance in the EU.
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by explainthisth 10y ago
Whether it is "your problem" or "their problem" depends on what you can do about it.
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by explainthisth 10y ago
Have you tried offering internationally competitive salaries?
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by explainthisth 10y ago
I'm really curious how this revocation of visas works in combination with the 90-day limit on the executive order. If the executive order is not extended, can they be un-revoked?
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by explainthisth 10y ago
I'm not saying it's morally right or wrong. I'm just saying the set of people that get H1B visas will change, and the shift will be toward higher-end jobs.
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by explainthisth 10y ago
Because it will become easier to import someone who is more qualified.
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by explainthisth 10y ago
It should make it easier for Americans to get the jobs Infosys is hiring for at $70k, and harder for Americans to get jobs from Google at $250k.
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by explainthisth 10y ago
The most economically productive businesses are located in the most expensive areas, because they get the highest ROI from hiring top employees. Skilled workers get paid less in MS because the national economy needs skilled workers less in
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by explainthisth 10y ago
How do you figure? Right now, consulting companies spam the lottery with shitty jobs. With the new system favoring quality $130k+ jobs there will be a bigger supply of good H1Bs to compete with. I'm very unsure about this, but thinking
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by explainthisth 10y ago
VC subsidy or no, a car service with the medallion capital cost will end up costing more than one without.
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by explainthisth 10y ago
I know people at the first two companies who work in SF. Not sure about the rest of the list.
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by explainthisth 10y ago
These police are employed by the DC city government, which is run by Democrats. Link to arrests of journalists which took place before Trump was president: https://www.google.com/search?q=dc+metro+police+arrest+journ... Whi
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by explainthisth 10y ago
That's not great evidence on where poor people are more likely to stay poor. You'd want to pick a level of purchasing power that counts as poor, a level that counts as not poor, and measure how many people moved between those leve
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by explainthisth 10y ago
Trump seems pretty unstable if you believe the leaks from the White House: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-tru...
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by explainthisth 10y ago
How about this? https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Light-Works-Amazon-Alexa/dp/B...
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by explainthisth 10y ago
5mph when passing? I hope they ticket runners too.
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by explainthisth 10y ago
While we're being condescending, it seems like some people have Zuckerberg derangement syndrome. Guess Aaron Sorkin's quasi-fictional biopic was effective. I don't see how anyone who reads this article will think Zuckerberg i
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by explainthisth 10y ago
The evidence "group A was hired more than than group B, and the effect was statistically significant" doesn't imply we should find a significant effect when comparing any other set of groups A, B, ~A, C, C^B, etc. It's g
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by explainthisth 10y ago
I hope your anonymous interview system can authenticate applicants properly. Because we get cheating attempts in the online screening test we use for hiring. Recently, we got five submissions from recent grads of universities around the cou
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by explainthisth 10y ago
This could be easily explained in a lot of ways. Here's an example that makes sense intuitively to me: popular conception of Oracle among Bay Area locals I know is that they are money-grubbing assholes (similar reputation to an investm