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by podric 3y ago
H-1Bs actually tend to get paid higher wages than their American counterparts as per this 2017 Glassdoor study: https://www.glassdoor.com/research/h1b-workers/
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by podric 4y ago
I am not purporting that the H-1B program has no effect on tech wages, just that it has a negligible effect due to its small cap relative to the number of tech jobs available. Any increase in labor supply would have some effect on the wage
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by podric 4y ago
The idea that H-1B workers suppress US wages is a harmful myth that gets thrown around HN a lot. The study that supports the claim that the H-1B program suppresses US tech wages is about 20 years old, and no longer reflects the current real
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by podric 5y ago
Maybe I'm an idiot but my curiosity got the best of me and I clicked the link. The photos just look like abstract modern art, although their perceptual hash may match that of known CSAM, I doubt that anyone who clicked the link will ge
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by podric 5y ago
Cool stuff! What are some great use cases that you'd like to see for 3D websites? Do the long load times of 3D websites relative to 2D ones affect search ranking?
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by podric 5y ago
Should there be a way to trademark your own name in order to prevent its misuse in creative works? That way, film studios should have to pay a licensing fee to have your name anywhere in the film or its marketing material. It's strange
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by podric 5y ago
Hades definitely has more interesting game mechanics, but it's more of a Roguelike ARPG than a classic ARPG. I also find its enemy design and atmosphere lacking in consistency and quality. It just doesn't have the dark, dangerous,
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by podric 5y ago
My point in bringing up the light meter is that in these "tree falls in the forest" thought experiments, it's taken for granted that your own biological senses are an absolute source of truth. But your eyes are just another s
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by podric 5y ago
Fair enough. By calling my comment uninteresting, have you also rendered yourself to likely be the most uninteresting person in the room, by the logic in your first paragraph? If so, who wins the title of the most uninteresting person in th
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by podric 5y ago
Are the Hacker News servers down when you're not on Hacker News? There are an infinite number of these types of logically pendantic questions that are immensely uninteresting to think about.
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by podric 5y ago
Uh, use a light meter? Your comment assumes that that only way to assess the presence of light is with your eyes.
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Ask HN: What are some valuable niches for early career SWEs to specialize in?
5 points by podric 5y ago|0 comments
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by podric 5y ago
My undergrad major had a 50/50 gender ratio and there were only a handful of romantic relationships to come out of it out of the hundreds of classmates I knew. So, I wouldn't count on finding your S/O in your university progr
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by podric 5y ago
Great response! I'm definitely saving it. What are some good examples of (4) for SWEs? I'm guessing topics like WebRTC, video codec algorithms, compilers?
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by podric 5y ago
I heard that being an early startup employee is also a great way to fast-track to a leadership/management position, as compared to working at a big corporation. Is there any truth to that?
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by podric 5y ago
An elderly asian person is more likely to die crossing the road to a bank than be robbed at a bank. I don't think you've been keeping up with the news of the wave of attacks targeting Asian elders. Many of them have been beaten
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by podric 5y ago
I can see many use cases: - A woman going home late after a night out needing to walk thru a dangerous neighborhood - Elderly Asian person who needs to withdraw money from a bank - Urban photographer who wants to photograph abandoned buildi
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by podric 5y ago
What a brilliant idea from a business standpoint! Just like how rideshare apps increased the availability of car services in areas underserved by traditional taxies, on-demand security services like this can provide value in a similar way,
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by podric 5y ago
The perceived bad quality of Chinese products is partly a deliberate marketing strategy to make products that prioritize low price over quality, and partly due to lax standards relative to countries like the US. It's a lousy argument t
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by podric 5y ago
I think that you'll be able to find the work environment I described in most major metropolitan areas in the US. It might be harder to come by in smaller metropolitan areas or rural areas.
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by podric 5y ago
It may not be true in your experience but it does exist. I've worked in several diverse offices in the US where it's exactly like that. Race/sexual orientation hardly ever comes up as a political topic and colleagues are gene
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by podric 6y ago
Why do black people deserve special treatment above other disadvantaged demographics, like Appalachian whites, Cambodian Americans, Laotian Americans, whose median incomes are lower than that of Black Americans?
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by podric 6y ago
How do you quantify the "in part" portion of that definition: "intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group"? What's the minimum number or percent of a group that must be targe