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by redditmigrant 4y ago
Given how large ecommerce has gotten in China, it begs the question, are credit cards truly the necessary pillar? ECommerce even in the US is extremely top heavy, with Amazon having ~40% share, so while the allure of a random ecommerce site
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by redditmigrant 4y ago
This internet kid of 90s fever dream of an internet thats free and federated is just not gona happen. All evidence we have so far suggests that the scale at which internet is at, the larges opportunities will be in solving for the "non
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by redditmigrant 4y ago
> He's the largest owner of American farmland. There is 900 million farm acres of farmland in the US. Bill gates owns about 270K acres of farmland. So even though he is the largest private owner of farmland, he owns less than 0.1% o
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by redditmigrant 4y ago
When it can be used as the reason a company succeeds, it should be used as the reason the company isn't doing well.
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by redditmigrant 5y ago
Its such a shame US is considered a great place to live. Sure you can have a good life, but at what cost? Your government props up dictators, goes and blows up a country over imaginary WMDs etc. etc. Is this what you imagined as being an en
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
This is obviously a good thing from a safety standpoint, but I worry we are increasingly becoming a one strike society. Where one instance of bad behavior locks you out of significant parts of the infrastructure. Moreoever this happens in a
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
Typically younger working age people are a net benefit to the system. They pay taxes, but their kids dont go to schools, they dont require as much healthcare (which can be publicly funded in some countries).
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
Rubber stamp? Have you ever tried applying for an H1b renewal? There is constant anxiety over ever changing rules and RFEs. Not to mention the run around to get a visa stamp every 3 years. Few thousand to get into green card line? Have you
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
The H1B can be and does get renewed by 100s of thousands of people. AC21 provision allows for an H1B to be renewed in perpetuity (even beyond 6 years) until an approved green card petition is pending. The approved green card petition can st
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
We have allowed 100s of thousands of Software Engineer immigrants. Are the hiring prospects of American software engineers impacted? This should be provable with at least a couple of decades of software engineer immigrants coming in.
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
You do loose status after 60 days in case of employment based green card applications which are approved but the so called priority date is not current. For 100s of thousands of people these priority dates will take literally decades to bec
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
So many folks here with a "its a good thing". The challenge that this rule also creates is that there are people in this country who have a spot in the green card line based on the US government approving their petition who have t
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
There are lots of articles on how vaccines cause autism also.
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
I do believe that you perhaps aren't tieing the program to the recipients. But I don't think the distinction between the program and the beneficiaries is clear to the average voter who likely hasn't ever met a person on an H1
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
"They are taking our jobs" is also overtly about labor but the jump to xenophobia happens pretty quickly.
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
It's tiring to keep hearing these stories and tieing them to H1B. Satya Nadella also started on an H1B, Sundar Pichai did too and so did Andrew Ng. Just those 3 combined have created more jobs than were lost here. So please, stop sprea
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by redditmigrant 6y ago
The title should be "StackOverflow now has a dark mode" instead of "StackOverflow has now a dark mode".
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by redditmigrant 7y ago
Umm, Both Japan and HK have a lot of people in a small space and have 1/100th of the absolute utter mindless chaos that prevails on the roads in Delhi/Mumbai.
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by redditmigrant 7y ago
I wonder if the current environment around tech will mean the predictions this time are more for status quo and for doom and gloom or slow declines.
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
If you agree to the basic principle that scientific ability and thought is equally prevalent amongst men and women, having fewer women scientists means we are not getting and developing the best scientific minds. Having as many women as me
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
You get paid what the "market" can afford to pay you. Lots of CEOs whose companies are going nowhere, have gone bankrupt get paid millions.
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
The discussion here is reflective of the problem that plagues immigration law. Any change to immigration system is not looked at through an incrementality lens, but through the lens of the overall system and its problems. This change makes
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
> Because you have illegal workers What data supports this frequently touted conservative notion? There could be other factors. Like for e.g. tomatoes can only be sold at $2/lb before they run into competition from imported tomatoes
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
As an investor what you would be betting on is that services revenue growth will be enough to compensate for the negative iPhone revenue growth. For the previous quarter, iPhone revenue was ~3.7x the services revenue. So if the iPhone reven
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
The term country quotas makes me so mad. Country quotas in the GC system are absolutely awful, because they base things on the one thing you cant change, where you were born. They favor iddly biddly countries like NZ, where the mediocre Kiw
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
The prestige most definitely exists and is especially relevant for people who dont have a strong public portfolio to show off their talent. An average developer from Google/FB etc. has an easier time getting access to opportunities tha
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
If co-relation isnt causation then you can say the same about becoming an open market too right? Also, there is a difference between government ownership of enterprises, private but domestic ownership and foreign ownership. China has tried
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
There is also the example of China which has policies that favor local companies and China has created dramatically more economic value for it's citizens than India's open market.
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
If they themselves say they discovered a product that they were interested in, how is that not value addition? Value isnt defined in your advertising free ivory tower.
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
Most of the time, the value I derive from this report is to gain a directional sense of the tech world that can then be combined with other insights to form actionable items. For e.g. in terms of investing, smartphone shipments are not grow

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