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I'm honestly not sure about that. I work closely with defense stakeholders both on the Hill and off the Hill, and a lot of the conversations about Chinese power projection sort of seem eerily sim…

No offense but I think you are being obtuse. When applying for an H1B for an employee you need to pay the prevailing wage, or the application will most likely be rejected by USCIS. At this point, the …

I'd disagree, H1B prevailing wages are around $115k/yr now. That plus USCIS backlogs have started pushing WITCH to use the Canada pipeline instead (bring H1B type hires to Toronto, where dev…

It's a lagging indicator. A lot of those South Asians tend to be 2nd or 3rd generation whose heritage is from the Doab and Mirpur who came to work in factories like the Michelin tyre factory in S…

For college educated and working class South Asians, the UK isn't a top migration priority anymore. In the UK, Wages are lower, prices much higher, and immigration much harder than to Canada or e…

I'm not making an argument one way or the other. I'm making a point that any discussion on the topics provided by the article above is useless as the article itself is just collateral that w…

* various submarine pieces OPPOSING antitrust in the tech industry

See, you say that, but the ITIF has publicly affirmed IP restrictions were critical to solving COVID and other innovations - https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29…

Slight caveat, the ITIF is an industry lobbying group for enterprise companies like IBM, Cisco, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Intel, and Amazon. I am a big supporter for investing in R&D as a nation (I…

Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation. Retail Marijuana sales have only just started in NYC around the same time as remote work, plus outdoor smoking was legalized barely a year ago, so…

It's already started. I know around 60% of companies in the vertical I work in have basically become entirely remote and this remote first position is heavily promoted.

The employers don't care. While they publish Clifford the Big Red Dog, they're also having extramarital affairs and fighting over scraps. [0] Pisses me off I enabled these guys asshole behav…

Interesting. I didn't realize new grad salaries in the dot com boom broke 6 figures. I would have assumed $70-90k base with maybe a 10% bonus plus equity. Or is that $100k total comp, not base sa…

Ehn maybe. I know some legitimately brilliant engineers who absolutely fucking hate code and once they grind up to staff, will nope to Engineering Management or Product Management. I liked code but at…

for your first point, I agree that you don't want a John Oliver style treatment. That was just problematic and innacurate (sadly, as most John Oliver segments are. they're a Dem pastiche of …

Agreed that I got triggered and completely derailed this thread, and totally apologize about it btw. It just gets annoying sometimes when people from any community (America, Nordics, China, etc) get o…

In SF, new grad SWE roles (non-FAANG) pay $130-140k base with TC reaching $200k with only 20-30 hours of work a week, which is massive compared to other white collar roles in SF (IB Analyst Base+TC co…

Yea. It was moment of venting tbh. I just get pissed off when a handful of commentators from Scandinavia act "holier than thou" when there is still some real racism and toxic commentary arou…

We gave amazing severance (near Google level), and chatting with some of the ex-QAs I'm friends with, they kinda Quiet Quitted and we're looking to early retirement, so power to them. Gotta …

100% this. And it's happening among my generation. There's a reason why words like "Tech Bro" are common parlance now. Also, us techies have 100% become the capital elite now. We a…

It is not when it shows how people in Tech have a level of undue capital influence in America in the 2020s. This isn't the 1980s-1990s anymore (which was 30-40 years ago at this point) when nerds…

It's SWEs as well. Leetcode grinding isn't hard if you have an Applied Math background, like a large portion of IBankers. Ironically, I don't meet many ex-IBs as a PM. Edit with additio…

This happened at my company. We offered our US based QA Engs a chance to upskill and become SWEs to backfill some open reqs. The QAs that didn't ended up being let go even though EngManagement ga…

This era is absolutely dominated by the tech worker class. The people my age who became tech workers (like me) would have become IBs in the 2000s, lawyers in the 90s, or relationship bankers in the 80…

You guys only value independence for Western Europeans. Alligevel vedtager I en "Ghettopakke", der lovligt legaliserede at splitte migrantfamilier fra hinanden. I er lige så dårlige som res…

Holy shit this is some short sighted cost cutting. The BBC's regional language radios have been a massive source of soft power for the UK. It is ridiculous to willfully shut down such a massive t…

There is value in letting non-Indians know, which is the whole point of the documentary. Everyone in India knows about Gujarat 2002, Babri Masjid, and the whole discourse and context around this, but …

No offense but I think you are completely ignoring the intent of my comment. I am not talking about post-Xinhai Revolution China. I am just showing that the idea of stable singular borders within the …

I wouldn't call that minimizing. That's just how the nexus between politics and industry works in India. The kind of business practices Adani did is very common in India, and they 100% will …