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You cannot naturalize in the US without a green card. Almost all Indian nationals who immigrated to the US since 2010 were born in India and as a result of the country of birth backlog will never ge…

Much of the VFX and CGI industry is already in India. Movies and shows like Inception, Interstellar, Ex Machina, Tenet, Dune 1&2, Odyssey, Chernobyl, Foundation, and The Last of Us were VFXed in l…

This article is about the Indian reverse brain drain, so Indian tech jobs outlook is what matters. And it's true by and large - most Indians who immigrated to the US after 2010 will never becom…

> Either they're really bad at picking, or the job is really bad Def the latter in the sense that it is a very high stress job with weak compensation and high risk of being targeted.

Look at their salaries. Most are earning significantly less than what they would have earned in the for-profit sector for the same role in a significantly more stressful job. Compensation only started…

The same as any other organization - they would not be able to attract or afford the right talent. Also, these are not Silicon Valley numbers. Similar roles as those listed would pay 1.5-2x in the pri…

Yep. I'm using "most" in place of many (I can't always be typing in academic prose on HN - it gets tiring at some point). The actual number is 20% of all Canadian immigrants leave …

> If young people want to enter the capitalist thunderdome we should encourage them to go off to the U.S. and instead focus on raising a generation that isn’t interested in money at any cost... How…

FYI most Canadian immigrants also leave Canada once they become Canadian. Plenty of my family did that, and if we didn't first immigrate to the US we would have done the same as well decades ago.…

There's nothing wrong with asylum or immigration as long as it's also paired with vetting. The issue is, vetting is hard and most countries suck at doing background checks due to a lack of…

In this specific case, the gang would not have existed if Sweden had stricter asylum laws and background checks in the 1980s-90s. Much of the Foxtrot Gang is associated with the PUK as much of the Kur…

"Since 2022, the Foxtrot Network is thought to have been responsible for about 35 murders as well as a number of attacks and attempted attacks on Israeli targets in Europe including two involving…

Not true. Plenty of UN treaties have been signed but stalled on ratification.

E-Evidence sharing is just a subset of the broader UN Cybercrime treaty which has been signed.

So has Australia, the EU, and the UK [0]. That said, being a signatory has limited impact as long as it isn't ratified. [0] - https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?s…

Yeah I can see why that left a bad taste.

> Those with a liberal arts education do indeed look down on STEM educations as merely a trade Maybe it's a generational thing, but I haven't noticed this amongst my peers and those young…

Tbf, Caltech is also a much more self selecting student base. Plenty of my MIT friends explicitly chose MIT over Caltech because they wanted a technical education but also the freedom to deep dive in …

That doesn't preclude minoring or double majoring - which is what plenty of my peers who were also STEM majors often did (as did I) Concentrating on monetizable skills is critical, but most colle…

There's nothing inherently wrong with theological education assuming it is also clubbed with other curricula and is not dogmatic in nature. Most major theological programs in the US like Harvar…

I've always been a huge proponent of CMU, UIUC, and Stanford's CS+X programs for this very reason. Innovation is inherently interdisciplinary, and learning how to synthesize multiple differe…

In California, a big difference is earthquake retrofitting. Older houses often aren't retrofit until sale, and retrofitting is expensive. Also, I've noticed newer houses (2000s-present) are …

My parents are not boomers (they're Gen X), but kept their marginal mortgage because the capital they would have used to fully pay off the mortgage could be better deployed in a mixture of invest…

And that isn't how or why layoffs are happening as someone who has made those calls. AI is being used as a scapegoat, but a lot of this is just rightsizing of headcount as I've previously me…

Not all households are as dysfunctional as the ones you described. And there's a reason why trust and wealth planning has becoming increasingly common. And while I am optimistic about AI's c…