Understood. Any real counter-examples though? Any examples of companies breaking the rules and facing enforcement actions? Is "hire locals first" 25% fictional, or 80% fictional, or 99.9% fictional?
The "hire locals first" rule keeps getting brought up to defend the H1B program. I'd like to know how phony that argument is: partly, mostly, or entirely phony.
Genuine question here. Companies are supposed to hire local people if they are available and H1Bs only when there are no qualified locals. The question is:
Have any of you ever been hired instead of an H1B because you are local? Have you ever heard of a situation where a company wanted to hire an H1B but ended up having to hire a local person instead because of this requirement?
In my experience, the idea that H1Bs only get hired if there are no locals available is complete fiction. Has anyone ever seen this rule help a local person get a job instead of an H1B?
Yes! People in contrived situations frequently need contrived answers. They should teach young people how to avoid being a character in a simplistic parable.
I think a lot of people would rather have Netflix. Does the existence of Netflix preclude anything anyone else wants to do? Because not having DRM available precludes Netflix, and a lot of people seem to value Netflix.
I don't understand how that's an important "problem". So what if some people say a story is misleading when it's actually not? You check another source and verify the story is real.
All it would take for a fair system is for Facebook to let news viewers vote Real/Misleading/Unknown and show the percentages underneath like "30% real/60% misleading/10% unknown". You see a large percentage of Misleading, you can double check the story.
Why would Facebook choose to hire a group of "fact checkers" instead? Unless they wanted "fact checking" to be biased is a particular way...
Something with DRM is always never an idea of the century cause it will never last a century before it's not possible to consume that idea anymore: it is locked away with DRM, illegal to decrypt.
Most of us just want to watch Netflix rather than worrying about whether people a century from now can still watch Bojack Horseman.
It matters that Chicago police and Chicago government spend their time harassing innocent people instead of catching criminals or solving their social problems.
I have a legitimate question for anyone reading this topic:
Have you ever been hired instead of an H1B because you are local and available to work? Have you ever had to hire a local person instead of the H1B you wanted to hire because a local person applied? Have you ever heard of this happening in real life? How did it work out?
From what I've seen of the hiring process, this doesn't happen. But my experience is limited. I'd be really interested to hear of it actually happening and how it went.
Yeah, but technology isn't "distributed", it's created and built by people who give up other opportunities to spend their time creating and building it. Then those people trade for it to recoup their invested time and effort and lost alternative opportunities.
It's not magic. We work hard every day to make it.
Anything that increases productivity raises output, and therefore value, of the people producing. You'd expect that to make them richer.
A farmer with a tractor eats better than a farmer with an ox. This shouldn't be a big revelation.
It's only a problem if labor supply is in surplus. Is it? Will it be? When? By how much? Show how you arrived at that conclusion. And stop bothering us with "imagine a scary world" scenarios. We have enough phony drama already. Thanks.
The government should stop funding public universities and giving financial aid to students to go to those universities if the universities outsource to offshore companies.
What government? The government of California mostly represents the interests of the government of California. What's their incentive to change a policy that benefits them?
UCSF will educate foreign students. Colleges in the UC system and most other state-sponsored colleges nationwide actually prefer foreign students. Locals pay less through in-state tuition discounts while foreign students pay considerably more.
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Understood. Any real counter-examples though? Any examples of companies breaking the rules and facing enforcement actions? Is "hire locals first" 25% fictional, or 80% fictional, or 99.9% fictional?
The "hire locals first" rule keeps getting brought up to defend the H1B program. I'd like to know how phony that argument is: partly, mostly, or entirely phony.
That's why the requirement to hire locals first seems to be largely fictional. Companies hire who they want to hire, not who they don't.
Genuine question here. Companies are supposed to hire local people if they are available and H1Bs only when there are no qualified locals. The question is:
Have any of you ever been hired instead of an H1B because you are local? Have you ever heard of a situation where a company wanted to hire an H1B but ended up having to hire a local person instead because of this requirement?
In my experience, the idea that H1Bs only get hired if there are no locals available is complete fiction. Has anyone ever seen this rule help a local person get a job instead of an H1B?
Yes! People in contrived situations frequently need contrived answers. They should teach young people how to avoid being a character in a simplistic parable.
All meals take the same amount of labor to source and prepare?
Often people write or say things with the intention to be understood.
I think a lot of people would rather have Netflix. Does the existence of Netflix preclude anything anyone else wants to do? Because not having DRM available precludes Netflix, and a lot of people seem to value Netflix.
I don't understand how that's an important "problem". So what if some people say a story is misleading when it's actually not? You check another source and verify the story is real.
So you are seriously saying Netflix could operate without DRM? Why doesn't someone operate a service like Netflix with no DRM then?
All it would take for a fair system is for Facebook to let news viewers vote Real/Misleading/Unknown and show the percentages underneath like "30% real/60% misleading/10% unknown". You see a large percentage of Misleading, you can double check the story.
Why would Facebook choose to hire a group of "fact checkers" instead? Unless they wanted "fact checking" to be biased is a particular way...
That's why no one buys computer games on Steam.
Something with DRM is always never an idea of the century cause it will never last a century before it's not possible to consume that idea anymore: it is locked away with DRM, illegal to decrypt.
Most of us just want to watch Netflix rather than worrying about whether people a century from now can still watch Bojack Horseman.
When you swing around the term 'obsessed nerd' like it's a cat ...
Who else knows what DRM is and also thinks they should fight against it for ... some reason?
Does anyone seriously think Netflix could ever operate without DRM? No DRM, no Netflix or services like it.
2nd amendment ... muzzle loader flintlocks
If that's the standard, then "freedom of the press" only covers operators of hand-cranked printing presses. Obviously, that's not the standard.
It matters that Chicago police and Chicago government spend their time harassing innocent people instead of catching criminals or solving their social problems.
Here:
http://www.heritage.org/jobs-a...
It's super long and I haven't read it. Get back to us after you've read it and summarize please.
I have a legitimate question for anyone reading this topic:
Have you ever been hired instead of an H1B because you are local and available to work? Have you ever had to hire a local person instead of the H1B you wanted to hire because a local person applied? Have you ever heard of this happening in real life? How did it work out?
From what I've seen of the hiring process, this doesn't happen. But my experience is limited. I'd be really interested to hear of it actually happening and how it went.
Personally, no. I'm more like the guy who maintains and configures the software used to design the tractor.
Yeah, but technology isn't "distributed", it's created and built by people who give up other opportunities to spend their time creating and building it. Then those people trade for it to recoup their invested time and effort and lost alternative opportunities.
It's not magic. We work hard every day to make it.
Yeah. The capital is what creates the productivity improvement.
Anything that increases productivity raises output, and therefore value, of the people producing. You'd expect that to make them richer.
A farmer with a tractor eats better than a farmer with an ox. This shouldn't be a big revelation.
It's only a problem if labor supply is in surplus. Is it? Will it be? When? By how much? Show how you arrived at that conclusion. And stop bothering us with "imagine a scary world" scenarios. We have enough phony drama already. Thanks.
The government should stop funding public universities and giving financial aid to students to go to those universities if the universities outsource to offshore companies.
What government? The government of California mostly represents the interests of the government of California. What's their incentive to change a policy that benefits them?
At the same price point, there is no reason for an employer to prefer the H-1B.
H1Bs can't quit without jeopardizing their residency.
UCSF will educate foreign students. Colleges in the UC system and most other state-sponsored colleges nationwide actually prefer foreign students. Locals pay less through in-state tuition discounts while foreign students pay considerably more.