The math works out in favor of the H-1B candidate, even if you assume identical salaries. There are high fixed costs to acquiring and bringing up to speed a new employee. Employee tenure averages about 2 years, because the fastest way to advance in tech is to jump ship to a company with a better offer.
An H-1B visaholder finds it much harder to do that, and is stuck for 3-6 years, or even longer if they're trying to get a green card (while you can sometimes change H-1B sponsors, doing so restarts the green card process). Which means less turnover and much lower fixed costs.
Furthermore, the employer can offer much less in the way of raises and possibilities for advancement -- which feeds the cycle of his non-indentured employees jumping ship.
Usually, when I read/., I find a lot of people praising unbounded capitalism, the invisible hand, criticising unions because they've destroyed Detroit / they keep bad teachers from being fired / they forced Apple to resort to sweatshops in China.
But when it's turn for the invisible hand to slap the kind of people who usually post here, the comments have a much different tone and the proposals push in another direction.
The H-1B visa is not the "invisible hand" of "unbounded capitalism". It's a device of the rather visible hand of government intended to reduce the salaries of skilled workers.
Don't believe me? Sounds paranoid? Here's Alan Greenspan's testimony on the issue.
The second bonus would address the increasing concentration of income in this country. Greatly expanding our quotas for the highly skilled would lower wage premiums of skilled over lesser skilled. Skill shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. Quotas have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process, we have created a privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at noncompetitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of our income inequality.
Yeah, Alan, it's skilled workers who are the "privileged elite"... not those who own the companies who are paying them. Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Even though I frankly don't like libertarians and think they all come down to 2 camps, one who wants a government to whip the slaves and the other that would prefer to hire a goon squad to whip the slaves
Hey, that first group ain't true Scotsmen. Or libertarians. Whip your own damn slaves or hire a goon squad, but when you have the government do it you're just a fascist and there's no use pretending otherwise.
My guess is either Naomi Wolf is right and we'll end up another "el presidente" style third world shitholes or the Russian that predicted the breakup of the USSR a decade before it happened will be right and the USA will break up like the USSR did
The second seems unlikely; we don't have obvious geographic fracture lines the way the USSR did. The closest you could come -- breaking the coasts off of the center -- isn't viable in any case.
And don't even get me started on the massive pauouts to big pharma, I know multiple people stuck on disability NOT because they can't or won't work, but because drugs they could easily afford if they went across either border are so insanely priced here that they can't get their meds they have to have to function without being on disability. Hell one of my uncles takes a drug that cost $13k a year in Mexico, know what it costs the state (which means YOU) for the exact same drug? $123,000 a year!
While I'm no fan of big pharma, not all that money is just going to pay for mansions in NJ and PA and helicopters to fly between them. Part of what is going on amounts to a subsidy of those other markets by the US. So when the shit hits the fan, they'll go down with us.
If you have the skills you claim to have, you will have zero problem getting a $100k+ job in San Francisco or the Silicon Valley. The talent shortage here is absolutely ridiculous.
Unfortunately, so is the cost of living.
And then I come on/. and hear people whining about how there's no jobs...which I don't doubt that they truly believe, but you have to admit that there is a massive disconnect going on.
Wait until you're out of a job. Look around and see what you can find. Forget about big-name tech firms, you might be qualified but (unless you're already at or have been at another big name firm) unable to get their attention. What you'll find is virtual acres of job ads specifying requirements that no one is likely to actually meet, with (if they have numbers listed at all) ridiculously low salaries. And if you send resumes out to those, you hear nothing back from nearly all of them.
(it's gotta chap her ass to be following the NRAs lead after all these years of painting the NRA as the Devil. And the NRA doesn't even give a damn about video games; as others have pointed out they were just, mostly successfully, trying to deflect blame)
there's also the problem that due to a long two hundred plus year history of using this labor-saving device known as chinese people to build our railroads, infrastructure, factories, etc., we don't have much in the way of domestic production capabilities for many of the major components of modern IT systems.
Not a problem; we'll just settle our differences with Kim Jong-un and have the computers made in Kaesong, where labor is even cheaper.
Learn databases. Figure out how to make software which pulls data out of a database, does some simple calculations, then puts it back in a database. Also learn how to make software which takes data out of a database and puts it in a report. On the Microsoft side there's all sorts of frameworks and tools for this, and it's dead easy.
On the down side, you'll be ready to shoot yourself after a couple of months of this.
"Mini Cooper" isn't merely descriptive -- there's no large Cooper that a Mini Cooper is a small version of.
"M&M's Minis" indeed trademarked, but contains the disclaimer "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "MINIS" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN". The USPTO suggests that if Apple wants the mark, they should re-apply with a similar disclaimer (once they get past iPad itself being descriptive)
"Mac Mini" is not a registered trademark, nor is "iPod Mini"
"iPod Nano" is trademarked without the disclaimer.
"Micro Machines" has a disclaimer on "Machines". It's probably considered other than descriptive because it refers specifically to toy vehicles, not "machines" in a general sense.
The rejection states that "iPad" itself is also merely descriptive. If this holds up (and I doubt it will), Microsoft could make a "Microsoft iPad", and LG, Samsung, Asus, would also be able to make "iPad" devices of their own. This would be a disaster for Apple, but I seriously doubt it is going to happen.
As for evidence of harm, alcohol is poison. You can pussy foot around it all you like, but the fact of the matter is that once it's in your system your body does what it needs to do to get it out of your system as quickly as possible, because it is poison.
Aside from not being true, this is a dumb criterion for poison. You know something else my body tries to get out of my system as quickly as possible? Hit... err, I mean water. On the other hand, my body is perfectly happy to keep lead for long periods of time, incorporating it into my structure. Which one is the poison again?
First on their first visit there is no fine, there is no arrest, they calmly tell you that they know about the event and if you go forward with it, it will be shut down and you may be arrested. You have already committed the crime by promoting an illegal event.
The ordinance does not limit itself to "illegal events", whatever they may be.
Actually, that would be a great way to fund a terrorist organization: rig the standards for loans so that even horribly bad loans get approved (if it's an automated system, this is where the "cyber" comes in). Then you set up shell companies to "borrow" money. Not only are you funding your organization, if you co-ordinate the defaults you bring down the financial system as well.
This is going to be Marshall Kim's trump card. His troops can just walk into Seoul, while the US won't do a thing, b'cos they obviously don't believe that he's really going to war, regardless of all the missile tests that they've been launching.
Walk? It's a hell of a walk across those minefields, and clearing them the old fashioned way is pretty noisy and tends to get people's attention.
I think hydrogen fuel cells are a dead-end technology.
Probably. Hydrogen's a lousy fuel for a lot of purposes.
They're already able to give cars 150 miles worth of charge in 30 minutes and the batteries will last for many years before they need replacing.
Where many is "2". Long-lasting rechargeable batteries are like clean diesel, solar power or good fluorescent bulbs; there's always someone swearing that THIS iteration doesn't have the problems the previous iteration did. And they're always wrong.
...not for the cops engaging in pre-crime enforcement, but First Amendment violations related to the ordinance they passed. It's not a noise ordinance as others have been trying to make out, it's a fine for any gathering "which consitutes a violation of law OR [emphasis mine] creates a substantial disturbance of the quiet enjoyment of private or public property in a neighborhood. Behavior constituting a public nuisance includes but is not limited to excessive noise, obstruction of public ways by crowds or vehicles, illegal parking, the service of alcohol to underage persons, fights, and disturbances of the peace."
(note that "quiet enjoyment" is a term of art which doesn't refer specifically to noise)
It's overbroad, it's vague and it implicates the 1st amendment.
This is all wrong. I mean, you might want to validate anyway. But the best way to prevent injection is to only supply user inputs to methods that won't execute code contained in them.
Even if NK used one of the Nukes, there is no way the US would respond in kind. We know which way the wind blows, and it would not be necessary.
Perhaps not; neither China, Japan, nor South Korea would appreciate the fallout. But turning every military base in NK into a firestorm with conventional weapons and sending conventional bunker-busters into every possible hiding place for NKs leadership wouldn't be out of the question.
If you can't patent floating point math, I'm pretty sure you can't patent binary constants either. Haven't heard about this case in a while, but I'm sure it's been working its way through the system.
I wouldn't say so. Local regulations and permit procedures are what stop a lot of broadband deployments. Google chose KC for their fiber largely because of the lack of regulation. FIOS deployment has already halted largely due to regulations.
Much as I dislike regulation, FIOS deployment has halted because Verizon would rather spend the investment on mobile (which has a much higher ROI). It's not that there's no profit in FIOS, it's that there's MORE profit in mobile for the same dollar. And the barriers to entry (including all those regulations) keep (almost) anyone else from entering the fiber market.
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The math works out in favor of the H-1B candidate, even if you assume identical salaries. There are high fixed costs to acquiring and bringing up to speed a new employee. Employee tenure averages about 2 years, because the fastest way to advance in tech is to jump ship to a company with a better offer.
An H-1B visaholder finds it much harder to do that, and is stuck for 3-6 years, or even longer if they're trying to get a green card (while you can sometimes change H-1B sponsors, doing so restarts the green card process). Which means less turnover and much lower fixed costs.
Furthermore, the employer can offer much less in the way of raises and possibilities for advancement -- which feeds the cycle of his non-indentured employees jumping ship.
You wouldn't need to; enough of the original LED color gets through the phosphors to detect.
This isn't exactly a new idea; it's been known for years that you can read the data from an old-style modem's Tx and Rx LEDs from across the room.
The H-1B visa is not the "invisible hand" of "unbounded capitalism". It's a device of the rather visible hand of government intended to reduce the salaries of skilled workers. Don't believe me? Sounds paranoid? Here's Alan Greenspan's testimony on the issue.
Yeah, Alan, it's skilled workers who are the "privileged elite"... not those who own the companies who are paying them. Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Hey, that first group ain't true Scotsmen. Or libertarians. Whip your own damn slaves or hire a goon squad, but when you have the government do it you're just a fascist and there's no use pretending otherwise.
The second seems unlikely; we don't have obvious geographic fracture lines the way the USSR did. The closest you could come -- breaking the coasts off of the center -- isn't viable in any case.
While I'm no fan of big pharma, not all that money is just going to pay for mansions in NJ and PA and helicopters to fly between them. Part of what is going on amounts to a subsidy of those other markets by the US. So when the shit hits the fan, they'll go down with us.
Unfortunately, so is the cost of living.
Wait until you're out of a job. Look around and see what you can find. Forget about big-name tech firms, you might be qualified but (unless you're already at or have been at another big name firm) unable to get their attention. What you'll find is virtual acres of job ads specifying requirements that no one is likely to actually meet, with (if they have numbers listed at all) ridiculously low salaries. And if you send resumes out to those, you hear nothing back from nearly all of them.
Why do you hate freedom?
(it's gotta chap her ass to be following the NRAs lead after all these years of painting the NRA as the Devil. And the NRA doesn't even give a damn about video games; as others have pointed out they were just, mostly successfully, trying to deflect blame)
Not a problem; we'll just settle our differences with Kim Jong-un and have the computers made in Kaesong, where labor is even cheaper.
Learn databases. Figure out how to make software which pulls data out of a database, does some simple calculations, then puts it back in a database. Also learn how to make software which takes data out of a database and puts it in a report. On the Microsoft side there's all sorts of frameworks and tools for this, and it's dead easy.
On the down side, you'll be ready to shoot yourself after a couple of months of this.
A "defeatist" is simply a prophet who hasn't been proved right yet.
Signed, Cassandra.
"Mini Cooper" isn't merely descriptive -- there's no large Cooper that a Mini Cooper is a small version of.
"M&M's Minis" indeed trademarked, but contains the disclaimer "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "MINIS" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN". The USPTO suggests that if Apple wants the mark, they should re-apply with a similar disclaimer (once they get past iPad itself being descriptive)
"Mac Mini" is not a registered trademark, nor is "iPod Mini"
"iPod Nano" is trademarked without the disclaimer.
"Micro Machines" has a disclaimer on "Machines". It's probably considered other than descriptive because it refers specifically to toy vehicles, not "machines" in a general sense.
And yes, the USPTO is inconsistent.
The rejection states that "iPad" itself is also merely descriptive. If this holds up (and I doubt it will), Microsoft could make a "Microsoft iPad", and LG, Samsung, Asus, would also be able to make "iPad" devices of their own. This would be a disaster for Apple, but I seriously doubt it is going to happen.
Aside from not being true, this is a dumb criterion for poison. You know something else my body tries to get out of my system as quickly as possible? Hit... err, I mean water. On the other hand, my body is perfectly happy to keep lead for long periods of time, incorporating it into my structure. Which one is the poison again?
It was sailed for 50 years and only sunk because Capt Dumbass sailed it into a hurricane. Pretty good for a museum piece.
The ordinance does not limit itself to "illegal events", whatever they may be.
Damnit. Not only did slashdot eat my e ague, it changed my 1941 to 1942. (that's my story and I'm sticking to it)
Actually, that would be a great way to fund a terrorist organization: rig the standards for loans so that even horribly bad loans get approved (if it's an automated system, this is where the "cyber" comes in). Then you set up shell companies to "borrow" money. Not only are you funding your organization, if you co-ordinate the defaults you bring down the financial system as well.
This is the same South Korea where the DMZ is a tourist attraction. There seems to be a rather blasé attitude, but that doesn't mean nothing's going to happen. After all, there was all sorts of partying going in in Honolulu on December 6, 1942.
Walk? It's a hell of a walk across those minefields, and clearing them the old fashioned way is pretty noisy and tends to get people's attention.
Probably. Hydrogen's a lousy fuel for a lot of purposes.
Where many is "2". Long-lasting rechargeable batteries are like clean diesel, solar power or good fluorescent bulbs; there's always someone swearing that THIS iteration doesn't have the problems the previous iteration did. And they're always wrong.
...not for the cops engaging in pre-crime enforcement, but First Amendment violations related to the ordinance they passed. It's not a noise ordinance as others have been trying to make out, it's a fine for any gathering "which consitutes a violation of law OR [emphasis mine] creates a substantial disturbance of the quiet enjoyment of private or public property in a neighborhood. Behavior constituting a public nuisance includes but is not limited to excessive noise, obstruction of public ways by crowds or vehicles, illegal parking, the service of alcohol to underage persons, fights, and disturbances of the peace."
(note that "quiet enjoyment" is a term of art which doesn't refer specifically to noise)
It's overbroad, it's vague and it implicates the 1st amendment.
This is all wrong. I mean, you might want to validate anyway. But the best way to prevent injection is to only supply user inputs to methods that won't execute code contained in them.
Aww, that's just police courtship.
Perhaps not; neither China, Japan, nor South Korea would appreciate the fallout. But turning every military base in NK into a firestorm with conventional weapons and sending conventional bunker-busters into every possible hiding place for NKs leadership wouldn't be out of the question.
If you can't patent floating point math, I'm pretty sure you can't patent binary constants either. Haven't heard about this case in a while, but I'm sure it's been working its way through the system.
Much as I dislike regulation, FIOS deployment has halted because Verizon would rather spend the investment on mobile (which has a much higher ROI). It's not that there's no profit in FIOS, it's that there's MORE profit in mobile for the same dollar. And the barriers to entry (including all those regulations) keep (almost) anyone else from entering the fiber market.