Wake up. The average salary for H1B employees at Microsoft is $129k ( https://www.myvisajobs.com/Rep... ). Apple leads the pack with $147k. And this is the base salary, H1B regulations don't take into account relocation packages, RSUs and other bonuses.
$129k puts you into top 5% of the incomes in the US. These is pretty much the definition of a specialized high-qualification position.
You're looking at the very last step of the process - getting the citizenship. It's very easy and simple.
What takes most of the time is he US green card processing. They are assigned based on a country, so Chinese people will have to wait for about 6 years as of now to get a regular employer-sponsored green card.
You can look them here: https://www.trackitt.com/curre... - right now the USCIS is processing cases from 2013 for Chinese nationals. And it is even worse for India.
I work at Amazon. About 30% of my team are direct college hires. Amazon offered them a job straight after graduation.
All these college hires require mentoring and a huge investment - a college hire is generally not going to produce quality code from the start, but Amazon has to pay them anyway.
Still, it's very difficult to find engineers. As a result, my team is something like 90% immigrants (from all over the world).
Sounds like a terrible system. I really screwed up some of my exams because of a tragedy that hit my family, but was given another chance, went to university and recovered.
You can typically re-take tests or defer them a little bit.
School grades are not an unbiased indicator. Teachers might dislike certain students, there can be parent pressure on teachers to give their children better grades and so on. And don't forget the possibility of straight out corruption as well.
Standardized tests allow an outside unbiased evaluation of students.
What? Comey undermined Clinton _twice_. First when he publicly excoriated her for her personal email server use in June and then when he announced a new investigation just two weeks before the election.
There's no problem at all with building permits in Seattle. Multiple new apartment and condo buildings are being constructed, planned or have just been finished. There are also several upzones and new urban villages being planned.
And so far they've been consistently right about pollution. For example, externalities like mercury emissions from coal combustion are still not priced at all in the US (don't know about Germany but they are probably even worse after the nuclear phaseout). Then there's pure carbon cost - it takes a lot of energy to make 20-30 kilograms of steel and aluminum.
This simply means that externalities are not priced properly. For something material-heavy like a washing machine it's quite possible for externalities to be more expensive than the list price.
Why? I develop services at my dayjob so we're doing both maintenance and development at once. Sprints work perfectly fine - you reserve some time for predictable maintenance tasks and then allocate the rest based on needs. The idea of epics/stories/tasks also maps quite well onto this model.
The thing is, his model is basically curve fitting. It's a purely phenomenological model with lots of tunable parameters. And as Fermi said: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."
Meanwhile, CO2-based climate forcing has purely theoretical explanation. In the end it's a simple heat balance equation.
Correct. The temperature depends on the CO2 concentration, in an equilibrium system with long-time inertia and hysteresis. In early 1880-s the CO2 concentration had started to rise because of the rising fossil fuel use (coal) and so the temperature began to grow.
Actually, no. His model makes no sense whatsoever. It's basically "Pacific ocean warm, Ogg happy". Meanwhile, the warming in the recent 20 years is now way over 95% significance threshold. The acceleration of the global warming rate is also now statistically significant.
New medicines, unlike new CPUs, have 90% failure rate. Yes, you read it correctly, 90% of drug candidates fail during various steps of clinical tests for various reasons. The chief one amongst them is the lack of efficacy.
That's because modern drugs are way more selective than the blunt hammers of the initial chemotherapy drugs. They are designed to be selectively taken by certain cell lines, so they would affect only fast-dividing cells of certain type.
This is also why they fail - cancers simply need to evolve to not be sensitive to a particular compound, which usually involves knocking off expression of certain receptors.
Yet in the US women were severely underrepresented in chemistry. This kinda tells me that most of "women like" is simply a result of societal pressure.
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Wake up. The average salary for H1B employees at Microsoft is $129k ( https://www.myvisajobs.com/Rep... ). Apple leads the pack with $147k. And this is the base salary, H1B regulations don't take into account relocation packages, RSUs and other bonuses.
$129k puts you into top 5% of the incomes in the US. These is pretty much the definition of a specialized high-qualification position.
How are you going to tax cloud services?
You're looking at the very last step of the process - getting the citizenship. It's very easy and simple.
What takes most of the time is he US green card processing. They are assigned based on a country, so Chinese people will have to wait for about 6 years as of now to get a regular employer-sponsored green card.
You can look them here: https://www.trackitt.com/curre... - right now the USCIS is processing cases from 2013 for Chinese nationals. And it is even worse for India.
I work at Amazon. About 30% of my team are direct college hires. Amazon offered them a job straight after graduation.
All these college hires require mentoring and a huge investment - a college hire is generally not going to produce quality code from the start, but Amazon has to pay them anyway.
Still, it's very difficult to find engineers. As a result, my team is something like 90% immigrants (from all over the world).
Sounds like a terrible system. I really screwed up some of my exams because of a tragedy that hit my family, but was given another chance, went to university and recovered.
You can typically re-take tests or defer them a little bit.
School grades are not an unbiased indicator. Teachers might dislike certain students, there can be parent pressure on teachers to give their children better grades and so on. And don't forget the possibility of straight out corruption as well.
Standardized tests allow an outside unbiased evaluation of students.
What? Comey undermined Clinton _twice_. First when he publicly excoriated her for her personal email server use in June and then when he announced a new investigation just two weeks before the election.
If anything, he was Trump's tool.
Seriously? Which place is this?
There's no problem at all with building permits in Seattle. Multiple new apartment and condo buildings are being constructed, planned or have just been finished. There are also several upzones and new urban villages being planned.
Seattle is not SF.
And so far they've been consistently right about pollution. For example, externalities like mercury emissions from coal combustion are still not priced at all in the US (don't know about Germany but they are probably even worse after the nuclear phaseout). Then there's pure carbon cost - it takes a lot of energy to make 20-30 kilograms of steel and aluminum.
This simply means that externalities are not priced properly. For something material-heavy like a washing machine it's quite possible for externalities to be more expensive than the list price.
Can I dump lead batteries _near_ your property? Perhaps a little bit upstream to make sure the lead leaches out properly?
Hey, I would even buy a couple of square meters it'd take to place the batteries.
Talk to Comcast representative again. They do business IPv6 just fine. They also do it the right way, by prefix-delegating you a /48 network.
Why? I develop services at my dayjob so we're doing both maintenance and development at once. Sprints work perfectly fine - you reserve some time for predictable maintenance tasks and then allocate the rest based on needs. The idea of epics/stories/tasks also maps quite well onto this model.
The free bank era of antebellum comes close. The government was there, but it had been very weak and ineffective.
This is BS. H1B does not require "proving" anything. You don't even need to post a job opening publicly.
Ah, a Trump voter, I see.
The thing is, his model is basically curve fitting. It's a purely phenomenological model with lots of tunable parameters. And as Fermi said: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."
Meanwhile, CO2-based climate forcing has purely theoretical explanation. In the end it's a simple heat balance equation.
Correct. The temperature depends on the CO2 concentration, in an equilibrium system with long-time inertia and hysteresis. In early 1880-s the CO2 concentration had started to rise because of the rising fossil fuel use (coal) and so the temperature began to grow.
Actually, no. His model makes no sense whatsoever. It's basically "Pacific ocean warm, Ogg happy". Meanwhile, the warming in the recent 20 years is now way over 95% significance threshold. The acceleration of the global warming rate is also now statistically significant.
Oldie, but goodie: https://skepticalscience.com/g...
Why is that strange? CO2 concentration started rising in early 1800-s: https://robertscribbler.files....
New medicines, unlike new CPUs, have 90% failure rate. Yes, you read it correctly, 90% of drug candidates fail during various steps of clinical tests for various reasons. The chief one amongst them is the lack of efficacy.
That's because modern drugs are way more selective than the blunt hammers of the initial chemotherapy drugs. They are designed to be selectively taken by certain cell lines, so they would affect only fast-dividing cells of certain type.
This is also why they fail - cancers simply need to evolve to not be sensitive to a particular compound, which usually involves knocking off expression of certain receptors.
Yet in the US women were severely underrepresented in chemistry. This kinda tells me that most of "women like" is simply a result of societal pressure.
Learn your civics. Pay discrimination by sex is prohibited by law. It doesn't mandate the equal pay for everyone.