I'm actually surprised that software developers don'e have low-paid assistants straight out of college. There are many boring, repetitive tasks that could be offloaded to a smart but otherwise untrained person. And that person could learn software development as an intern or pair programmer as another option.
Eventually, you end up with double the productivity for about 1.25 times the cost.
Nope. Not true at all. If another company wants to take over their sponsorship, they can do that.
Source: I tried to hire my H1B friend from my old job at my new job. The only problem was that the new company was unwilling to keep his cousin as his "contract company", so his overall family compensation would have been worse (but he would have received more).
There was absolutely no problem transferring the H1B. The only issue is the number of companies that want to get involved in H1B hiring is smaller, since it's a bit of a pain.
Exactly. Kodak made film (SD cards), cameras, and photo paper (Shutterfly, Flickr, Instagram), and had a virtual monopoly on almost all of it. If you count all the makers of all those items in use today, you easily clear 130,000 without even trying.
But I would suggest that the average American today lives MUCH better than the average American in my parents' generation.
My parents were middle class to upper middle class. My family is also upper middle class.
Growing up, our refrigerator would be nearly empty a lot of the time. And we went out to fast food once a week and to a nice restaurant a few times per year only for special occasions. We now have so much food that our refrigerator and pantries are completely stuffed and we go out a lot more as well.
Growing up, we went without furniture in the living room for years. My wife and I furnished our house the second month.
My parents drove bottom of the line cars with no extras. I drive luxury cars with tons of extras.
We went on cheap vacations and didn't do almost anything on those vacations because it was "expensive". While we still do a lot of driving vacations, my family does a ton of stuff on those vacations. And we just went to New Zealand for 2 weeks. My family never did anything like that.
And just like my parents, I always pay off my credit cards every month, so this isn't a fantasy because I am hopelessly in debt. It's a reality.
The bottom line: it doesn't compare. At all. People ARE living longer, happier lives. And I could tell you about poor people in my parents' day and poor people today and I guarantee you that poor people today have WAY more stuff and live way better than they did back then too.
Definitely the individual has the ultimate responsibility for their career path and debt levels. But having universities and high school guidance counselors that are woefully out-of-touch with the job market doesn't help one bit.
Of course, a big part of the problem is inflation. There is no real reason things need to get more and more expensive.
Not true. Since the population keeps going up, you need to print more money or otherwise you'd have deflation, which causes hoarding and kills the economy.
A slight inflation is FAR preferable to the alternative.
But how many raincoats do 100 owners need? How many raincoats do 350 million Americans need? It doesn't work. The money may be there, but the need isn't.
This argument is so tired. H1B workers MUST get paid EXACTLY the same as US workers. Maybe they can swing $5000 less to offset the costs of the sponsorship program (oops, I mean because they are "junior"), but it's not like they are being paid half or anything.
Source: I've done H1B hiring. If they keep getting "your" jobs, that just means that they are better than you.
This happened to me during the recession. I was let go at the peak and it took me 3 months to settle for a job worth only 2/3 what I was making. That happens sometimes, and it has taken me years to get back where I was.
Then how does he know whether it's good or not. Oops, he better be careful.
Under Colorado law, Minor in Possession or Consumption of Alcohol, (MIP MIC) Colorado Revised Statutes Section 18-13-122, is punishable by a fine up to $250 for a first conviction, $500 for a second conviction, and a jailable Class 2 Misdemeanor for third and subsequent convictions. Penalties also include up to twenty-four hours community service, an alcohol evaluation or assessment, and an alcohol education program or alcohol treatment program, all at the defendant's expense.
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In my neighborhood, we had the cops who just sat around with radar guns all day while home invasion robberies were fairly common.
We fired the police force we were using from a neighboring city and replaced them with the county sheriff. They quit with all the traffic nonsense and immediately got to work stopping crime!
I am also very happy with the results.
Yeah, because no government vehicles are using gas lately. And those people are not only not driving to work, but they can't afford to drive anywhere else either.
Look up "Parallel Construction". Regardless of how much they originally had on him through NSA channels or whatever, I assure they have a clean paper trail with enough to take him to trial for stuff he did after they already had warranted phone taps and e-mail, etc.
want to blame the Republicans but in reality it takes two tango and the Democrats don't want to negotiate
Sorry dude, but I can give you countless examples over the last four years in which the Democrats moved quite a bit to the right during legislative negotiations while the Republicans moved exactly nothing. In fact in some cases further to the right after the first Democratic entreaties, there is at least one case in which Obama adopted the Republican proposal to the letter only for the GOP to say no.
Also Obamacare is already the product of negotiation. And the GOP has already made very clear there is no middle ground. And Boehner has zero room for negotiation.
The GOP is at the moment paralyzed by the success of the Tea Party. They are effectively holding the entire GOP hostage.
There are only three ways this can end:
The US defaults on its obligations. Which is bad. Terrifying bad. There will be movement before that as only the extreme right wing of the GOP seems to think this is acceptable.
A constitutional crisis. The head of the state(which for whatever stupid reason is also the head of the executive branch) declares the houses unable to do their job. I don't know if the US has a plan for such a case but this would propably lead to elections. Which would take longer than the 3 weeks left.
Members of the GOP who don't think to irrepably damage the US financially over Obamacare vote against the party line. Which will damage the GOP. Potentially tear it apart.
I don't see a short/mid/longterm winning scenario for the GOP.
Obama can't budge. There will be a constitutional crisis before he does.
Interestingly, Mike Huckabee said the exact same thing yesterday.
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I'm actually surprised that software developers don'e have low-paid assistants straight out of college. There are many boring, repetitive tasks that could be offloaded to a smart but otherwise untrained person. And that person could learn software development as an intern or pair programmer as another option.
Eventually, you end up with double the productivity for about 1.25 times the cost.
Tesla had a lot of money. He risked it all to compete with Edison for the standards, of which there could only be one winner.
Nope. Not true at all. If another company wants to take over their sponsorship, they can do that.
Source: I tried to hire my H1B friend from my old job at my new job. The only problem was that the new company was unwilling to keep his cousin as his "contract company", so his overall family compensation would have been worse (but he would have received more).
There was absolutely no problem transferring the H1B. The only issue is the number of companies that want to get involved in H1B hiring is smaller, since it's a bit of a pain.
I **learn**.
Exactly. Kodak made film (SD cards), cameras, and photo paper (Shutterfly, Flickr, Instagram), and had a virtual monopoly on almost all of it. If you count all the makers of all those items in use today, you easily clear 130,000 without even trying.
"higher quality of life"
I don't think that they did.
But I would suggest that the average American today lives MUCH better than the average American in my parents' generation.
My parents were middle class to upper middle class. My family is also upper middle class.
Growing up, our refrigerator would be nearly empty a lot of the time. And we went out to fast food once a week and to a nice restaurant a few times per year only for special occasions. We now have so much food that our refrigerator and pantries are completely stuffed and we go out a lot more as well.
Growing up, we went without furniture in the living room for years. My wife and I furnished our house the second month.
My parents drove bottom of the line cars with no extras. I drive luxury cars with tons of extras.
We went on cheap vacations and didn't do almost anything on those vacations because it was "expensive". While we still do a lot of driving vacations, my family does a ton of stuff on those vacations. And we just went to New Zealand for 2 weeks. My family never did anything like that.
And just like my parents, I always pay off my credit cards every month, so this isn't a fantasy because I am hopelessly in debt. It's a reality.
The bottom line: it doesn't compare. At all. People ARE living longer, happier lives. And I could tell you about poor people in my parents' day and poor people today and I guarantee you that poor people today have WAY more stuff and live way better than they did back then too.
Definitely the individual has the ultimate responsibility for their career path and debt levels. But having universities and high school guidance counselors that are woefully out-of-touch with the job market doesn't help one bit.
Of course, a big part of the problem is inflation. There is no real reason things need to get more and more expensive.
Not true. Since the population keeps going up, you need to print more money or otherwise you'd have deflation, which causes hoarding and kills the economy.
A slight inflation is FAR preferable to the alternative.
Russia and China were EXTREMELY poor until they switched to what is in essence capitalism.
But how many raincoats do 100 owners need? How many raincoats do 350 million Americans need? It doesn't work. The money may be there, but the need isn't.
This argument is so tired. H1B workers MUST get paid EXACTLY the same as US workers. Maybe they can swing $5000 less to offset the costs of the sponsorship program (oops, I mean because they are "junior"), but it's not like they are being paid half or anything.
Source: I've done H1B hiring. If they keep getting "your" jobs, that just means that they are better than you.
This happened to me during the recession. I was let go at the peak and it took me 3 months to settle for a job worth only 2/3 what I was making. That happens sometimes, and it has taken me years to get back where I was.
Hotter than ever?
They can produce it. They just can't drink it.
Then how does he know whether it's good or not. Oops, he better be careful.
In my neighborhood, we had the cops who just sat around with radar guns all day while home invasion robberies were fairly common. We fired the police force we were using from a neighboring city and replaced them with the county sheriff. They quit with all the traffic nonsense and immediately got to work stopping crime! I am also very happy with the results.
Yeah, because no government vehicles are using gas lately. And those people are not only not driving to work, but they can't afford to drive anywhere else either.
We fight most against the people most like ourselves...
Actually, it took about a $30 hit today.
Look up "Parallel Construction". Regardless of how much they originally had on him through NSA channels or whatever, I assure they have a clean paper trail with enough to take him to trial for stuff he did after they already had warranted phone taps and e-mail, etc.
Let me know when it can call out all the TVTropes in a story...or would that cause an endless loop?
We should have a rule that no district can have more than 8 lines in it's drawing.
Depends on which police. The TSA and DEA? I could afford for them to be gone for a while.
want to blame the Republicans but in reality it takes two tango and the Democrats don't want to negotiate
Sorry dude, but I can give you countless examples over the last four years in which the Democrats moved quite a bit to the right during legislative negotiations while the Republicans moved exactly nothing. In fact in some cases further to the right after the first Democratic entreaties, there is at least one case in which Obama adopted the Republican proposal to the letter only for the GOP to say no.
Also Obamacare is already the product of negotiation. And the GOP has already made very clear there is no middle ground. And Boehner has zero room for negotiation. The GOP is at the moment paralyzed by the success of the Tea Party. They are effectively holding the entire GOP hostage. There are only three ways this can end: The US defaults on its obligations. Which is bad. Terrifying bad. There will be movement before that as only the extreme right wing of the GOP seems to think this is acceptable. A constitutional crisis. The head of the state(which for whatever stupid reason is also the head of the executive branch) declares the houses unable to do their job. I don't know if the US has a plan for such a case but this would propably lead to elections. Which would take longer than the 3 weeks left. Members of the GOP who don't think to irrepably damage the US financially over Obamacare vote against the party line. Which will damage the GOP. Potentially tear it apart. I don't see a short/mid/longterm winning scenario for the GOP. Obama can't budge. There will be a constitutional crisis before he does.
Interestingly, Mike Huckabee said the exact same thing yesterday.
Then he should have come up with a system that doesn't guarantee Duverger's Law...