Its not an extreme example, you can google or ask chatgpt for more example of foreigners who founded the biggest companies and created trillions of dollar of value. For ex Microsoft was a failing company and losing…
Immigration must be legislated by Congress, it is their job. GOP controlled the congress during trump1 and trump2 and decided not do anything. Superior Court mostly decided to maintain the status quo. I am for…
You dont know jack shit about how arbitrary the USCIS asjudication process is, thats first. Please dont ever comment on visa and paperwork matters, unless you went through that hell yourself. Second, this admin (steven…
there is no smart argument to ban H1B. Its all pure jingoism and racism. There is really nothing else here. The fact that America is global tech leader is thanks to foreigners, all these FAANGs and MAG7s and OpenAI and…
the offshoring of manufacturing started in the 50s and 60s and accelerated in the 80s. the reason is that US wanted to do specialized high value manufacturing, and was offshoring everything low value and low margin,…
top talent is different visa (O-1). H1B is merely specialized worker, not top tier global talent. Nursing does pay a lot and conditions havent changed much over the years. Certified anesthesiology nurses get paid like…
Elon Musk was H1B after his study at UPenn, since then he created a lot of companies, jobs, and wealth for investors and himself. Do you think Elon Musk (and every other foreigner who founded US company) diluted supply…
US has shipped all manufacturing jobs to Asia, including China and got the Rust Belt in exchange (and huge corporate profits). and China is now a manufacturing powerhouse. Partly that push was created by the labor…
Employers have only one job: to maximize profits, thats it. It is not employers' fault that US is unable to train tech workers, despite spending $30-40k per pupil in school system only to end up #27 in PISA ranking. The…
Canada was bad for tech specifically because of H1B. Now that H1B pathway is being blocked, Canada can build an alternative tech center and ecosystem. They can do it, Canada has very strong CS programs and is a…
the candidate for Canadian PR has to secure a job offer beforehand, so the Canada's plan is that US tech workers move their US jobs to Canada, and big tech employers expand their existing tech offices in Canada, rather…
Canada is jumping on this opportunity to invite the US tech workers who are frustrated with US H1B visa restrictions and GC backlog by offering an express permanent residency in 10 days…
these BMW twin turbos are marvels of engineering, 567 horsepowers. The best engine BMW has ever made. This engine allows you to have a huge family hauler (BMW X7) and drive like a BMW M3 like you stole it. Imagine…
like Peter Thiel said: competition is for losers. Monopoly is for winners
I own BMW and all BMW V8s (engine models N63, N63TU..N63TU3, S63) require 10 quarts. Same for Mercedes V8 engines models M156..159 that require 9-10 quarts
most of V8 engines need 10+ quarts
How would you use sql to move data from three excel files (some of them may have arbitrary number of worksheets), pack of json files, two csv files, one mysql, one postgres db, some parquets, some of them in S3) ??? And…
Strongly disagree with the author. For dumb simple select group by OLAP queries on medium data ? Sure clickhouse local or duckdb works perfectly well. But if you need to construct dataset ? Or process existing dataset,…
AWS acquired DuckLabs recently, there is a chance they will release a product competing with CH/Snowflake as a new RDS offering
military industrial complex
why would Exxon allow export ban and lose exorbitant profits ?
Trump is just accelerating the course of history. The fall of American hegemony, the humiliation of the MIC, the petrodollar, the fossil fuels, the USD as reserve currency is like speedrunning the historical events to…
the reason China was using stockpiles is they want to time the gasoline price shock right to the midterm elections. The moment they stop using stockpiles and start purchasing the prices will jump
this might be a AI driven attack and readthedocs was just a test target. What surprised me is how easy it was to evade the cloudflare defenses. I know it was easy to evade CF, but I would expected CF to do a better job…
the cc fraud (and fraud protection) is THE main selling point of Visa/MC credit cards. it is that different treatment of debit/cc fraud that pushes people towards high fee cc. it is cc fraud protection that justifies…
Its not an extreme example, you can google or ask chatgpt for more example of foreigners who founded the biggest companies and created trillions of dollar of value. For ex Microsoft was a failing company and losing…
Immigration must be legislated by Congress, it is their job. GOP controlled the congress during trump1 and trump2 and decided not do anything. Superior Court mostly decided to maintain the status quo. I am for…
You dont know jack shit about how arbitrary the USCIS asjudication process is, thats first. Please dont ever comment on visa and paperwork matters, unless you went through that hell yourself. Second, this admin (steven…
there is no smart argument to ban H1B. Its all pure jingoism and racism. There is really nothing else here. The fact that America is global tech leader is thanks to foreigners, all these FAANGs and MAG7s and OpenAI and…
the offshoring of manufacturing started in the 50s and 60s and accelerated in the 80s. the reason is that US wanted to do specialized high value manufacturing, and was offshoring everything low value and low margin,…
top talent is different visa (O-1). H1B is merely specialized worker, not top tier global talent. Nursing does pay a lot and conditions havent changed much over the years. Certified anesthesiology nurses get paid like…
Elon Musk was H1B after his study at UPenn, since then he created a lot of companies, jobs, and wealth for investors and himself. Do you think Elon Musk (and every other foreigner who founded US company) diluted supply…
US has shipped all manufacturing jobs to Asia, including China and got the Rust Belt in exchange (and huge corporate profits). and China is now a manufacturing powerhouse. Partly that push was created by the labor…
Employers have only one job: to maximize profits, thats it. It is not employers' fault that US is unable to train tech workers, despite spending $30-40k per pupil in school system only to end up #27 in PISA ranking. The…
Canada was bad for tech specifically because of H1B. Now that H1B pathway is being blocked, Canada can build an alternative tech center and ecosystem. They can do it, Canada has very strong CS programs and is a…
the candidate for Canadian PR has to secure a job offer beforehand, so the Canada's plan is that US tech workers move their US jobs to Canada, and big tech employers expand their existing tech offices in Canada, rather…
Canada is jumping on this opportunity to invite the US tech workers who are frustrated with US H1B visa restrictions and GC backlog by offering an express permanent residency in 10 days…
these BMW twin turbos are marvels of engineering, 567 horsepowers. The best engine BMW has ever made. This engine allows you to have a huge family hauler (BMW X7) and drive like a BMW M3 like you stole it. Imagine…
like Peter Thiel said: competition is for losers. Monopoly is for winners
I own BMW and all BMW V8s (engine models N63, N63TU..N63TU3, S63) require 10 quarts. Same for Mercedes V8 engines models M156..159 that require 9-10 quarts
most of V8 engines need 10+ quarts
How would you use sql to move data from three excel files (some of them may have arbitrary number of worksheets), pack of json files, two csv files, one mysql, one postgres db, some parquets, some of them in S3) ??? And…
Strongly disagree with the author. For dumb simple select group by OLAP queries on medium data ? Sure clickhouse local or duckdb works perfectly well. But if you need to construct dataset ? Or process existing dataset,…
AWS acquired DuckLabs recently, there is a chance they will release a product competing with CH/Snowflake as a new RDS offering
military industrial complex
why would Exxon allow export ban and lose exorbitant profits ?
Trump is just accelerating the course of history. The fall of American hegemony, the humiliation of the MIC, the petrodollar, the fossil fuels, the USD as reserve currency is like speedrunning the historical events to…
the reason China was using stockpiles is they want to time the gasoline price shock right to the midterm elections. The moment they stop using stockpiles and start purchasing the prices will jump
this might be a AI driven attack and readthedocs was just a test target. What surprised me is how easy it was to evade the cloudflare defenses. I know it was easy to evade CF, but I would expected CF to do a better job…
the cc fraud (and fraud protection) is THE main selling point of Visa/MC credit cards. it is that different treatment of debit/cc fraud that pushes people towards high fee cc. it is cc fraud protection that justifies…