have you ever like, gone to San Francisco?
Debt is where inflation is awesome though, if you have 10% inflation and your wages raise 10%, your car loan and student loans become irrelevant quickly.
> Young techie is now 32 years old. Perhaps they marry a US Citizen, and a different pathway opens up. I mean, one of the reason the green card line is so long for Indians is that they have one of the lowest…
This is base salary not total compensation, which for a company like Microsoft matters quite a bit. I’ve never made less than 2-4x in a year what was on my perm application 10 years ago, that data is garbage
Once you have a green card you also are not indentured anymore :)
The trick for those companies is that their employees get stuck in the green card line forever
I mean in the LLM era you need fewer employees and you need them to be very good to not become 10x bad engineers, so you could be processing green cards for your super stars while having to do layoffs
Yeah salaries in the US are higher in nominal terms
> Without Prop 13, a big chunk of the NIMBYs who are currently against more housing would likely change their tune if they had to choose between no new housing or much higher property taxe I mean, the way you make…
I mean, this is not what the article is about though. What the author of article is describing is just bureaucracy ever expanding (anyone who’s worked at the same place for a decade knows that bureaucracy rarely gets…
Except you burn the oil once and keep the solar panel and batteries for one or two decades
Real estate is not the only reason why folks have less children, especially in cultures where people don’t mind having less space. Kids are expensive for other reasons in china
I mean, Piketty showed this a decade ago in capital in the 21th century: the higher your income percentile and wealth percentile, the higher saving rate and the higher returns on your investment (which is negative for…
Single stage forced air / air handlers AC systems are basically only found in North America because they are so grossly inefficient and because most people in the rest of the world realize they can save money by not…
US person is a tax definition, folks without permanent residency that meet the substantial presence test are also US people. For immigration purposes you use resident alien / nonresident alien.
We do tax gross 1% of wealth, it’s called property taxes. Only applies to middle class folks in their 30s though.
We’re like, a lot richer than before the GFC in California though.
H-1B / L-1 are non-immigrant visas, immigrant visas are green cards yes. Pausing green card processing in consulates after (on sketchy legal grounds) forcing folks to not do adjustment of status for getting an immigrant…
> Take "Medicare-level payments to providers". Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5%. Medicare pays 50% less than private insurance. So doing this would require either layoffs, cutting salaries for…
The fact that everyone in your peer group does it (looking at you, people who are faking research paper contributions by high schoolers) does not mean that it is a criteria for actual college admissions.
I mean, marginally, any data center (or mall, house, but the numbers involved are smaller) you'll build in Texas is going to be a lot of tons of CO2 just from their added marginal power consumption
You don’t get fingerprints collected on departure, just on arrival. Unless you go through automated gates maybe?
Cardiac events from Apple Watches is not “AI” though
Even for upper middle class parents, "using a screen as a babysitter" just means you're more stressed and have less hands around. My kiddo has not seen a screen at the age of 2, but that's just because he has two…
> 100 years old It’s 2026, they’re more like 140 year old by now :) > now crammed full of people and cars Funnily enough, if you look at the 1950 census, in every single building I have lived in in San Francisco, there…
have you ever like, gone to San Francisco?
Debt is where inflation is awesome though, if you have 10% inflation and your wages raise 10%, your car loan and student loans become irrelevant quickly.
> Young techie is now 32 years old. Perhaps they marry a US Citizen, and a different pathway opens up. I mean, one of the reason the green card line is so long for Indians is that they have one of the lowest…
This is base salary not total compensation, which for a company like Microsoft matters quite a bit. I’ve never made less than 2-4x in a year what was on my perm application 10 years ago, that data is garbage
Once you have a green card you also are not indentured anymore :)
The trick for those companies is that their employees get stuck in the green card line forever
I mean in the LLM era you need fewer employees and you need them to be very good to not become 10x bad engineers, so you could be processing green cards for your super stars while having to do layoffs
Yeah salaries in the US are higher in nominal terms
> Without Prop 13, a big chunk of the NIMBYs who are currently against more housing would likely change their tune if they had to choose between no new housing or much higher property taxe I mean, the way you make…
I mean, this is not what the article is about though. What the author of article is describing is just bureaucracy ever expanding (anyone who’s worked at the same place for a decade knows that bureaucracy rarely gets…
Except you burn the oil once and keep the solar panel and batteries for one or two decades
Real estate is not the only reason why folks have less children, especially in cultures where people don’t mind having less space. Kids are expensive for other reasons in china
I mean, Piketty showed this a decade ago in capital in the 21th century: the higher your income percentile and wealth percentile, the higher saving rate and the higher returns on your investment (which is negative for…
Single stage forced air / air handlers AC systems are basically only found in North America because they are so grossly inefficient and because most people in the rest of the world realize they can save money by not…
US person is a tax definition, folks without permanent residency that meet the substantial presence test are also US people. For immigration purposes you use resident alien / nonresident alien.
We do tax gross 1% of wealth, it’s called property taxes. Only applies to middle class folks in their 30s though.
We’re like, a lot richer than before the GFC in California though.
H-1B / L-1 are non-immigrant visas, immigrant visas are green cards yes. Pausing green card processing in consulates after (on sketchy legal grounds) forcing folks to not do adjustment of status for getting an immigrant…
> Take "Medicare-level payments to providers". Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5%. Medicare pays 50% less than private insurance. So doing this would require either layoffs, cutting salaries for…
The fact that everyone in your peer group does it (looking at you, people who are faking research paper contributions by high schoolers) does not mean that it is a criteria for actual college admissions.
I mean, marginally, any data center (or mall, house, but the numbers involved are smaller) you'll build in Texas is going to be a lot of tons of CO2 just from their added marginal power consumption
You don’t get fingerprints collected on departure, just on arrival. Unless you go through automated gates maybe?
Cardiac events from Apple Watches is not “AI” though
Even for upper middle class parents, "using a screen as a babysitter" just means you're more stressed and have less hands around. My kiddo has not seen a screen at the age of 2, but that's just because he has two…
> 100 years old It’s 2026, they’re more like 140 year old by now :) > now crammed full of people and cars Funnily enough, if you look at the 1950 census, in every single building I have lived in in San Francisco, there…