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pacerier··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
No. But they shouldn't restrict sales based on birth / color, and allow everyone to buy-in. The problem here is that people who actually want to join/buy/agree cannot do so.
pacerier··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
[for engineering circles] To avail, use maths.

Ie, cardholding need be blind to recruiters. Ie, insteadof <Do you have work authorization?> as the first question [no less], it need be enforceably ILLEGAL to try fish info on it.

In practice that can't be fully done without also blinding a lot of other things. but having Single Market enforced by law certainly will reduce the paygap found today in equal lvl-to-lvl comparisons (top x% vs top x%; differing only in cardholding).

re "vent" "disrespectful"; I contend that those folks actually trying to be assholes are Americans. It's likely the comparison you saw was just done in a neutral and nonhurtful manner/intention, albeit not of PC enculture.

pacerier··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
Because when minwage is established, the market naturally simply adjusts the other parts accordingly.

Sure you pay both $x, but the skill diff can be 10x. USD16$250 can get you a bootcamp coder w zero exp (but w profile/status of citizen cardholder) [1], or someone way beyond 10x that skill who simply can't afford to negotiate.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/haseeb-qureshi-how-to-negoit...

pacerier··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
It's called acreaging. https://www.quora.com/How-do-Americans-live-in-the-worlds-la....
pacerier··on Ask HN: Which uni course/school/subjects cannot simply be self-learned?
purpose.. is so obvious till you answered it. re ""pretty much feel like I can learn anything"", so which uni course would you best take [if your goal isn't optimizing for the $$/resume or anything known]?

(Assuming you are Forced to take one uni course; after which you are Forced to take no more)

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re "martial arts"; btw which unis [2023-2035] sell martial art courses?

pacerier··on Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout
- Google already put ads on search, thus incentivized to show users the best results.

- But this must be balanced with other incentives, like upranking links that also display ads good for the bottom line. (And up/downranking stuff to maximize its "value" (eg data collection), at users' expense.)

- re "best software engineers in the world"; Firstly, Google (200k pax corp with national interests) has optimized itself to lowrisk recruiting, thus having a heavy "careerists" bias builtin by design ("best software engineer" is definitely nowhere near the top priority of its hiring rulebook). Which corresponds to a very low % of mentioned group. Also https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

Obligatory venn diagram here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/GN2Rl.png.

( You'd think ppl such as Satoshi will pass the Google interviews? What about Linus and etc? )

( Not to mention plenty of weirdos (like Ciro on SO) would be banned from interviews regardless of skill level; and plenty of best engineers are weirdos )

pacerier··on Show HN: My first full stack project
re "" make it "feel safe" ""; Accwalling is one of those things in an app that need full rationales, seldom done in 2 words.
pacerier··on Tell HN: Why homelessness in San Francisco is permanent
- Nope, if sf homeless are attacked, they risk getting shot by the sf police. Also, the rich folks will use water hoses to harass, it's actually one of the worst places to be homeless in.

- re "can/want"; Is the self-serving "homeless wants to be homeless doh" feelgood from the fiction or nonfiction bookshelf? To state the obvious fact: all homeless want (loans for) housing. All. And not a single one can.

pacerier··on Tell HN: Why homelessness in San Francisco is permanent
- [1] And move away to where exactly? From there to where exactly? NYC? Millionaires can move anywhere they simply will, but homeless can't physicsally move too far since moving and storage requires $$. Almost 24h/d is spent on getting whatever waterfood and hygiene is available so what's left at the end of each day? (Aside from a necessary permanent health/lifespan reduction due to low waterfood and hygiene which means even lesser of those now per the same 24h?) What's left at the end of each year? Pretty much the only hope is to pray whatever you have left for survival [2] at ages ~60 can be grouped together with senior housing cohorts.

- (re "also"; no the text's complete)

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[1] ain't even laughing; and here comes (equally half-thought and vague) another "can"

[2] Everyone else is secretly hoping you don't make it for there's no money in it; and if godforbid you made it pls die Asap without hogging the ambulance and whatnot, just because we didn't give you loans doesn't mean that the senior housing is free.

pacerier··on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
"""or premised upon, certain factual scenarios, and not applied to the subsequent case because of the absence or material difference in the latter's facts"""..?
pacerier··on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
Judgements are no longer binding as soon as the market has changed (radically), no?

Also, it seems like IA's purpose is different.

pacerier··on Ask HN: Chromebook powerwash reset lost ~500 tabs. Why?
Any ChromeOS developer here knows how the lost tabs may be recovered?
pacerier··on Ask HN: Looking for a touchkeyboard
Isn't show-hn for product demos not reviews?
pacerier··on Ask HN: Looking for a touchkeyboard
As HN has an odd 14-day limit for threads, where should I write?
pacerier··on Tell HN: As a dev, Slack has ruined my life
uh, wha...??—God, Americans.
pacerier··on Ask HN: Looking for a touchkeyboard
holyfk!
pacerier··on Ask HN: Why so many Indians work in US/Australia instead of India?
Actually prestige is simply an euphemism for purchasing power. Just because you may get a better living quality outside US doesn't mean that that's the better option unless of course one's food rent alone is all that you ever care about, for prices in general are fixed across borders, increasingly a problem as borders are getting nearer. Like, you may think that martians got nothing to do with you since they are far, but as sure as globalization, then-they-came will come.

Tldr: money makes the world go round / no man is in a well.

pacerier··on Ask HN: Why so many Indians work in US/Australia instead of India?
Exactly how can there be any other answer other than $?
pacerier··on Ask HN: What use cases motivated you to work in crypto?
"good real world use cases?" Srsly?

¶ I believe Applied Cryptography can be accessed for free if you can't afford it.

pacerier··on Ask HN: Does anyone else struggle with arrays?
No (in those good times, "software development" was not overloaded to mean everything/anything so that all is said to be proficient at it).
pacerier··on Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders
It doesn't work like this. If it's a tossup (ie probability =~1:1) then there's no legal liability. Importantly, whether the cat's dead or alive is irrelevant.

The issue here is that it's not a tossup. The probability is >=2:1 hence the liability, even if that is alive after the plunge.

pacerier··on Dear Twitter, thank you for suspending my account, otherwise I'd gladly pay $99
Isn't OP 14?
pacerier··on Ask HN: Will Meta's virtual reality bet succeed?
Ya saying Zuck is just too evil even after investing in an unproven market?
pacerier··on US Patent: does sale (of the doc) constitute publishing? and preclude patenting?
Interesting link. I took it and put it to SE and it appears to be <No>.

[0]: https://patents.stackexchange.com/q/25004/8289

pacerier··on Ask HN: How to Know if We Should Pivot? And What Should We Pivot?
Way TLI.

- How big's the team? Who's putting in money?

- What's the burn rate? Default alive? (Using words like "we believe" sure does make it appear so, at least as far as a lifespan which is definitely doable.)

- Why are the people who are supposed to be paying paying?

- Who are you building the app for? For science/arts or for users?

- Who are you building the app for? Individuals? Teens? Adults? Retirees? The 1%? The 99%? Most adults don't have a fanbase and thus will not have free waking hours to CurateBio in the hopes that people will fund them to do just that. (Untldr: Growth is exponential thus population quickly expands to fill land prices which expand to fill simple lifestyles and waking hours. Even in a land with price caps or ownership banned, pop eventually expands to fill construction prices which again expand to fill simple lifestyles and waking hours. (Construction stops where adding another storey due to gravity, requires more men than there is literally available.) Until ownership is banned not just for land but also for Tech can there be such things as free waking hours for the people.) Folks don't do self-curation on facebook/Flickr/Linktree/Authory expecting to be paid just by doing that.

- re "another idea", Elaborate?

- re "profit faster", What's the purpose of the funds?

pacerier··on Ask HN: Buying a Premium Domain
(I think he meant) what budget?

Without a gauge I can't see anyone giving proper advice as techniques change with budget.

pacerier··on Tell HN: VPN Situation in Iran
Fruits of evolution. Blocking information is a battlefield where the overseer can either win very easily or cannot be able to win---the only fundamental way to block anything is to block everything.

Imagine if your ISP blocks the front page of The Post yet you are still allowed to talk to me. Well, I can simply read the information to you over the phone under a plausibly deniable "eg even number of words in a sentence =1" algorithm.

pacerier··on Proton Stealth Protocol: Defeat censorship with Stealth, our new VPN protocol
Proton (company) simply feels like a scam/forprofit (over?)run by capitalists who by definition aren't incentivized innately to tell the whole story even in the unlikely scenario where they are incentivized to do so.

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For emails, use tutanota.

pacerier··on Tell HN: How to get Paid Support for Gmail account
But does this really work? What happens if you need help logging into the account?
pacerier··on Ask HN: What's your strategy to land fully remote jobs?
re "many meetings", You mean online right?
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