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H-1Bs actually tend to get paid higher wages than their American counterparts as per this 2017 Glassdoor study: https://www.glassdoor.com/research/h1b-workers/

I am not purporting that the H-1B program has no effect on tech wages, just that it has a negligible effect due to its small cap relative to the number of tech jobs available. Any …

The idea that H-1B workers suppress US wages is a harmful myth that gets thrown around HN a lot. The study that supports the claim that the H-1B program suppresses US tech wages is…

Maybe I'm an idiot but my curiosity got the best of me and I clicked the link. The photos just look like abstract modern art, although their perceptual hash may match that of known…

Cool stuff! What are some great use cases that you'd like to see for 3D websites? Do the long load times of 3D websites relative to 2D ones affect search ranking?

Should there be a way to trademark your own name in order to prevent its misuse in creative works? That way, film studios should have to pay a licensing fee to have your name anywh…

Hades definitely has more interesting game mechanics, but it's more of a Roguelike ARPG than a classic ARPG. I also find its enemy design and atmosphere lacking in consistency and …

My point in bringing up the light meter is that in these "tree falls in the forest" thought experiments, it's taken for granted that your own biological senses are an absolute sour…

Fair enough. By calling my comment uninteresting, have you also rendered yourself to likely be the most uninteresting person in the room, by the logic in your first paragraph? If s…

Are the Hacker News servers down when you're not on Hacker News? There are an infinite number of these types of logically pendantic questions that are immensely uninteresting to th…

Uh, use a light meter? Your comment assumes that that only way to assess the presence of light is with your eyes.

My undergrad major had a 50/50 gender ratio and there were only a handful of romantic relationships to come out of it out of the hundreds of classmates I knew. So, I wouldn't count…

Great response! I'm definitely saving it. What are some good examples of (4) for SWEs? I'm guessing topics like WebRTC, video codec algorithms, compilers?

I heard that being an early startup employee is also a great way to fast-track to a leadership/management position, as compared to working at a big corporation. Is there any truth …

An elderly asian person is more likely to die crossing the road to a bank than be robbed at a bank. I don't think you've been keeping up with the news of the wave of attacks target…

I can see many use cases: - A woman going home late after a night out needing to walk thru a dangerous neighborhood - Elderly Asian person who needs to withdraw money from a bank -…

What a brilliant idea from a business standpoint! Just like how rideshare apps increased the availability of car services in areas underserved by traditional taxies, on-demand secu…

The perceived bad quality of Chinese products is partly a deliberate marketing strategy to make products that prioritize low price over quality, and partly due to lax standards rel…

I think that you'll be able to find the work environment I described in most major metropolitan areas in the US. It might be harder to come by in smaller metropolitan areas or rura…

It may not be true in your experience but it does exist. I've worked in several diverse offices in the US where it's exactly like that. Race/sexual orientation hardly ever comes up…

Why do black people deserve special treatment above other disadvantaged demographics, like Appalachian whites, Cambodian Americans, Laotian Americans, whose median incomes are lowe…

How do you quantify the "in part" portion of that definition: "intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group"? What's the minimum number or pe…