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Given how large ecommerce has gotten in China, it begs the question, are credit cards truly the necessary pillar? ECommerce even in the US is extremely top heavy, with Amazon havin…

This internet kid of 90s fever dream of an internet thats free and federated is just not gona happen. All evidence we have so far suggests that the scale at which internet is at, t…

> He's the largest owner of American farmland. There is 900 million farm acres of farmland in the US. Bill gates owns about 270K acres of farmland. So even though he is the largest…

When it can be used as the reason a company succeeds, it should be used as the reason the company isn't doing well.

Its such a shame US is considered a great place to live. Sure you can have a good life, but at what cost? Your government props up dictators, goes and blows up a country over imagi…

This is obviously a good thing from a safety standpoint, but I worry we are increasingly becoming a one strike society. Where one instance of bad behavior locks you out of signific…

Typically younger working age people are a net benefit to the system. They pay taxes, but their kids dont go to schools, they dont require as much healthcare (which can be publicly…

Rubber stamp? Have you ever tried applying for an H1b renewal? There is constant anxiety over ever changing rules and RFEs. Not to mention the run around to get a visa stamp every …

The H1B can be and does get renewed by 100s of thousands of people. AC21 provision allows for an H1B to be renewed in perpetuity (even beyond 6 years) until an approved green card …

We have allowed 100s of thousands of Software Engineer immigrants. Are the hiring prospects of American software engineers impacted? This should be provable with at least a couple …

You do loose status after 60 days in case of employment based green card applications which are approved but the so called priority date is not current. For 100s of thousands of pe…

So many folks here with a "its a good thing". The challenge that this rule also creates is that there are people in this country who have a spot in the green card line based on the…

There are lots of articles on how vaccines cause autism also.

I do believe that you perhaps aren't tieing the program to the recipients. But I don't think the distinction between the program and the beneficiaries is clear to the average voter…

"They are taking our jobs" is also overtly about labor but the jump to xenophobia happens pretty quickly.

It's tiring to keep hearing these stories and tieing them to H1B. Satya Nadella also started on an H1B, Sundar Pichai did too and so did Andrew Ng. Just those 3 combined have creat…

The title should be "StackOverflow now has a dark mode" instead of "StackOverflow has now a dark mode".

Umm, Both Japan and HK have a lot of people in a small space and have 1/100th of the absolute utter mindless chaos that prevails on the roads in Delhi/Mumbai.

I wonder if the current environment around tech will mean the predictions this time are more for status quo and for doom and gloom or slow declines.

If you agree to the basic principle that scientific ability and thought is equally prevalent amongst men and women, having fewer women scientists means we are not getting and devel…

You get paid what the "market" can afford to pay you. Lots of CEOs whose companies are going nowhere, have gone bankrupt get paid millions.

The discussion here is reflective of the problem that plagues immigration law. Any change to immigration system is not looked at through an incrementality lens, but through the len…

> Because you have illegal workers What data supports this frequently touted conservative notion? There could be other factors. Like for e.g. tomatoes can only be sold at $2/lb bef…

As an investor what you would be betting on is that services revenue growth will be enough to compensate for the negative iPhone revenue growth. For the previous quarter, iPhone re…

The term country quotas makes me so mad. Country quotas in the GC system are absolutely awful, because they base things on the one thing you cant change, where you were born. They …