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titomc

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    Comment #13532988

    ex-H1B here, You have good skills, once you graduate, you will have to depend on your luck to get into the H1B system currently. Why don't you get MS from good universities in Cana…

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    Comment #13532774

    Just a drop in the ocean.

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    Comment #13532679

    ex-H1B Indian here, now permanent resident of Canada. Left US for good, because I was being exploited by tech firms taking advantage of my H1B status. This is a welcome change in m…

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    Comment #13510302

    Proud to be a permanent resident of Canada now. I left US (H1B visa) some months back.

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    Comment #13502401

    The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a central government agency of India. Its objective is to collect the biometric and demographic data of residents, store the…

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    Comment #13492907

    2008 subprime lending crisis happened only in America. Lets think outside of America for this one. Lenders outside America are not idiots. Most of them lend on a solid collateral a…

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    Comment #13491664

    Part deux: What Asian students go through once they get their degrees from American Universities. They go down the rabbit hole of America's broken immigration system, starting with…

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    Comment #13462564

    If something can be done similar to a Klout score based on frequency of posts, ranking, topic distribution, it would be great.

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    Comment #13445201

    me too and I found this very useful with the 'engineering_blogs.opml'

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    Comment #13432003

    Looks like you will have to disagree with the majority of HN community on this one.

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    Comment #13431779

    The companies have these "schemes" in place. If you look at an LCA posting, these scheming companies will post a salary range, eg : 75k-110k. 75k being the prevailing wages from th…

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    Comment #13430589

    " Most of the time it is just easier to hire Asian/Indian employees because they are readily available " - I doubt that. It's "easier" to hire because they "agree" to lower wages a…

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    Comment #13430540

    Why am I not surprised ? Yet another H1B discrimination story to rant about. (though the article do not say anything about the 'Indian' people's visa status, isn't it obvious ?)

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    Comment #13312761

    I am from the state (Kerala) which is called the "Spice Garden of India". Little did I know about the history of Nutmeg that grows in abundance at my home in my state.

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    Comment #13245575

    What backups your claim ? The same online articles ? Have you had first hand experience of the same ? I have lived in both countries and have experienced personally what does it ta…

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    Comment #13245025

    US is no better if you want to speak about indentured servitude, that is H1B. https://medium.com/@seeminglyquiet/modern-day-slavery-in-ame...

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    Comment #13071063

    Kerala, India -- The world's first solar airport no longer pays for electricity http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/14/technology/india-cochin-sola... USA -- whaat ?

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    Comment #12978617

    Automatics makes the driver hands free for texting,snapchatting,makeup. A recipe for accidents. No I don't have data to back this claim.

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    Comment #12902361

    All the black money is in gold, dollars & euro ! or at the swiss banks. This is not going to smoke out the big players in this game.

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    Comment #12762065

    AMEX is closed loop network. The advantage possibly would be huge troves of data about customer spending habits, if they expose those in future(obviously without PII)

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