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Ask HN: POTUS Donald Trump; What this means to Silicon Valley
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#2Probably won't be able to hire all those cheap H1Bs (and that's coming from a former H1B!)
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#3That Peter Thiel is really good at picking winners and disruption.
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#4That Peter Thiel is really good at picking winners and disruption.
And hopefully to the Supreme Court!
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#5I'd guess it will be a harder sell to get software developers in Europe, Australia, NZ, etc. to move to the US.
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#7I'd guess it will be a harder sell to get software developers in Europe, Australia, NZ, etc. to move to the US.
Or easier. Hillary is a face of western corruption to much of the world. So long as Trump delegates the tech stuff properly and doesn't do anything too unusual the moral choice of the US should be easier.
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#8Shouldn't we be talking about this shit before the election? It's not like California had anything to do with Trump, but still.
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#9I'd guess it will be a harder sell to get software developers in Europe, Australia, NZ, etc. to move to the US.
Or easier. Hillary is a face of western corruption to much of the world. So long as Trump delegates the tech stuff properly and doesn't do anything too unusual the moral choice of the US should be easier.
From what I've read about the man, Trump doesn't seem to be a micro manager, especially with things he can't understand like tech.
Plus, it appears that Peter Thiel is going to be in some sort of advisory role. That's valuable insight
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#10I actually think there is a possibility that it could be easier to get into US as highly skilled migrant under Trump presidency because of his anti-immigrant polities.
If he raises a minimum income bar for H1B to 150K and keep the same cap, then it would be much less qualified applicants for H1B visas and therefore there would not be cap overflow with annoying lottery process.
Of course, I can't predict what Trump is going to do. He can also reduce cap significantly (which would be very stupid move).
Let's admit current H1B requirements are stupid. For example, requirement to have bachelor degree instead of high salary. There are lots and lots very mediocre developers and almost all of them have degree. On the other hand, there are pretty strong developers who do not have degree (i.e. smart drop-outs).
P.S. I like this article: http://paulgraham.com/95.html