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Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule

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Post by sumedh »

giarc wrote: post #117
nnfy wrote: post #114

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Why do people seriously believe that presidential administrations are motivated by petty childishness? Do people really believe it to be possible that someone incompetent could make it as far as the presidency? There's far more going on that we are unaware of, be it malice or good intentions, thus it is absurd to believe that our leaders are man children. We are too far removed from primary sources to know the truth.

Trump handed Merkel a fake invoice for the amount of money Germany owed NATO. At what level of government is that a good idea?

Can you give a proper source for that allegation preferably from the BBC.

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Post by elchief »

matt_wulfeck wrote: post #124
elchief wrote: post #65

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Still cheaper than SF Here's an analysis of residential rental prices: http://quantitativerhetoric.com/monthly-rental-report-may-20...

Yes but at least the local economy in SF can support absurd housing prices. Unless you plan on making or paying much higher than average salaries in Vancouver it's going to be very different attracting talent there.

Well if you can't get a US visa your wage there is zero, so I'm not seeing your point

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Post by justinsingh »

giarc wrote: post #115
pavlov wrote: post #102

I asked this very question on HN in November 2016: will the "startup visa" survive? Commenters thought that Trump wouldn't interfere with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12931943 This is a solid reminder that the Trump administration is showing itself to be mostly concerned with undoing anything that Obama did, rather than working for anyone's benefit. You can't apply logic to predict the actions of these pe…

I'm not an American but as an outsider it's so odd to see the anti-Obama stance this government is taking. Look at the US economy coming out of 2008. From my perspective it's done quite well. Unemployment has gone from 10% to 4%, GDP has climbed. S&P and US stocks in general have done exceptionally well. It seems like whatever Obama did was working. Do the Republicans think they can do better? Why not just ride their…

Obama inherited the market on a low. We are at a high and what may have been compatible with growth at a low may not be good enough for improving the market on a high.

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Post by empath75 »

giarc wrote: post #115
pavlov wrote: post #102

I asked this very question on HN in November 2016: will the "startup visa" survive? Commenters thought that Trump wouldn't interfere with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12931943 This is a solid reminder that the Trump administration is showing itself to be mostly concerned with undoing anything that Obama did, rather than working for anyone's benefit. You can't apply logic to predict the actions of these pe…

I'm not an American but as an outsider it's so odd to see the anti-Obama stance this government is taking. Look at the US economy coming out of 2008. From my perspective it's done quite well. Unemployment has gone from 10% to 4%, GDP has climbed. S&P and US stocks in general have done exceptionally well. It seems like whatever Obama did was working. Do the Republicans think they can do better? Why not just ride their…

Guns, God and Gays. Republican voters are easily manipulated to vote against their own economic self interest by playing to cultural issues. And there are a whole lot of republican voters who are in parts of the country that don't have the economic growth that the coasts and the cities do.

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Post by mhh__ »

4msonny wrote: post #139
mhh__ wrote: post #129

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Maybe he's not a man child, but what's his MO? His approval ratings are shite, so somethings not working

last i checked, republicans (and pro-trump candidates) have won every special election since trump came to power. so much for "shite" approval ratings.

No, they really are shite: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/...

The only special election they should be disappointed about is georgia 6th. Many of the rest have been fairly encouraging, given that they have been competitive in red districts.

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Post by ceejayoz »

4msonny wrote: post #139
mhh__ wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe he's not a man child, but what's his MO? His approval ratings are shite, so somethings not working

last i checked, republicans (and pro-trump candidates) have won every special election since trump came to power. so much for "shite" approval ratings.

Psst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

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Post by anigbrowl »

xxSparkleSxx wrote: post #31
justboxing wrote: post #21

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> They cannot apply for a green card during this period This will be a deal-breaker for over 95% of the applicants. Even though the H1B Visa is a non-immigrant visa, there was no such clause attached to it like this one. It's what enables 1000s of immigrants (like me) every year to first arrive on a non-immigrant visa and then get the employer to petition their green cards for permanent stay or eventually citizenship…

Damn. We might actually have to start investing equally in US children of all socioeconomic classes to ensure we have enough entrepreneurs and bright minds to compete in the global economy. EDIT: WOW, didn't think such an obvious comment would be so controversial (points are swinging up and down cyclically). Do ya'll think we are extremely efficient at turning potential into value from all of our current citizens? Do…

didn't think such an obvious comment would be so controversial

There's a lot of implicit assumptions in your original comment, and immigration policy is a politically extremely loaded subject, so people are almost inevitably going to project additional inferences onto your remarks inssofar as they seem to resemble well-known political arguments.

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