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U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
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#12TL;DR - the cap is still at 85,000 visas/year, but this change will result in approximately 5,340 more applicants with master's degrees getting visas over those with just bachelor's.
IMO it is a pretty insignificant change overall, since this is hardly a good metric in determining skill, and the system is still lottery based.
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#13Honestly this is a good thing. Right now the H1B is a bullshit immigration program for cheap engineers from India and China designed to depress wages in silicon valley. A change is sorely needed, this is not big enough but it's definitely a step.
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#14I'm trying to understand exactly what is changing. From the article are they just switching the order of the two lotteries? They aren't actually raising the number of visas offered, right? This just has the effect of allocating more of the 85,000 visas granted to those with a Master's degree or PhD, right? I'm sure the universities that heavily recruit international students to their graduate programs will love this.
Graduate students are either on F or J visas. The article is talking about H-1B visas.
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#15Why is copyright infringement tolerated on HN?
There is no infringement in posting that link.
People who click on it may or may not be infringing (that's really unclear).
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instead of downvoting, maybe answer my question.
"Information wants to be free" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
That's only half the quote:
>On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other
You're omitting the counterbalancing force.
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#18for what it is, this seems like a good change. Not a big change, but it should reduce the idiocy of letting people learn valuable things and then not letting them stay to use it.
Re: U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
#19Honestly this is a good thing. Right now the H1B is a bullshit immigration program for cheap engineers from India and China designed to depress wages in silicon valley. A change is sorely needed, this is not big enough but it's definitely a step.
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#20Why is copyright infringement tolerated on HN?
The journal(ist) doesn’t own the information in the article, just their particular execution of conveying that information.
Altering that execution isn’t copyright infringement, though admittedly, outline puts its toes right up to the line.