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Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by janalsncm »

spwa4 wrote: post #330
triceratops wrote: post #316

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> China has already mostly made emigration illegal Genuinely news to me. Do you have any sources?

Depends what you mean. Communism loves bureaucracy and so there are 10 different system "totally not cooperating" to prevent leaving. In China you need permission to leave the country (or even your town), and so there is no law change. The big bureaucracies are referred to as "Hokou" (within China) and "Exit-entry administration" for international. So no direct announcement, everything is under direct control of Xi.…

Houkou does not prevent a Chinese citizen from leaving a town. People move around all the time. Houkou is about registering to receive public services in the new city within China.

In any case Houkou doesn’t prevent a person from leaving the country. A passport does, but this is the same in all countries.

> You see, it was always illegal to go outside of the country without Xi's approval and those approvals have mostly stopped coming.

There are hundreds of millions of trips out of China every year. A good number of them to the US for work. That fact is hard to square with what you’re saying.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by janalsncm »

throwaway85825 wrote: post #166
allarm wrote: post #156

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It doesn't matter how much money you have if you can't spend it.

That applies to a ton of people in the military. People are capable of delayed gratification.

Well, maybe that’s the solution to the problem. Deploy troops to the classrooms.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by throwawaytea »

TylerE wrote: post #358
throwawaytea wrote: post #353

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I like the girl but I can't help but dislike what her and her social circle are doing to schools. I go to their social events after hours for happy hour or family events and I honestly don't think these people are capable of molding the youth into anything but lame 'nice' kind stupid people. Yes, being nice and kind are important, sure. But you get major problems when these teachers can not inspire or provoke thought…

> re---ed. Please stop saying say. It's almost as bad as the n-word. There are a lot of neurodivergent people around here.

I personally like saying the word, but I'll admit this is one of the worse examples I've used in a while. Because I genuinely was trying to imply they were dumb, which makes it a more serious use of the word.

Personally I can't imagine saying that word in reference to anyone with a true disability. In my social circles, retarded is reserved for people acting in dumb ways due to really bad social skills or often even self centeredness or laziness. Using it in regards to the teachers was probably too close to a serious use of it and I shouldnt have. Sorry.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by TylerE »

throwawaytea wrote: post #363
TylerE wrote: post #358

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> re---ed. Please stop saying say. It's almost as bad as the n-word. There are a lot of neurodivergent people around here.

I personally like saying the word, but I'll admit this is one of the worse examples I've used in a while. Because I genuinely was trying to imply they were dumb, which makes it a more serious use of the word. Personally I can't imagine saying that word in reference to anyone with a true disability. In my social circles, retarded is reserved for people acting in dumb ways due to really bad social skills or often even…

You may not imagine saying it, but we've all heard it plenty of times that we're not exactly going to assume it comes from a good place.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by triceratops »

spwa4 wrote: post #360
triceratops wrote: post #350

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For it to be true there would have to be evidence that it's default disallowed. Or that most people can't get passports at all, no matter what.

No country locks of passports 100%. And, look, you asked for a source, the hrw article provides a source.

Every country has laws about who can get passports. In countries without proper rule of law this is often arbitrary. Does that mean all those countries have made emigration illegal?

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by spwa4 »

triceratops wrote: post #365
spwa4 wrote: post #360

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No country locks of passports 100%. And, look, you asked for a source, the hrw article provides a source.

Every country has laws about who can get passports. In countries without proper rule of law this is often arbitrary. Does that mean all those countries have made emigration illegal?

If the law also says you can't leave without passports, like Chinese law, then yes, obviously.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by spwa4 »

janalsncm wrote: post #361
spwa4 wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends what you mean. Communism loves bureaucracy and so there are 10 different system "totally not cooperating" to prevent leaving. In China you need permission to leave the country (or even your town), and so there is no law change. The big bureaucracies are referred to as "Hokou" (within China) and "Exit-entry administration" for international. So no direct announcement, everything is under direct control of Xi.…

Houkou does not prevent a Chinese citizen from leaving a town. People move around all the time. Houkou is about registering to receive public services in the new city within China. In any case Houkou doesn’t prevent a person from leaving the country. A passport does, but this is the same in all countries. > You see, it was always illegal to go outside of the country without Xi's approval and those approvals have most…

That would be "A distinction without a difference" ... a thing bureaucracies are positively excellent at.

There's an old Soviet joke: it's allowed! It's just that you haven't submitted your request, in triplicate, in our office in Siberia, open from 24:00 to 24:01 on Februari 30th every year! But it's allowed, with the proper permission. Just go get it!

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by QGQBGdeZREunxLe »

ttul wrote: post #342
bendangelo wrote: post #214

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Yes, you'll be hard pressed to find any Canadians at any fast food restaurants now. It's a common scam to pay a Tim Hortons owner 20-30k and he'll make you a manager at the franchise, then he'll give you a shared room where you pay monthly to live there. Then you work for free. The UN literaly wrote how Canada has created a neo-slavery system.

Is there any evidence that this actually takes place in a consistent, widespread manner?

No. This is one of many right wing conspiracies floating around in the social media era.

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Post by throwaway85825 »

ahoka wrote: post #296
8note wrote: post #244

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you could also export the children, or the whole family, to a place that can support teachers

Do you really suggest to copy Ceaușescu and start evacuating villages in rural Alaska?

After the subsidies stopped everyone moved out of Siberia.

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Post by dani__german »

bijowo1676 wrote: post #257
dani__german wrote: post #239

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you said "smarter" in this comment when a more accurate term is "corrupt". Being unable to find a candidate for your given budget requires that you either increase the budgeted salary or decrease the requirements, and train on the job. If you cannot do either of these, your company MUST fail. It is inhumane to demolish the US working class by importing foreign scab labor. Too much labor supply (aka immigration) decre…

OpenAI and Anthropic and others are paying millions to hire qualified people, yet they still have to hire H1Bs. Dont tell me there are no Americans willing to take a million dollar job and these foreigners are causing wage decreases, despite tech salaries showing only increasing trend. Theres never been a year when tech salaries have decreased, not in 2008, not in 2000, not in 2020. Its all hockey stick growth for te…

Boomer zoning laws do affect housing supply by reducing supply.

Immigration affects housing demand by increasing demand. These are both effects. They are both bad.

The solution options are: 1. Destroy zoning and keep immigration the same and go full Favela mode 2. 0 out immigration and keep having nice, but too expensive houses 3. address both problems and absolutely crater housing prices, thus giving the youth a place to grow and have families.

We do need to address both sides of the issue. Don't forget that there is both Supply, and Demand for any economic item.

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