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New comment by ab8 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ab8 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:26:09 +0000

H1-Bs are usually paid MORE, not less, because of wage parity laws that have existed for DECADES. The application process has a 6 month delay just to determine the minimum wage that the government forces employers to pay.

New comment by ab8 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ab8 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:24:03 +0000

Why would you want to work for a scamming company?

New comment by ab8 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ab8 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:22:14 +0000

Yes, they are. Immigrant visa = green card. Dual intent just means you are allowed to apply for a green card.

New comment by ab8 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ab8 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:21:32 +0000

That is reference to people who have applied for asylum after having come in on a tourist visa. Technically their status is legal, because they have a pending application. This is an attempt to make their status illegal, so they can be deported.

New comment by ab8 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ab8 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:19:29 +0000

Its only racism when you then go and invite white south africans in. And make statements like "Why cant we have more people come in from countries like Norway"

New comment by ab8 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ab8 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:17:37 +0000

Thanks for the info. But the WSJ article is taking about green card appointments, not H1-Bs.

New comment by ab8 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ab8 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:16:28 +0000

(a) The WSJ article is talking about "immigrant visas" a.k.a. green cards, not H1-Bs.

(b) Even if we are talking about H1-Bs, it takes someone in India 10-15 years of waiting in line to get a green card. If someone were to buy a house in the interim, it doesn't seem so irrational to me.

Its easy to blame the victim and say they should have known.

New comment by ab8 in "Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours"

ab8 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:23:47 +0000

I wonder where Indian incompetence/lying falls on the Elon scale.

New comment by ab8 in "Did we lose our way in making efficient software?"

ab8 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:53:34 +0000

It is interesting to see most people lay the blame at the feet of developers.

The reality is that these are all business decisions:

1) Move to the cloud because the business likes the steady payout of subscriptions. Business customers love not having to hire IT teams and demand six 9s of uptime because it is someone else’s responsibility. But performance needs to just be acceptable to end users.

2) Customers refusing to upgrade on-premises software, that led to long maintenance cycles and endless patches

3) Developing once for the web vs. Multiple times for different platforms – each needing its own developers and testers.

No amount of expertise on the part of developers is going to address these fundamental forces.

New comment by ab8 in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"

ab8 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:33:24 +0000

Right! You are your body. Not just your mind.

New comment by ab8 in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"

ab8 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:15:44 +0000

Why do they all keep saying H1-B workers are underpaid? The government determines minimum pay for each application. My experience has been that this number is quite high.

New comment by ab8 in "Beyond Bollywood's glitz, a subtler Indian cinema embraces new stories"

ab8 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 03:52:31 +0000

Watch the thinly veiled homophobia emerge

New comment by ab8 in "Factors driving a productivity explosion"

ab8 — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:28:42 +0000

Proving that all their jobs can now be outsourced to other countries for half the price. Thanks a lot.

New comment by ab8 in "New job has no way of coding locally?"

ab8 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:53:51 +0000

At least they are not asking you to punch holes into cards

New comment by ab8 in "Open source hospital price database"

ab8 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:18:31 +0000

This is true only until insurance decides not to pay arbitrarily. In my case I was stuck with a $112k bill. Hospital offered 50% self pay discount. Now what?

New comment by ab8 in "Password protect a static HTML page"

ab8 — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 22:04:01 +0000

This solution has no street cred

New comment by ab8 in "We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60%"

ab8 — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:11:29 +0000

No. Functionality first. Optimization later.

New comment by ab8 in "A manifesto on shower temperature control"

ab8 — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 03:03:55 +0000

I want to be able to control flow and temperature separately.

New comment by ab8 in "Is remote work bad for the economy?"

ab8 — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 03:01:44 +0000

Middle managers will be needed more, not less.

New comment by ab8 in "Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE"

ab8 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:53:47 +0000

Tesla has 99k employees