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New comment by abdabab in "Silicon Valley is on edge as Trump's immigration policy sparks fears"

abdabab — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:54:43 +0000

That’s not true. It’s a dual intent visa [1].

> Dual Intent: The H-1B visa type carries “dual intent” which means that the holder may intend to return to his/her home country or intend to immigrate to the United States.

However, it does fall under the broad category of temporary work visa, which is possibly why people wrongly assume it’s a “contract” visa.

[1] https://isso.ucsf.edu/immigration-visas/h-1b-scholars

New comment by abdabab in "Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online"

abdabab — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:11:26 +0000

> I mean all USA debt delinquencies are currently between the same levels as Q1 and Q2 of 2008...

Where did you find this? None of the data in https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/32440 confirms this other than the small bank credit card delinquencies.

New comment by abdabab in "Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-Covid forecasts"

abdabab — Sat, 27 May 2023 20:18:58 +0000

Yes, now return to office. /s

New comment by abdabab in "Ask HN: How do you decide what's worth working on?"

abdabab — Sat, 27 May 2023 02:39:41 +0000

Mainly Blind, LinkedIn and searching. After an offer is made and if you’re taking time to decide, recruiters often sets up a meeting with an executive to talk to you.

New comment by abdabab in "Ask HN: How do you decide what's worth working on?"

abdabab — Fri, 26 May 2023 05:21:09 +0000

I tried that. It didn’t work out for me. Politics, organizational instability, bad executives and a never stopping pager are all insufferable. It kills the very thing, the entirety of joie de vivre that is the main reason for making money.

Now choosing job is a multi-variable analysis for me. I pay more attention to the executives.

New comment by abdabab in "Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023"

abdabab — Thu, 11 May 2023 04:19:20 +0000

> how completely fucked up the world’s economy

Wasn’t economy always effed up that way? I can’t think of a time economy wasn’t driven by corporate greed to make more profit.

New comment by abdabab in "66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’"

abdabab — Sat, 06 May 2023 04:22:54 +0000

Pittsburgh, PA has plenty of houses under 100k. Here’s one that’s less than 250 miles away from you. Although this particular one is not a countryside house [1].

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1401-Cresson-St-Pittsburg...

New comment by abdabab in "I worked at Google for -10 days"

abdabab — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:23:45 +0000

Point taken.

New comment by abdabab in "I worked at Google for -10 days"

abdabab — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 04:21:40 +0000

> Google's revenues were flat last year but costs were up.

Wrong. Google made 181.69 billion in 2020, 256.74B in 2021 [1] and 283B in 2022 [2]. A 10% YoY increase [2] is better than most of the years they have been public. They possibly made more money in last 2.5 years than all the years they have been public combined.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204423...

New comment by abdabab in "Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens"

abdabab — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 05:48:05 +0000

I thought health insurance puts a cap on how much you can get charged. Could you add a little how that can happen?

New comment by abdabab in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

abdabab — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:43:23 +0000

Who are these investors that he’s fighting?

New comment by abdabab in "Internal document explains why Google has become slow and bureaucratic"

abdabab — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 06:22:15 +0000

> Also, if there was any interesting work, if you weren't some sort of political beast or very assertive, somebody would just steal it from you before you could do it anyways.

This happens in every company.

New comment by abdabab in "Men Without Work (2016)"

abdabab — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:49:54 +0000

> Keep your head down and weather the storm.

This certainty a good way to survive but not a good way to live.

New comment by abdabab in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

abdabab — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 23:22:21 +0000

> Tech jobs at FAANG no longer look attractive or stable. Google hits the final nail in the coffin (not necessarily involving the layoffs)

This is already happening. FAANGs no longer pay the top dollars according to levels.fyi report: https://www.levels.fyi/2022

> and culture which more resemble 90s than 2020s

What was the culture like in 90s? Any articles/books I can read?

New comment by abdabab in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

abdabab — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 23:10:05 +0000

> Labor unrest will increase everywhere

Why do you think this will happen?

New comment by abdabab in "Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere"

abdabab — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 05:09:42 +0000

Aren’t you adding extra work for him out of pity?

New comment by abdabab in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

abdabab — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 04:08:17 +0000

My impression is Twitter handles traffic and complexity in a different magnitude than Netflix in the 2000. Internet usage was significantly smaller back then.

On-prem is a good point though. I don’t know a lot about their core infra.

New comment by abdabab in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

abdabab — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:55:12 +0000

I think she never intended to be a billionaire. She doesn’t fall under the usual bucket of billionaires.

New comment by abdabab in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

abdabab — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:49:09 +0000

I’m sure Netflix in 2000 had a lot simpler tech stack than Twitter in 2020. However your point is taken.

New comment by abdabab in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

abdabab — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:45:26 +0000

Where did you find that Elon was fired from Zip2 and PayPal?