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New comment by taiwan_num1 in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

taiwan_num1 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:55:15 +0000

Not to start an argument, but do you really think you could easily find non-tech work that also provides health insurance? I get a little triggered at this line of thinking. People often day dream about working as a Costco receipt checker without realizing you literally have to work your way up from seasonal to part-time to full-time over years. And that's assuming you can even get hired as a seasonal worker with a 5+ year unemployment gap on your Resume (your SWE career).

I'm realizing I'm a little bit too passionate about this lol but I would love to hear if you have a specific plan or goal in mind so I can copy it. For me BaristaFIRE would be ideal, but with so many friends going through the layoff/unemployment cycle and hearing their experiences I've concluded it's much more pragmatic to stay in tech.

New comment by taiwan_num1 in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

taiwan_num1 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:41:46 +0000

But it feels like planes have a huge advantage in that they all have trackers constantly broadcasting their location to one another. Almost like they are working as a team compared to FSD systems which are limited to a small range of self collected info from vision/lidar.

Not that it can ever be fully automated but it seems like much easier problem to solve.

New comment by taiwan_num1 in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

taiwan_num1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:53:50 +0000

We already don't have enough housing and you want to increase the cost of entry to build? This would just reduce competition and new builds even further. Hard to see this kind of policy coming out ahead if any increased utilization of existing buildings is cancelled out by the lack of new ones.

New comment by taiwan_num1 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

taiwan_num1 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:51:58 +0000

FAANG offers the exact same salaries to US citizens and those who need sponsorship. And speaking from personal experience, the majority of the Chinese and Indian immigrants at Meta are extremely talented and tremendously hard working. The best Americans are obsessed with startups and entrepreneurship and aren’t satisfied with being cogs in the machine the way H1B seekers are.

I’m not saying the system is perfect, we definitely need to work on clearing out these fraudulent consultancies and such. But FAANG H1Bs are good engineers and we would definitely be worse off without them. I much preferred the proposal to only allow H1B after a certain salary threshold of ~200-250k which seems like it would solve the issue.