Yes. But in San Francisco it's almost everywhere. It's not just the Tenderloin or downtown.

Not true. There's a difference between wanting a single family home for yourself (obviously, almost everybody wants that) and forbidding alternatives for everybody else.

Can't California send them back then, with another 1 way ticket and maybe a motel reservation for a week?

Yes, make PayPal your gatekeeper for your purchases and if you are a business, for your sales. See how it works for you.

Yes, but a good thing about virtual credit cards (privacy or any other) is that you can give the number away to someone else, put a limit on the card and it's the same and giving them a gift card.

I do this when some student developers (no money, lots of talent) need to subscribe to something to test whatever they're tinkering with. I just create a card with $30 or whatever they need for a couple of months of service, give them all the info (because those cards will accept any name and any zipcode) and they use it as needed. Super convenient and it seems safe.

Yes. Same with PayPal etc. The solution is to trust one entity instead of all of them.

How is that easy? That's living in the past century.

There's some services that will give you disposable credit card numbers. privacy.com is one. Citibank also has virtual numbers.

And the one I like the most for now is the X1 credit card, which is free and comes with virtual numbers. Just use one for each business, subbscription, etc, and cancel as needed.

You might not have heard about them yet I'm sure you use their services indirectly all the time. Many important companies are like that.

Most likely the great times to join Stripe are over. They pay well but you won't become a millionaire.

I don't know what happened but I'm going to speculate: One of the core members forgot to use he/she, or a they when talking to single individual who thought to be entitled to royal treatment, and one of those moderators raised "the issue". And was told to fuck off.

Just guessing.

"End users" probably do even less than the moderation team (whatever that team did!). Anyone can contribute or not and therefore have an effect on the project direction or not. And use it or not.

That's all end users are entitled to, unless there's money on the table.

That means that only the companies that can afford them will get them, and of course those companies are in the most expensive places to live in in the first place. So you're very likely going to bring 80,000 new people to the Bay Area and New York every year, making things worse for people that have nothing to do with tech at all and just want to be able to live in those places. Plus this doesn't solve the fundamental problem for those H1B employees: The employer has them by the balls until they get the green card, which can take many years. So let me offer my ideas :-) - For every employee you must guarantee a layoff notice of 6 months (yeah, so think twice about having someone leave their country to work for you). This will give employees ample time to find a new job should they be fired.

- Green cards shouldn't be employer sponsored. Anyone with a work permit (i.e. a H1B holder for example) should be able to sponsor himself and get the green card as long as during all the process he/she has a salary at least for the same amount as he came into the country in the first place. Switching jobs should not affect your green card case.

- Minimum wage must be over the median of whatever you are paying at your company already.

Wait, so that money goes somewhere that is not the employee? That's totally fucked up. It would incentivize lots of H1B (since now there's money for the government) with low pays. H1B have a prevailing wage determination. Which I must say it's quite high at least for certain skils.

IMHO a reasonable solution is
- Employee must work at the H1B petitioner offices (no subcontracting)
- Employer must guarantee at least one year of employment (i.e. you better be sure you want that employee, no sending him home after two months)

And while we're at it
- Employees can request a green card and if they have been employed the whole time (regardless of whether they've changed employers) they get it. This will prevent the "I'll take as much abuse as I have to as long as I get a GC in the end".

What risk? I own a business and whenever there's a chargeback we have to eat it. It's not like PayPal is paying the money no matter what.

They're not. Takes them one minute to confirm. I don't know how long the "timeout" value is, and I might not be looking for anything else until I hear from them, because they are my first option.

Really? Pasting a standard text is costly?