'all stories'... cites 1. It's not really as common as you were told to believe, buddy. On another topic: it's worth saying that big tech spends (pay + immigration fees) way more to H1-B workers than it does to americans. The notion that it's the other way around is laughable. Most big tech offer green card on hire, which is an expensive process. The green card process even starts before the H1-B process, although the employee will obviously be issues H1-B before. So, the path usually is: advanced degree (masters+) in American college --> H1B --> green card. Companies can't offer citizenship, but with green card + 5 years in country, a resident alien an apply to it on their own. A Level 5 SWE immigrant under H1-B at Google makes the same as their Level 5 american peer. People usually don't come straight from another country to the US under H1-B these days, mostly because of the lottery. The chances are very slim, since there are so many applicants and the timeline also doesn't help. Say Apple needs a PM today, May 14th, and interviews someone in Brazil that passes the loop. At this point the window for applying for that position has passed under H1-B, so they'd have to wait until April for next year to file the papers for a specific candidate. Then it goes through processing. Assuming this candidate passes the lottery, which will be known by July, they can only legally come and work in the US by October. So, in this example, 15+ months to get the candidate, *if* everyone is lucky... it does not happen. What usually does happen is they either: - get a master's degree or PhD from a US school: they'd be on F1 (better) or J1 (worse, but doable), but they'd be on OPT for 1 year, allowing them to apply for the H1-B lottery twice - get someone from Apple Brazil and bring them over under an L1, which doesn't have the same H1-B lottery and market test requirements As for all the (mostly) Indian tech consulting firms (Tata, Infosys etc.) yes, they abuse the system and there's evidence around. They do apply to the same candidate with different names, they do apply in bulk etc. Trump's admin was going to close this gap by requiring higher wages ($150K-250K or more instead of $60K), but I don't think that was enacted. It's mostly big tech's fault, IMO, for hiring those folks at such low wages. Microsoft does it a lot.

No. You don't need to sign in/up to download. Just cancel the login prompt.

Bad headline. The point here is not to "destroy" the laptop, but to do a last action. It's the Dread Pirate Roberts scenario where Ulbricht's laptop was confiscated by FBI before he could lock it, leaving HD contents unencrypted.