TFA doesn't mention a $100k application fee: https://www.reuters.com/busine...

It mentions an annual $100k fee.

> There really isn't a better way to deal with the abuses. Here's some personal experience. ...
> They kept the H1-Bs because they make less money and they can't leave unless they want to return to India.

And guess who would've they fired, had they invested $100k *upfront* into hiring the H-1B worker, who is now, and going forward, working for a lower salary compared to the local worker, due to how markets work? And who, by definition, is more loyal to the company, because it's indentured servitude (and also, taxation without representation) and he/she has a way stronger incentive not to lose the job, otherwise it's an undesired move back to China or India.

Yes, the $100k will probably reduce H-1B *applications*, and will make it harder for smaller firms, while it remains economical for well-financed IT shops who will still hire plenty. But it may not reduce the number of H-1B workers allowed in. It'll perhaps just remove the lottery aspect and the long waits.

Given Trump's former comments about Norway, India and China led me to believe that he'll restore the per-region buckets for H-1Bs that used to be the case. Europeans generally got their H-1B quickly and with high certainty, while Indian and Chinese workers were playing lottery in their crowded buckets for years.

Also, I expected Trump to make skilled immigration more binary: the foreign worker is either let in, and almost automatically gets a green card (especially if from Europe - see Trump's earlier comments) or not invited into the US even temporarily, due to national security concerns. China is seen as an adversary, with some chance that any single worker is a CCP spy or at least will aid China when moving back. Of course, the Chinese or Indian worker may move back even with a quickly granted green card in hand, but it's less likely, because it's way more difficult to feel at home in the US with a temporary work permit that might or might not lead to a green card, than if someone felt more welcome and secure in their opportunity to stay, save for retirement, buy a home and the like.

The blanket, region-independent fee, and preservation of a single global pool are a surprise from Trump, but he might not be done.

It's even worse: the Robin Hood CEO even has vested interest in saying what he says.

Do these duplicate slashdot posts come in big endian or little endian order?

Yes, this single line. We enjoyed false comfort. Then it's followed by

> power more than 266,000 homes annually

Don't they also power the same more than 266 000 homes hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and biannually?

I agree with the part that it's unhelpful to make blanket statements without evidence. Larger, paying users with lots of lawyers must be doing a bunch of due diligence to avoid leaks.

For the record, there have been several reports on AI companies using unlicensed information sources such as artists' works to train their models on.

Also, since you're keen on pointing out manipulative words, recognize that "Don't be insulting" doesn't imply that the poster himself/herself was being insulted. Concluding with catchy phrases about a therapist shows you in no better color than what you take offense with.

To add my own related speculation, it seems possible that not only H-1B and other skilled immigration programs reintroduce the former per-region lottery buckets, but also, they will contain stick and carrot provisions depending on how a visa is used:

Sticks: maintaining or even increasing remittance taxes, and limiting (shortening) visa stays to fewer years, giving a "take it or leave it" choice to the employee and company (see the next point). Companies may also get additional payroll-like taxes for workers on visa.

Carrots: much faster, more automated green card and citizenship programs for immigrants that the administration considers favorable on societal and security grounds (eg. region of origin), as well as on economic grounds (highly skilled, highly paid workers).

I wouldn't put it past Trump that he'd handle it transactionally: wishing to tax the hell out of it, while trying to rebalance a demographic change from South American and other immigration with European and certain South African immigrants.

I'm surprised that noone links the H-1B rethinking to some of the statements Trump made.

Trump said he'd welcome immigration from countries like Norway https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-m... and he also introduced the concept of "shithole countries".

Trump railed against China on every conceivable grounds, and more recently against India in the more specific context of not wanting to move US-related jobs in China to US-related jobs to India. This may extend into him thinking that in the case of Chinese H-1B, obvious security risks apply, and in case of both China and India, there's the economic concern that money goes back to their countries eg. via remittances and repatriation, people transferring money to their families continuously, or when they ultimately move back to their own country. There's a remittance tax being introduced: https://www.paymentsdive.com/n...

Trump also recently welcomed immigration of people of ultimately European origin from South Africa.

H-1B didn't use to be a global visa lottery with all countries, Norway, India and China lumped together with Norway.

For example, Europe had a separate pool, and visa application counts were much lower from Europe, with the result that Europeans promptly received their visas while much more populous, poorer or more controversial countries with high application counts were already on a lottery-like scheme.

In any case, it's bad that the visa is owned by the company and it's indentured servitude in some ways, but it's still surprising that all the speculation doesn't consider a more differentiated geographic sourcing of skilled immigrants.

People don't understand that Agent Krasnov's role is to weaken the United States, and he's been succeeding with it.

Who the hell comes up with numbers like 600 minutes? Why not 36 000 seconds then?
I can compute without AI that it's 10 hours.

Would you have supported Western companies selling entertainment products to the population of nazi Germany just to avoid burning bridges? Lol.

Who said anything about the US? It was the soviet union that got humiliated in Afghanistan, and they had to withdraw. A nuclear power, the soviet union (=russia plus who they colonized) wasn't able to prevail. A much smaller, weaker russia won't be able to conquer Ukraine just because there are 3x as many russians as Ukrainians.

russians should focus on stopping their unprovoked, criminal, fucking war against Ukraine, instead of enjoying the spoils of the Western world they publicly despise but privately idolize and yearn for. They should grow a pair and overthrow their 21. century Hitler.

> they'll feel really, really dumb in about 10^77 years

No, they'll still have 9 times that long ahead of them.

How TF was Excel groundbreaking? It's an incremental iteration on Lotus 1-2-3, which was an incremental iteration on VisiCalc.

Nothing is killer app about "Excel". Spreadsheets? Sure. Excel merely achieved market heft by shady tactics from convicted monopolist Microsoft.
Nothing revolutionaly about "Excel". It's a mediocre copycat product and has always been.