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facialimpediment posted:Holy crap, 50% in this one. A ton of Ossof signage in that residential area.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Like, the impression is that there's a job for a data analyst paying 60k annually that would be available for an American with a BA and some work experience. A company applies for an H1B visa, and dumps an Indian dude in that position and pays them 48k annually. This drives down the average wage for the "data analyst" job description everywhere in the US. How is this not the same thing? The company needs, say, a senior-level person and the going pay is $90k. They put up a non-specific job posting offering $60k and (surprise!) they get mostly junior-level applicants who aren't qualified for the senior role they want. This gives them the opening to cry about it and apply to sponsor H1-B employees, who are willing to work for the lower wages. This puts downward pressure on the wages of Americans. And you only have to prove you looked for Americans below $60k or something like that. If you're offering more, the requirements loosen significantly - that's the number that Congress is discussing raising.
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"I need my McNuggets" should be America's epitaph
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The dude that shot up the mall near me a few months back apparently killed himself in jail. http://www.king5.com/amp/news/crime/cascade-mall-shooting-suspect-dies-jail/431870782
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Missionary Positron posted:The future is amazing. Not really, no, just more of the same poo poo.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:"I need my McNuggets" should be America's epitaph A fitting tagline for the bizarre cyberpunk dystopia we live in.
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Svartvit posted:The US tech markey could never ever make do without the H1B1. I'm sorry but Americans are not the first-rate employees they'd need to be. You have no idea what you're talking about.  If Google doubled the salaries of every H1B worker it hired in 2014, take a guess how many pixels it would take off the blue bar in that graph. e: one Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Americans are lazy, ergo, we should import all labor. This is a smart opinion and not completely ignorant of actual tech talent in the US or the difficulty of affording the education needed to fill those positions.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:gently caress yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou SharePoint works well for me 
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at the date posted:You have no idea what you're talking about. Google's average salary for h1b employees is $127k, which is similar to their regular software engineers. RSUs will more than double that. Google is not the problem.
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Missionary Positron posted:A fitting tagline for the bizarre cyberpunk dystopia we live in. This cyberpunk dystopia blows, nobody is riding a motorcycle/nuke linked to their heart beat. I want a new one.
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Flikken posted:SharePoint works well for me SharePoint is an unholy piece of poo poo that I sell to companies and configure for $200 an hour with a smile on my face
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Missionary Positron posted:A fitting tagline for the bizarre cyberpunk dystopia we live in. No, someone else nailed it when they observed that the dark future was supposed to be a cyperpunk dystopia but instead it's Grapes of Wrath part 2.
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milk milk lemonade posted:SharePoint is an unholy piece of poo poo that I sell to companies and configure for $200 an hour with a smile on my face gently caress you for prolonging SharePoint's stay on this Earth.
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 "Hey guys, we need some positive quotes for our new initiative!" "Uh.... we don't have any. Business hates it, Democrats think it's toothless and racist, and nobody knows what it actually means." "GODDAMNIT PUT OUT A PRESS RELEASE PRAISING THE NEW INITIATIVE WITH QUOTATIONS PRAISING HIM" "Ok boss."https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/854465719333007360 
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hobbesmaster posted:Google's average salary for h1b employees is $127k, which is similar to their regular software engineers. RSUs will more than double that. Right, I saw the NYT article. I chose the company that pays their H1B employees the most to make a point. Even at the company offering the highest salaries on the market, labor costs have no significant effect on their bottom line. Labor costs are not holding back any tech company that is big enough to be hiring lots of H1Bs to begin with.
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Georgia election return-watching tips (if you're a nutcase like me) from Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, on the Georgia counties as they post results: Rule of thumb: to be on track to hit 50% and *avoid* a runoff, Ossoff probably needs around 62% in DeKalb, 51% in Fulton, 45% in Cobb. IMPORTANT as you track: this likely means Ossoff (D) needs at least 72% of the *early* vote in DeKalb, 61% in Fulton and 55% in Cobb.
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facialimpediment posted:Georgia election return-watching tips (if you're a nutcase like me) from Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, on the Georgia counties as they post results: Any good sources for it?
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Coffeehitler posted:Any good sources for it? NYT Livechat: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/18/us/politics/georgia-special-election-live.html NY Times live results: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/georgia-house-special-election-district-6 Decision Desk live: https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/georgia-6th-congressional-district-ga06-special-election-primary/
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Thanks, now to completely ignore the tab until tomorrow morning like last week's special election.  Oh poo poo, there's a Democrat named Ragin Edwards. Kinda want him to do good, but it steals votes from Ossoff.
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Just a quick thing, if Ossoff doesn't crack 50%, it's not really unexpected. Here are the details on the district: —R+8 district —Suburban Atlanta —Price won by 23 pts in ‘16 —GOP-held since 1979 —Won by Trump (1 pt), Romney (23), McCain (25) (From Sahil Kapur of Bloomberg) Now if Ossoff gets less than like 43%, Democrats hosed up.
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Coffeehitler posted:Thanks, now to completely ignore the tab until tomorrow morning like last week's special election. Check this guy out. http://mohammadaliforcongress.com/ Also  http://mohammadaliforcongress.com/issues/right-to-bear-arms/
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Bigly turnout in DeKalb, the Democratic county (one example below). Ossoff beating Clinton's numbers. MAYBE a touch below where he wanted on the percentages. Gonna be a long night, but 50% is on the table, but still an outside shot. https://twitter.com/conorsen/status/854488950291009536 Edit/Update: Wasserman thinks Ossoff needed 55% of the early vote in the GOP county, Cobb. He got 57%. https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/854489975622180864 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Honestly. If Ossoff breaks 50, the best part won't be Dems winning a something like 40 year red seat. Its going to be Trumps gigantic meltdown.
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Genocide Tendency posted:Honestly. If Ossoff breaks 50, the best part won't be Dems winning a something like 40 year red seat. Its going to be Trumps gigantic meltdown. Yep. Congresspeople want nothing more than to get re-elected. If a +10ish seat goes Democratic, suddenly a lot of safe Republicans are investing in scuba gear because they think a wave is coming.
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Genocide Tendency posted:Honestly. If Ossoff breaks 50, the best part won't be Dems winning a something like 40 year red seat. Its going to be Trumps gigantic meltdown. Oh please oh please.
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DoktorLoken posted:I'm curious what the GOP's reaction will be in Congress. That's real bad news for them if he wins. -We weren't conservative enough -Voters were upset we didn't repeal Obamacare -Illegal aliens did it with help of George Soros
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This is the most interested I have ever been in Georgia politics. And of course Trump is going to blame illegal voting in a tweet tomorrow. Even if they win he'll say that there was lots of illegal voting.
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Best Friends posted:-We weren't conservative enough Whats great about this is thats exactly what they will say.
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EVERYTHING on my twitter feed is currently "oh gently caress, this is going to be really close" https://twitter.com/kasie/status/854492524097961984
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Congress is debating making troops buy into their GI Bill http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/gi-bill-benefits-new-fees-future-enlistees-house-lawmakers
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That's how Montgomery GI Bill worked. You paid $100/mo for your first year and that $1200 magically became $30k+ during your enlistment. When I enlisted, it was still offered. Post 9/11 wasn't law until a few years later.
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