wrong! we are now entering in to the total opposite - ZIRP by default with only periodic phases of rate increases to "correct"

when the next recession hits we will be back at ZIRP and stay there for years

welcome to the forever-MMT economy

Because he didn't scream at people, leave used needles in the street, or pass out in gutters.

”Homed” people do those things, quite often, yet I have to se any anti-vacancy laws.

It is telling that society regularly outlaws afflictions like homelessness or situations like vagrancy instead of targeting the specific instances of bad behaviour that ought to be the problem.

We outlaw homelessness because we don't want homeless people on the streets littering the place.

The bad behaviours you want to be outlawed are in fact already outlawed. It's just super hard to catch and convict on those. While it's a lot easier to prove someone is sleeping rough.

That’s two major problems baked into one.

First: We hide the symptoms behind a veneer of illegality which allows us to ignore the underlying causes.

Second: We intentionally write laws which has a proportionally negative effect based on social and medical class of citizens. A class which is already facing hardships.

”The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

There should be a majestic law that forbids both the rich and poor to use their position in public office to enrich themselves.

Fifteen-Minute Cities and Chat Control are brought to you by the same people

Yep. It comes down to attacking the options and freedom individuals can have.

Curious to read this in the history of two accounts who were so personally offended by online speech in the following week.

The bible did warn ye: "Speak of the devil and he shall appear."

what you get out of this is Democrats like Newsom and Pritzker - nonentities standing for nothing but hating Trump

what happens the day after a protest vote? you won, there's nothing to protest

soldiers with no combat experience lead by officers with no combat experience

their military will eventually be great, but very few nations gain combat experience cheaply

You can if you know what to fill from other sources.

Like, the grill of a car. If we know the make and year, we can add detail with each zoom by filling in from external sources

This is an especially bad example, a nice shiny grille is going to be strongly reflecting stuff that isn't already part of the image (and likely isn't covered well by adjacent pixels due the angle doubling of reflection).

been the case since the F16, which was the first to have such a characteristic

consumer versions of this pistol do not have a manual safety

they have internal safety mechanisms to prevent discharge, and these are important if you carry with a round chambered - in a striker-fired pistol, the firing pin is under tension and is only being restrained by the trigger and internal safeties

this is why I do not carry with a round chambered, if you appendix carry and something goes wrong, you will be missing an important appendage

This is why I carry a gun I trust. I keep one chambered at all times, pointing at my junk. I am not concerned about my junk. I am much more concerned about not being able to get a shot off in time if I ever need to use it.

I’m sorry, but when someone posts about a medical miracle here on HN — sure, I spend 2 seconds appreciating it — and then my mind immediately jumps to the fact that the very system that directly and indirectly made it possible is being dismantled as I type. This topic doesn’t get nearly enough ink here on HN, IMHO — and the wreckage isn’t even over yet. Just like how the full effect of tariffs took time to hit, the systematic destruction of research and science in the US hasn’t fully been felt, here or abroad. The gaps we’re creating are insane — and no amount of LLM hype or VC funding is going to cover them.

Sorry you don't like the discussion.

there are already ways in to the US for people who want to pay

Trump's "golden ticket" for example

I'm not the person who proposed the auction, but I read it as "let the companies compete for the H1-B visas in an auction," not about the workers buying their way into the US.

For example, if CheapoCorp is looking to replace reasonably well paid US workers with H1-B workers, they won't bid much for the visas. CheapoCorp isn't trying to get good talent from overseas. They're trying to save money, push down wages, have a workforce that they can mistreat (since they can't easily leave the company given their immigration status requires employment), etc.

By contrast, if a company is looking to hire great engineers or scientists from overseas because they're in a growing industry with a shortage of workers, they would be willing to pay a lot more to get the H1-B visas. They're not looking to save $20,000/year on someone's salary. They want top talent.

When companies are trying to replace their workforce with lower-paid foreign workers who can't complain (lest they lose their job and with it their immigration status), that's not what the H1-B system was designed for. It certainly is how some companies are using it. If you're on an H1-B and lose your job, you have 60 days to find a new job or you're gone. That's going to make you a much more compliant employee. You have little leverage to negotiate raises, you aren't likely to quit even if they're overworking you, they can pass you over for promotions and you'll quietly accept it.

But if the employer is competing in an auction for H1-B visas, they're more likely to be companies that are seeking out top talent rather than seeking out workers they can underpay and mistreat.

It’s not hard to imagine a loophole here:

• Someone with a lot of money wants to get U.S. residency.

• They set up or work with a shell company that “hires” them under the H-1B program.

• That company uses part of their payment to win the visa auction.

• Once in the U.S., the “employee” does whatever they want — the job is just window dressing.

This is essentially what’s happened in other visa categories when money alone becomes the main filter.

You can basically already do this. https://www.google.com/search?q=self-sponsored+h-1b+visas

how does the "employee" survive here by doing whatever they want? what with the cost of living and all.

The “employee” isn’t living off an H-1B salary — they’re already wealthy enough to bankroll the whole arrangement. The company is just a shell to win the auction and sponsor them. If an auction system were adopted without safeguards, it could turn the H-1B program from a labor-market tool into a plaything for the ultra-wealthy.

> The “employee” isn’t living off an H-1B salary — they’re already wealthy enough to bankroll the whole arrangement

If you are wealthy enough to bankroll this kind of a convoluted method to immigrate to the US (back of the napkin math $150k-250k), you are wealthy enough to bankroll an investor visa to the UK or Canada, invest locally in a business AND THEN target an American investment visa, or marry someone within the diaspora.

People are really overestimating the pull the US has on the truly rich. Most Indian H1Bs tend to be middle class Indians who hit a rut in their career in India, and are using the temporary US experience to land a better role back in India or maybe Canada.

If you are already earning $30-60K TC in the Indian market, the pull factor to earn $90-140k base on an H1B doesn't exist, especially because Green Card backlogs are multidecade long now.

There's a reason most of the H1B abuse is coming from consultancies - they tend to pay in the $3k-20k range. For someone in that bracket, the math of working as a low paid H1B works out.

That's why the H1B market is so bimodal - you have a huge chunk at consultancies who are paid low even by Indian standards and then an equally large chunk of people who are actually pretty elite and successful in India and are working at FAANG or top startups.

As a skilled immigration system, you want to optimize for the right half of the distribution and minimize the left hand side, but if you are too draconian in nature, you disincentivize people who you actually want to attract from coming to the US. India has already started trying to build something similar to the Thousand Talents program for NRIs and PIOs.

IMO, the current changes proposed are a good middle ground, but everything else on HN seems dumb.

I think there is a big astroturf campaign that is going on on x, reddit etc. that is rabidly anti-Indian.

seems wasteful, I'm trying to understand why, what is the "play" here?

But the golden ticket requires 5mil. Even in the US, even the most talented engineers, probably wouldn't have that much until after 5 to 10+ years of work, and outside of the US, earning that much money as an engineer is probably next to impossible before well over 40+. (And, even then, if all you have is just the 5mil, would you really part with that much money just for a visa?)