2025-09-24
Esp if the $100k fee gets struck down, this is the opposite of what you'd want. You want small numbers of highly selected STEM types whose positive externalities will swamp the negatives.
Wall Street Journal
Inside the Trump Administration's chaotic H-1B visa overhaul, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick initially presenting the $100,000 fee as an annual charge
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sowed confusion over whether new fees were annual and applicable to existing visa holders.
Esp if the $100k fee gets struck down, this is the opposite of what you'd want. You want small numbers of highly selected STEM types whose positive externalities will swamp the negatives.
Reuters
The Trump administration proposes an H-1B visa process giving more weight to applications from employers who pay higher wages if visa demand exceeds the 85K cap
it allows for even more low-wage, low skill workers to come in, while leaving the “body shop” H1B mills intact... @xxshaurizardxx : what in the world are we doing here. why are we ...
2025-02-05
“How does he do it, Jerry? He's dating models. He's working at Andreessen Horowitz. I would KILL to live like Daniel Penny!” “I think that's the idea” [image]
The Free Press
a16z hires former Marine Daniel Penny, who in December a New York jury acquitted in a controversial subway chokehold case, to work on its American Dynamism team
“Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,” said partner David Ulevitch in a statement explaining the hire.
2021-11-22
But wait, it gets worse: it was racist for white people not to drop everything when black women complained Facebook wouldn't let them be racist against white people. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Sources and internal docs show Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech left minorities more likely to see derogatory and racist language on the site
Last year, researchers at Facebook showed executives an example of the kind of hate speech circulating on the social network …