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Reducing H-1Bs Increases Outsourcing

July 23, 2019 by Kee Hinckley 1 Comment

What do you do when you can’t use an H-1B to hire someone here? You outsource to them there.

It’s not as efficient. But it’s certainly cheaper. Of course it means that all that money you would have been paying into the local economy, not to mention the investment in skills, now leaves the country.

On top of that, as you build teams outside of the U.S., it becomes easier and easier (and far cheaper) to outsource entire projects to them.

I really wish we hired more people locally. Especially junior resources. But companies make decisions based on cost. Getting rid of H-1Bs is just going to push the money somewhere else. And it’s not going to be hiring local.

That said, the whole “we’re a consulting company full of H-1Bs” is definitely not the right solution either. Especially since it tends to lock contractors into that company and makes it harder for them to get hired full-time, which ends up being bad for both your company, and the contractor.

Also note that tech isn’t the only industry relying on H-1Bs.

Rural Areas Brace for a Shortage of Doctors Due to Visa Policy

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How to cheat a slot machine

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❝ the operatives use their phones to record about two dozen spins on a game they aim to cheat. They upload that footage to a technical staff in St. Petersburg, who analyze the video and calculate the machine’s pattern based on what they know about the model’s pseudorandom number generator. Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button.

“The normal reaction time for a human is about a quarter of a second, which is why they do that,” says Allison, who is also the founder of the annual World Game Protection Conference. The timed spins are not always successful, but they result in far more payouts than a machine normally awards: Individual scammers typically win more than $10,000 per day. ❞

That was then. Now apparently they live stream the spin to the central computers.

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I’m Kee Hinckley (he/his). That’s my wife Mollie Pepper on the right. I’m a senior software architect at TiVo Corp (I get the metadata from point A to point B) with a BA in Anthropology. Mollie’s a sociologist with a couple Masters and a PhD on the way; she specializes in borders, gender, and violence. I have two kickass daughters. Shireen Hinckley is a film editor and documentarian currently working on a movie on refugee resettlement, Home Is Where the War Is. Shadi Fotouhi is a QA automation expert at Wayfair (and formerly at robotics firm Jibo), and an amazing artist.

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nazgulDr. Pepper’s Husband (Kee Hinckley)@nazgul·
21 Jan

Taking a break.
Out of spoons.
Be well.

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21 Jan

No no no!

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Do you want ghosts? Because this is how you get ghosts.

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20 Jan

Just wanted to let you know that Eric Trump's wedding planner is no longer the person in charge of federal housing in New York and New Jersey.

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nazgulDr. Pepper’s Husband (Kee Hinckley)@nazgul·
21 Jan

So devs.
What restrictions does your company put on your dev env? Which are real, and which aren't enforced? Private devices. Managed devices. Use of privately purchased software. Use of open source software. Which apps can access mail/calendar/contacts…
How does that work?

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20 Jan

"I bet it would be funny to put a pancake on my cats face"...

2 minutes later "JESUS CHRIST!"

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