This might be just me, but the most important thing to me when I get advice is:
- who am I getting it from
- what do I know about their life/experience
- under what circumstances
Because that let's me adjust how much importance to put on it. Getting advice is generally not the hard part, figuring out which advice to follow and which to discard is.
It's clear if you read carefully and pay attention to the dates, but this is the kind of thing that seeds fake news and forwards. Disappointed that shock value and clickbaity titles are being used by a rights advocate group.
Okay, but he's basing this argument on his paper, where he sets out to show that immigrants are in fact, not exceptional.
However, if you believe my reasoning, then he isn't really measuring anything. So, we don't know if immigrants are exceptional or ordinary or worse. Or at least not based on his paper.
Okay, so obviously, an employment based visa program does create conflicts of interest and in general, is not good for the immigrant employee, compared to a non employment based visa.
However, the claim that immigrant employees are somehow not as good as their American counterparts is based on shoddy logic.
The criteria he uses in his paper to measure this:
- high salary
- high rate of patent production
- Ph.D. dissertation awards
- doctorate earned at a top-ranked university
- employment in R&D
Because of issues with the employment based visa, he himself argues earlier in the article that immigrant employees end up with a lower salary.
Top ranked universities don't always admit people based on merit. Being in the country when applying to school and speaking the language have huge advantages. A lot of graduate admissions are on a case by case basis, and getting an in person meeting with the professor can make all the difference. Also, top graduate schools tend to be a lot more expensive.
Employment is R&D is also hampered by the fact that immigrants don't have comparatively fewer choices when looking for a job, again because of issues with employment based visas. This is especially true is you want to do research in aerospace or materials because of security clearances.
Overall, this doesn't give me a lot of confidence in his other analyses.
Disclaimer: I'm an immigrant, so I'm not without my biases here.
The non existence of other orgs fighting for second ammendment rights, even if it were true, is a pretty weak argument for supporting this particular one, especially given that you agree there are good reasons not too do so.
This is basically the same argument in general against basic income, prepended with "in the case of India, it won't work because... "
I don't know if basic income works, but that's why experiments in the field are required. None of the reasons you have pointed out seem to be apply only to India.
Privilege when used in this sense doesn't mean everything is great all the time, it means that in certain situations, some people have an inherent advantage because of something they had no hand in.
One such example is race, hence white privilege. There are other reasons for privilege as well.
Atlassian has a pretty good track record of absorbing products and keeping them independent. Hipchat and bitbucket come to mind. This should be good for Trello.
> Do you think off-shore developers are going to have the same moral stances of a first world developer? I don't think so.
It's not as if first world developers (or employers) are on average more ethical than off-shore ones. You could have made the same point without being derisive of off-shore developers.
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