> A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks. For example, I've personally interviewed graduates who can't answer "Write a loop that counts from 1 to 10" or "What's the number after F in hexadecimal?
You are right, I was concentrating more on the second half of the quote which is about someone's personal experience. If what they describe is what they've encountered, it should not have an expiry date.
For the extrapolating "surprisingly large fraction" part, I have no idea. Maybe someone is keeping count on these numbers; it would be interesting to see them.
That’s the point of this post, that you are not safe by throwaways at all, because all of your throwaways can be linked together purely by your textual style.
Consider things like "landscaper isn't able to get H-2B visa for summer jobs" (one of the examples). Well, now they have to raise prices and turn down jobs.
The H-2B isn't wide open. Its a 6 month maximum contract - seasonal and short term work.
Look at the "Who May Qualify for H-2B Classification?" section.
The reauth period:
> Generally, USCIS may grant H-2B classification for up to the period of time authorized on the temporary labor certification. H-2B classification may be extended for qualifying employment in increments of up to 1 year each. A new, valid temporary labor certification covering the requested time must accompany each extension request. The maximum period of stay in H-2B classification is 3 years.
As to some of the effects described in the paper:
> Why are the effects so uniformly positive despite widespread priors of a harm to natives? Our model and additional evidence suggest that it is because there are simply few substitutes for the labor provided by legally authorized low-skill workers. First, pushing our estimates (of either the employment or revenue response) through a standard model of the labor market used in the immigration literature, we find that U.S. workers do not substantially substitute for foreign workers on H-2B visas. Second, unlike in other low-skill industries like agriculture (e.g. Clemens et al. 2018; San 2022) or manufacturing (e.g. Lewis 2011) there appears to be little potential to simply “automate away” labor shortages. Indeed, we find that H-2B hires are associated with an increase in capital investment (elasticity +1.03), suggesting that capital is a complement, rather than a substitute for H-2B workers. Finally, a simple forensic analysis shows little sign that lottery losing firms turn to unauthorized labor, suggesting that the unauthorized are not a viable substitute for legally hired workers, either.
Normally these companies have been able to hire (2018) the number of people who are willing to work for six months - but as the H-2B visa program has hit its cap, it is uncertain if the company will be able to hire people several months out and they are forced to work short staffed or possibly close.
> U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today introduced a bill to temporarily increase the availability of H-2B visas for the purpose of restoring American forests. The bill would establish an uncapped, but temporary, carve-out of the H-2B program to permit a surge in workers to address a multi-year backlog in forest management, including wildfire restoration, long-term timber supply, and carbon sinks.
> ... These seasonal jobs represent only 1 percent of the total forestry sector, supporting 1.1 million domestic, higher-skilled and higher-paying jobs in the forestry, wood, and paper industries. H-2B workers mostly plant trees following disturbances such as fires, hurricanes, and timber harvests. Tree planting jobs have proven difficult to fill using domestic labor because the jobs are seasonal and change locations frequently, often traveling from state to state.
Impossible to fix. The more diverse a society is, the lower the trust it has in its governments. We don’t want to pick up the tabs caused by the problems introduced by “the others” in our diverse society. For example, student loan forgiveness, affirmative action, diversity hiring, stimulus checks, petty theft forgiveness, etc.
You're using the words "low trust society" to mean something different than I am, which doesn't strike me as particularly helpful.
If you as a person do not want to trust government regulation, that's great! Please do your own research, test food quality yourself, and inspect the kitchen every time you want to order a burger.
Also, if you don't want "the others" in "our diverse society" to be seen as a dog whistle, you should perhaps choose some different phrasing.
in a diverse society like the USA, we have too many things that we disagree upon. In a homogeneous society like Japan, we don't. Hence we can trust the government more.
Yes, I want my government to test food quality, to inspect the kitchen. But I don't want my government to bailout petty thefts, to give stimulus checks, to hail criminals as saviors (BLM), to require me to pronounce different genders, etc.
If you want your government to test food quality and inspect kitchens, then you trust your government in those things, and then can therefore trust that eating at a restaurant is safe. Part of what makes first-world societies work is that sort of effort. People can just go about their business and not have to investigate every little thing.
Similarly, the reason that the US has one of the most robust financial markets in the world is regulation. That regulation comes from governments and exchanges and it is intense. But that means that investors can generally trust financial statements, etc. Lowering the barrier to investment means more capital invested, making things better for everybody.
Trust is economically valuable and it isn't free.
> It is a dog whistle. I meant to say that.
Ok. I appreciate you admitting that you are choosing to be racist. So few racists do these days.
Sounds like a pretty sorry state of things and not how I like to live. I bet you trust a lot of aspects of society though, such as every piece of food you buy at a grocery store and in a restaurant, every prescription and over the counter medicine you consume, and every bridge you drive over.
Indeed it is. Unfortunately, I am not a globalist. I used to be, used to be gung-ho about diversity and multiculturalism. Not so much anymore, began to see the cost it brings.
We don't need diversity to have modern 1st world comfort. See Japan.
I wonder if this is true?