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  100k Fee on H1-B visas
  J jon-nyc

  @bachophile said in 100k Fee on H1-B visas:

  workaround
  An L-1 visa allows companies with an international presence to transfer managers, executives, and specialized knowledge workers from a foreign branch or affiliate to the United States, if the transferring employee worked for the related entity abroad for at least one year in the last three years.

  so if you work for say microsoft india, microsoft can move you to the USA, did i get that right?

  Yep. I was talking to a friend’s girlfriend just last night who is on an L-1.

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  Glad the free speech folks are in charge
  J jon-nyc

  @LuFins-Dad said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

  Start at 3:45

  Listen from 0:00. The whole thing is good.

  ABC - Always Be Caving

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  Best in Northern Virginia
  J jon-nyc

  Very nice.

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  Those numbers aren’t going to falsify themselves
  J jon-nyc

  They look at what people actually spend money on to see how to weight the various items to come up with a total inflation score.

  For example, beef is up 20% or something. How big an effect should that have on the general inflation number? Depends on how much it features in the average American’s grocery bill.

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  Mildly interesting
  J jon-nyc

  @LuFins-Dad

  I think the general shape of intergenerational wealth shift is unchanged in the modern era but the timing has probably shifted considerably for the reasons you state - homeownership is a big chunk of middle class wealth as they age and younger generations are starting that much later.

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  Mildly interesting
  J jon-nyc

  @LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:

  @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

  One imagines that at a population level it’s pretty stable and depends on both economic factors and social factors.

  How much of those large numbers in the south east are due to young men really wanting a big ass truck?

  Also there’s a large population for whom ‘paying off a car’ isn’t a thing. One leases in perpetuity because it’s the “cheapest” (sic) way to own a car.

  Are leases auto debt calculated at the total cost of the vehicle or the total lease commitment for this purpose?

  My bad. I was thinking of that as payment as a percentage of income. Leases wouldn’t show up in this data at all.

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  Glad the free speech folks are in charge
  J jon-nyc

  A stopped clock is right twice a day.

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  Mildly interesting
  J jon-nyc

  One imagines that at a population level it’s pretty stable and depends on both economic factors and social factors.

  How much of those large numbers in the south east are due to young men really wanting a big ass truck?

  Also there’s a large population for whom ‘paying off a car’ isn’t a thing. One leases in perpetuity because it’s the “cheapest” (sic) way to own a car.

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  Camping with Lucas was a little different than camping with Finley…
  J jon-nyc

  The force of gravity has been steadily increasing. It also presents with unexpected joint pain.

  Geoengineers are looking into it. Might have something to do with the earth’s rotation.

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  Trumpenomics
  J jon-nyc

  Yeah, the article went into that. This has all the usual suspects, food dyes, chemical this and that, an entire quarry of sodium, etc.

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