The point is not that the transfer is difficult, the point is that finding a suitable new job in the designated time period has a difficulty you can't predict.
are we talking about just switching or getting fired and trying to find new h-1b job? because these are two completely different procedures from uscis standpoint. the claim about h-1b being "indentured servitude" that people are trying to make usually hinges on it being hard to transfer (which is not the case), not the short grace period after getting fired.
I find it rather strange that you talk about them as if they are two separate things when they are intrinsically linked. You have ~60 days from the date of employment termination to have your work permit transferred or you are out of status, period. Leaving your job (whether via resigning or getting fired or laid off) without something already lined up is thus quite obviously much more risky than it is for someone who doesn't have that sword hanging over their head. I'd sincerely hope it doesn't need explaining how this tilts the balance of power even more in the employer's favour.
> You have ~60 days from the date of employment termination to have your work permit transferred or you are out of status, period.
What the hell else supposed to happen to your temp worker visa when you’re no longer a worker? Are you supposed to just get an immigration hall pass indefinitely?
Same point as in sibling thread - if you cant get a new job lined up while still employed or within 60 days of being laid off, you clearly dont possess "distinguished merit and ability" which is the entire purpose of this visa
If someone is sexually harassed or assaulted while being on an H1B and becomes ill because of it, what should they do? People often have to take months off of work to recover from workplace sexual assault.
Any imbalance of power is a vector for sexual harassment, assault, or discrimination in general.
You really are grasping at straws here. There are special visas/immigration status for these cases. Hard to believe I know but people who designed these policies aren't complete morons.
What special visa are we talking about? U visas have a high bar which workplace discrimination often doesn't meet.
It's not grasping at straws by the way. Perhaps no one has confided in you. I, personally, was sexually harassed and discriminated against while on an H-1B visa. I've heard many stories of women and non-binary people on work visas being harassed and powerless about it. Any power imbalance is a vector for this stuff (the formal term for this concept is "intersectionality"). As a society we ought to move towards less imbalance, not more.
> but people who designed these policies aren't complete morons.
Perhaps so, but that isn't enough to establish that the policies aren't bad.
I'm sorry but treating these as equivalent things is rather disingenuous to me:
> if you cant get a new job lined up while still employed or within 60 days of being laid off
Lining up a job while you are still employed is something you control. Being unexpectedly thrust into the job market due to layoffs for instance is something you don't, and the state of the job market you enter is equally something you don't control. Additionally I am not sure you understand what 60 calendar days from termination to being out of status means. You don't have 60 days to "line up a job". You have 60 days to be employed again, which for this purpose means that your new employer has properly filed a petition on your behalf.
Again, does it really need explaining that this puts pressure on H-visa holders specifically that other workers don't have, especially when the companies that do sponsor visas often have interview processes that can take over a month? Does it need explaining that risking their residence and not just a paycheck means that they are less able to both:
- leave a toxic, failing or otherwise dysfunctional employer (since you practically need to secure something else first versus being truly able to resign at will)
- reject substandard employment offers (under the pressure of literally not having the time to do any more interviews)
How is it not incredibly obvious that as I said, this tilts the balance of power even more in the employer's direction? Why does someone pointing this out raise your hackles?
Also, why do you assume that the US is the only country on earth that has non-immigrant skilled workers? For instance the EU's Blue Card programme (which despite the deliberate naming is not actually a permanent residence permit like the US' green card) is far more sensible and less exploitable by employers.
You're absolutely right - I should have taken that sweet blue card $60K/y gig instead of slaving away here on h-1b all those years. Nvm you get paid like third to a half of what average h-1b makes but you get all this power in the form of additional 30d to find a new gig.
Consider that you did so with an actual pilot beside you in what I presume were CAVOK conditions.
Plenty of children (once they get big enough to reach the pedals) can take a car for a spin. That doesn't mean that driving safely in all conditions you may find yourself thrown in is easy, even with e.g. lots of racing game experience.
> That doesn't mean that driving safely in all conditions you may find yourself thrown in is easy
Absolutely, I agree. But I also didn't claim I'm now a professional airline pilot able to handle all situations, only that the "It's not so easy to land a plane in real life, even if you have a lot of flightsim experience" part isn't accurate based on my own experience.
Possessing someone's DNA doesn't automatically, magically tell you who they are. If there's nothing to match it to then all you have is someone's spit.
Except now, thanks to 23andme and other vast DNA database dragnets, an unknown person's DNA can be narrowed down to a few people based on their relatives.
To be fair, few people know anything about aviation other than being miffed at the grand inconvenience of obeying the rules of scheduled passenger flight services.
To be accurate I am “miffed” at the blasé response of airport admin and local police. No “criminal negligence”, no “dereliction of duty”. Not even administrative punishment for utter incompetence at a primary job with rather serious potential consequences.
Probably closer to a rent-a-car lot. Most GA pilots rent, they don't own. Owning only (kinda) makes sense if you fly A TON. Otherwise all the timed maintenance eats you alive. On a plane you have lots of "every N months" work items, even if you don't use it.
...which betrays a lack of knowledge of aviation beyond the inconveniences of scheduled passenger flight services.
There is an entire world of aviation outside of commercial airlines flying airliners out of large, towered airports with fancy terminal buildings. An aircraft is a vehicle like any other, and operating one is regulated in tiers like any other type of vehicle. It's about as inane to gripe that an untowered recreational airport is not regulated to the same extent as the airports you fly commercially out of, as it would be to gripe that you driving your car out of your home is not regulated to the same extent as driving a school bus.
Well, we are discussing an online storefront/distribution service for a digital good (with obvious relevance to people here). Are you suggesting that it's merely inconvenient for Valve and its customers to not transact in cash?
Text, yes. Graphics? SVGs are not as small as people think especially if they're any more complex than basic shapes, and there are plenty of things that simply cannot be represented as vector graphics anyway.
It's fair to prefer text-only pages, but the "and graphics" is quite unrealistic in my opinion.
How much is gained by using SVG (as opposed to a raster graphics format) varies a lot depending on the content. For some files (even with complex shape paths depending on a couple details) it can be an enormous gain, and for some files it can indeed be disappointing.
That being said, while raw SVG suffers in that respect from the verbosity of the format (being XML-based and designed so as to be humanly readable and editable as text), it would be unfair to compare, for the purpose of HTTP transmission, the size of the raster format image (heavily compressed) with the size of the SVG file (uncompressed) as one would if it were for desktop use. SVG tends to lend itself very well to compressed transmission, even with high-performance compression algorithms like brotli (which is supported by all relevant browsers and lots of HTTP servers), and you can use pre-compressed files (e.g. for nginx with the module ngx_brotli) so that the server doesn't have to handle compression ad hoc.
> A more useful distinction would be, the JS interpreter is single-threaded while C code can be multithreaded.
...this seems like a long way round to say "JS code is not parallel while C code can be parallel".
Or to put it another way, it seems fairly obvious to me that parallelism is a concept applied to one's own code, not all the code in the computer's universe. Other parts of the computer doing other things has nothing to do with the point, or "parallelism" would be a completely redundant concept in this age where nearly every CPU has multiple cores.
But I've never heard of someone caring about their code vs lower-level code running in parallel, just whether or not there are multiple OS threads involved in the end. Like you have 32 CPU cores, your Python batch code is only using 1, and whether or not you use Python threads to fix this depends on if you're using something like Numpy that'll release the GIL.
