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Upon Closer inspection
Personal blog · normsaysno.wordpress.compoliticseconomics
Upon Closer inspection is a personal blog at normsaysno.wordpress.com about politics and economics. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Norm Matloff's blog for its arguments on H-1B visas, age bias in tech hiring and outsourcing's effect on US programmers' careers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> If you believe that H1-B employees are abused... Of course that would never happen. All American business executives and outsourcing agencies only act with unimpeachable integrity and the highest ethical standards. (Wait, what is the original subject of this thread again...) I repeat, for all American programmers under the age of 35, read https://normsaysno.wordpress.com/ to see how your careers are being systemat…
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on “Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber”Submitted Why the CIR Report Isn’t the Good News the Activists Think It Is as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Software developers have incredible leverage right now, perhaps more than any cohort of employees in the country Hah hah, very cute. A trivial proof that this claim is false: H-1B. Indentured H-1B visa workers have absolutely zero leverage. American software developers are constantly reminded that if they don't behave and do what they're told that their jobs will be outsourced or they'll be replaced by H-1B worker…
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on “Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber”Submitted Covid-19 and Silicon Valley as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNorm Matloff at UC Davis has blogged about this for a decade. A sampling of one paper has several references about the bias toward much younger and cheaper H1-B candidates in academia and professional workforce. He also argues diversity is better. https://normsaysno.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/reforming-h-1b-a...
Comment linking /2016/12/10/reforming-h-1b-and-related-visas-what-needs-to-be-done/
on “U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers”
