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Oh, I agree with you that billions are nothing relative to what this government is spending. Bernanke prints $85 billion every month. Even charging 1 million dollars for each of these 50000 visas would raise only $50 billion.

That said, the guys who could afford to pay that would better than these "lottery" admits. Young STEM grads would also be good. Canada and Singapore have far more rational immigration policies, where there is consideration given to whether a given immigrant will be a net tax-payer or tax-recipient; young STEM grads and entrepreneurs with money are favored categories -- and they do not give away coveted visas at random.

People act as if the US has infinite money to just give away, that we can be never-endingly generous with no consequences, that the quality of person we take in has no impact. Then they turn around and post on Hacker News about how you need to watch your burn rate and only hire the best for your startup.
I don't see how this is a "failure of the free market". Text messaging prices are fixed because one can't freely move their plan and hardware from telco to telco when one gets cheaper or better.
You select marketable immigrants with the resources to invest in education and training, like the people you named's parents.
> It's just not true that syntactic borrowing is that uncommon (google it). That means that the historically documented prolonged contact between Scandinavians and the English had some effect on the grammar. No surprise there. Since syntactic borrowing is not uncommon in contact situations, it's a bad way to tell what language is descended from what other languages, so this proposal isn't off to a good start.

Agreed. An example is Japanese and Korean. They have virtually identical syntax, yet they are completely unrelated genetically. Outside of the vocabulary that they both borrowed from Middle Chinese, they have essentially no words in common.
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I like that.
Except they can't force the (Senate) Democrats to vote on it because they can just not bring it up and it will die in January.

Also, while this is framed as an immigration bill, the Democrats won't take too much bad PR in important (Hispanic) immigrant communities because the vast majority of those aren't the tech job type.

Holding out for a comprehensive plan is probably a good move for Obama because he can include this as an incentive to vote for it. If they don't get some sort of comprehensive plan, it's still good because the Democrats could basically just introduce this without the zero-sum part and then the Republicans will be the ones against both skilled and unskilled immigrants.
There is no doubt the makeup of Wisconsin's agriculture industry is different. The climate alone is very different between these two states, not counting other things like availability of irrigated land, energy, transportation etc.

Edit: I was just trying to make a point that being in the country illegally does not seem like a necessary condition of food production and WI is a fine example of it.
I also have no doubt that if WI had more illegal immigrants available they could be employed in the agriculture just as much as they are in CA. It just happens the closest border to WI is with Canada and Canadians don't seem to be very enthusiastic about working illegally in the America's Dairyland.
I'm happy that there are people in their late ages still doing entrepreneurship. But I wonder how are they managing the life of an entrepreneur with a family to feed, bills to pay, and age related issues (like energy decline). As I know life of an entrepreneur in a startup is very tiring and lack of sacrifice. So I wonder how they are doing it.

It is also my reason why I wanted to start at an early age. I still don't have a family to feed. No housing, electricity, water bills to pay because I can still live with my parents. And I still have the energy because I'm still young. With it, I can focus solely on my aim which is building a startup/company.
Can't tell if serious? A datapoint: I moved to California, from France, on a diversity visa. I have randomly met 3 other french engineers who have done the same in my first couple months here.

In the worst case it's a tiny drop wrt. to general immigration, and I'm ready to bet it tends to in fact attract highly motivated people.
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Isn't this just a simple supply and demand issue? With the cost and barrier to starting a startup becoming so low and abundance of incubators and accelerators there are so many startups who are chasing the same Series A funding. So every VC is looking for the next DropBox or AirBnB to invest.
This is interesting given the article that appeared just yesterday on age bias in Silicon Valley [1]. I'd be inclined to think that the ageist mentality probably doesn't extend to the rest of the entrepreneurship world, although I have absolutely no evidence to support that.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838215
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So is your concern that the quality of life would degrade as the rate it does now (so in other words, you don't want really miserable 110 year olds). Or, are you saying, even if we extended life and kept you feeling healthy for the same proportion as now, just longer (so things were now fine and dandy until, let's say, you're 80 and then slowly degrade to 110), you would still have a problem with it?
I'm not confusing the two--you're drawing a broader distinction between the two versions than is warranted by Microsoft's own product positioning. Regular Windows 8 is targeted at tablets too. The Samsung 700T, Acer Iconia W700, etc, all run regular Windows 8, as will the Surface Pro.

The basic problem is that Microsoft seems to have focused on creating artificial product differentiation instead of creating the most compelling device possible. I was very underwhelmed by the Surface when I used it. Microsoft left too many of the goodies for Surface Pro, and saddled Surface RT with last-gen hardware, not to mention very "1.0" software. The differentiation between the lines is just bizarre. If you go for the Surface RT, you get Nexus 7-level hardware for $100 more than a Nexus 10. If you upgrade to the Surface Pro, you get way too much processor and end up with half the battery life. It makes no sense. What Surface should have been is a Clovertrail-based tablet with a 1080p screen. The ability to run Office would have justified the $100 price premium over Nexus. That would have been a very compelling product.
Unfortunately, changing telomerase activity is also rather strongly linked to cancer. Still, with the dramatic improvements in cancer treatment over the last 30 years there may be a useful tradeoff where an increased cancer risk is offset by an increased heath / lifespan on average. But, don't expect a free lunch as evolution tends to find those fairly quickly.
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All good points, but what about someone in my situation, kids all old enough and have left home, location independent, low cost living base, 30 years of hard won experience across both failed startups and amongst Corporates (like IBM and Microsoft)? Energy is a big one, but I find this mostly psychological not physical?
If they're not going to let foreigners educated in US universities stay, then they shouldn't let foreigners take up space in universities. It makes no sense to make the seat available with no possibility of intellectual payback.
The earth is struggling to sustain the population as it is. Older people tend to require more resources for support, putting further strain on society. This is happening already in many developed countries as baby boomers enter retirement.

EDIT: PS. Thank you for not downvoting me. It's refreshing to see a difference of opinion without the vitriol
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Immigrants are in no way entitled to social services. If an immigrant on a work visa loses their job, they are required to leave the country within 10 days. However, immigrants on visas still pay full taxes. So actually, immigrants make social services cheaper to provide.

Any other general goods -- roads, fire services, etc. -- are paid for by taxes, and immigrants pay all the same taxes as citizens.
I have not used these tools myself, but I came across a good blog article answering this very question a few weeks back: http://blog.kickofflabs.com/how-to-do-a-great-product-promo-...
We may have flawed measuring devices, but they are attempting to measure something with a real, constant value. The fact that we are not directly connected to reality doesn't mean that reality is an illusion.

If, in reality, there were zero apples in my hand, I could say that I was holding one apple, but then I would be wrong.
Small businesses: anything that doesn't grow at 6% per week and that doesn't have an incubator and a VC on board?

It's quite possible to create a business that does several tens of millions in turnover and employs 100 people or more.

It happens all the time and those businesses are started by a wide variety of people when it comes to age, gender, ethic background, location and so on. These companies are the economic backbone of many civilizations.

Corporations are complex surfaces along many axis changing dramatically during their lifespan, there isn't such a thing as a clear dividing line between one group and another, only vague clustering and shifts.

At one point during its lifespan Kodak was a small business, then a start-up, then a Fortune 500 company, then ripe for disruption and now they're dead. Calling a company a start-up is like calling a person a baby throughout a large portion of their life. A start-up is a phase, not an endpoint.

Some people don't start out to do a start-up according to the SB or PG definition but find out after the fact that that was just what they ended up with.

Some people start out to do just that and end up with a small business. It isn't all black and white, there are lots of shades of grey and there is a lot less control by the participants than you might be led to believe.
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I was instantly reminded of the OCP - Omni Consumer Products - logo from Robocop, and yes, I also like the slightly retro-future feel.

As much as it's entirely irrelevant to Vagrant-as-a-tool itself, I'd love to see a whole 'brand identity' in the same theme. It's a small thing, but it makes me slightly happier when the tools I use have a little bit of character to them. (See also: Github & Octocats)
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Diversity Visas specifically check for that though - you must show you have enough funds to get there and support yourself.
Money to pay the bills may be less of an issue because by that age the investments made as a youth start to return a decent income all on their own.
Well, part of what I was getting at is that it appears, from my layman's point of view, that WI's agriculture business is geared more toward crops that are easily industrialized and would require fewer workers in general.

e.g., a single worker operating a piece of machinery can harvest hundreds of acres of corn. A tomato, on the other hand, has to be hand-picked so that the fruit isn't damaged in the process. That requires substantially more workers.
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> I don't pay for text

> $30 a month plan

Seems like you are already paying for text :)
I'm sure the amount of resources the Chinese government needs to put behind a successful attack on a small US business is minuscule.
Sorry, that was typed on my phone. That should be baseball bat and paved parking lot.
Pricing is based on what people are willing to pay (value to consumer) and not at all on what the service might cost to provide. Obviously, competition is a factor too.

For light users, sending a hundred SMSs a month probably does provide $5 worth of value. For heavy users there are various plans and bundles which will let you send lots rather more cheaply.

I think the way SMS is priced is more of an indicator of how people can ignore small transaction costs when there is zero payment friction. SMS is probably the most successful micropayment system around. Although of course, all the payments go to the telco ;)
This isn't an argument for good or bad, but America was founded by immigrants and they've continued to arrive and build the country ever since 1776. If you think the American state is a good thing, it seems reasonable to favor immigration.

Personally, I believe that no human is fundamentally better than another and that we don't own the planet but merely inhabit it. This means I also believe we all deserve to be treated as equal citizens of a global nation. I realize that in practice you can't just dissolve all the borders at once, but nevertheless less restrictive border controls which includes things like increased immigration push things towards that ideal.
These rants against text message pricing pop up from time to time and always neglect one fact: by volume, almost nobody pays 5 cents a text. Most text messages are sent by someone who just pays $10 per month or something like that for unlimited texts, then sends thousands of them.
If they were able to get into Google, something tells me they would have been able to break into AWS.

Whether they would waste an AWS 0-day on some random stubborn American is another story.
I dont think so. Hardly anyone in the US pays for texts a la carte, and when they do, they went over their contract allotment and are pissed about it. I don't think hitting people with an unexpected $300 bill at the end of the month because they didn't realize they could have spent $5 more for unlimited plans is a great model for micropayments.
Good catch. Maybe those entrepreneurs she's talking about are those who have pretty good savings, benefits, or retirement pays. But a paragraph in her article said...

"Many older adults are having difficulty becoming re-employed. On average, it takes them about one year and often that new job is at a lower salary with fewer benefits, and part time rather than full time. With an uncertain economy, job shortages in many areas, skill mismatches, ageism and companies doing more with less -- the challenges are real."

In my understanding, she is somewhat encouraging those older adults to have a startup/small business/company. But she's encouraging those older adults that are in need of money (like to pay the bills) thus don't have that savings to start one.
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I find it annoying that whenever someone releases an open-source project or a library here and in the comments people will complain or make suggestions about tiny little things they'd like changed about it.

Instead of commenting on something, why not fork it, make the change yourself and submit a pull request?
This way more less-educated people will have to stay in their home countries while an increased capacity for "advanced STEM degree" holders will both sap the intelligent workers from other countries and convert them into US taxpayers who are relatively captive as long as they want to stay in the US.
> Does anyone have insight into the demand for such a product?

Enormous, and there are dozens of such tools available.

Most of them work best if you build an actual data warehouse -- dimensionally structured, not normalised. This is because they can easily build query forms using the DW dimensions in a language that makes sense to end users.
> Well, yes, when you are making the decision based on someone being from a poor country.

But that's not the case.
What the researchers seem to be suggesting is extending life for no specific reason, other than preventing the complications that are associated with aging that can and do eventually lead to death.

So my issue is; there is no great societal benefit to just extending life for the sake of it, as opposed to say, making people more comfortable in their old age.

IMO the world would not benefit from millions of people living until they're 130 years old.
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But the ultra low end tiers are free.

Your scale is limited by your wallet. You don't have to ref actor your infrastructure as your service grows.
No, mainly because it would be business suicide for whoever is involved. Especially if neither party is willing to pay for transit to the other... IPv6 is still small enough that it doesn't yet force one providers hand over the other.

That being said, if you are single homed on HE only then I would suggest you purchase transit elsewhere as well, or find a datacenter that has multiple transit providers. Being single home is dangerous.

The real question is going to be how long can Cogent hold-out. HE is willing to provide them free IPv6 peering, why not accept it so that their customers can get a full IPv6 table...
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I'd probably leave the energy variable completely out of the equation. Motivation and focus are probably more relevant to the question at hand and it's not difficult to find 'old' people who at the very least 'appear' to have more energy than most young people (but perhaps they are simply using the energy that they do have more wisely).

Likewise, any advantages of age are going to come with the individual and not the year said individual was born.

Full Disclosure: I'm neither old (depending on your definition I suppose) nor an entrepreneur (again...).
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Pele grew up poor, Einstein's dad was a salesman, and Michael Phelps' parents are a retired cop and a principal, none of which would be eligible under the kinds of criteria being discussed here.
I always wondered how people managed to send, on average, 1 SMS every 4 minutes, for 12 hours a day, every day. I'm not sure I could do that even if someone paid me to.

The surprise $300 bills you are talking about, they're teenagers right?
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This is the reason why companies like your host can offer 500GB or terabytes or even "unlimited bandwidth" for such a low price -- its because they sell to a lot of people and pray that 90% of them won't even come close to using their full bandwidth allotment.

If everyone that was paying for the 500GB was using anywhere close to 500GB at that price that company would go bankrupt very quickly.
This is about making older people require fewer resources for support. The holy grail of longevity research is increased lifespan with no appreciable decline in quality of life.

The main factors that contribute to a decreased quality of life are the same ones that eventually kill us. Namely, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and the general cognitive/motor decline that comes with aging. If we could effectively halt senescence, we'd be able to expend fewer resources on care for the elderly.
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Because a lot of these texts are "yes", "no", "lol", "hi", etc. They might send 10 such texts in a 30 second period.
I thought this was about making my computer mouse last longer based on the title and context of hacker news.
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My employer is a global IT company and the exact same thing happens on mailing lists for 10,000+ people. I reply-all to let them know that there is cake in the lunch room.
A similar thing has happened at the science faculty of the Universiteit Utrecht (in the Netherlands; so it's in Dutch):

http://www.dub.uu.nl/artikel/explosie-beta-mailboxen.html

Before the faculties (of Physics, Chemistry, etc) were merged into one giant megafaculty, some of them ran Mailman lists (which were set up properly to prevent this stuff). The centralization efforts of the board of the university put an end to that and it was demanded that the new giant uberfaculty would use MS Exchange servers staffed by equally sophisticated IT personnel…
The board introduced these IT changes using a slogan which for a while became an in-joke to utter if some IT thing went horribly wrong:
"Goed is goed genoeg" which translates as "Good is good enough".

Source for that quote:

http://www.ublad.uu.nl/WebObjects/UOL.woa/3/wa/Ublad/archief...
This shows up every once in a while in rants against telcos but "price per kB of text message" is a completely pointless metric because no one really cares about it.

On one side the company has to operate the network, pay the employees and still generate some profit, so they care about total ROI. On the other, the customer wants to communicate, which includes text messages, voice and data transmission, so they care about the price of that bundle which often just includes unlimited texts.

How many people really want the services they use to be priced like AWS and pay separately a few cents for each time they use any tiny component? And is it really a market failure when they're not billed like that or can you Google "market failure"?
This is a cute trick, but using pattern-matching in this way means that the amount of code you write to solve a problem grows geometrically (or worse!) as the problem size scales up. The Tic Tac Toe game presented in its entirety is quite long, and for any nontrivial variation it would be terrifying.
There are many attempts at making compact houses. I think the genius of this house is in making it narrow (short-width) without compromising the length, which makes it actually habitable.
And perhaps less seriously speaking, I always thought this type of virus looks like a robot: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/files/imagecache/feature/files...
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Average text messages per user are down, for the first time ever. See http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/text-messaging-decl... .

The article blames Facebook and Apple's iMessage, but the price of text messages has to be a factor as well. On AT&T, it's $20 a month for unlimited messages, or 20 cents per, in and out.
I think it's time you go find yourself another place to work. People like these will only hinder your growth. Find some place that have people smarter than you so you can learn from them. Don't forget to mention how you feel about this in your exit interview. So they too can grow.
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Why are they using a password scheme that allows them to go through the passwords quickly?