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ojbyrne commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

ojosilva · 12 days ago

Off-topic, the article looks like AI slop: "Why it matters?" "What happens next?" Either AI is now running Newsweek, which is something we could even come to expect from a decaying magazine, or journalists are writing like that to compete with AI and/or sound natural to what readers come to expect lately.

Really concerning.

ojbyrne · 12 days ago

My experience is if there’s no typos, it’s probably AI. I don’t see any typos.

ojbyrne commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

anon291 · 12 days ago

Four Indian companies take a large portion of the visas. These companies are using very sketchy practices and should be investigated. If just left to American companies, the entire quota would not even be hit.

ojbyrne · 12 days ago

Define “Indian companies.” Define “American companies.” I think you will find that the companies you put in either of those categories are actually multinational companies.

ojbyrne commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

Apes · 13 days ago

It’s not hard to imagine a loophole here:

• Someone with a lot of money wants to get U.S. residency.

• They set up or work with a shell company that “hires” them under the H-1B program.

• That company uses part of their payment to win the visa auction.

• Once in the U.S., the “employee” does whatever they want — the job is just window dressing.

This is essentially what’s happened in other visa categories when money alone becomes the main filter.

ojbyrne · 12 days ago

You can basically already do this. https://www.google.com/search?q=self-sponsored+h-1b+visas

ojbyrne commented on New executive order puts all grants under political control arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/pbui

noncoml · 17 days ago

The replies to his tweet are a cesspool. Why do people still use Twitter?

ojbyrne · 17 days ago

You have to be logged in to see the comments. So…

ojbyrne commented on What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs? ft.com/content/7052c560-4... · Posted by u/rwmj

gruez · 20 days ago

It'll get used eventually. Just like the fiber optic cables built during the dotcom bubble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bubble_in_telec...

ojbyrne · 20 days ago

Does fiber optic cable become obsolete? I don't really know. But I know servers do.

ojbyrne commented on Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise news.asu.edu/20250725-env... · Posted by u/ornel

firstworldfail · 22 days ago

I love the first world perspective. It pretends to be erudite while being completely inhuman. As if "emissions" are something you could ever get rid of. Any excuse to avoid making their own lives more efficient or the distribution of resources more fair.

ojbyrne · 22 days ago

I believe it was a joke.

ojbyrne commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan

AIPedant · 23 days ago

A very major difference is that top athletes bring in real tangible money via ticket / merch sales and sponsorships, whereas top AI researchers bring in pseudo-money via investor speculation. The AI money is far more likely to vanish.

ojbyrne · 23 days ago

My understanding is that the bulk of revenue comes from television contracts. There has been speculation that that could easily shrink in the future if the charges become more granular and non-sports watching people stop subsidizing the sports watching people. That seems analogous to AI money.

ojbyrne commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

ojbyrne · 24 days ago

“No Tax on Overtime” ditto. As I understand it if it’s overtime negotiated through a union contract, you’re out of luck.

ojbyrne commented on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth twitter.com/premqnair/sta... · Posted by u/rfurmani

dehrmann · a month ago

At some point, aren't the C Suite and directors failing their fiduciary responsibility? I know they have broad freedoms, but when you're reducing an a minority shareholder's equity by 95%, it's well past "fiduciary responsibility" and looking like fraud.

ojbyrne · a month ago

Of course. So if you’re the employee, you’re going to sue? If so you’re paying for your lawyer, and the company is paying for theirs. Guess who goes broke first.

ojbyrne commented on How Anthropic teams use Claude Code anthropic.com/news/how-an... · Posted by u/yurivish

ojbyrne · a month ago

I used to say that the last 10% of software takes 90% of the effort. All the 70 percents and 80 percents in that article reminded me of that.

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20 years or so screwing around with technology and business, in complete obscurity until fall 2004, when I became the "I built digg.com for $10/hour" guy. http://owenbyrne.com twitter: owenbyrne Was a key part of the team that built http://tripadvisor.com/flights.

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